In “Stranger in the Village,” James Baldwin quotes the insight of an anonymous observer of American race relations: “the Negro-in-America is a form of insanity which overtakes white men”…
A poem and cut-out by Matthea Harvey.
Tales: alchemical. / Criticism: polemical. / Subjects: tarn, tomb, raven, Ulalume…
The stitched illustrations, more often abstract than mimetic, make up perhaps the most interesting part of The Fifty Year Sword. They intrude upon the page like the dire ganglia of some malign intelligence.
The girl walked slowly into the park. She had a heavy sack on her back. When she reached the man’s gravestone, she swung the pack from her shoulder…
The radio animals travel in lavender clouds. They are always chattering, they are always cold…
Keyhole’s originality derives from its countless plot strands and typographical experiments, which are deployed to formally mirror its apocalyptic content, creating chaos in terms of structure as well as subject matter…
In June 1989, the worst railroad disaster in Soviet history occurred in the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic near the village of Ulu-Telyak…
[FLOOR] In the foyer: a walnut floor. The cracks near the door create a triangular pattern. There are water scars at the foot of the stairs. I scrape cobwebs from the baseboards with a dull knife. … Continued
… Sunset wears a crown
Like a wound wears a crown.
Even I believe in something
When looking into water at sunset.
Even then the gods are at work.
The eyes see something beautiful beyond,
The shells of snails twirling like a galaxy
Made from a mathematical formula
Like a flame trying to become a rose…
He hasn’t talked to anyone today. I haven’t talked to anyone today. It’s not that I haven’t wanted to. It’s not that he hasn’t wanted to talk to someone, but he just never had the chance to…
A selection of poems by Maureen N. McLane.
This poem was drawn from “The Insurrectionary Turn,” a portfolio of new political poetry curated by Joshua Clover.
Selections from a portfolio of new political poetry, curated (and with an introduction) by Joshua Clover.
When the FBI was fed the minutes of editorial board meetings at Time and Life, Fortune and Look, the Reader’s Digest and the Daily Worker, points along the full spectrum of U.S. print culture were opened to Bureau pre-awareness.
