Tag: Sundress Publications
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one more from Steven Sanchez
In my recent microreview & interview of Phantom Tongue (Sundress Publications) by Steven Sanchez, I spoke about Sanchez’s gift for poetic empathy. In the same way that a poem is never alive until somebody reads it, so is empathy unable to be present unless another does the work of listening to someone’s trouble and making room […]
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microreview & interview: Phantom Tongue by Steven Sanchez
review by José Angel Araguz Phantom Tongue (Sundress Publications) by Steven Sanchez begins with “On the Seventh Day,” a poem depicting the speaker poring over images of male models in the Sunday ads—”glossy men” that “look like my G.I. Joe / if his clothes weren’t painted on”—then cutting and pasting body parts, fashioning ideal versions […]
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one more from Rodney Gomez
In my recent microreview & interview of Rodney Gomez’s Citizens of the Mausoleum (Sundress Publications), I identified a manner of listing engaged with throughout the collection. One thing that such skilled listing points to is a poet’s capacity for attention. In lists, attention works in an almost syncopated manner. In “Cartography” (below), this attention is […]
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microreview & interview: Rodney Gómez’s Citizens of the Mausoleum
review by José Angel Araguz What a poet lists in their poems says much about what is important to them. There is a gesture of trying to catalog and hold onto, but also one of presenting and (re)presenting. Listing is a move I often find myself drawn to and examining in reading contemporary poems because […]
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* Your guest is as good as mine…
Just a quick note to promote the latest issue of Stirring: A Literary Collection! I served as Guest Editor for this issue and had the honor of reading through submissions. Lots of good stuff. Below is an example of some of the fine work to be found in this issue. Fontanelle – David Mohan After […]
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