Come back you are not better off without me.
In Julia Cohen’s luminous Triggermoon Triggermoon, we hover in the liminal space between the domestic and the dreamlike: “a nightgown soaked in milk” appears on the first page. This tension, this duality – between our physical and our otherworldly, spiritual selves; between self and other; between childhood and adulthood; even the duality within – holds […]
Dorothea Lasky Does What Poets Should Do
Thunderbird is Dorothea Lasky’s third book of poetry, but as a reader I am new to her. When a writer has built a manageable oeuvre I like to approach it as completely as possible, but I was not attracted to Lasky’s work by typical means. I enjoyed her poem “I Had a Man” in the […]
First Encounters: Sylvia Plath
“Every day from nine to five I sit at my desk facing the door of the office and type up other people’s dreams.” –Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams My first encounter with Sylvia Plath was in Magers and Quinn; a book shop local to Minneapolis, MN. I was about to go […]
Object-Oriented Poetry: Sheer Indefinite by Skip Fox
Forget Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Skip Fox’s Sheer Indefinite reveals that our day’s poets are, rather, the computer programmers of the universe. If our universe is indeed a virtual simulation, like so many Hollywood movies and conspiracy theorists posit, Skip Fox’s Sheer Indefinite is the reference manual to its sublime syntax. And […]
