Microreview
Microreviews: Dean Young, The Art of Recklessness
Dean Young’s first book of criticism is a frenetic and subversive meditation on poetry and poetics seemingly inspired by Whitman’s exhortation to “unscrew the locks from the doors! / Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!"
Microreviews: Christopher DeWeese, The Black Forest
This debut collection is packed with personae the way a forest is packed with trees.
Microreviews: Deborah Landau, The Last Usable Hour
In her follow-up to Orchidelirium (2004), Deborah Landau explores a new relationship between the poet and the urban night.
Microreviews: Brandon Shimoda, O Bon
Brandon Shimoda’s O Bon charts the arc of abjection after the death of a grandfather.
Microreviews: Jeffrey Skinner, The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets
Jeffrey Skinner, author of five books of poems, has penned a hilarious yet moving “self-help memoir.”
Microreviews: Harmony Holiday, Negro League Baseball
A personal and cultural history fit together first as hearing and then as seeing.
Microreview: Elizabeth Willis, Address
Willis has the finest ear for the lyric amongst her generation.
Core Samples from the World
Forrest Gander’s latest book injects ethical consequence into his daring sense of the permeability of structure and the instability of form.
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