Daniel Y. Harris’s The Rapture of Eddy Daemon, Reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg
Daniel Y. Harris The Rapture of Eddy Daemon (A Posthuman Homage to SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS) BlazeVOX Reviewer: Ricardo Nirenberg We gather from his CV that Harris has a degree in divinity from UChicago, and we can tell from leafing through this new collection that his intellectual interests are wide enough to cover all human reality, which […]
Introduction by Bruce Boston & Marge Simon
Introduction Another year has passed, and we are pleased to offer you the annual speculative poetry issue of The Pedestal Magazine. We received over 1200 poems to consider for this issue. As we read them, we each put our own “Maybe” or “No” with the poem, along with “Personal” for those poets we knew or […]
Jane Williams – The Memory Machines
The Memory Machines I’ve heard rumors that some of them have turned, disabled their compliancy chips. Deaf to your dying wish. Seems they just want to test your mettle. Plain and simple. At the exact moment you decide on the climax of some grand passion or cause for your eternal rerun, you’ll feel a tiny […]
James Robinson – Halloween in New Orleans
Halloween in New Orleans Crippled oaks hunch beneath a yellow moon and hover over crumbling crypts in Lafayette Cemetery where F. Scott Fitzgerald’s eyes gaze beyond paradise from a window’s wavy glass on a second floor across Prytania. Empty streetcars rumble down Saint Charles where widowed ghosts wander in mansions behind the dark windows of […]
Jennifer Crow – Across a Storm-Dark Sky
Across a Storm-Dark Sky You saw a dragon, etched like fire and arcing across a storm-dark sky. You saw a dragon, and your heart lurched in your chest, stumbled like a drunk, dipped and rose the way birds do, startled from their nests at sunrise. When you blinked, the shadow cast by its light seared […]
