Reviews & Interviews

Poetry Scenes: Portland — OR Stumptown Renaissance: How Portland Learned to Love Poetry (Again)

by Chris Cottrell Reviews & Interviews
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Portland just feels different.

The Ecstatic Tragedy of Reality TV: Interview with Kate Durbin on E!

by Lisa A. Flowers Reviews & Interviews
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The echoes of her pain are still reverberating, like a mechanical baby doll, crying forever: a baby, our baby, who can never be soothed.

Funhouse Mirror as Lite-Up Makeup Mirror: Kate Durbin’s E! Entertainment

by Lisa A. Flowers Reviews & Interviews
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If Hedda Hopper had been reincarnated into a bag lady forced to stuff her own newspaper columns into her clothes for warmth, the wyrd outer hummings of her cycle toward rebirth might well have been echoed in Kate Durbin’s E! Entertainment.

Bat & Man

by Brian Chappell Reviews & Interviews
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It’s also the nature of mythology to slowly but surely seep into the collective consciousness.

The Letters of Samuel Beckett

by Alfred Corn Reviews & Interviews
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In order to write, Beckett first had to wipe the slate clean and wipe out conventional notions about the nature of human reality.

1Q84

by Brian Chappell Reviews & Interviews
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All the tasty bits of vintage Murakami are here: dull but steadfast male leads, hypersexual and hypersexy teenagers, strange conspiracies loaded with uncanny coincidences, and, of course, forays into parallel universes.

Monsters, Inc.

by Brian Chappell Reviews & Interviews
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Zone One is not a zombie novel.

Why Poetic Collaboration Matters

by Gene Tanta Reviews & Interviews
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To collaborate well as a creative writer, one has to give up the 500 year old idea of the Humanist self as a unique consumer of “the real.”

Robert Duncan’s The H.D. Book

by Levi Rubeck Reviews & Interviews
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The book is essentially a record of Duncan’s two-step with poetry

Indie Bookstores: Paris

by Brian Chappell Reviews & Interviews
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What would a trip to Paris be without a gentle kiss from Destiny?

Indie Bookstores: Cambridge and Boston

by Brian Chappell Reviews & Interviews
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The first books I saw when I walked in were Franco Moretti’s two-volume history of the novel. I’m in paradise.

The Solipsist in Purgatory: Jollimore’s AT LAKE SCUCOG

by Micah Towery Philosophy
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It’s always a relief to me when I see a book published by somebody outside the “poetry ghetto.”

And I Chose—All: Mary Ruefle

by Colie Hoffman Poetry and Poetics
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Picasso wrote this well before Mary Ruefle started publishing books, but if his words could be an egg, Ruefle’s Selected Poems would hatch right out of it.

Rimbaud’s Last Revelation

by Alfred Corn Poetry and Poetics
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Ashbery’s translation is the best we have in English so far.

The Practice of Poetry

by Gene Tanta Academia
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The poetry lesson is that poetry is a practice.

All in a Day’s Work

by Brian Chappell Fiction
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These types of genres are a narratologist’s dream, because one can spend an inordinate amount of time (even in a 190 page book like this one) teasing out the tiniest components of this unfamiliar world.

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