
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 …
G.C. Waldrep was no one to me before I read his prose poem, and a venal incarnation of my simultaneous …
William Brewer’s taut poem of uneasy homecoming begins, like Joyce’s Ulysses, with a razor. Joyce does it thus: Stately, plump …
new year I. happy new year—happy new light, new world—happy new edge, new realm— happy new haven! a first letter …
To appreciate Wendy Xu’s poem I begin insensate. Her sentences do not cohere, so I abandon them completely. Her line …
The grand weird gesture of the title “Gilgamesh” and the gentle cruelty of the first line—‘We lived on a lake with …