Issue No. 17 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
Nicholas Manning Reviews IRRESPONSIBILITY by Chris Vitiello
Patrick James Dunagan Reviews HOW PHENOMENA APPEAR TO UNFOLD by Leslie Scalapino
Allen Bramhall Reviews AT THAT by Skip Fox
T.C. Marshall Reviews ETHICS OF SLEEP by Bernadette Mayer
Fiona Sze-Lorrain Reviews SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CRAYON by Allison Benis White
Laura Trantham Smith Reviews UTOPIA MINUS by Susan Briante
Moira Richards Reviews IN PARAN by Larissa Shmailo
Philip Troy Reviews THE FEELING IS ACTUAL by Paolo Javier
Eileen Tabios Engages THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT PAINTERS SHOULDN’T TALK: A GUSTONBOOK by Patrick James Dunagan
Logan Fry Reviews IN THE COMMON DREAM OF GEORGE OPPEN by Joseph Bradshaw
Eileen Tabios Engages TO BE HUMAN IS TO BE A CONVERSATION by Andrea Rexilius
Thomas Fink Reviews PARTS AND OTHER PIECES by Tom Beckett
T.C. Marshall Reviews TO LIGHT OUT by Karen Weiser and DUTIES OF AN ENGLISH FOREIGN SECRETARY by MacGregor Card
Allen Bramhall Reviews CITIZEN CAIN by Ben Friedlander
William Allegrezza Reviews FORTY-NINE GUARANTEED WAYS TO ESCAPE DEATH by Sandy McIntosh
Fiona Sze-Lorrain Reviews THERE’S THE HAND AND THERE’S THE ARID CHAIR by Tomaz Salamun
Eileen Tabios Engages MY LIFE AS A DOLL by Elizabeth Kirschner
Gabriel Lovatt Reviews THE USE OF SPEECH by Nathalie Sarraute, translated from the French by Barbara Wright
Logan Fry Reviews PORTRAIT OF COLON DASH PARENTHESIS by Jeffrey Jullich
Eileen Tabios Engages STILL: OF THE EARTH AS THE ARK WHICH DOES NOT MOVE by Matthew Cooperman
Bill Scalia Reviews THE URGE TO BELIEVE IS STRONGER THAN BELIEF ITSELF by Erin M. Bertram
Kristin Berkey-Abbot Reviews FAULKNER’S ROSARY by Sarah Vap
Micah Cavaleri Reviews KYOTOLOGIC by Anne Gorrick
Tom Beckett Engages AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY GENDER, PRURIENT OMNIBUS ANARCHIC, RESTITUTIONS FOR A NEWER BOUNTIFUL VERB, COCK-BURN, OUR BODIES . . . ARE BEAUTY INDUCERS, THE ULTERIOR EDEN, ASYMPTOTIC LOVER//THERMODYNAMIC VENTS, all by j/j hastain
j/j hastain Reviews A GOOD CUNTBOY IS HARD TO FIND by Doug Rice
Eileen Tabios Engages 60 TEXTOS by Sarah Riggs
Bill Scalia Reviews BEAT THING by David Meltzer
Logan Fry Reviews HANK by Abraham Smith
T.C. Marshall Reviews EXPLORATIONS IN NAVAJO POETRY AND POETICS by Anthony K. Webster and THE PRINCIPLE OF MEASURE IN COMPOSITION BY FIELD: PROJECTIVE VERSE II by Charles Olson, Ed. Joshue Hoeynck
Eileen Tabios Engages TEENY TINY #13, Edited by Amanda Laughtland
Allen Bramhall Reviews ANTIPHONIES: ESSAYS ON WOMEN'S EXPERIMENTAL POETRIES IN CANADA, Ed. Nate Dorward
Gabriel Lovatt Reviews VACANT LOT by Oliver Rohe, translated from the French by Laird Hunt
Eric Wayne Dickey Reviews PUNISH HONEY by Karen Leona Anderson
Eileen Tabios Engages INSIDE THE MONEY MACHINE by Minnie Bruce Pratt
Pam Brown Reviews SLY MONGOOSE by Ken Bolton
T.C. Marshall Reviews HOW LONG by Ron Padgett
Neil Leadbeater Reviews A HERON IN BUENOS AIRES by Luis Benítez
Jean Vengua Reviews THE WISDOM ANTHOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICAN BUDDHIST POETRY, Editor Andrew Schelling
