Margaree Little’s first book, Rest, is forthcoming from Four Way Books. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, New England Review, Missouri Review, and Southern Review. She is a 2016-2018 Kenyon Review Fellow.
Resistance, Change, Survival
The Most Hidden, The Most Quiet
The grass was trampled down on either side of the road. Or was it—July, we’d just moved to Ohio, how do I know what I remember? But there was grass, […]
Summer 2016
“We call the protest against this the soul”: Wisława Szymborska’s Map
In his introduction to Edward Snow’s 2009 translation of Rilke, Adam Zagajewski writes, of that poet whom Marina Tsvetaeva called lyric poetry itself, that “Rilke’s dialogue with gods and angels, his meditation on night and death . . .
Winter 2016
The Condition of Dream: Nathaniel Mackey’s Blue Fasa
In the preface to his collection Splay Anthem, winner of the 2006 National Book Award for poetry, Nathaniel Mackey writes that “dream” is “as much the condition the poem aspires to as music.”
Winter 2016
In Favor of the Improbable: Emily Abendroth’s ]Exclosures[
It is difficult to write about other people’s suffering without rendering that suffering as a spectacle.
Fall 2015
So Much as a Tremor: Fady Joudah’s Textu
In Javier Marías’s novel The Infatuations, the narrator describes how, in the two days following a murder, a flurry of news articles appeared about it.