All posts by Kathleen Rooney

March 2nd, 2011

Behold My Clearance Discounts

Nick Demske operates with a kind of magnetic-yet-repulsive force, powerfully driven by various tensions of opposites. …more

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December 15th, 2010

Monkey Bars

The result of Lippman’s perpetual contentiousness is a collection that is confrontational in the best sense of the word, interrogating the reader, himself, and America pretty much as a whole about child-rearing, over-medication, racism, consumerism and whatever else you’ve got. …more

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July 9th, 2010

Joey was Dorothy, and I was Almost Dorothy

Page after page finds de la Flor purposefully mixing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry all together in long prosy lines that bend genre and gender, time and space. …more

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April 21st, 2010

Bobcat Country

Page after page, Bobcat Country stirs both the counter-intuitively satisfying “Should I be reading this?” queasiness of the Confessional poetry of Berryman, Sexton, and Snodgrass, and the unsettlingly provocative “Is this really poetry?” queasiness of such Muumuu House-affiliated poets as Ellen Kennedy. …more

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Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press and the author, most recently, of the essay collection For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs. Find out more about her at kathleenrooney.com.

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