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Remember Sappho, kids? Remember Adelia Prado and Frank O'Hara? For certain folk, pleasure is the shape that courage takes in the body-they have heart,"that animal in an animal." The best of these...

Reading these two major talents of flash is akin to watching trapeze artists swoop and dive, yet retrieve their balance when you least expect it. Daring, witty and often surreal they carry the work...

The unattributed quote,"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" is a clever and provocative observation. It invites us to think about both the relationships and the marked divisions...

DIRE SHORTAGE OF USABLE MEANING.Author: NATHANIEL. RUDAVSKY-BRODYPublisher: MADHAT, IncorporatedPublication Date: Mar 01, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

In Odd Man Out, Dennis Daly poetically contemplates the universe with dark humor and dead-on clarity. Daly's quantum word-mechanics merge the observer and object, changing both. A murderous prophet,...

In these essays, Joe Safdie seeks "an expanded notion of the secular, one that contains its own transcendence and deserves the honorific of heresy." A passionate, deeply informed critic of Olson and...

How simple and strange everything is, to quote Robert Desnos, one of two epigraphs beginning this collection. It could serve as a distillation of Kalamaras's aesthetic. There's always a feeling of...

The Mirror TestAuthor: Dan CampionPublisher: MadHat, IncorporatedPublication Date: Jun 01, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952335795ISBN-13: 9781952335792

Nation is a fragile construct, and rarely more fragile than in Joel Chace's tensive, meditative lyrics. Placemaking and placelessness jostle here as songlines torn from a past that is never quite...

Here be divagations, wanderings through Covid-stricken Manhattan streets woven together with accounts and excursions through the mind's spaces, memories real and imagined, incidents and adventures...