"First" & Other PoemsFrom the Print
What good are the legs?
The girl
Waits
Like the rat’s daughter-in-law…
"The Sukhum Photos" & "Why I Always Listen to Such Sad Music"
Why do we also see beauty in disharmony, not just in harmony, in asymmetry, not just symmetry, when it ought to be only the evenly balanced and harmoniously proportioned things that appeal to our aesthetic sense…?
Anna Craycroft: A Weekly Correspondence (6/24/13)
The person has a hundred languages, a hundred hands, a hundred thoughts…
The Curses, the Fates, the Races, the Fakes, the Faces, the Names of "The Game of Death"; or, The Game of Death
From birth, Bruce Lee was a doppelganger thrice-over—pseudonymic male, homonymic descendant, homophonic echo. A human pun…
Death to the Speaker: A Provocation
What I’m calling for in poetry is the death of the speaker. Like all calls to arms I applaud those who will immediately refuse me…
The Return of “The Curses, the Fates, the Races, the Fakes, the Faces, the Names of 'The Game of Death'; or, The Game of Death”
And now, as if I had no choice, I’ve returned…
Staff Picks: Nigeria's Cashless Economy, Mark Strand on Edward Hopper
So, Nigeria is becoming a cashless society…
Protected: Order – May 31, 2013 @ 02:01 AM
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A Conversation with Mikhail Shishkin
“A lot of people who were highly praised—famous actors, theater directors, musical directors…they just licked the ass of Putin, and it was very depressing and humiliating, because they’re afraid of him. […] I actually have no fear. You see, their power is our fear. And if you don’t fear, then they have no power…”
Two PoemsFrom the Print
…swaying anorexic or bulimic between as always two mothers this one who loves me falsely and would deny me all food and that one who loves me falsely and would kill me with food…