Chloe Honum’s 2022 poetry collection, The Lantern Room, is a meditation on how reckoning with loss metamorphoses the language of self-expression. As the speaker’s search for identity and direction evolves, the forms and themes of the poems shift accordingly.
Read MoreThe themes of Heidi Lynn Nilsson's For the Fire from the Straw are large: violence; lust; insanity; guilt; love. To ratchet up the stakes even further, these themes are explored through a relentless testing of the word God, resulting in a collection that is a remarkable blend of faith, intellect, and physicality.
Read More"The triumphs of Pobo’s ekphrastic texts lie less in any consonant relationship between the given poem and the artwork than in the dissonant collisions sparked by the art and extended through the poetry. In the collection’s best moments, it’s as though Pobo’s language leaps out beyond the artwork to another plane altogether—a plane that nevertheless feels as though it was prepared by the artwork itself."
Read MoreHappy was I then to learn of a new publication from Eliot Weinberger, The Ghosts of Birds, in which Weinberger continues in the vein he nearly pioneered and certainly owns, that of the avant-garde essay. While this book might offer distraction from the tumultuous present, it immerses its reader into a wider scope of time that proves no less convulsive, ecstatic or ultimately mysterious
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