Everything Awake: A Review
by COLIN DEKEERSGIETER Sasha Steensen, Everything Awake (Shearsman Books, 2020), pp.90. Sasha Steensen’s Everything Awake is a poetry driven by the vertigo of life’s work, maintaining a legacy begun by Hesiod and continued by — to name a few …
by KYLAN RICE Jordan Dunn, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (Partly Press, 2022), pp. 84. In a chapter on the lumber industry in Man and Nature, Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (1864), the American …
by KYLAN RICE Michael McFee, A Long Time To Be Gone (Carnegie Mellon, 2022), pp. 72. In a notebook from the 1930s, Robert Frost wrote out a recollected line from the poet Archibald MacLeish’s “Ars Poetica”: “A poem shouldn’t …
by KYLAN RICE Richard Michelson, Sleeping as Fast as I Can (Slant, 2023), pp. 88. In Negative Dialectics, Theodor Adorno tempered his often-quoted claim that it’s “barbaric” to “write poetry after Auschwitz,” conceding instead that “perennial suffering has just as … Read morePhysical Geography as Modified by Human Action: A Review
A Long Time to Be Gone: A Review
“History / And Fear”: A Review of Sleeping as Fast as I Can by Richard Michelson