from NO MATERIAL
An excerpt from Losarc Raal’s quasi-novella No Material, forthcoming from Black Sun Lit in 2023
Anvil and Rose 14
“I have yet to arrive / I will never arrive / in the center of everything is the poem / intact sun / inescapable night.”
A Land There Is No Title To
‘Song. Sang Freud. Spread on the chalcedony, a land there is no title to.’ And where is that? …
Review of Rough Song by Blanca Varela
From within Varela’s rough text, Lara extracts unexpected threads of forms, unarticulated rhythms and figures of speech that keep the metaphors together and yet, by the same token, undermine and fulfill Varela’s austere treatment.