Today I had a nuclear imaging study made of my digestive tract. It involved eating a radioactive egg and then lying absolutely still on a narrow (not more than 18 inches wide) metal table (to me that would be a tall bench, but they called it a table) for an hour while the technician followed the egg through my system via the above mentioned nuclear imaging. She told me to try and relax and just sleep through the interval, but I really wasn't sleepy. I found that mentally reciting some of Richard Cronshey’s poetry very slowly not only made the experience bearable, but actually enjoyable!
- Mark C. Jackman
These poems, written between 2002 and 2005, chart the idylls, adventures and dissolution of two lovers living abroad during the Bush years.
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"In Make Me, Jean Kane has truly surprised our common world, this world, in a moment of most candid, most innocent grammars. In these poems, language becomes new to itself and speaks the rapture of beginning."
- Donald Revell
Jean Kane was born in Brooklyn and grew up in the midwest. She now lives in New York, where she teaches literature and writing at Vassar College. She writes poetry, fiction, and critical essays, some of which have appeared in American Short Fiction, the Georgia Review, Hotel Amerika, and Prairie Schooner.
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OTIS NEBULA POETRY PRIZE!
The Possum Codex is the second installment in a Dante-inspired trilogy, following Russell's 2013 chapbook Inferna. Structured in four parts,
it’s a sort of seasonal long-poem as well as hallucinatory pilgrim’s progress undertaken in the Rust Belt landscape of the Middle West, through haunted blue-collar bars and magic circles drawn in overgrown city backyards, with the speaker of the poem bereft of a guide, left only to follow intuition and nature itself, including the sometimes supernatural animal of the title.
“Russell’s language soars and dives, and the rising and falling of so much sheer music is exhilarating. Her seemingly effortless lines are measured human breaths. They’re smart and they’re felt. Her images are well-honed blades or luxurious blankets; they startle or they comfort—depending.”
- David Clewell (review of Inferna)
Stefene Russell is a St. Louis-based poet, actor, and arts journalist. She is also a member of Poetry Scores, a collective dedicated to translating poetry into other mediums, including visual art, film, and music. Her books include the poem/essay/CD art book Go South for Animal Index (Poetry Scores, 2007) and a chapbook, Inferna (Intagliata Press, 2013). Find her online at stefenerussell.com.
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In his debut collection, Sundin Richards wrings out what life’s left in our language. Here, form follows-- and often inverts-- function, so that what remains is the Whole, where ”Savages out/last savagery...” and survivors exist, as they always must in “Year Zero/ Its syllable.” The poems here engage a brave economy, and however dire things become one thing is sure: the light won’t go out.
- Claudia Keelan
