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Return Them to Their Sources Uninterpreted
Each conceit, each stanza, each line in Lovely, Raspberry sparkles with such wonderful ambiguity of thought that is, paradoxically, a type of clarity; through Belz’s absurdism, aspects of the human…
Empathy Towards Flawed Characters: The Rumpus Book Club Round-Up
-The big news for Doug Dorst this week was that his new book, The Surf Guru, was reviewed in The New York Times Book Review. Writer Robin Romm extols Dorst’s…
A Gap in a Two-Way Mirror
As a chapbook, Narcissus Resists works. Across nineteen poems, a conceit such as this can get old, but Hittinger keeps his book compelling and engaging.
Erickson Eats Oranges, Or How To Really Like A Book
I’m a sucker for blurbs, I have to admit. But then writers blurb their friends, right? It’s just the right thing to do, so maybe it doesn’t say that much…
Star-Smoked Skies
Kuipers is a “traditional poet” with respect to her unwavering focus on craft; the engine powering her verse is tight word choice that simultaneously conjures up tangible, living objects and…
Taking a Bite of the Digital Madeleine
Near the end of my first date with Mary, the woman who would become my wife and mother to my son, I asked her if she would mind going out…
Citrus County Hits New York, Texas is All About Doug Dorst, and Tao Lin Challenges his Readers to a Dual…er, Contest: The One Rumpus, One Book Round-Up
New this week, The Rumpus presents a smattering of Book Club related news, including highlights of past, present, and future books in our queue. -You may have already caught Daniel…
New Eugenides
If you’re like me, Middlesex blew your mind. Here was a book chock-full of wildly different themes, all of them improbably interconnected: incest, genocide, Detroit, the Nation of Islam and…
Better Faster Stronger… Flexier: eBooks dEvolved
“Some computer developers envision tablet computers so flexible that you will literally be able to roll them up and slip them in your bag or pocket — just as you…
All the Whiskey in Heaven
In short, [Charles] Bernstein is taking apart the structures of conventional poetry, and more generally of the language we use every day – and which in turn uses us –…