David Hadbawnik | Field Work: notes, songs, poems 1997-2010 | BlazeVOX | 2011
At times like being a voyeur behind the book’s eyes, sweet, honest, uncomfortable, surprising, moving between modes and geography and relationships, moving through time, a book to enjoy reading.
Italo Calvino, trans. Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks, William Weaver | The Complete Cosmicomics | Penguin | 2002
Delightfully strange and oddly comforting, a yogic stretch for the imagination.
Tony Lopez | Only More So | Uno | 2011
As dense and challenging as ever, Lopez’s most recent work sustains itself longer, thick stripes of word culled from an intricate lace of sources, transmuted by a skilful, subtle hand.
JodiAnn Stevenson | The Procedure | March Street | 2006
The languages of legality and failed romance intermingle in this collection of hauntingly-worded pieces, heartstrings unraveling through divorce proceedings, bittersweet freedom of a particular failure.
Mark Rothko, ed. Miguel López-Remiro | Writings on Art | Yale | 2006
One of the most astonishing collections of critical statements about art I’ve ever encountered. “Address to Pratt Institute, 1958” is of particular note.
Audre Lorde | The Black Unicorn | Norton | 1978
It was time to reread Lorde: “I leave poems behind me / dropping them like dark seeds that / I will never harvest / that I will never mourn / if they are destroyed / they pay for a gift / I have not accepted.”—from “Touring”
D.H. Lawrence | The Plumed Serpent | Martin Secker | 1928
Perfectly brutal.
Gina Myers | A Model Year | Coconut | 2009
Compelling and without pretension, intelligent poems born from paying attention to one’s world and life.
Virginia Woolf | Mrs. Dalloway | Harcourt Brace | 1990
Energetic, human, as fresh as the flowers given Clarissa, time had come to revisit this text.
Herman Melville | Moby-Dick or The Whale | Penguin Classics | 1992
Gloriously tragic and often downright funny, it had been too long since I’d read what I most enjoy from Melville, better this fourth time through than I had dared hope!
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Robin F. Brox is the founder of Saucebox, a small feminist press & occasional performance series. Actor & technical director for Buffalo Poets Theater, recent work includes “When In Doubt, Cowboy Out,” from her process-derived poem A. Concoct Key Gush Run, available from Binge Press (2011), & Sure Thing, a full length collection of poems from BlazeVOX [books] (2011).
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David Hadbawnik | Field Work: notes, songs, poems 1997-2010 | BlazeVOX | 2011
At times like being a voyeur behind the book’s eyes, sweet, honest, uncomfortable, surprising, moving between modes and geography and relationships, moving through time, a book to enjoy reading.
Italo Calvino, trans. Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks, William Weaver | The Complete Cosmicomics | Penguin | 2002
Delightfully strange and oddly comforting, a yogic stretch for the imagination.
Tony Lopez | Only More So | Uno | 2011
As dense and challenging as ever, Lopez’s most recent work sustains itself longer, thick stripes of word culled from an intricate lace of sources, transmuted by a skilful, subtle hand.
JodiAnn Stevenson | The Procedure | March Street | 2006
The languages of legality and failed romance intermingle in this collection of hauntingly-worded pieces, heartstrings unraveling through divorce proceedings, bittersweet freedom of a particular failure.
Mark Rothko, ed. Miguel López-Remiro | Writings on Art | Yale | 2006
One of the most astonishing collections of critical statements about art I’ve ever encountered. “Address to Pratt Institute, 1958” is of particular note.
Audre Lorde | The Black Unicorn | Norton | 1978
It was time to reread Lorde: “I leave poems behind me / dropping them like dark seeds that / I will never harvest / that I will never mourn / if they are destroyed / they pay for a gift / I have not accepted.”—from “Touring”
D.H. Lawrence | The Plumed Serpent | Martin Secker | 1928
Perfectly brutal.
Gina Myers | A Model Year | Coconut | 2009
Compelling and without pretension, intelligent poems born from paying attention to one’s world and life.
Virginia Woolf | Mrs. Dalloway | Harcourt Brace | 1990
Energetic, human, as fresh as the flowers given Clarissa, time had come to revisit this text.
Herman Melville | Moby-Dick or The Whale | Penguin Classics | 1992
Gloriously tragic and often downright funny, it had been too long since I’d read what I most enjoy from Melville, better this fourth time through than I had dared hope!
§
Robin F. Brox is the founder of Saucebox, a small feminist press & occasional performance series. Actor & technical director for Buffalo Poets Theater, recent work includes “When In Doubt, Cowboy Out,” from her process-derived poem A. Concoct Key Gush Run, available from Binge Press (2011), & Sure Thing, a full length collection of poems from BlazeVOX [books] (2011).
Back to 2011 directory.
Written by Steve Evans
September 28, 2011 at 10:06 am
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