Paisley Conrad on Harryette Mullen’s Regaining Unconsciousness
reviewed by Paisley Conrad in Tripwire 22 In her 2013 collection, Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary, Harryette Mullen wonders: “Why accept what nature…
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A review of MA by Ida Börjel
reviewed by Matthew Rana in Tripwire 22 MA, by Swedish poet Ida Börjel, is a long abecedarian poem patterned after Inger Christensen’s Alphabet (1981). In…
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Review: Tom Raworth’s Cancer
reviewed by Andrew Spragg in Tripwire 22 Tom Raworth occupies a contradictory status in late 20th century poetry: unilaterally admired on both sides of the…
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Danielle Dutton’s Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
Reviewed by Hilary White Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other is a varied collection of both fiction and nonfiction, including stories, essays and fragments, which refuses to coalesce…
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Putting Politics in Command: Leslie Kaplan’s The Book of Skies Translated by Julie Carr and Jennifer Pap
Reviewed by Andrew Spragg The Book of Skies continues the essential project of translating Leslie Kaplan’s work from French to English. In 2018, Jennifer Pap and…
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Luxury & Labor: a review of Jahan Khajavi’s Feast of the Ass
by PJ Lombardo For over 20 years, Ugly Duckling Presse has published some of the most thrilling, challenging literature available. From Maria Negroni to Tomaz…
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Prose Enjambments: The Heart Opens Fire: A Review of Gail Scott’s Furniture Music
Reviewed by Sarah Burgoyne Prose Enjambments: The Heart Opens Fire If a poem is simply (or complexly) “something made,” as its Latin root signifies, requiring…
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Unsettled and Unsettling: A Review of Holly Pester’s The Lodgers
Reviewed by Andy Spragg Unsettled and unsettling Holly Pester’s debut novel, The Lodgers, is an example of how her writing has inhabited multiple forms without…
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Daniel Borzutzky’s The Murmuring Grief of the Americas
Reviewed by Cait O’Kane My inflamed fingers are clacking keys in search of the precise definition of the word murmur. The screen in front of…
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Bound Together: A Review of Aaron Shurin’s Unbound: A Book of AIDS
by Sam Moore I We’re holding hands at Golden Gate Park. Their jacket is thicker than mine, and they’re wearing my gloves; a Californian through…
Keep readingOn Intelligence: A Quickfire Memory of Pedro Pietri
by Guillermo Rebollo Gil The 1977 bilingual edition of famed Nuyorican poet Pedro Pietri’s work, Obituario Puertorriqueño, published by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture…
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Digging an Open Pit: A Review of Jose Antonio Villarán’s Open Pit
by Omar Pimienta Reading open pit was a complex process for me. Before reading it, I had approached the orality of the text through various…
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Noche Sin Amanecer: A Review of Ennio Moltedo’s Night
by Coco Sofia Fitterman At what time must the birds lined up in gardens, trees, and cages sing? Look to the law. 17 Thus begins…
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A Review of The Collected Poems of Lorenzo Thomas
by David Grundy Ably edited by scholars Aldon Nielsen—Thomas’ friend and literary executor—and Laura Vrana, The Collected Poems of Lorenzo Thomas is a much-needed volume.…
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