Poems by Helen Adam
Helen Adam is a singular luminary whose ballads, if you read them out loud and late at night, will sneak into your mind and create phantasmagorias of exquisite, sensual, brooding, and melancholy fairy-tales.
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German knows how to cure Jon’s boredom. If only Jon would listen!
Resurrection of the Ancillary: Two Books by Ammiel Alcalay
Joe Safdie hits two bird with one stone reviewing Ammiel Alcalay’s A Bibliography for After Jews and Arabs and his forthcoming Ghost Talk.
Anvil and Rose 9
Herman Van den Reeck returns for 5 lightning reviews of books by Justin Phillip Reed, Lana Del Rey, Maria Dahvana Headley, Eliza Griswold, and Norman Finkelstein.
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? …
Sleight of Flower
Every creation has resonance beyond itself. Our participation in nature is a creative act by which nature knows its further nature, as we know our own.
Casper and Fauntleroy 10
There are two types of sailors in this world: the raucous kind who party well into the night…and Fauntleroy!
J.C. Bustriazo Ortiz // Michelle Gil-Montero
An astonishing medley of de-centered avant-garde and the late Neolithic, the poems of Bustriazo Ortiz breathe fresh air into the migratory Spanish language.
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Jon and German go out dancing. They have a great time…but is it enough?
Review of Tom Leaver at McKenzie Fine Art
The artist Tom Leaver is a painter who dons rubber gloves, dips his fingertips into the palette, and spreads gestures across the canvas. To him, it is an act of meditation, the procession of time throughout a day distilled into an image.
Intimation
To create something new, at best, is to give an intimation of the potential that is obstructed, and hence, by a contrast however faint, to draw attention to the obstruction and the pain it induces.
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.
Casper and Fauntleroy 9
Fauntleroy has a spring in his step and a song in his heart…and with a job like his, that’s not an easy feat!
Crítica del Arte Revolucionario: Trotsky, Benjamin, Adorno y Greenberg
El arte modernista para Trotsky no podía ser considerado como una nueva cultura sino más bien como una expresión de la tarea y demanda de trascender la sociedad y cultura burguesas.
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Jon’s desires are thwarted again, but German will always be there for him.
The Gentle Barbarian
Excerpt from Bohumil Hrabal’s homage to Vladimír Boudník, The Gentle Barbarian, translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson and introduced by Mia Ruf.
Review of The Idea of Perfection: The Poetry and Prose of Paul Valéry
The wish to avoid the difficulties of attempting to reproduce Valéry’s own rhyme and scansion is understandable, but replacing them with another set of procedural impositions doesn’t necessarily allow the translation to do justice to the original.
