Ai’s Killing Floor (1979)
Edited by Shara Lessley
I first read Ai’s poetry as an undergraduate at the University of California, Irvine—or, rather, it read me. Read into my conscience, … Read the rest
This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
Spectral Feelings
Scope and Scale in Three New Books
By Corey Van Landingham
Foreign Bodies, by Kimiko Hahn. W.W. Norton & Co., 109 pp., $26.95.
The Book of Jane, by
… Read the restWhat Breaks Through
Four Collections on Awe
By Leslie Sainz
A Common Name for Everything, by Sarah Wolfson. Green Writers Press, 80 pp., $14.95.
Stray Harbor, by Rage Hezekiah. Finishing Line
… Read the restAmerican Elegies
By Christian Detisch
Summer Snow, by Robert Hass. Ecco, 192 pp., $16.99.
American Faith, by Maya C. Popa. Sarabande Books, 96 pp., $15.95.
In the Lateness of the
… Read the restBuilding an Archive of Earth and Water
"I have seen how a person who tells a story of racism carelessly only reinscribes it in the present. I have seen how ignoring the story altogether, as if the crime never happened, also carries it into the future."
Naming, Silencing, Surviving
"It doesn’t take a reader long to be captured by Romeo Oriogun’s compelling voice, a voice which seems equal parts observer, prophet, and reformer ..."
Marginalia: Ron Tanner on Carter Sickles
The Prettiest Star, by Carter Sickles. Hub City Press, 288 pp., $26.00.
Carter Sickels’s second novel, The Prettiest Star, returns the reader to 1986, as the AIDs crisis … Read the rest
“Places To Lie Down and Signify”: Diana Marie Delgado’s Accumulative Verse
by Katie Berta
Tracing the Horse, by Diana Marie Delgado. BOA Editions 112 pp., $17.00.
“Most nights I’m face to face with the stars. / No one is more afraid … Read the rest
Things of Value
A review of four new books by C.J.A. "In my recent reading practice, I have been paying almost obsessive attention to the word thing ..."
Sestinamerica: Poetic Form in the Age of Trump
Bruce Snider is the author of three poetry collections: Fruit, winner of the Four Lakes Prize from the University of Wisconsin Press (2020); Paradise, Indiana (Pleiades Press, 2013); and The Year We Studied Women (University of Wisconsin, 2003).
