Tue, May 22, 2012

Poetry Around the Web

 

What Is Amazing

Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago

A poet might have a deep and truthful scientific knowledge of how nature operates: how redwoods bloom and the like. But even a nature poem is not a biology textbook, and it details not facts, but opinions that as readers we absorb as facts, if only for a moment. A poem is the place to guess at…

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The Kids Are All Right

Posted 7 months ago

Paige Taggart’s Polaroid Parade (Greying Ghost, 2011), Ben Fama’s New Waves (Minutes Books, 2011), and Genya Turovskaya’s Dear Jenny (S U P E R M A C H I N E, 2011).

In an era when much fuss is made about the “death” of print, independent presses such as Minutes Books, SUPERMACHINE,…

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Ekphrasis in Preparation for the Communal Swim: A Review of Tom Savage’s “Brainlifts”

Posted 3 months, 1 week ago

One could call Tom Savage’s poetry a procession of ideas. In the face of their often kooky, evocative imagery, there is a didactic, conceptual flare that subverts their ostensive subject-matter, critiquing the conditions of aesthetic experience in the contemporary age. Brainlifts, Tom’s most…

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