I Love My Pleasure: A Review of My Pleasure by Irene Silt
Love brings death closer. The collapsing space between is the setting of Irene Silt's My Pleasure (Deluge Books, 2022). Silt’s poems occupy the protracted time of wanting and waiting, elaborating the delay between desire and arrival—consummation of love or death. Illuminations strobe over a shadow world where oppositions melt inside one another:
“Fizzy Romance, Messy Matrixes, and Death Equations”: A Review of Camonghne Felix’s Dyscalculia
The spiral inwards offers a total repossession of the self, while the spiral outwards depicts a hand in the midst of a cosmic reach, apotheosis right around the corner.
Nonfiction by Casey Rocheteau
Becky (after Morgan Parker)
Nonfiction by Ploy Pirapokin
AN EQUATION TO TELL YOUR MOTHER YOUR BOYFRIEND IS BLACK
Valentine's Series: How Far Back? by Alexandra Watson
In honor of Valentine’s Day, all this week on our blog we’ll be posting pieces from our January 31st reading on intercultural dating and relationships. Our second piece is by... Read More