Working through the language and form of these poems for five years. To me, they feel like one of Niedecker’s rocks in Lake Superior, registering geologically the time of their composition: the box age, the adjunct age, the traveling age, the ice age/buffalo. To you, who knows. **//… Read More
I always look forward to Phil Metres’ work but Sand Opera‘s poly vocal approach seems particularly necessary in light of another stupid, one-sided “shoot and cry” flick looking out at the Arab world through a reticule.
To mark, digest, re-capitulate the cannon through strategic erasure/re-memory. To erase texts long dead is a genealogical act. To mark the moment of someone’s entry into the cannon via a retrospective and an erasure, writing against the living record and the attempt to make alive their… Read More
JOE HALL 