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Sister Darkness: On Melissa Broder's "Scarecrone"
So here we have a fierce and unsettling collection of verse from Melissa Broder, a Brooklyn poet who works at Penguin / Random House when she’s not scaring the crap out of men with lines like “I am sucking on your shit / I am trying to help your softshitdick / reach a miracle dimension.” (Umm… OK! *backs away nervously*) In all seriousness, though ( Read more... ) -
"Fork Lift," by Ron Kolm
A new poem by Ron Kolm. -
Astoria Characters: The Man Who Has His Way With Words
Nancy Ruhling profiles poet and editor Ron Kolm in the Huffington Post… -
On Herbert McCabe and "God, Christ, and Us"
I came to the work of the late Herbert McCabe in typical oblique fashion: somewhere in the notes to one of the Terry Eagleton books I reviewed last year, McCabe is identified as being an influence on certain elements of Eagleton’s thinking. To my mind any point of intersection between a Marxist critic and a Catholic philosopher is intriguing and ( Read more... )
