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Jon Curley

Jon Curley is the author of four volumes of poetry, most recently Scorch Marks. Remnant Halo is due out in spring 2021 from Marsh Hawk Press. He teaches in the Humanities Department at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

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Poetry That Targets Compliance as Complicity

by Jon Curley May 15, 2021May 14, 2021

Andrew Levy’s poems explore contemporary life with globe-spanning sweep and intensive probing.

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The Rise of the Machines

by Jon Curley February 27, 2021February 27, 2021

Rebecca Morgan Frank’s poems critique sexism, objectification, and violence by depicting humans as robots.

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Poems About the Business of Being a Poet

by Jon Curley November 21, 2020November 23, 2020

Kent Johnson skewers the silliness of the swarming poetry world.

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On the Figurative Road

by Jon Curley June 13, 2020November 5, 2020

Alice Notley’s book-length poem charts the journey during which we assess the value of words and their historical contexts.

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Expect Catastrophe in Poems Built from Tension

by Jon Curley January 6, 2018

In Heisenberg’s Salon, Susan Lewis reveals the irrational lurking within every gesture, symbol, structure, and sentiment.

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The Resonant Resistances of Political Poetry

by Jon Curley December 24, 2017December 26, 2017

Oakland-based publisher Commune Editions’ advocacy of community-based ethics animates volumes of poetry by Nanni Balestrini and Heriberto Yépez.

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Self-Immolator: Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s Meadow Slasher

by Jon Curley August 6, 2017August 6, 2017

In in his new book of poems, Joshua Marie Wilkinson cuts, nicks, and rips the pastoral to achieve terrors both startling and beautiful.

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Humanly Possibilist: David Shapiro’s In Memory of an Angel

by Jon Curley May 7, 2017May 5, 2017

Shapiro’s latest book of poetry, In Memory of An Angel, is his first full-length collection in fifteen years

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Enjambed with Rotten Assets: Daniel Borzutzky’s ‘The Performance of Becoming Human’

by Jon Curley March 4, 2017March 5, 2017

Borzutsky makes pathetic fallacy less an instrument of empathy than an agent of unsettlement, provoking strong reaction to the many historical and imaginary vignettes he creates.

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Autumn Visionary: Alejandra Pizarnik’s Poems

by Jon Curley October 16, 2016October 15, 2016

A translator and critic as well as poet, Alejandra Pizarnik lived between Buenos Aries and Paris, befriending Octavio Paz and Julio Cortazar and identifying with, while not necessarily emulating, the so-called poètes maudites of 19th-century France.

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Square Deal: Anselm Berrigan’s ‘Come In Alone’

by Jon Curley July 9, 2016July 12, 2016

The formal inventiveness of this new volume by Anselm Berrigan is satisfying and maddening.

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Keep Looking: Rebecca Wolff’s ‘One Morning—.’

by Jon Curley December 19, 2015December 19, 2015

So serene an entry point into this volume, the title One Morning—. promises the lengthening of sunlight across the expanse of a modest domestic existence, incidents without excitement.

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