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January 7, 2017
King Cobra (2016)
King Cobra (2016)
January 3, 2017
December 31, 2016
My review of Daniel Borzutzky’s The Performance of...
My review of Daniel Borzutzky’s The Performance of Becoming Human is finally live in a brand new issue of DIAGRAM (16.6):
“Why does Borzutzky suddenly look ‘better’ according to Burt? Is it
the fact that he was the recent recipient of a National Book Award? If
so, is that what also makes Borzutzky ‘more frightening’ and, therefore,
better now than before? In 2014, Burt described Borzutzky’s ‘having-it-both-ways’ style of writing as “self-righteous.” In the same
review, he also described the writing in The Book of Interfering Bodies (2011) as ‘vehement.’ Vehement poetry… Sounds frightening to me. After all, it’s not that Burt claimed that The Performance of Becoming Human was simply more frightening than The Book of Interfering Bodies.
Rather, it is ‘award-winner’ Borzutzky—the poet himself—who now ‘looks’
more frightening for some reason. Borzutzky’s collection of poems
opens with a body ‘congested with images of mutilation.’ Is Daniel
Borzutzky now ‘more frightening’ because a book of award-winning poetry
opens with a violence-clogged body moving among murmuring, decomposing
bodies.”
December 23, 2016
My collaboration with Valerie Mejer Caso, Barry Shapiro, Torin...
My collaboration with Valerie Mejer Caso, Barry Shapiro, Torin Jensen, and Anna Deeny: a poem-film called It Is Announced.
December 19, 2016
actionbookspress:Need a gift idea? James Pate’s Flowers Among...
Need a gift idea? James Pate’s Flowers Among the Carrion is the latest addition to Action Books’ Salvo Series!
“Too often ‘the gothic’ is split between glib pop culture references or jargon-filled academic studies. This little aesthetic treatise avoids both, and charts out new paths for the gothic. A welcome intervention.”
-Eugene Thacker,
author of In the Dust of this Planet and Cosmic Pessimism
Pate’s book of essays is also in conversation with María Negroni‘s Dark Museum (Trans. by Michelle Gil-Montero).
And don’t forget the very first Salvo release: Carl-Michael Edenborg’s The Parapornographic Manifesto. (Now only $8)
You could also take advantage of the Dark Flowers Salvo Sale: Get both Flowers Among the Carrion and Dark Museum together for only $15! Let the horror of this low, low price infect you.
December 17, 2016
Big day for Sara! A mini-review of The Night’s Belly (via Eileen...
Big day for Sara! A mini-review of The Night’s Belly (via Eileen Tabios) in the December issue of Galatea Resurrects:
“Yet, Efrik’s words—as translated by Cunningham—are effective. They are
effective due to their energy and forward-moving propulsion that makes
you want to read and read and read. The abundance of detail is helpful.
And the diction is deft (“His sweet butter feeds me lies.”)”
Dennis Cooper named Sara Tuss Efrik’s Automanias: Selected...
Dennis Cooper named Sara Tuss Efrik’s Automanias: Selected Poems one of his favorite works of 2016! (Currently available from Goodmorning Menagerie)
December 9, 2016
Johannes Göransson
calls me a “volatile translator”...
Johannes Göransson
calls me a “volatile translator” (and more) in this review of Sara Tuss
Efrik’s Automanias and The Night’s Belly: “Between the two of them,
we can see how translation may work through contamination and
co-morbidity rather than through mastery and official exchange.”
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