two reviews on The Moon & Other Inventions by Kristina Marie Darling
I hope you had a great Thanksgiving holiday! I wanted to let you know about a couple of features that have been published about The Moon & Other Inventions by Kristina Marie Darling:
Spittoon: A Journal of Contemporary Literary Forms: http://www.spittoonmag.com/what-were-reading.php
The Stanza: A Little Room for Poetry & the Writing Life: http://mollyspencer.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/friday-un-roundup-the-moon-and-some-other-stuff/
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Kristina Marie Darling is the author of five books of poetry and the editor of a forthcoming anthology, narrative (dis)continuities: prose experiments by younger american writers (Moria Books, 2012). She has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Ragdale Foundation, as well as grants from the Kittredge Fund and the Elizabeth George Foundation. Her poems and essays appear in The Gettysburg Review, New Letters, Third Coast, and Verse Daily. A graduate of Washington University and the University of Missouri, Kristina is currently working toward a Ph.D. in Poetics at SUNY-Buffalo.
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· Paperback: 66 pages
· Binding: Perfect-Bound
· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books]
· ISBN: 978-1-60964-104-7
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“Big Bad Asterisk *” Poetry by Carlo Matos – Reviewed in Portuguese American Journal
Read a review of Carlo Matos's forthcoming book, “Big Bad Asterisk at the Portuguese American Journal
“Big Bad Asterisk *” Poetry by Carlo Matos – Review
By Michael Colson, Contributor (*)
The asterisk is one of the most neglected symbols in the history of typography. What is an asterisk? What does it signify? What role does it play in our writing? If there were a Saint Asterisk would she be a faint footnote in theLives of Saints? These are among the unsung questions of our lettered lives.
An asterisk is a seven-fingered star that glitters on the ink-blotted page. It designates an explanatory footnote, an omission, or a correction. Often the asterisk performs a judicial sidebar of sorts, introducing information that doesn’t quite fit into the flow of discourse. Occasionally, it can be ironic, cheeky, or paradoxical.
What is this sign that calls attention to itself? “Look at me!” it seems to say, “Pay attention to me, only me, I’m no parentheses!” The asterisk is, among other things, a jealous lover, a strumpet, a femme fatale. We attend to it with our eyes, but really that’s never quite enough, because we’re called upon to follow wherever it leads. The asterisk impishly tugs at our arm, beseeching us to step inside its mysterious dwelling, unto its seduction, its soft embellishments, redirecting our focus, down a rabbit hole perhaps, from a line of thought. It whispers, “I shall lead you on a detour. Relinquish your devotion to linear thought, for waylaid is the path of parataxis.”
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Read more »Continental Drifts by Cheryl Pallant Reviewed by Third Factory
Check out this fine set of five reviews on Third World by Sarah Rosenthal. Cheryl's appears near the bottom of the page. Here is a small snipet of the article.
Cheryl Pallant | Continental Drifts | BlazeVOX | 2012
The long lines in Cheryl Pallant’s Continental Drifts dash, dip, twist, double back and leap ahead, enacting simultaneously the groundedness gravity demands and the instability wrought by the law of constant change. “Adrift I am sands to shore, fire to ice, bones tendoning tendencies.” Pallant’s background in dance feels evident here; these poems are ready for a session of seasoned, rough-and-tumble contact improv between a constantly filling and emptying “I” and “you”: “Who follows whom can or may situate her or himself. Together or alone lifts cup to drink. We or I romp in a field or flatter yet, a pain.” A heightened awareness of limits—”After this there is no other”—leads to a fearlessness that invigorates: “Space opens like a book yet to be written.”
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Like tectonic plates drifting apart and colliding, Cheryl Pallant’s language in Continental Drifts shatters into microcosmic worlds and re-coalesces into new contours, expressing desire afresh. The ceaseless motion of destruction and re-alignment, of fertility and quiescence, is also the engine that propels speech into meanings yet just as soon incinerates them. In Pallant’s exquisitely musical streams of thought, forces in different realms coincide: “Hormones flow as insistently as magma.” But such sympathetic vibrations belie a restless instability at the heart of phenomena, and Pallant’s poetry shape-shifts to reveal the dialogue among energies that beget and erase. Continental Drifts simultaneously offers “a handful of earth and emptiness” and opens up within silence a rich realm whose core is “ripe beyond perishable, ache beyond blossom.”
—Camille Martin
Cheryl Pallant is the author of several poetry books, chapbooks, a collaboratively written poetry book, and a nonfiction book on dance. Poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have been anthologized and published in numerous online and print journals in the United States and abroad. She has taught writing and dance at University of Tulsa, Keimyung University (in S. Korea), University of Richmond, and Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives in Richmond VA.
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· Paperback: 118 pages
· Binding: Perfect-Bound
· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books]
· ISBN: 978-1-60964-085-9
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Read more »Captain Poetry’s Sucker Punch by Kenneth Warren Reviewed on Swithcback
Purple Passages and Captain Poetry’s Sucker Punch
Patrick James Dunagan-Rachel Blau DuPlessis
-Kenneth Warren
Kenneth Warren has from the start been writing from a truly outsider perspective (outside any and all sense of academia and at times outside the already fringe camps of experimental poetry) and, as is well demonstrated by this massive collection of reviews, essays, and other assorted commentaries, Warren grounds his critical responses in both the local and personal while demonstrating a vital interest in appealing to wider societal concerns. Included here are his early beginnings as a chronicler of the local music scene in Cleveland, OH, reviewing shows by a number of punk bands and other more widely recognized performers such as Bo Diddley. He also offers a consideration of David Lynch’s filmBlue Velvet. Throughout the 80s and 90s Warren published these writings regularly in publications such as: Alternative Press, American Book Review, Contact II, Exquisite Corpse, Gargoyle, Intent, andRolling Stock.
In equal spirit, the commentary Rachel Blau DuPlessis adds to critical consideration of twentieth century American poetry and poetics is vital and she’s able to present it as all the more so since her own creative work as a poet is influenced by, and in conversation with, the poets she’s addressing.
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· Paperback: 460 pages
· Binding: Perfect-Bound
· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books]
· ISBN: 978-1-60964-063-7
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The Moon and Other Inventions by Kristina Marie Darling Reviewed
The Moon & Other Inventions by Kristina Marie Darling reviewed in two journals
PANK Magazine, http://www.pankmagazine.com/pankblog/reviews/the-moon-and-other-inventions-poems-after-joseph-cornell-by-kristina-marie-darling-a-review-by-anne-champion/#more-18980
Poet Hound, http://poethound.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-moon-other-inventions-by-kristina.html
Kristina Marie Darling is the author of five books of poetry and the editor of a forthcoming anthology, narrative (dis)continuities: prose experiments by younger american writers (Moria Books, 2012). She has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Ragdale Foundation, as well as grants from the Kittredge Fund and the Elizabeth George Foundation. Her poems and essays appear in The Gettysburg Review, New Letters, Third Coast, and Verse Daily. A graduate of Washington University and the University of Missouri, Kristina is currently working toward a Ph.D. in Poetics at SUNY-Buffalo.
Book Information:
· Paperback: 66 pages
· Binding: Perfect-Bound
· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books]
· ISBN: 978-1-60964-104-7
$12
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