Joseph Hutchison’s The World As Is: New & Selected Poems 1972-2015, Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
Joseph Hutchison The World As Is: New & Selected Poems 1972-2015 NYQ Books Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Currently serving as Poet Laureate of Colorado, Joseph Hutchison has fifteen volumes of poetry to his credit, so this sixteenth collection, a substantial, 264-page gathering of his work from 1972 to 2015, is certainly due, if not past […]
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 […]
