When the Stonecutter’s Work is Done
Be warned: Char demands much from his reader. His poetry seems to exist in a limbo, where emotion and intellect meet with startling results. His labyrinthine vision leads the reader…
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My Stupid Dollar, My Beautiful Soul
When reading Space, in Chains, I would command my sister, my mother, my friends: “listen to this poem.” I recited Kasischke’s poetry out loud at the dinner table; I scanned…
The Speed of Belief
We don't always run a separate review of our Poetry Book Club selection, but you're in luck here. Taylor Hagood takes us through Tracy K. Smith's latest, Life on Mars.
The Hokum of Her Clothes
[O]ne of Laux’s strengths is her willingness to break through those poetic walls so many of us construct. She seems to want no distance between herself and her reader.
The Patron Saint of Bad Marriages and Atomic Bombs in Peace Time
Reese’s poems…often bless the patience and attention of the reader by not demanding it.
Romanticism
The poems in April Bernard’s Romanticism feel more complete, somehow, for the fact that they each align their focus on objects which, on multiple readings, still seem to have no…
Troublesome Tomes
“When you read the kind of novel that promises to increase the strength of your upper-body as much as the height of your brow […] there’s an awe about the…
Dzanc Wins
The 2011 Independent Book Awards (IPPYs) have been officially released and two Dzanc authors claimed gold and silver prizes for literary fiction. Hesh Kestin’s The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats…
My America Isn’t On a Staid Map
Rane Arroyo’s character shines through in the amazing White as Silver collection, and will be clarified continuously as his vast trove of unpublished work begins to come to light.
I Am Haunted By Lilacs
In Linda Pastan’s thirteenth book of poetry, Traveling Light, we enter into themes of aging, dying, time’s ticking clock, and the natural world.
Levin Wins Young Lion’s Award
Adam Levin, author of the former Rumpus Book Club selection, The Instructions has won the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award! Congratulations to Adam (and McSweeney’s)!
No Books For Prisoners
More information on the South Carolina jail that refuses to allow its inmates any books or reading materials that are not the Bible, spurring last year’s ACLU lawsuit and a…