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Grief 101: Anne Carson’s NOX

By on June 23, 2011 in POETRY, TRANSLATION

Boris Dralyuk finds the beginning of recovery in Anne Carson’s NOX, her book-object “box of shored fragments… occasioned by her long-estranged brother Michael’s death.”

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The States, Part 1: Homeland, by Nina Berman

By on December 10, 2009 in ART

Homeland, Nina Berman (Trolley Books) £24.99 Homeland collects photographer Nina Berman’s last seven years of exploring the way fear has manipulated American culture since the beginning of the Homeland Security Era. Her photographs do exactly what the best social commentary does: they capture the essence of things elegantly and succinctly. She’s done a good job [...]

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Almost Effaced Altogether: Robert Walser

By on October 3, 2009 in FICTION

Though admired in his own day by  Franz Kafka and Hermann Hesse, Walser has been largely over-looked among readers outside of Switzerland and Germany; until recently, that is, when academia rediscovered his works  forgotten amongst the topmost shelves of modernism—wedged, perhaps, between dusty volumes of Remarque and Brecht.

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Year of Poetry Update

By on September 21, 2009 in EDITORIAL, POETRY

I’m now twenty days into the Year of Poetry experiment.

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A Note from the Editor: Year of Poetry

By on August 31, 2009 in POETRY

Beginning 1 September I will read a book of poetry each day for a year, writing 140-character reviews on Twitter, at http://twitter.com/yearofpoetry and on Molossus. I hope to accomplish more than compile 365 pithy back cover blurbs, to truly experiment with the medium as an effective venue for contemporary book reviewing.

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Sea Creatures & Robots

By on August 26, 2009 in POETRY

effrey Yang is an editor at New Directions, and his poetry evidences his wide exposure to world literature, manifested both in allusions—with poems featuring the literature and philosophy of peoples from around the world, ranging from the indigenous Miskito of coastal Nicaragua to Vishnu Ivara, as well as mythology name dropping on behalf of the Hawaiians, Maya, Olmec, and others—and in tone.

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American ROMANCES, Rebecca Brown

By on August 25, 2009 in NONFICTION

Because of The Haunted House, The Gifts of the Body, and The End of Youth, Rebecca Brown’s writings have been regarded by many as some of the greatest contributions to contemporary gay and lesbian literature.

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The Transcending of Tongues: Jenny Lewis on Sudeep Sen

By on August 19, 2009 in POETRY

Sudeep Sen’s highly praised books include Postmarked India, Prayer Flag, Distracted Geographies, and the poetic meditation, Rain, illustrated by twenty of India’s top artists.

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After the Deluge: Josh Neufeld Humanizes Hurricane Katrina

By on August 18, 2009 in ART

A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge is Josh Neufeld’s first book-length graphic narrative. It contains five interconnected pieces of non-fiction from five disconnected groups of New Orleanians (some many generations deep) who lived through Hurricane Katrina.

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Shelled like lobster fried flag-red: Norma Cole, Rick Reid, and Amatoritsero Ede

By on August 13, 2009 in POETRY

Norma Cole’s is the first book in City Light’s new spotlight series, which will showcase contemporary innovative poetry by both well-known and emerging American poets.

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Mapping Very Large Complicated Machines

By on August 4, 2009 in ART, NONFICTION

If healthy social change on any level requires both informed understandings of problems and realistic strategies to form solutions, what tools can be used to illuminate social ills and offer feasible resolutions? How about maps? 

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Two Successful Experiments

By on July 21, 2009 in POETRY

Frank Kuppner is the funniest Glaswegian poet writing today. He also holds the world record for most impressive poet’s lambchops, only shorn in recent years, though any proof of their existence remains deep within the Carcanet file cabinets of authors photos.

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