Salamander #47 is here! Get a taste for the issue by reading excerpts (see button above). If you don’t have the issue yet, we strongly encourage you to purchase a subscription or a copy. You’ll find stories by the first- … Read More
Outside Is the Ocean by Matthew Lansburgh (University of Iowa Press, 2017). Winner of the 2017 Iowa Short Fiction Award, Matthew Lansburgh’s first collection possesses the satisfying reach and depth of a novel. The fractured chronology of its … Read More
Come West and See by Maxim Loskutoff (W.W. Norton & Company, 2018). It is election season in America again, which affords the country another unsettling visual and numerical representation of just how deeply and irreparably we seem to be … Read More
Guide to Greece by George Kalogeris (Louisiana State University Press, 2018). The title of George Kalogeris’s latest collection of poems is a nod to an ancient travelogue in ten books written by a Greek man named Pausanias in … Read More
Hair chopped short as it will get. The risen boy practices forgetting as the pilgrim does. He is a vocabulary of starlings and salt.
after Sally Mann —silk and honey the hair is after so much rain // but not the skin // the skin is coral // leaf-torn & bee-pitted // humped up & sloping to where the neck is vapor // … Read More
Let the wind whip a canvas with coffee grounds and leaves, the easel upright on a porch with boards missing like molars. Give the wind time and pigment: the reedmace-colored whiskey my grandfather hid in his overcoat, the pistol-black … Read More
Another haunting symptom her late Dementia Won’t let me forget. I mean that night I found her Sitting straight up in bed. All glassy-eyed: “Look at him. Oh look at how tired he is. My father. He has to … Read More
Thomas Bernhard: Collected Poems, translated by James Reidel (Seagull Books, 2017). Thomas Bernhard’s prose has an implacable forward motion, driven by repetition and elaboration. A sentence in his final novel, Extinction, is structured in the same way as … Read More
No Small Gift by Jennifer Franklin (Four Way Books, 2018). Jennifer Franklin’s No Small Gift explores ideas of love and punishment, and the way the two can fluctuate and intertwine. That is to say, sometimes love ends in … Read More
only after a thorough comparison of clutch and diet, with meager fruit and seed regimens avoided (before I attempt a change of nest) ° ° with what deliberation do you deposit food deep … Read More