With Feeling
Firefly Under the Tongue by Coral Bracho. Translated by Forrest Gander. New York: New Directions, 2008. 144 pp. $16.95 pbk. The Night by Jaime Saenz. Translated by Forrest Gander and Kent [...]
“A Thicket of Potentialities”:
Gay Poetry and the Queer Poetics of Jeffery Beam’s The Beautiful Tendons This theme…of what the sexual reality is, of what the Self is, arises from an urgency in the conception of the Universe [...]
No Ideas But in People
A Review of New Books by Cathy Smith Bowers, Marilyn Kallet, Diane Gilliam Fisher, and Jane Mayhall A Book of Minutes by Cathy Smith Bowers. Oak Ridge, TN: Iris Press, 2004. 81 pp. $13 paper. [...]
“My Pets, the Grasses”
The Particular Pleasures of Lorine Niedecker Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works. Edited by Jenny Penberthy. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 2002. 471 pages. $45 cloth. ISBN 0-520-22433-7. New [...]
Sing, Muses
Reviews of Jeffery Beam’s What We Have Lost, Jim Clark’s Buried Land, Joel Dias-Porter’s Libation Song, and Keith Flynn’s Nervous Splendor What We Have Lost: New and [...]
J. W. Bonner
J. W. Bonner has published fiction and criticism in The Quarterly, Tyuonyi, The Greensboro Review, ArtForum and Oyster Boy Review. He is publisher of French Broad Press and a former editor of The [...]
Shining the Particulars and Getting the Cool
A Review of C. D. Wright’s Steal Away Steal Away: Selected and New Poems by C. D. Wright. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press. 235 pages. $25 cloth. ISBN: 1-55659-172-1. Taking stock and [...]
Iridescent Beauties: Things Suffice
A Review of Thomas Meyer’s At Dusk Iridescent At Dusk Iridescent by Thomas Meyer. Winston-Salem, NC: The Jargon Society, 1999. 257 pages. ISBN: 0-912330-81-3, $40 (paper wrappers). To [...]
Haggard’s Blues
for Jim Gardner Playing guitar fleshing a song before I forget – it usually comes all at once. I don’t understand what I’m saying sometimes – like Edgar Cayce. I started because I wanted to keep [...]