Eileen Tabios Engages WAIFS AND STRAYS by Micah Ballard
T.C. Marshall Reviews THE NEW TOURISM by Harry Mathews
Guillermo Parra Reviews HOW’S THE COWS by Jess Mynes
T.C. Marshall Reviews THE WIDE ROAD by Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian
John Bloomberg-Rissman Reviews THE COMMONS by Sean Bonney
Pam Brown Reviews PERRIER FEVER by Pete Spence
Jim McCrary Engages MARROWING and THE NAME OF THIS INTERSECTION IS FROST, both by Maryrose Larkin
Tom Beckett Reviews THE NAME OF THIS INTERSECTION IS FROST by Maryrose Larkin
Patrick James Dunagan Reviews “NEITHER WIT NOR GOLD” by Ammiel Alcalay and STREET METE: VERTICAL ELEGIES 6 by Sam Truitt
Eileen Tabios Engages RADIATOR by NF Huth
Genevieve Kaplan Reviews SPEAKING OFF CENTRE by James Cummins, CORPORATE GEES (VOLUME V) by Christopher William Purdom, KITCHEN TIDBITS by Amanda Laughtland, FROM HERE by Zoë Skoulding with images by Simonetta Moro, and TWO HATS APPEAR WHEN APPLAUDED: AN IMPROVISATION by Raymond Farr
L.S. Bassen Reviews IT MIGHT TURN OUT WE ARE REAL by Susan Scarlata
rob mclennan Reviews THREE NOVELS by Elizabeth Robinson
Patrick James Dunagan & Ava Koohbor Review THE TELLER OF TALES: STORIES FROM FERODWSI’S SHAHNAHMEN, Translated by Richard Jeffrey Newman
Tom Hibbard Reviews SELECTED POEMS by Nick Demske, A MYSTICAL THEOLOGY OF THE LIMBIC FISSURE by Peter O’Leary, HOSTILE WITNESS by Garin Cycholl, UNABLE TO FULLY CALIFORNIA by Larry Sawyer, AIN’T GOT ALL NIGHT by Buck Downs, and ANSWER by Mark DuCharme
Jeff Harrison Engages THE DANGEROUS ISLANDS (A NOVEL) by Séamas Cain
Eileen Tabios Engages ALIENS: AN ISLAND by Uljana Wolf, Trans. from the German by Monika Zobel
Kristin Berkey-Abbot Reviews LOOKING UP HARRYETTE MULLEN: INTERVIEWS ON SLEEPING WITH THE DICTIONARY AND OTHER WORKS by Barbara Henning
G. Justin Hulog Reviews ARCHIPELAGO DUST by Karen Llagas
Allen Bramhall Reviews FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS by William Allegrezza
Eileen Tabios Engages RED WALLS by James Tolan
Juliet Cook Reviews COMPENDIUM by Kristina Marie Darling
Bill Scalia Reviews WHAT THE RAVEN SAID by Robert Alexander
Fiona Sze-Lorrain Reviews SEE HOW WE ALMOST FLY by Alison Luterman
Sunnylynn Thibodeaux Reviews THE INCOMPOSSIBLE by Carrie Hunter
John Bloomberg-Rissman Reviews 908-1078 and THE PERSIANS BY AESCHYLUS, both by Brandon Brown
Benjamin Winkler Reviews WE IN MY TRANS by j/j hastain
Mary Kasimor Reviews T&U&/LASH YOUR NIPPLES TO A POST/HISTORY IS GORGEOUS by Jared Schickling
Jeff Harrison Engages T&U& LASH YOUR NIPPLES TO A POST HISTORY IS GORGEOUS by Jared Schickling
rob mclennan Reviews APOLLINAIRE’S SPEECH TO THE WAR MEDIC by Jake Kennedy
Megan Burns Reviews LUCKY by Mairéad Byrne and A REDUCTION by Jimmy Lo
Paul Lai Engages KĒROTAKIS : by Janice Lee
Patrick James Dunagan Reviews CLEARVIEW by Ted Greenwald and THE PUBLIC GARDENS: POEMS AND HISTORY by Linda Norton
John Bloomberg-Rissman Reviews KAZOO DREAMBOATS OR, ON WHAT THERE IS by J.H. Prynne
Gregory W. Randall Reviews THE HOMELESSNESS OF SELF by Susan Terris
