Anna Elkins – The Poet Enters The Architect’s Catacombs
The Poet Enters The Architect’s Catacombs Somewhere beneath the former Rue d’Enfer, Paris at a depth of 12 to 13 fathoms,[1] it’s core-quiet down here pieces of stone lifted by hand now lift the earth up from within herself, held with mortar of bones The memory of excavations is almost fragrant The ceiling above me once […]
Kristen Case’s Principles of Economics, Reviewed by Maria Rouphail
Kristen Case Principles of Economics Switchback Books Reviewer: Maria Rouphail In Principles of Economics, Kristen Case explores the personal dimensions of grief stemming from the deaths of her father (a prominent economics professor who succumbed to Parkinson’s disease) and, apparently, an unidentified beloved.[i] This collection is ambitious and substantial. And Case clearly has talent. In […]
Margo Taft Stever’s Cracked Piano, Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Margo Taft Stever Cracked Piano CavanKerry Press Reviewer: Vivian Wagner Margo Taft Stever’s Cracked Piano examines mental illness and trauma, particularly in the context of cultural cruelty and disconnection. At its heart is the story of Stever’s great-grandfather and the half-brother of president William Howard Taft, Peter Taft, who was kept for part of his […]
Christine Butterworth-McDermott – Recovery like Budesonide
Recovery like Budesonide I. Lilies, lilium, like valium, blur the senses He gave them in bouquets, pink stargazing blooms, the hems of the petals undulating as he held them out to me. Only later did I discover his wife wore no. 19, and that I was just another thing to bury in flowers. II. Now […]
Chad Foret – Pilgrim Condition
Pilgrim Condition All I needed was a rain animal, one that wouldn’t disappear until I begged or burned enough to learn that flesh is made for vanishing our fever teeth. When the surf was asleep, I hunted coquinas & never told anyone I needed them, my lies maybe even lovely. What I mean is everything […]
