Notable NYC: 2/8–2/14
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Posts Tagged: Kristina Marie Darling
The Voice Is a Social Construct: Talking with Kristina Marie Darling
Poet Kristina Marie Darling discusses the literary life, collaborative writing, and the power of experimental forms.
...moreNotable Los Angeles: 11/6–11/12
Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
...moreNotable Los Angeles: 8/21–8/27
Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
...moreWeekend Rumpus Roundup
First, Michael Wasson’s imagistic prose poetry fills the Saturday Essay. Wasson’s dreamlike narrative describes a first day of school from his childhood. Wasson recalls the teacher taking attendance, calling out, “who’s missing?” The question launches a lyrical investigation of the author’s memory and identity. Then, Julie Marie Wade reviews the poetry collection Ghost/Landscape, a successful collaboration between Kristina Marie Darling and John […]
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Ghost/Landscape by Kristina Marie Darling and John Gallaher
Julie Marie Wade reviews Ghost/Landscape by Kristina Marie Darling and John Gallaher today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Kristina Marie Darling’s poetry collection, Fortress, is “image-rich” and wonderfully allusive. The setting is the famously decadent palace of Versailles. Like the film Marie Antoinette, “Darling’s book is simultaneously excess and desolation,” writes Sandra Marchetti. White spaces are used strategically in this “lush” book of poems. Next, the “detached narrator” of Amado Muro’s Collected Stories focuses […]
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Fortress By Kristina Marie Darling
Sandra Marchetti reviews Kristina Marie Darling’s Fortress today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreVow by Kristina Marie Darling
Lisa Cheby reviews Vow by Kristina Marie Darling and Music for another life by Darling and Max Avi Kaplan today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Brushes With by Kristina Marie Darling
Jeff Alessandrelli reviews Kristina Marie Darling’s Brushes With today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Palimpsest by Kristina Marie Darling
Anne Champion reviews Kristina Marie Darling’s Palimpsest today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Solecism by Rosebud Ben-Oni
Kristina Marie Darling reviews Rosebud Ben-Oni’s Solecism today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Petrarchan by Kristina Marie Darling
Marisa Siegel reviews Kristina Marie Darling’s Petrarchan today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Belmont by Stephen Burt
Kristina Marie Darling reviews Stephen Burt’s Belmont today in Rumpus Poetry.
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O Holy Insurgency by Mary Biddinger
Kristina Marie Darling reviews Mary Biddinger’s O Holy Insurgency today in Rumpus Poetry.
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This is Not About Birds by Nick Ripatrazone
Kristina Marie Darling reviews Nick Ripatrazone’s This is Not About Birds today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Moon and Other Inventions: Poems after Joseph Cornell by Kristina Marie Darling
Marisa Siegel reviews Kristina Marie Darling’s The Moon & Other Inventions today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Reluctant Mistress by Anne Champion
Anne Champion’s dazzling first book of poetry, Reluctant Mistress, offers readers a thought-provoking revision of the love lyric, rendering this rich literary tradition relevant to a postmodern cultural landscape. While invoking couplets, tercets, and other vestiges of her artistic heritage, Champion’s poems interrogate the power relations implicit in traditional love poetry, redefining their terms with […]
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“Melancholia (An Essay)” by Kristina Marie Darling
Kristina Marie Darling’s wonderful new book of poems, Melancholia (An Essay)—her fourth—is more than a collection of abandoned footnotes and glossaries (poetic constructs she has been mastering since Night Songs), it is a history composed entirely of an ex-lover’s curios—a kind of “museum [that] specialize[s] in artifacts of / nineteenth century courtship rituals” (“Footnotes to […]
...moreRumpus Original Poetry: A History of Melancholia: Glossary of Terms
beloved. The raison d’être of the melancholic’s affliction. Consider the graceful line of his wool coat, its fabric dark against the towering snowdrifts.
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