Jim McCrary Reviews MY COMMON HEART by Anne Boyer and ISSUE 8, Newsletter from James Yeary
Megan Burns Reviews A TOAST IN THE HOUSE OF FRIENDS by Akilah Oliver
Eileen Tabios Engages INFO RATION by Stan Apps
Bill Scalia Reviews THE MORNING NEWS IS EXCITING by Don Mee Choi
Micah Cavaleri Reviews ACOUSTIC EXPERIENCE by Noah Eli Gordon
Jim McCrary Reviews COLLECTION by Megan Kaminski, MANTIC SEMANTIC by A.L. Nielsen, LVNGinTONGUES by G. E. Schwartz, and PO DOOM by jim mccrary
Eileen Tabios Engages BLUE COLLAR POET by G. Emil Reutter
Fiona Sze-Lorrain Reviews IF NOT METAMORPHIC by Brenda Iljima
Eileen Tabios Engages THE ULTERIOR EDEN: A SERIES OF GENUFLECTIONS, RUMINATIONS AND GYROSCOPES by j/j hastain
INTERVIEW
Tom Beckett Interviews NF Huth
FEATURE ARTICLE
“Make a Wish…and Blow out the Candles: An Explication of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie” by Nicholas T. Spatafora
THE CRITIC WRITES POEMS
Sunnylyn Thibodeaux
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE
Paul Lai Reviews AUTOMATON BIOGRAPHIES by Larissa Lai
ADVERTISEMENTS
Poets on the Great Recession: Poets reflect on the Great Recession, and its impact on their Poetry. Because
Poets On Adoption:
Poetry: it inevitably relates to -- among others -- identity, history, culture, class, race, community, economics, politics, power, loss, health, desire, regret, language, form and genre disruption, love ... as well as the absences thereofs. The same may be said about Adoption."
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EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
Nicholas Manning Reviews IRRESPONSIBILITY by Chris Vitiello
Patrick James Dunagan Reviews HOW PHENOMENA APPEAR TO UNFOLD by Leslie Scalapino
Allen Bramhall Reviews AT THAT by Skip Fox
T.C. Marshall Reviews ETHICS OF SLEEP by Bernadette Mayer
Fiona Sze-Lorrain Reviews SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CRAYON by Allison Benis White
Laura Trantham Smith Reviews UTOPIA MINUS by Susan Briante
Moira Richards Reviews IN PARAN by Larissa Shmailo
Philip Troy Reviews THE FEELING IS ACTUAL by Paolo Javier
Eileen Tabios Engages THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT PAINTERS SHOULDN’T TALK: A GUSTONBOOK by Patrick James Dunagan
Logan Fry Reviews IN THE COMMON DREAM OF GEORGE OPPEN by Joseph Bradshaw
Eileen Tabios Engages TO BE HUMAN IS TO BE A CONVERSATION by Andrea Rexilius
Thomas Fink Reviews PARTS AND OTHER PIECES by Tom Beckett
T.C. Marshall Reviews TO LIGHT OUT by Karen Weiser and DUTIES OF AN ENGLISH FOREIGN SECRETARY by MacGregor Card
Allen Bramhall Reviews CITIZEN CAIN by Ben Friedlander
William Allegrezza Reviews FORTY-NINE GUARANTEED WAYS TO ESCAPE DEATH by Sandy McIntosh
Fiona Sze-Lorrain Reviews THERE’S THE HAND AND THERE’S THE ARID CHAIR by Tomaz Salamun
Eileen Tabios Engages MY LIFE AS A DOLL by Elizabeth Kirschner
Gabriel Lovatt Reviews THE USE OF SPEECH by Nathalie Sarraute, translated from the French by Barbara Wright
Logan Fry Reviews PORTRAIT OF COLON DASH PARENTHESIS by Jeffrey Jullich
Eileen Tabios Engages STILL: OF THE EARTH AS THE ARK WHICH DOES NOT MOVE by Matthew Cooperman
