The Light Endures: 13th Balloon by Mark Bibbins
Grief begs to be analogized, not to be tamed exactly, but somehow made approachable.
...moreGrief begs to be analogized, not to be tamed exactly, but somehow made approachable.
...moreBut look at this poet-speaker speaking the unspeakable!
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreA look back at the books we reviewed in 2020!
...moreClifford Thompson discusses his work and art-making.
...moreThe Rumpus editorial staff selects our favorite pieces from 2020!
...moreMarci Calabretta Cancio-Bello discusses her debut poetry collection, HOUR OF THE OX.
...moreDawn Davies discusses her debut memoir, MOTHERS OF SPARTA.
...moreNarratives, reflections—“bright particulars,” every one.
...moreRebecca McClanahan discusses her new memoir-in-essays, IN THE KEY OF NEW YORK CITY.
...more“You’re solving this mystery, you’re taking this journey, but that’s only an opening to another journey.”
...morePoet Matthew Olzmann discusses his work with Julie Marie Wade.
...moreSee how visceral? Before I opened this book, I felt I was already inside it.
...moreA look back at the books we’ve reviewed in 2019!
...moreLooking can be a way to honor, a way to pay our respects.
...moreAaron Smith discusses his new poetry collection, THE BOOK OF DANIEL.
...moreYour book is full of glorious limbos.
...moreWriter, translator, editor, and publisher Lawrence Schimel talks about his work in the literary world.
...moreAriel Francisco discusses his forthcoming second collection, A SINKING SHIP IS STILL A SHIP.
...moreBarrie Jean Borrich discusses her work, including her most recent collection APOCALYPSE, DARLING.
...morePoet Rick Barot discusses his existing body of work and the forthcoming collection THE GALLEONS.
...moreOver time, Strickland’s lines themselves grow wild, less uniform in their patterns of indentation. Like root structures deep in the ground, they branch in many directions.
...moreReading Moon was a hypnotic experience for me, simultaneously immersive and elusive.
...moreA look back at the books we’ve reviewed in 2018!
...moreThe Rumpus editorial staff selects our favorite pieces from 2018!
...moreThis book is a map, Dear Reader. And you are here.
...morePoet Kristina Marie Darling discusses the literary life, collaborative writing, and the power of experimental forms.
...moreIn my reading, Ornitheology turns out to be a book of psalms.
...moreHillary, Made Up is a complex feminist undertaking that undermines traditional notions of interpretation.
...more“You don’t have to drink yourself into the Great American Poetry Masterpiece.”
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