These poems are conceived as a value-neutral Paradise Lost. In other words, someone who is not god tells you to avoid a certain tree, and you disobey the instruction; the result is shame. Two charact
This text is filthy and fertilized, filling and emptying, filling and emptying, atrocious and politic with meaning. The Cow is a mother, a lover, and a murdered lump of meat, rendered in the strongest
Bad Bad moves the unabashedly juvenile persona elliptically constructed in Zirconia into a seriously amusing, un - blushing womanhood. The poems are equally clownish and fuck-offish, taking on with e
Cast as a dialogue among six interlocuters, this lyric, pensive blend of poetry and prose considers light from a variety of perspectives - philosophical, physical, ethical, and metaphorical - all of t
Putting unprecedented pressure on the line break, Emmanuel Hocquard's obliquely interlaced poetic series cracks open the facade of language to let a little light through--the glimmers are beyond defi
A mother's illness and early death is only the beginning of the story of Stranger, Laura Sims' second collection. This is a death whose presence and particulars are felt and inscribed, and which achie
An exuberant skeptic, Elizabeth Marie Young writes in the infidel hope that writing itself can create worlds. These hilariously erudite prose poems are cosmologies--miniature, ever-expanding universe
With her third collection, Catherine Wagner assumes a mantle of responsibility. Each opportunity for productivity is a personal call-out; she responds, "diligent and strict." A repetitive stretching e
Presents a collection of more than one hundred thirty text-collages--found poems pasted on top of a wide variety of images, from a chart showing different types of almonds to a picture of a living roo
When do "hermit" and "maudit" not rhyme? When you're a fellow traveler in Macgregor Card's global community of canny songsters. Card's deft, lushly Romantic speaker has "friends in London." No, he's
In his third book, Ben Doller troubles the blast zone where evolution and manifest destiny collide. Working from primary sources including Captain William Dampier's pirate narratives and the Widow Ch
Fence Magazine is a print an online literary publication containing original fiction, poetry, art, and criticism of an experimental or avant garde nature (but still considered accessible to the genera
Fence Magazine is a print an online literary publication containing original fiction, poetry, art, and criticism of an experimental or avant garde nature (but still considered accessible to the genera
An exploration of the compatibility of human desire with personal ethics is at the heart of INFAMOUS LANDSCAPES. In these poems Sharma turns away from Romanticism with a certain disconcerted, feminine
This is a youthful book, as its title implies, inasmuch as rock 'n' roll belongs yet to the young. Its debut concerns are those of the youth culture inasmuch as when we are young we are closer to hom
Poet Carl Martin's literal and figurative "Brit vernacular" asks of its reader nothing less than a total ignorance of expectation. These poems, coming after a long silence - Martin's first book, appea
