Ray McDaniel reviews
Open Winter
by Rae Gouirand
It’s easy to be silent; it’s hard to be quiet. If you want the former, just don’t say anything. But if you want the latter, you will have to figure out how to control for how we register sound. It...[more]

Vanessa Place reviews
Mouth: Eats Color—Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-Translations, & Originals
by Sawako Nakayasu with Chika Sagawa
One of the things that you don’t know about me (will this make us closer or drive us further apart?) is my love of Dante in translation. But only in translation. I can’t read Italian, so I can’t say...[more]

Sueyeun Juliette Lee reviews
(made)
by Cara Benson
"the locus of agency is always an assemblage" —Jane Bennett It’s been 468 years since the publication of Copernicus’s On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres, and just over 400 years since...[more]

Ray McDaniel reviews
Whorled
by Ed Bok Lee
Allegedly, the earliest forms of writing were actuarial: lists, of inventory, accounts, transactions, rules, laws. If so, the lists should be as familiar to us as any form of text could be. And they...[more]

Jordan Davis reviews
Some Math
by Bill Luoma
There were a few years in the mid-nineties when it looked like the poets gathering in New York might fuse a thousand disparate styles and beliefs and wishes into a single beam of classical beauty,...[more]