This moment is the one where we know there is a connection point, a constellation of experience. One must simply connect the dots, appreciating the nuances of shade. No one can be put on pillars anymore, the truth always comes out, the messiah figure with the drug problem. Today’s crime is an expression of yesterday’s …
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Inside the Book World from “The Fight for the Future of Publishing” [from The Free Press] by ALEX PEREZ / November 28, 2023 Ideological fanatics and fear have crippled the major houses. But new book publishers are rising up to take the risks they won’t. The Old World The disruption of the so-called Big Five…
The first poetry book I’m recommending in 2024 is Pittsburghese by Robert Gibb, published by Michigan State University Press/Wheelbarrow Books on January 1. Pittsburghese is part elegy for the no-longer steel mills and part ode to the inhabitants of Pittsburgh and nearby Homestead. As a person who grew up in a dying mill town (Woonsocket,…
It was a beautiful spring day in 1947 when Barb and Joe moved to their orgasm farm in scenic Virginia. Though they had spent years studying orgasmic farming methods, they decided that nothing could compare with hands-on experience. Barb and Joe were tired of being armchair scientists. Ready and eager to practice what they had…
I keep checking my email app repeatedly refreshing every few minutes for that response I needed hours ago over again and over hoping the letter I wait for impatiently arrives faster each time. The post Compulsion | SD Stalzer appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online
“Lufthansa” is one of Tranter’s best and most anthologised poems. The poem is mimetic of one of its early lines: it seems “struck by an acute feeling of precision” which leaves little room for interpretation or “meaning” that extends beyond the surface of its language. Michael Brennan has astutely drawn comparisons between the poem’s “unity,…
I’m no good reading between the lines I get stuck at decoding the obvious I believed all those lies you told me so who is really the fool after all I know that by tomorrow I’ll be fine and you’ll still have your sad life saga you’ve broken our rental agreement love’s only a lease,…
