“How Much Can a Body Endure?”: A Review of Chelsea Hodson’s Pity The Animal
Alexandra Wuest08.19.14
Chelsea Hodson’s chapbook essay unpacks the effect of the male gaze on the female body. Alexandra Wuest reviews.
Notes on Three Pages of Thomas Piketty’s Capital
Mark Baumer08.14.14
Do you read Thomas Piketty? Didn’t think so. Mark Baumer didn’t really either, but gleans all we need to know about Capital from the first three pages of the book.
A Cunny Poet’s Beautiful Book
Stephen Tully Dierks07.31.14
A look at the multiplying and frequently uncanny themes and feelings in Bunny Rogers’ rhizomatic poetry collection, Cunny Poem Vol. 1. Stephen Tully Dierks reviews.
“From a reflection in both paintings”: Valerie Mejer’s Rain of the Future as the Fragments of Narrative
Laura Carter07.22.14
Valerie Mejer’s Rain of the Future passes over and over through sleeping and waking states to weave a sense of identity among our mass collective history. Laura Carter reviews.
A Question of Form
Jeff Alessandrelli07.17.14
Jeff Alessandrelli talks form and contemporary poetry through a review Edward Hirsch’s A Poet’s Glossary.
Wherever You Lodge: On Green Girl
Kari Larsen07.10.14
Kari Larsen underlines the importance of the portrayal of contemporary young women in new fiction, through the lens of Kate Zambreno’s Green Girl.
Christmas Island & Andrew Jackson Jihad’s View of the World Through a Lens of Junk
Kaptain Carbon07.08.14
Kaptain Carbon takes a look at the latest release from Andrew Jackson Jihad, folk punk, and dividing audiences.
On Distance and Departure: A Review of Spencer Madsen’s You Can Make Anything Sad
Lucy Tiven07.07.14
Lucy Tiven unpacks the threads of affection, love, masturbation, and humanity alive in Spencer Madsen’s You Can Make Anything Sad.
What Does Art Owe Us?
Weston Cutter07.02.14
A review of Blake J. Harris’s Console Wars, a letdown of a book about the ‘generation-defining’ battle between Sega and Nintendo.
A Review of Change Machine
Ginger Ko07.01.14
Bruce Covey’s latest, Change Machine, employs a wide range of styles, tactics, impressions, to wondrous result. Ginger Ko reviews.
