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“Torturously Beautiful”: Aase Berg Reviews Eva Kristina Olsson’s The Angelgreen Sacrament
Originally published in Dagens Nyheter, June 12, 2017 Translated by Johannes Göransson Why are so many people angry at poetry? Even the poets hate their form of expression. The poet Anna Axfors [...]
“Smaller and larger nooks of still living cell-tissue”: Wax Casts, Mouththroats, and Bells in Helena Boberg’s Sense Violence by Hannah V Warren
“As bodily metaphor, the grotesque cave tends to look like (and in the most gross metaphorical sense be identified with) the cavernous anatomical female body.” —Mary Russo, The Female Grotesque: Risk, Excess, and Modernity [...]
Trap Poetics | Part 1 by Ava Hofmann
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Notes on Don Mee Choi’s Translation is a Mode = Translation is an Anti-neocolonial Mode by Mike Corrao
Don Mee Choi’s new pamphlet from Ugly Duckling Presse, Translation is a Mode = Translation is an Anti-neocolonial Mode, explores translation as a radical regime utilizing the lenses of poetry, cinema, and American colonialism. ^ [...]
Citational Poetics: A Series | Part 1: Cosmic Reordering by AM Ringwalt
I concluded the Introduction to this series with a quote from Harmony Holiday’s “Cloves” to leave her image of Sisyphus—a Black female Sisyphus—as an emblem for the words ahead. Holiday’s Sisyphus, bearing citation of myth [...]
“That Is Some Unassimilable Shit”: Rural Poetics and Opacity by Marty Cain
In their recent post, Madison McCartha gestures towards the surveillance logics embedded within contemporary media. Invoking Édouard Glissant, they end with a call for poets and artists to resist the colonial desire for transparency, embracing [...]