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Notes Toward a Z-Axial Literature | Part 1: Time Travel by Olivia Cronk and Philip Sorenson
The below is one of several selections from two longer works written over the past three years. Our proposition, though, is too little or too obvious. Our thesis was/ is that literature can reveal the [...]
We are Decadent Again by Paul Cunningham
1. Whether on the page or as a poem-film, followers of Action Books really seem to love this poem by Bruno K. Öijer: we were the last to leave every party and we had nothing [...]
The Beautiful Betrayal: Translingual Poetry as Counterfeit Voice by Johannes Göransson
1. Last week I argued against the “gold standard” of the “voice that is great within us,” that stable interiority that necessitates and is necessitated by the dominant ideal of “communication” – or the direct [...]
poetry in action #3 | Tom Van de Voorde translated by Emma Rault
poetry in action features work by poets from around the world, translated into English. It has three rallying cries: Poets of the world, unite and take over! Resist the oppressive constraints of good, publishable poetry [...]
i’m going to speak slowly/ in the language of the mise en abyme, or, an afterword to Death Industrial Complex by Candice Wuehle
1. Francesca Woodman made her photos out of what she had. Trees, eels, hosiery, lace, mirrors, Vaseline, clothespins, garter belts, silverware, peeling wallpaper. One of her most profound images only occurred because a truck hauling [...]
Poetics of Crackle by Zack Anderson
In quarantine, as in poetry, time is out of joint. I have been thinking about Johannes’ post on the New Critics’ communication model, the “foreign sound” of the scream, and translation’s ability to perforate. Paul’s [...]