The Structuring Absence: Alone with Kate Durbin’s Kept Women
When I think of Kate Durbin I think of Hollywood. Kept Women has the genius cadence of the Shining, a product of England’s EMI Elstress Studios and an aerial shot of Mount Hood’s Timberline Lodge: not Hollywood, a hollow. Kept Women is Durbin’s new chapbook from Insert Blanc Press. A tour of a renowned Los […]
No One Ever Ends up Thanking God for Meeting Me: Dennis Cooper’s the Marbled Swarm
Thanks to the internet, my reading life now fields a smooth, even intensity. But when reading came only in intense little apertures in the big dark – that was thrilling. And so many molten tendrils have come off Dennis Cooper that he’s melted the night right out of me. He made me a serious lover […]
Outer Space
“I like when people are really frank about what’s going on with them.” For Hazlitt, Emily Keeler interviews Leanne Shapton about malaise, reckoning with the dead self, and swimming. Roxane Gay at the Virigina Quarterly Review on a label rarely offered in kindness. Heroines, Heroines, Heroines, Heroines. Heroines! “Whoever said that, Luck is a residue […]
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 […]
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