Posts Tagged ‘Jena Osman’
Attention Span 2011 | James Wagner
Cedar Sigo | Stranger In Town | City Lights | 2010
Elegant, whimsical. Checked humor. Clear attention to craft. A talented poet.
Christine Hume | Shot | Counterpath | 2010
Slowly building a surreal temple of exquisite disturbances. House Flies, Alaska, now the Night.
David Lespiau, trans. Keith Waldrop | Four Cut-ups, or The Case of the Restored Volume | Burning Deck | 2010
My mini-review here.
Leslie Scalapino | Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows | Starcherone | 2010
High art: imaginative and political. Her understanding of Time-In-The-Sentence is what makes the stories go.
Lissa Wolsak | Squeezed Light—Selected Poems 1994-2005 | Station Hill | 2010
Sublime writing. My review.
Jena Osman | The Network | Fence | 2010
Atmospheric realism of uncanny stitching. Surgical.
Eléna Rivera | Remembrance Of Things Plastic | LRLE | 2010
Graceful, ghostly, poetic memoir.
Various authors, ed. Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young | A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism | Chain Links | 2011
My mini-review here.
Nada Gordon | Ululations blog | Blogspot/Google | 2011
The raw, vital poetry.
Alta Ifland | Voice of Ice | Les Figues | 2007
Crystalline, carefully laid, prose poems.
Stephen Ratcliffe | [assorted daily poems] | Facebook | 2010-11
Fugue of viewing / sensing / intellecting.
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James Wagner is the author of the chapbooks Query/Xombies and Geisttraum (Esther Press, 2010), the short-story collection Work Book (Nothing Moments, 2007), and three poetry collections: Trilce (Calamari Press, 2006), After the Giraffes (Blazevox, 2005), and the false sun recordings (3rd bed, 2003). Wagner’s Attention Span for 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004. Back to 2011 directory.
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Attention Span 2011 | Pattie McCarthy
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Elizabeth Willis | Address | Wesleyan | 2011
“I’m building the haystack / I’ll disappear into”
Cole Swensen | Greensward | Ugly Duckling | 2010
“It’s the future that vanishes, not thinking, and the dog sets off at a run, as it is, as it always has been, her gift and wish to bring it back to him.”
Carlos Soto Roman | Philadelphia’s Notebooks | Otoliths | 2011
“one pack one pagan one pain one panic one paper one / parachute one paradox one paragon one parade one”
Jena Osman | The Network | Fence | 2010
“Plaster, spikes, and rivets all overboard as ballast. To gain altitude, to fly high over the city like a small planet.”
Linda Norton | Public Gardens | Pressed Wafer | 2011
“She cries every night for three or four hours, and sometimes I think I’m going crazy, I’m so tired. But her shit really does smell sweet.”
Susan Howe | That This | New Directions | 2010
“That this book is a history of / a shadow that is a shadow of”
Ryan Eckes | Old News | Furniture | 2011
“you know by looking at the dunkin donuts / walt whitman is buried in camden / ben franklin is buried in philadelphia / and the delaware river is a zombie”
Julie Carr | Sarah—Of Fragments and Lines | Coffee House | 2010
“The / idea, which she knows to be illogic, but cannot let go of, is that / if she is pregnant the baby will keep her mother alive.”
Sarah Campbell | Everything We Could Ask For | Little Red Leaves | 2010
“Some bird brought you here / On foot”
Anselm Berrigan | Notes from Irrelevance | Wave | 2011
“Digging the ecstasy / of swinging? Yes. Laughing / at the tree? Is the tree / funny? Yes.”
Caroline Bergvall | Meddle English | Nightboat Books | 2011
“The body is ay so redy and penyble’, / the heed of advertising for Telewizja Polska, / the state-run TV network, / told the Associated Press news agency. / BBC NEWS 25 May 2006. / Here is endeth the Summer Tale.”
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Pattie McCarthy is the author of Table Alphabetical of Hard Words, Verso, and bk of (h)rs, all from Apogee Press—as well as L&O, forthcoming this year from Little Red Leaves Press. She teaches literature and creative writing at Temple University and is a 2011 Pew Fellow in the Arts.
McCarthy’s Attention Span for 2010. Back to 2011 directory.
Written by Steve Evans
October 24, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Posted in Attention Span 2011, Commented List
Tagged with Anselm Berrigan, Carlos Soto Roman, Caroline Bergvall, Cole Swensen, Elizabeth Willis, Jena Osman, Julie Carr, Linda Norton, Ryan Eckes, Sarah Campbell, Susan Howe