Andrew David King
Toward New Pasts and Old Futures: an interview with Linda Norton
So-called “alternative” poetics always end up construed as self-conscious investigations into what it means for poems to be poems. This is an important question—one not asked nearly enough—though it need not be the only question such a book can pose.…
Masterpieces in public: on common space and common language
“…Everything that appears in public can be seen and heard by everybody and has the widest possible publicity. For us, appearance—something that is being seen and heard by others as well as by ourselves—constitutes reality. Compared with the reality which…
Short Takes: Points of Origin (and Departure)
Mets reliever Miguel Batista has published a book of poetry and a crime novel, and a third book is in process—and his nickname is “el poeta.” Bibliophile? Now you have something else to feed that addiction. Among the options in…
Self Portrait, Edited: an interview with Dean Rader
The talk these days of electronic mediums dethroning physical ones has taken on an increasingly schizophrenic tone: by some groups, it’s lauded; by others, despised. What both camps can agree on, though, is that it’s happening. Most of us already…
The Lost Art of Finding Fairytales
From the beginning of “The Turnip Princess,” one of 500 fairytales collected by the historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth in the 1800s and which, until now, had been locked away in archives for the past century and a half: “A…
