“Notes on The Sad Phoenician’s Other Woman: Experiencing Robert Kroetsch’s Poetry In A Fever” by Amanda Earl
I knew of Kroetsch, had heard references to him all the time, which is no surprise given his...
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Category: Books
“On Home, and One’s Place,” by Susan Rudy
Dennis Cooley. The Home Place: Essays on Robert Kroetsch’s Poetry. xi, 361. $39.99. When, in 1985,...
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Gilbert Baker’s Fabulous, Beautiful, Powerful Memoir of Pride’s Defining Symbol
Gilbert Baker was a revolutionary advocate cut from a different cloth. With a “#14 needle, 1,000 yards of muslin, 10 pounds of natural dye in eight colors, and 100 pounds of salt and ash,” he raised an international symbol of LGBTQ+ freedom and truth…
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Parody and Pastiche in FKA USA
King is not interested in telling a story, so much as reframing and reconfiguring cultural artifacts. He is not creating anything new, so much as pushing around detritus in the junkyard of post-industrial, late-capitalist America.
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Human Contradictions in Tom Sleigh’s The Land Between Two Rivers
In his collection of essays, The Land Between Two Rivers: Writing in an Age of Refugees, Tom Sleigh recalls looking down with astonishment from an airplane window, flying from Baghdad to Basra…
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Chasing Shadows: A New Biography Looks for “the Real Robert Johnson”
If you know anything about Robert Johnson, it is that he sold his soul to the Devil at the crossroads…
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The Poetry of Handwriting in Mario Levrero’s Empty Words
“Graphology” – the pseudoscientific art of handwriting analysis and self-betterment – is in theory the basis for this playful novella by famed Uruguayan author Mario Levrero.
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