Tsaurah Litzky claims in one of her poems that it is “the lowlife” in her that got her where she is today. well that’s pretty high up there overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge sharing her apartment with the spirit of Hart Crane. Writing as he did her words about the torturous paradise we call the here … Read more
Tsaurah Litzky – Cleaning the Duck – review by Steve Dalachinsky
Posted by in Book Reviews | Poetry - (Comments Off)Branding the Antarctic for Humanity’s Sake
Posted by in Book Reviews | Books | Essays - (Comments Off)Branding the Antarctic for Humanity’s Sake by Marc Nasdor The Book of Ice By Paul D. Miller Illustrated. 128 pages. Mark Batty Publisher ISBN: 987-1-9356131-4-5 $29.95
by Chris Heffernan Originally published in 1998 in Spain, Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Gutierrez, now put out in paperback by Ecco, is a force of filth, and sensuality, of crime and poverty and the day by day fight not to overcome it but to simply survive it and move through its maze to … Read more
What Proust and the Priests Have To Do with the Poem Saint Genet by George Spencer
Posted by in Book Reviews | Essays - (Comments Off)What Proust and the Priests Have To Do with the Poem Saint Genet by George Spencer by Robert Mueller This is a response. Do not turn off your accelerators. The constitution of the self is a problem that will never go away, and it will never lack in aspects to explore for those … Read more
The Real Deal with Eve Packer by Jeff Grunthaner
Posted by in Book Reviews | Essays | Reviews - (Comments Off)The Real Deal with Eve Packer I can’t escape the thought that the title of Eve Packer’s latest poetry collection, new nails, refers to rusting metal, to the accretion of time gathering over old wounds. I recently had the chance to interview Eve, and she assured me that “nails” was meant in a cosmetic … Read more
The Greatest Living Poet Many of You May Not Know, by Tom Savage
Posted by in Art Reviews | Book Reviews | Reviews - (169 Comments)Adonis, Selected Poems, translated by Khaled Mattawa. Yale University Press, 2010. 400 Pages. Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis, the pen name of Ali Ahmad Esber, has written more than fifty books of poetry, criticism, and translations in his native Arabic. He has been nominated for a Nobel Prize. He has been awared prizes in … Read more
Some Thoughts on Burning of the Three Fires by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Posted by in Book Reviews | Essays | Features - (291 Comments)Some Thoughts on Burning of the Three Fires by Jeanne Marie Beaumont (BOA Editions, 2010) by Robert Mueller It is a pupil, image of small self in cantering of eye. Someone is watching. Now go ahead. You are free. You may be free. You may loosen your happiness, if you will, … Read more
Adonis, the Silk Road, Civilization, and Oblivion by Patrick Kosiewicz
Posted by in Book Reviews | Essays - (Comments Off)Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said) comes from a village between jagged blade of Syrian mountains and liquid blade of Mediterranean Sea. Frankincense and myrrh, seers and generals, caravans and armies, prophets and empires, untouchable priestesses and the Queen of Sheba…All passed through that land of cherries, rock, and olives; a place that knew the Hellenistic flourishing … Read more
Sunset Park by Paul Auster (Henry Holt: 2010) As ever, Paul Auster remains heavily indebted to indirect discourse; he favors a style that views his characters at arms’ length, a narration that concentrates more on their inner lives than on their outward actions. His most recent novel, Sunset Park, opens with a description of … Read more
Exterminating Angel – a look at the posthumous volume of poems Divina is Divina by Jack Wiler ( Cavankerry Press )
Posted by in Book Reviews | Essays | Reviews - (148 Comments)Exterminating Angel – a look at the posthumous volume of poems Divina is Divina by Jack Wiler ( Cavankerry Press ) steve dalachinsky Even at their darkest, most disparate and desperate levels Jack Wiler’s poetry gives us, through their sheer force and honesty, a sense of hope and relief, … Read more
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