Should I refrain from posting a review of a poetry collection today, out of my horror and anxiety about the events in Boston? Or should I admit that the more days I’m alive, and the worse things get, the more…
April Reviews: James Tate
Zach Savich
April 16, 2013
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On Being Silenced
M. Lynx Qualey
April 15, 2013
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Quick note: I have just received a phone call and follow-up email re-inviting me to the festival. Much has changed in the last two weeks. From my last post to today, I have different eyes. More to the point, I have…
April Reviews: Miguel Hernández; Mario Santiago Papasquiaro
Zach Savich
April 12, 2013
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“Books of poetry,” wrote Federico García Lorca to the poet Miguel Hernández in 1933, “catch on very slowly.” The New York Review of Books’ new poetry series, which recently released a selected edition of Hernández’s work, seems designed to make…
A Kite of Words for the Korean People
Craig Santos Perez
April 11, 2013
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Whenever I hear the word “Korea,” I think about one of my favorite books: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée (1982). Her poetics embody how colonialism has affected the history, culture, language, and identity of Korea. Dictée emerges from the ruins…
April Reviews: Cole Swensen; Hadara Bar-Nadav
Zach Savich
April 9, 2013
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Each page of Cole Swensen’s collection of essays Noise That Stays Noise (University of Michigan Press, 2011) offers insights that can productively reorient and refresh one’s relationship to literature; it’s a book that one reads, in large part, by looking…