Bill Scalia Reviews THE URGE TO BELIEVE IS STRONGER THAN BELIEF ITSELF by Erin M. Bertram
Kristin Berkey-Abbot Reviews FAULKNER’S ROSARY by Sarah Vap
Micah Cavaleri Reviews KYOTOLOGIC by Anne Gorrick
Tom Beckett Engages AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY GENDER, PRURIENT OMNIBUS ANARCHIC, RESTITUTIONS FOR A NEWER BOUNTIFUL VERB, COCK-BURN, OUR BODIES . . . ARE BEAUTY INDUCERS, THE ULTERIOR EDEN, ASYMPTOTIC LOVER//THERMODYNAMIC VENTS, all by j/j hastain
j/j hastain Reviews A GOOD CUNTBOY IS HARD TO FIND by Doug Rice
Eileen Tabios Engages 60 TEXTOS by Sarah Riggs
Bill Scalia Reviews BEAT THING by David Meltzer
Logan Fry Reviews HANK by Abraham Smith
T.C. Marshall Reviews EXPLORATIONS IN NAVAJO POETRY AND POETICS by Anthony K. Webster and THE PRINCIPLE OF MEASURE IN COMPOSITION BY FIELD: PROJECTIVE VERSE II by Charles Olson, Ed. Joshue Hoeynck
Eileen Tabios Engages TEENY TINY #13, Edited by Amanda Laughtland
Allen Bramhall Reviews ANTIPHONIES: ESSAYS ON WOMEN'S EXPERIMENTAL POETRIES IN CANADA, Ed. Nate Dorward
Gabriel Lovatt Reviews VACANT LOT by Oliver Rohe, translated from the French by Laird Hunt
Eric Wayne Dickey Reviews PUNISH HONEY by Karen Leona Anderson
Eileen Tabios Engages INSIDE THE MONEY MACHINE by Minnie Bruce Pratt
Pam Brown Reviews SLY MONGOOSE by Ken Bolton
T.C. Marshall Reviews HOW LONG by Ron Padgett
Neil Leadbeater Reviews A HERON IN BUENOS AIRES by Luis Benítez
Jean Vengua Reviews THE WISDOM ANTHOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICAN BUDDHIST POETRY, Editor Andrew Schelling
Eileen Tabios Engages WAIFS AND STRAYS by Micah Ballard
T.C. Marshall Reviews THE NEW TOURISM by Harry Mathews
Guillermo Parra Reviews HOW’S THE COWS by Jess Mynes
T.C. Marshall Reviews THE WIDE ROAD by Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian
John Bloomberg-Rissman Reviews THE COMMONS by Sean Bonney
Pam Brown Reviews PERRIER FEVER by Pete Spence
Jim McCrary Engages MARROWING and THE NAME OF THIS INTERSECTION IS FROST, both by Maryrose Larkin
Tom Beckett Reviews THE NAME OF THIS INTERSECTION IS FROST by Maryrose Larkin
Patrick James Dunagan Reviews “NEITHER WIT NOR GOLD” by Ammiel Alcalay and STREET METE: VERTICAL ELEGIES 6 by Sam Truitt
Eileen Tabios Engages RADIATOR by NF Huth
Genevieve Kaplan Reviews SPEAKING OFF CENTRE by James Cummins, CORPORATE GEES (VOLUME V) by Christopher William Purdom, KITCHEN TIDBITS by Amanda Laughtland, FROM HERE by Zoë Skoulding with images by Simonetta Moro, and TWO HATS APPEAR WHEN APPLAUDED: AN IMPROVISATION by Raymond Farr
L.S. Bassen Reviews IT MIGHT TURN OUT WE ARE REAL by Susan Scarlata
rob mclennan Reviews THREE NOVELS by Elizabeth Robinson
Patrick James Dunagan & Ava Koohbor Review THE TELLER OF TALES: STORIES FROM FERODWSI’S SHAHNAHMEN, Translated by Richard Jeffrey Newman
Tom Hibbard Reviews SELECTED POEMS by Nick Demske, A MYSTICAL THEOLOGY OF THE LIMBIC FISSURE by Peter O’Leary, HOSTILE WITNESS by Garin Cycholl, UNABLE TO FULLY CALIFORNIA by Larry Sawyer, AIN’T GOT ALL NIGHT by Buck Downs, and ANSWER by Mark DuCharme
