Hunters and Gatherers
Greg is on a diet where he eats only what people ate ten thousand years ago, and Gina is down with that—with anything that gets her twenty-six-year-old son out…
Furs Not Mine by Andrea Cohen; The Wilderness by Sandra Lim
Furs Not Mine by Andrea Cohen (Four Way Books, 2015). The Wilderness by Sandra Lim (Norton, 2014). If there is a world in a grain of sand, Andrea Cohen lifts…
Lines of Defense: Poems by Stephen Dunn
(W. W. Norton, 2014) Lines of Defense, Stephen Dunn’s seventeenth book of poetry, is provocatively titled. On the most literal level, the title speaks to the collection’s epigraph, which…
When we met
I’d just had my cards read—but I don’t believe that shit, so when the tower turned up in the middle with the little picture of you and me upside…
Once in the West by Christian Wiman
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014). Once in the West, Christian Wiman’s fourth collection of poems, enacts a spiritual quest that is simultaneously a kerosene-and-blood- and-shit-and-morphine-fueled struggle to make…
My Father’s Eyes by Mary Bonina
(Cervena Barva Press, 2013). The eye is a complicated organ. It captures images only after light has passed through the lens, been received by cells in the retina, and…
The Wounded Table / La Mesa Herida
--after Frida Kahlo Have you seen my painting? 2 x 8 meters, disappeared, passed through the walls in Warsaw. I suspect it has been exiled to a…
New Issue Coming Soon in June
We look forward to the arrival of our new issue (cover image by sculptor Milan Klic).