Janaka’s book is a flammable mix of compression, directness, and metal. “The truth is We are perfect … I make with my mouth The hour of your arrival” It is a place where desire is an imperative that tests and distorts the self, pushes it… Read More
Mark Cugini’s and Laura P’s Big Lucks is hitting its stride. Forthcoming issue #4 features word-products from Elisa Gabbert, Justin Sirois, Michael Kimball, J.A. Tyler. In the prose, department that’s a lot of people in the Universe I want to read. Mike Young was in… Read More
Approach A lot of what wins first book awards from academic presses makes me barfy. Not because these are bad books but because the poems reek of safety and caution in form and or content. It is a let down, reading these books; it is… Read More
JOE HALL 