Jeff Harrison Engages THE DANGEROUS ISLANDS (A NOVEL) by Séamas Cain
Eileen Tabios Engages ALIENS: AN ISLAND by Uljana Wolf, Trans. from the German by Monika Zobel
Kristin Berkey-Abbot Reviews LOOKING UP HARRYETTE MULLEN: INTERVIEWS ON SLEEPING WITH THE DICTIONARY AND OTHER WORKS by Barbara Henning
G. Justin Hulog Reviews ARCHIPELAGO DUST by Karen Llagas
Allen Bramhall Reviews FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS by William Allegrezza
Eileen Tabios Engages RED WALLS by James Tolan
Juliet Cook Reviews COMPENDIUM by Kristina Marie Darling
Bill Scalia Reviews WHAT THE RAVEN SAID by Robert Alexander
Fiona Sze-Lorrain Reviews SEE HOW WE ALMOST FLY by Alison Luterman
Sunnylynn Thibodeaux Reviews THE INCOMPOSSIBLE by Carrie Hunter
John Bloomberg-Rissman Reviews 908-1078 and THE PERSIANS BY AESCHYLUS, both by Brandon Brown
Benjamin Winkler Reviews WE IN MY TRANS by j/j hastain
Mary Kasimor Reviews T&U&/LASH YOUR NIPPLES TO A POST/HISTORY IS GORGEOUS by Jared Schickling
Jeff Harrison Engages T&U& LASH YOUR NIPPLES TO A POST HISTORY IS GORGEOUS by Jared Schickling
rob mclennan Reviews APOLLINAIRE’S SPEECH TO THE WAR MEDIC by Jake Kennedy
Megan Burns Reviews LUCKY by Mairéad Byrne and A REDUCTION by Jimmy Lo
Paul Lai Engages KĒROTAKIS : by Janice Lee
Patrick James Dunagan Reviews CLEARVIEW by Ted Greenwald and THE PUBLIC GARDENS: POEMS AND HISTORY by Linda Norton
John Bloomberg-Rissman Reviews KAZOO DREAMBOATS OR, ON WHAT THERE IS by J.H. Prynne
Gregory W. Randall Reviews THE HOMELESSNESS OF SELF by Susan Terris
Jim McCrary Reviews MY COMMON HEART by Anne Boyer and ISSUE 8, Newsletter from James Yeary
Megan Burns Reviews A TOAST IN THE HOUSE OF FRIENDS by Akilah Oliver
Eileen Tabios Engages INFO RATION by Stan Apps
Bill Scalia Reviews THE MORNING NEWS IS EXCITING by Don Mee Choi
Micah Cavaleri Reviews ACOUSTIC EXPERIENCE by Noah Eli Gordon
Jim McCrary Reviews COLLECTION by Megan Kaminski, MANTIC SEMANTIC by A.L. Nielsen, LVNGinTONGUES by G. E. Schwartz, and PO DOOM by jim mccrary
Eileen Tabios Engages BLUE COLLAR POET by G. Emil Reutter
Fiona Sze-Lorrain Reviews IF NOT METAMORPHIC by Brenda Iljima
Eileen Tabios Engages THE ULTERIOR EDEN: A SERIES OF GENUFLECTIONS, RUMINATIONS AND GYROSCOPES by j/j hastain
INTERVIEW
Tom Beckett Interviews NF Huth
FEATURE ARTICLE
“Make a Wish…and Blow out the Candles: An Explication of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie” by Nicholas T. Spatafora
THE CRITIC WRITES POEMS
Sunnylyn Thibodeaux
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE
Paul Lai Reviews AUTOMATON BIOGRAPHIES by Larissa Lai
ADVERTISEMENTS
Poets on the Great Recession: Poets reflect on the Great Recession, and its impact on their Poetry. Because
"To bring the poem into the world / is to bring the world into the poem."
Poets On Adoption:
Poetry: it inevitably relates to -- among others -- identity, history, culture, class, race, community, economics, politics, power, loss, health, desire, regret, language, form and genre disruption, love ... as well as the absences thereofs. The same may be said about Adoption."
BACK COVER
A Thousand Words Plus...!
