John Steen is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at East Carolina University. His reviews and articles appear or are forthcoming in H_NGM_N, Wallace Stevens Journal, Oxonian Review, and American Writers.
Spring 2014
Threat at the Fête: Dan Magers’ Partyknife
The title page of Dan Magers' first book of poems, which is sized and shaped like an LP sleeve, prints the image of a photocopied album around the volume's vital facts.
Winter 2013
Crazy Badland of the Tongue: Cyrus Console’s The Odicy
If, in a moment of indignant weakness, you’ve ever asked why bad things happen to good people, you’ve reckoned with theodicy. Cyrus Console’s new book of poems takes its title from this theological term for philosophical defenses of God’s goodness in the light of the existence of evil.
Winter 2012
“It’s the silence which has chosen me”: Claude Royet-Journoud’s The Whole of Poetry is Preposition
Keith Waldrop’s translation of Claude Royet-Journoud’s volume of fragments and aphorisms, The Whole of Poetry is Preposition, is only the most recent product of a transatlantic friendship and collaboration that spans nearly forty years.