Mostly, Cycholl proceeds in dismay for the beggaring of his world. prairie)d is the song of a grieving poet. It tells of the water which dribbles muddily through a once-garden and into lives malformed by manias of profit. —Dennis Cooley
Charles Rammelkamp’s exposition of the “flesh trapeze” that swings through American entertainment and culture, via the voices of some of its most prominent acrobats, is vital to an understanding of our culture. —Roman Gladstone
Mladinic gives us a world where “a man with a wooden leg/ and a boy in a white shirt/ talk weather/ and look like an argument.” The strange and the mundane combine into sharp mystery. This is exquisite poetry and worthy of your time. —Jeff Weddle
McCaffery, with his customary linguistic wit, now takes [Alice] through the working-class, into the industrial revolution, where Mary Wollestonecraft is the Red Queen, and the Soviet workers’ paradise, where Lenin is the Lion and the Unicorn is Trotsky. And, horribile dictu, it works. Don’t miss the Bolshevik Jabberwocky.—Jean-Jacques Lecercle,
Gary Pak’s Kewalo Blues and Echoes reflects his profound, joyous, and critical grasp of Hawai’i as entangled site of local pidgin, Native Hawaiian, oceanic, and ethnic mores of world-dwelling and culture-making. —Rob Sean Wilson
Hurray and congrats to Irene Koronas and Daniel Y. Harris! Their new books have been reviewed by Joshua Martin and are posted in Synchronized Chaos. Joshua Martin Reviews Irene Koronas’ gnōstos in “Synchronized…
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