Hunters and Gatherers
Greg is on a diet where he eats only what people ate ten thousand years ago, and Gina is down with that—with anything that gets her twenty-six-year-old son out of the basement and eating at all. She reaches for … Read More
Furs Not Mine by Andrea Cohen; The Wilderness by Sandra Lim
Furs Not Mine by Andrea Cohen (Four Way Books, 2015). The Wilderness by Sandra Lim (Norton, 2014). If there is a world in a grain of sand, Andrea Cohen lifts it up to us in the predominantly short poems of … Read More
Lines of Defense: Poems by Stephen Dunn
(W. W. Norton, 2014) Lines of Defense, Stephen Dunn’s seventeenth book of poetry, is provocatively titled. On the most literal level, the title speaks to the collection’s epigraph, which comes from the Italian poet and novelist Cesare Pavese, an … Read More
When we met
I’d just had my cards read—but I don’t believe that shit, so when the tower turned up in the middle with the little picture of you and me upside down and falling I just thought: pretty. The Devil and … Read More
Once in the West by Christian Wiman
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014). Once in the West, Christian Wiman’s fourth collection of poems, enacts a spiritual quest that is simultaneously a kerosene-and-blood- and-shit-and-morphine-fueled struggle to make something out of pain that is both physical and spiritual … Read More
My Father’s Eyes by Mary Bonina
(Cervena Barva Press, 2013). The eye is a complicated organ. It captures images only after light has passed through the lens, been received by cells in the retina, and then encoded into signals that optic nerves have sent on … Read More
The Wounded Table / La Mesa Herida
–after Frida Kahlo Have you seen my painting? 2 x 8 meters, disappeared, passed through the walls in Warsaw. I suspect it has been exiled to a Soviet storeroom. You cannot mistake me rooted at the … Read More
New Issue Coming Soon in June
We look forward to the arrival of our new issue (cover image by sculptor Milan Klic).