Teaser quote, from the Table of Contents:
§7. Wild in the Semantic Field: poems
Jorie Graham (page 236) Catherine Wagner (292) Polina Barskova (240) Shane Book (295) Joyelle McSweeney (242) Anthony Madrid (301) Kevin Holden (248) Molly Bendall (306) Nathaniel Rosenthalis (254) Douglas Puccinnini (308) Matthew Moore (260) David Need (310) Tongo Eisen-Martin (263) Martha Ronk (311) Diana Khoi Nugyen (272) Geoffrey Gilbert (313) Rae Armantrout (282) Karolinn Fiscaletti (318) Karen Garthe (289)
Teaser quote: Imagine John Bunyan rewriting Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, nine years later, in collaboration with John Milton.
Teaser quote:
Long time ago there was . . . . . . a fuzz. We say “Why?” Nobody knuzz. No, it’s a lie! The fuzz does. “Fuzz, why?” Fuzz says: Hi. I’m the fuzz. There is no because. Fuzz just is. Is and was. On the floor, and in the drawer . . . in your hair, . . . and on the air . . . I’m the FUZZ. There is no because.
http://malvernbooks.com/event/an-afternoon-with-coco-picard-friends/?instance_id=2163
Teaser quote: Join us for an afternoon with Coco Picard, Devin King, Anthony Madrid, Nadya Pittendrigh, and Julia Hendrickson. We’ll be celebrating the release earlier this year of Coco’s graphic novel The Chronicles of Fortune.
Teaser quote: Once upon a time, there was a block of bubble gum.
Teaser quote: The two books, taken together, are a tour-de-force of early-thirties hateful vitality.
Teaser quote: “A good old man, Sir. He will be talking.”
Teaser quote: And it’s not even that Stephen Foster “simply had the magic touch.” Google the rest of the song’s lyrics and prepare to be curdled. Hello, n-word. Hello, awkward as fuck. Hello, can’t even hold a candle to the good part.
Try Never + four other books, reviewed by Stephanie Burt, New York Times, 3 November 2017.
Teaser quote: For all its semantic leaps, and its swaths of confusion—exacerbated by inter-poem echoes and compound words from German and Sanskrit—the kaleidoscope of scenes, quotations and exclamations let me imagine a poet behind the poems, a restless skeptic, aggressive talker and armchair traveler, “one of those who have a delight in / Renouncing whatever they chose.”
Teaser quote: “In early 1872, Edward Lear left a poem unfinished. It was very nearly complete: all it lacked of its intended five rhyming subsections were two lines and two words (not at the end). Lear left blanks in the manuscript, and it’s clear he intended to supply the missing bits at some later time. No one knows why he never did so.”
Teaser quote: “Get ready for this. I, unlike you, have read every word of Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary (1906)—and read it recently. And it gets better. I, at the cost of an ocean of labor, have cherry-picked the seventy-four best bits out of the approximately three thousand billion trillion entries, and I am going to give you those seventy-four: yours, free of charge, to judge and find wanting.”
Teaser quote: “The jing in Beijing is a different jing.”
for Full Stop.
Teaser quote: “Kiṣkindhākāṇḍa” makes a series of intolerable dad-puns on “didgeridoo” whose grating unfunniness must have amused their author but is not contagious.
At the Paris Review Online.
Teaser quote: “Bill, sir? she said, halting. Well it’s seven mornings a pint at twopence is seven twos is a shilling and twopence over and these three mornings a quart at fourpence is three quarts is a shilling. That’s a shilling and one and two is two and two, sir.”
Teaser quote: “With so much happening at the level of pure form, the technical aspects would be tedious to parse. But if you think of the way Celtic designs carry curving lines from one quadrant of the visual field to another while maintaining qualities of symmetry and balanced value, tracing exquisitely detailed involutions and mandala-like circularities, then you’ll have some sense of Madrid’s analogous acoustic embroideries.”
Teaser quote: “Did you know Fanny Howe started her writing career producing soft-porn romance crap for Avon Books—? Out there in the world somewhere is a paperback from 1964 called West Coast Nurse. It was, I learned, part of a popular “nurse” series. There’s a copy online for $40 (original price: 32¢). Somebody needs to buy that and review it for the Agni blog.”
Six volumes, every poem he ever wrote. Thanks, Adele and Sandy!
In the Spring 2017 print issue.
Teaser quote: “Download the PDF version here. If you would like a hard copy, please request here or via Facebook.”
