A Kind of Listening Seems To Be Answering His Sight: Ralph Angel's Exceptions and Melancholies, Poems 1986-2006
22 July 2007
Vol. 7, No. 2
nonfiction, review, review of poetry
Fulfilling the promise of his early work, Angel's new book is characterized by deep consciousness, the rigors of his syntax anchoring his voice. His new poems exemplify what is true of the rest of his work collected here as he summons Self, human presence, from the collision of worldly details. If we exist in the noise of body, and commerce, and community, Angel's work captures sublimated landscapes of deep feeling and spiritual incident.
If Eurydice Is Your Father: Beckian Fritz Goldberg's Lie Awake Lake
11 March 2007
Vol. 7, No. 1
nonfiction, review, review of poetry
A poet must try and make sense of the enormity of loss that steeps our life with difficult meaning. The great achievement of Fritz Goldberg's text is that grief remains unanswerable and alluring… Where we might expect heavy-handedness and painful confessionalism, Fritz Goldberg's poems are buoyant, and like the title of her collection, filled with linguistic, frolicsome concentration.
A Morbid Education
2 September 2004
Vol. 4, No. 3
poetry, editors' select
In the middle of it, being riven
apart by a finger, by a stiff tongue probing
the blind bone tail of my spine…
Coprophagy
2 September 2004
Vol. 4, No. 3
poetry
Shit has a history & it's balmy golden
notes off a black clarinet. Damp &…
Thorn
2 September 2004
Vol. 4, No. 3
poetry, elegy, editors' select
My eye never filled with blood.
I never asked why
was I drugged and held down. Taken away.
Mesmerized. I wasn't a two-headed dog…
