Features & Reviews Archives - Page 32 of 773

A Worn Violence: On Gabrielle Bates’ Judas Goat

[T]here is a speaker who will simply persevere, who will, like “the heart trying to leave the chest,” keep going, and by keeping going, will tend always, though it’s sometimes hard, toward human connection. Toward love.

Read

Read

The View from the Backstretch: Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch

Though this account is full of wounds, losses, and hardships, the Sonia who emerges herein speaks of them with the kind of sinewy, bracing directness you would expect of a complete stranger sitting across from you at the bar.

Read

Read

Poets make the world huge: A conversation with Michael Wiegers of Copper Canyon

I don’t believe we come to nor travel through poetry alone . . . Rather than “social” I would instead encourage the word “communal”; the former sounds a little more performative and exclusive to my ear than does the latter, which sounds more like an invitation.

Read

Read

The Freedom of Form & Re-Entering Myths: An interview with A.E. Stallings

Our lives may seem to be lived on the small scale of the everyday but, because we are mortal, because ultimately everything is at stake, also play out against something universal and important.

Read

Read

What to Read When Celebrating Black History

The Rumpus editors share a list of books to celebrate Black History Month

Read

Read

Seas of Discourse: Zülfü Livaneli’s The Fisherman and His Son

people do not fight their battles in isolation between mountains of seawater or in a vacuum of hypermasculine idealism; they suffer together and sometimes apart with a thin connective tissue strung between them.

Read