The Rumpus Review of 12 O’Clock Boys
The new documentary 12 O’Clock Boys is the latest example of Baltimore’s restless creative energy... a film that stands up to its inevitable comparisons with [David] Simon’s urban epic.
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Will Di Novi
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Amorak Huey’s fourth book of poems is Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, forthcoming 2021). Also forthcoming is the chapbook Slash / Slash (Diode Editions, 2021), collaboratively written with W. Todd Kaneko. Co-author with Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2018), Huey teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review, American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, and the recent Norton Critical Edition of The Odyssey.
Extraordinary, Ordinary People: Another Year and the Films of Mike Leigh
Here is the world according to Johnny, the bilious antihero of Mike Leigh’s 1993 film Naked. Johnny is a restless drifter on an odyssey through London’s nocturnal underbelly, his feverish ranting a…