Looking at ‘Best of the Net 2014’: G.C. Waldrep
G.C. Waldrep was no one to me before I read his prose poem, and a venal incarnation of my simultaneous …
William Brewer’s “Appalachia, Your Genesis”
William Brewer’s taut poem of uneasy homecoming begins, like Joyce’s Ulysses, with a razor. Joyce does it thus: Stately, plump …
For St. Valentine: GREATER THAN LOVE. Marina Tsvetaeva.
new year I. happy new year—happy new light, new world—happy new edge, new realm— happy new haven! a first letter …
Wendy Xu’s “the years”
To appreciate Wendy Xu’s poem I begin insensate. Her sentences do not cohere, so I abandon them completely. Her line …
FL: Spencer Reece’s “Gilgamesh,” or S. Reece Is a Mean Bastard & Heartsick
The grand weird gesture of the title “Gilgamesh” and the gentle cruelty of the first line—‘We lived on a lake with …
