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“I follow the traces”: Affect as Occult Technology in Öijer’s The Trilogy by Candice Wuehle
I recently watched a video in which Swedish pop icon, Robyn, cites “Arvet” by Bruno K. Öijer as a major influence on her own “Missing U.” And, indeed, a closer reading of “Missing U” reveals [...]
N O I S E M A K E R S – JUNE 2020
We proudly present the second installment of Action Books' N O I S E M A K E R S, a new monthly series that recognizes poets, translators, and poet-translators whose recently published work pushes [...]
Poetry Mixtape #1 by Olivia Lott
In homage to the dialogic motion of poetry and also to Gen X. Mixed by Olivia Lott Mixtape #1 is loss and warmth. Blood, veins, arteries. Faces, throats, wombs. Repetitions, questions, obsessions. Beside, beyond, behind, [...]
Ecstatic Technology: Nonsense, Puns, and Angelic Encounters by Johannes Göransson
1. My writing was always translingual, always on some level nonsense. When people ask me when I started writing poetry, I often say when I moved to the US – I began to translate song [...]
The Reading Girl and the Young-Girl by AM Ringwalt
I began reading Lisa Robertson’s The Baudelaire Fractal shortly after reading Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl (transl. Ariana Reines). It was mid-February, precariously near the pandemic’s descent into our daily lives, [...]
Sacrificial Excess: A Review of Katy Mongeau’s Apostasy by Zack Anderson
“When you murdered me, I called it apostasy,” announces the speaker in Katy Mongeau’s debut collection Apostasy. With its “mutilated visions” of wicked lambs, apocalyptic suns, and homicidal lovers, Mongeau’s book marks out a harrowing [...]