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Midnight Ciphers
I’ve been meaning to write about Karen Volkman‘s Nomina for quite awhile, but Joel Brouwer has beat me to it and said most of what I had in mind to say. Here’s the comment I left in response to his excellent review: Joel, you’ve relieved me of trying to make sense of my scattered notes on Nomina, which line by line fascinates and baffles me.Read More
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Closed Histories
I’m too harried with work to write a thorough review of Sara Veglahn’s extraordinary chapbook Closed Histories, but I want to take a moment to recommend it. To the extent that comparisons are useful in describing a distinctive new voice, I would say that her work has similarities to writers as diverse as Karen Volkman, Yves Bonnefoy, Samuel Beckett, Henri Michaux, and the Gertrude Stein of Tender Buttons. Needless to say, I hope, these associations are subjective, and Ms. Veglahn herself might disavow them all! So I should let her speak for herself, if briefly: From the window, light.Read More