Category: Criticism
American Hybrid on Reality Street
A week or so ago I posted a link to Peter Riley’s review of the American Hybrid anthology [here] in the Fortnightly Review; poet & publisher Ken Edwards has just published a piece on this review &...
Peter Riley Reviews American Hybrid
Fascinating review of Cole Swensen and David St. John’s American Hybrid anthology by Peter Riley in the British Fortnightly Review; first paras below: IT CAN BE very difficult dealing as a reviewer with a body of...
Rain Taxi Review of “Cartographies”
A review of Pierre Joris-Cartographies of the In-between by Megan Burns was just published by Rain Taxi.Opening para below: PIERRE JORIS Cartographies of the In-Between edited by Peter Cockelbergh Litteraria Pragensia (€12) by Megan...
Captain Poetry’s Sucker Punch
I don’t like Big Beach Novels for the summer, as novels invariably wind up boring me, but I do enjoy having a Big Booke of something-or-other to schlepp around from airport lounge to train station to...
Homage to Paul Celan
Edited by Ilya Kaminsky and G.C.Waldrep “If there is a country named Celania—as Julia Kristeva once proposed—its holy texts are filled with doubt, and they overcome this doubt almost successfully, with words of wrenching, uncompromised...
Review of Cartographies in “The Prague Post”
A collection of essays and interviews on a “nomad poet” Posted: April 4, 2012 (original here) By Stephan Delbos – Staff Writer | Comments (0) | Post comment Walter Novak For many readers and writers, poetry seems...
Joachim Sartorius on Peter Nadas
via signandsight: 27/02/2012 No one is indestructible Just as we are unable to coherently piece together parts of our own lives, it is impossible to neatly assemble the pieces of this formidable novel –...
Cartographies of the In-Between
Happy, indeed, to announce this book of essays & homages on my work, & to give thanks to all of those who contributed — & especially to Peter Cockelbergh who gathered, edited & translated...
Rain Taxi Fundraising Auction
Do help Rain Taxi, the finest review magazine we have for the poetries & proses that otherwise do not get reviewed! Here is their annual call for their fundraiser: Our annual benefit auction allows...