Because My Body Is Paper contains undated work, it’s less about [Gil Cuadros’] evolution as a writer than about our experience of his deeply felt concerns: the pleasures and horrors of the body, the link between spirit and nature, the sense of meaning we can derive from carefully tended relationships.
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AS A POET AGES, he’s often faced with several choices. He can keep doing what he has always done, or he can, by seriously confronting himself, seek another voice. Jason Schneiderman has done the latter brilliantly in his new book, Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire. He reflects humorously on his life as a poet, often poking fun at himself and his poses. He wrestles with his Jewish heritage by taking on Stalin and the Holocaust, and then delves into the angst of gay divorce.
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AN EVENING WITH BIRDY O’DAY by Greg Kearney Arsenal Pulp Press. 336 pages, $21.95 IN HIS GENTLY COMIC NOVEL An Evening with Birdy O’Day, Greg Kearney manages, among…More
There are moments in Pathologies when Johan is reminiscent of Goethe’s Werther in his suffering and hunger for romance, or Dostoevsky’s Raskolnikov in his desperation and destitution.
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Short reviews of the books Exit Wounds by Lewis DeSimone, Bad Seed by Gabriel Carle, The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing by Adam Moss, Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco, and Where the Forest Meets the River by Shannon Bowring; and of the exhibit American Apollo at the Des Moines Metro Opera Festival and Blank Performing Arts Center in Indianola, IA.
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As captured in its title, Domestic Modernism: Russell Cheney and Mid-Century American Painting, the Ogunquit exhibit’s overarching premise is that Cheney should be considered a Modernist painter, even if he resisted the pull of abstraction that dominated painting at this time, and his subjects tended to be domestically oriented, such as his and Matthiessen’s homes in Maine and Boston.
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Earlier this year, I conducted a Zoom interview with Judy Grahn on the occasion of the republication of her 1984 classic The Highest Apple. This interview was originally aired on May 7, 2024, on the Vermont-based cable-access show All Things LGBTQ. The following is a short excerpt.
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