Living with Youna Kwak’s sur vie
The most unique editorial acclamation you achieve running a poetry press is this: knowing the violet slough. You pay careful …
Book and Chapbook Reviews
Mrinalini Harchandrai’s A Bombay In My Beat
On a rainy day in Bombay, I am listening to the sui generis jazz measures of Alfa Mist’s Antiphon. The …
Henri Cole’s Nothing to Declare
Few things embolden the iconoclast like punditry’s insistence on singing mediocrity. Like recent books by Louise Glück (whose Faithful and Virtuous …
Pedro Ponce’s Stories After Goya
[N.B.: Poems quoted herein appear in Stories After Goya with all text—save the last lines—justified to the right margin. Line breaks are …
Micro-Microreview: Dorothea Lasky’s Rome
Rome is doggerel. Reading the book is torturous, so complete is its lack of wisdom, imagination, and valor of insight; not even …
2014: Our Favorite (Literary) Things
[I made a request of the PACK: send along your favorite 2014 read—not necessarily a book written in ’14, not …
Relentless by Jeff Bezos
Out with it: it’s been a long time since satire has read as well as Berfrois’ free e-chap, Relentless by Jeff Bezos. I’ll be …
Mutant Genre and Jenkins, Hans, and Harris’ PREPARE TO DIE
Very early in September, I began to revisit the HD port of Resident Evil 4. I had downloaded it more than …
Microreview: Aimée Sands’ The Green-go Turn of Telling
In attending the Massachusetts Poetry Festival this past May, I was afforded an opportunity to shop a large selection of …
Stephanie Anderson’s In the Particular Particular
[This review is taken from ALL TOLD, an early incarnation of SHARKPACK. It was originally published in October, 2010. —Ed.] …
Microreview: Revisiting Seamus Heaney’s North
If ever I swear off the larger part of contemporary poetry, figuring I’d be better served to read Macbeth for …
