Edward Smallfield’s Equinox (Apogee, 89 pages) is a truly fascinating collection of poems that weaves together a traditional form with a highly conceptual process. That form is the sonnet, a traditionally mechanical form, mystifying (and defining) Shakespeare’s poetry and cauterizing our more modern heroes such as Ted Berrigan into canon. For a form so universally Read More
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Letters from Robots: words between bites of raisin bran
i am a movie monsterand i love you so muchi know your fearsand will not capitalize on them She might be a movie monster, but Diana Salier’s speaker in Letters From Robots is definitely no robot. She’s sweet, honest, engaging. She narrates the daily life of the young, semi-broke, and perpetually broken-hearted. It’s a life Read More