Alan Gilbert

Alan Gilbert is the author of two books of poetry, Late in the Antenna Fields and The Treatment of Monuments, as well as a collection of essays, articles, and reviews entitled Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight.

There Is No History Without Names

Layli Long Soldier’s debut collection confronts a history of physical, cultural, and linguistic violence.

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Bent to the Line

We paint smiley faces on Pop-Tarts for greatness.
I can’t read the fine print, but that’s okay
since we’re already screwed.

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A Different Mountain

Review of Rebecca Wolff's One Morning—

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Dear Friend,

The letters of Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn, and Robert Creeley

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Microreview: Albert Mobilio, Touch Wood

Bare poetic essentials that at the same time function as gleaming ornaments.

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Playing Out the String

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Review: Firefly Under the Tongue

Selected Poems of Coral Bracho.

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Outpatient Procedure

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Neither Settled Nor Easy

One Big Self: An Investigation by C.D. Wright.

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The Ethics of Language

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Review: Revenants

By Mark Nowak.

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