(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: D. Gilson
Place is context in part, but it is not context in summation.
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...moreD. Gilson reviews Caki Wilkinson’s The Wynona Stone Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreD. Gilson reviews Randall Mann’s Straight Razor today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreSometimes, it’s easy to think of the poem as a conversation one might have in a bar. And sometimes, to follow the metaphor through, the poem is a surprising conversation, at once sweet and sexy and utterly—thank god—smart. So when I received Michael D. Snediker’s book The Apartment of Tragic Appliances recently and read his […]
...moreDouble Shadow seems to find the poet at mid-breath, or in a time of transition where the voice may be in flux from previous work; but the watchful eye, and the careful hand that crafts these verses, is still ever-present.
...moreApril is over. We can’t stop these things from happening, no. We’re slipping out of spring into summer, out of busy semesters and National Poetry Month. We’re slipping outside our houses, and offices, and coffeeshops after the seemingly innumerable gray days, and I’m glad to slip into the last poem I loved, “Reaching Around For […]
...moreMore accurately: the last poem I envied, and isn’t envy but one form of love? From time to time you come across a poem that makes you stop, read (once, then again, and again, which in 2011, is quite a feat), then think, “damn, I wish I would have written that.” This seems one of […]
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