October 31, 2013
Carl Phillips and the Post-Epic: Thoughts on Double Shadow
If someone asked me to guess what it might be like to read the translated papyri of a failed, pre-modern dystopia, I’d tell them to read Carl Phillips’s Double Shadow. […]
July 10, 2013
Clerihew Day: The Return
I’ve been away from this blog for two and a half years, and it would be only a slight exaggeration to say I’ve spent most of that time writing clerihews. […]
October 22, 2012
A metaphysic of the page, a mode of inquiry called wonder: an interview with Dan Beachy-Quick
B. K. Fischer, writing about two of Dan Beachy-Quick’s books for the Boston Review, locates what she sees as a struggle for him and his contemporaries—or for any poet born […]
September 20, 2012
Mix Tape: Supermodel Novelists and Politician Poets
There is, in Vogue’s September issue, an 18-page photo feature “depicting a handful of actors, artists, models, and writers posing as [Edith] Wharton and her circle.” So why are male […]
September 12, 2012
Touching with the eye, seeing with the hand: erasure as reading experience
The term “erasure,” when used to describe a poetic technique, might be a kind of misnomer. To erase something is to “rub out or remove” it, according to the Oxford […]
August 23, 2012
Mix Tape: Literary Crimes
Andrew Scott responds to the “ladder-climbing” and “posturing” behind nasty reviews and other writer-on-writer crimes. When an English professor wrote to Flannery O’Connor and asked her to explain one of […]
March 12, 2012
Dance the Poem: or, Discoveries from AWP
What does a poem have to say to a dance? What does dance, which most often says nothing, have to do with poetry? Please tell me it’s not just that […]