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Sound of Silence: Michael Palmer’s 'The Laughter of the Sphinx'
Michael Palmer’s trust in the generative power that emerges out of silence for poetry runs counter to a deep strain of pessimism throughout The Laughter of the Sphinx.
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Poetry
One Poem by Candace Williams
Our new poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected one poem by Candace Williams for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
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Autumn Visionary: Alejandra Pizarnik’s Poems
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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Etel Adnan: Philosophy at Night
Lebanese-American artist, philosopher, and poet Etel Adnan’s recent publication, Night, is in equal measure a series of meditations on intersubjectivity and spirituality, and a dialogue between prose poetry and short verse.
Poetry
Two Poems by Daniel Poppick
Our new poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected two poems by Daniel Poppick for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Poetry
Two Poems by Kit Schluter
Our new poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected two poems by Kit Schluter for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
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Testing Form: Novels by Alejandro Zambra and Matías Celedón
Solely in geographical terms, Chilean culture has issued forth from a matrix of constraint. The Argentine writer Ezequiel Martínez Estrada remarked that “Chile is perhaps the most poorly located and poorly shaped nation on the planet.
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A Forensic Poet for Our Time
What do you do, if you are a poet who has never “ been comfortable with autobiographical material?” Monica Youn’s poems brim with answers to this question that a younger poet might do well to notice.
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The Good Life
We want things to be simple, but we know they aren’t, probably never were, and chances are will get only more messy with time. What’s a young poet to do, but try and take some control?
Poetry
One Poem by Roberto Montes
Our new poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected one poem by Roberto Montes for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
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Foreign Sounds or Sounds Foreign
Brandon Som’s first book of poems, The Tribute Horse, won the 2012 Nightboat Poetry Prize.
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The Poetics of Embodiment: Elaine Kahn's 'Women in Public'
The poems in Elaine Kahn’s Women in Public are highly self-aware. They’re porous, riven with gaps and fragmentation; at the same time, they’re unquestionably "lyrical" in their concision and fluidity