Octave’s former co-workers cannot forget about him…no matter how hard they try!

The story of Casper and Fauntleroy begins!

Grey Space poems are like placards, billboards, vertiginous verbal icons; they are often verse vendettas, self-mythologizing though not self-aggrandizing documents, punk percussion protests, dirty ditties, saucy stanzas, and crazy collages that are collisions of sound, sense, and structure.

In this 5th installment of the biweekly Anvil and Rose, Hermann Van den Reeck returns with flash reviews of books by Patrick Greany and Sabine Zelger; Melissa Lozada-Oliva; Nancy Lee; Jessica Q. Stark; and Rachel Blau DuPlessis.

Los años de Trump están acabados. Allison Hewitt Ward analiza el arte producido durante estos años.

Last night, she says, I woke up twice, once to my body lying in bed and once to grasses and trees in the field outside my uncle’s trailer in the mountains where we spent summer weekends in the silence of thin air at tree-line, fishing and wandering and planning the lives we would live someday and the lives we were trying to redefine back in the city.

Andre lays out the terms of his relationship with Octave, charting the path for their near future together. Will it be too much for our hero?

Michel Leiris’s 1929 essay on the sculptor Alberto Giacometti, translated by Rainer Hanshe.

Octave is free! Reunited with Maurice, Octave finds life on the outside ain’t easy…or is it?

Frédéric sees the desk where his mother, now passed, did her business, shoved unopened mail, searched for a pen, locked away in a glass case. “Doesn't it seem caged?”

Andre and Zasu return to their meddling ways in this special Christmas installment of Octave!

En Bustriazo, la gramática enloquece del todo. Ninguna normativa queda en pie.

Martin Eden is the story of an autodidact who, in transcending his social class and achieving artistic success, becomes trapped in both the strictures of the culture industry and the confines of his own rigid ideology.

Octave’s life behind bars continues. With no audience but his cellmate, Octave resorts to unorthodox tactics…how will Diablo react to Octave’s work?

…..like a roadside someone threw
brasura into, a ditch used up stuff ends down in,

Jon considers his regrets. German shares his.

“…Ochoa produced a poetry that shares some similarities with her more famous peers — especially for the personal tone — yet her verse is decidedly more oneiric and numinous, and less conversational.“

In a few words, she is an ideal data collector, and any misgivings the employer may have had about hiring a high school dropout have been put to rest.

Fourth installment of Anvil and Rose, the third by Inspector Wyatt.

Far from being a straightforward narrative, Jean Daive’s memoir-cum-poetic-reverie Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan is yet all the more rewarding for its doggedly lucid wandering through recurring vagaries of symbol and motif.