Hilary Plum is the author of the novel They Dragged Them Through the Streets (FC2, 2013). She is co-director of Clockroot Books; with Zach Savich she edits Rescue Press’s Open Prose series. Recent work has appeared in Western Humanities Review, Pleiades, LIT, Modern Language Studies, Copper Nickel, Berfrois, and Two Serious Ladies.
Summer 2013
The Ballad Form: Kate Greenstreet’s Young Tambling
Kate Greenstreet’s third book brings a twenty-first-century sensibility to the traditional Scottish ballad of “Young Tambling.”
Spring 2012
The Ocean in Your Mouth: Mary Ruefle’s Selected Poems
“I spend all day in my office, reading a poem / by Stevens, pretending I wrote it myself,” the poem “Perfect Reader,” which appears roughly in the middle of Mary Ruefle’s Selected Poems, begins.
Fall 2011
Point and Line: Joseph Cardinale’s The Size of the Universe
Fiction Collective Two: Tuscaloosa, AL, 2010. 136 Pages. $13.50. According to E.M. Forster, what defines plot is causality. The queen does not merely die after the king, but dies of […]
Fall 2010
Despite my Bunkered Heart:
Khaled Mattawa’s Tocqueville
New Issues: Kalamazoo, MI, 2010. 72 pages. $15.00. Khaled Mattawa’s fourth collection of poetry, Tocqueville, answers to its title, bearing witness to consequences of US foreign and domestic policy. The […]