Review by Nicholas Alexander Hayes
“About twenty years ago, I stole a translation of Jean Cocteau’s The White Book because the owner was homophobic. I suppose I believe (or at least hope) books find the right readers.”
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. Juliet Cook is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks, most recently including red flames burning out (Grey Book Press, 2023), Contorted Doom Conveyor (Gutter Snob Books, 2023), and Your Mouth is Moving Backwards (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, 2023).
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. In this installment, we speak with James Nulick, author of the forthcoming Plastic Soul.
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. In this installment we’re speaking with Catherine Rockwood, author of And We Are Far From Shore: Poems for Our Flag Means Death.
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. In this installment, we speak with Drew Pisarra, author of Periodic Boyfriends.
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. In this installment, we speak with Keely O’Shaughnessy, author of Baby is a Thing Best Whispered from Alien Buddha Press.
Buttered Hair is a part of the 2022 Ghost City Press Summer Micro-Chap Series.
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. In this installment, we speak with Alex Carrigan, author of May All Our Pain Be Champagne: A Collection of Real Housewives Twitter Poetry (Alien Buddha Press, 2022).
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In this installment, we speak with Paige Clark, author of She Is Haunted (Two Dollar Radio).
In the Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In this installment, we speak with Alexis V. Jackson, author of My Sisters’ Country (Kore Press).
Reviewed by Nicholas Alexander Hayes
The morning after finishing Sabrina Imbler’s Dyke (geology) I texted a long-time writing partner to say that if I was still teaching Queer Lit I would add this to the reading list. The desire to include this was not because it echoed the great themes of works like Hall’s The Well of Loneliness or Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room.
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In this installment, we speak with Marream Krollos, author of the forthcoming Stan (Meekling Press).
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In the first installment of 2021, we speak with Amanda Marbais, author of Claiming a Body (Moon City Press).
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In this installment, we speak with Morgan Christie, author of the forthcoming These Bodies (Tolsun Books).
Review by Nicholas Alexander Hayes
The Blue Absolute is a languid historical symphony. Shurin’s images flow in these prose poems. He exploits the affordances of the prose poem form – the nature of the lines without breaks to drive images and actions through their dramatic transformations. At times, he handles this change with a deftness that draws me back over the passages as a metonym of green eyes becomes self and mother.
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. In this installment, we speak with July Westhale, author of the forthcoming Via Negativa (Kore Press).
In our Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In the third installment, we speak with Jay Besemer, author of the forthcoming Theories of Performance (The Lettered Streets Press).
In the Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their lives. Sara Wainscott is the author of Insecurity System, winner of the 2019 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize (Persea, 2020), and a chapbook, Queen of the Moon.
Review by Nicholas Alexander Hayes
I first read Jake Skeet’s poetry on Twitter. Someone had taken a picture of a page from his collection Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers: Poems. The snippet of verse was so queer, lusty, and dark that I quickly had the collection in my Amazon cart.
In the Nine Books About Your Life series, authors are invited to talk about nine types of books that have had an impact on their life. Their responses give us a glimpse into their relationships with their books and other people’s books. In the inaugural installment, we speak with Olivia Cronk, author of the forthcoming Womonster.
Poetry Today is a series dedicated to learning about the characteristics of poets and poetry from writers who have published a collection of poetry, full-length or chapbook, within the year.
Review by Nicholas Alexander Hayes
In my twenties and thirties, I felt Baudrillard on a pale horse (occasionally with Ballard riding aside) wrapped the pall of simulacrum around the world for me. The vain specters of symbols without referents have helped guide me not just through contemporary museums but the lived world.
These idioms and tales use language as a tool to lift a hazy film away from our perception and replace it with another. Is it surgery or a theater of cruelty, a catastrophe or a joke?
Review by Nicholas Alexander Hayes
Ascher/Straus’s coauthored novel slips around its dreamily constructed narrative. The story nominally follows Valeria through her relationships with family, lovers, and acquaintances.
By Nicholas Alexander Hayes
In Dimitris Lyacos’s The First Death densely layered fragments fluidly reference the Bible and Classical Greek literature. The white space around these passages heighten the stark sense of loneliness present in the book.
By Nicholas Alexander Hayes
Jenny Hval’s Paradise Rot is an atmospheric novel. At times, the endemic decay of the environment dominates the lives and movements of the characters.
By Nicholas Alexander HayesI was listening to a well-known author speak when the subject of Alain Robbe-Grillet came up. The author dismissed Robbe-Grillet by saying something like when you’ve read that work you really feel like you’ve put in some effort. And I find...
By Nicholas Alexander HayesIn Yoshio Aramaki’s The Sacred Era we are presented with a common trope of a young male hero who is part of a quasi-theocratic, interstellar empire. In order to fulfill his destiny, he must challenge both the existing political order and the...
By Nicholas Alexander HayesThe summer after I returned from the Peace Corps, I sat outside of my favorite café in my home town, drinking hot coffee from a glass pint glass. I watched a couple of teen boys stare at their reflection in a florist’s window as they applied...