Paul Kincaid reviews Kentauros by Gregory FeeleyNHR Books, 2010, 101 pages, $15978-0-9829008-2-6 Of late, “punk” seems to have become as ubiquitous a suffix for proliferating subgenres as “-gate” is for political scandals. After cyberpunk and steampunk we have, most recently,
Burgess Meredith Just Wants to Read
In his book length essay The Lost Art of Reading, Los Angeles Times book critic David L. Ulin confronts a dilemma when his teenage son Noah, during an ordinary conversation over dinner, declares that literature is dead. For a man
Somatic Writing: A Breath or Battery-Fueled Life?
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.–George SantayanaOur work now is to embody intelligence.–Eve Ensler Yoga (“to yoke, or join”): the art of union, not the fetish of fragmentation, between breath and movement. A commitment to
To Be Read
For me, writing and talking are tied to reading—so much that it almost seems that reading is ontologically prior except that it isn’t, rather the three form a field that I must move in and, in this field, I am
Review of Glass by Sam Savage
Jeff Bursey reviews Glass by Sam SavageCoffee House Press, 2011, 223 pages, $15.00 (US), $16.50 (CAN)ISBN: 9781566892735 One sees a thing while one is feeling a certain way, and then later, when one has a different feeling, it can look
REVIEW OF We Wanted to Be Writers: Life, Love and Literature at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, edited by Eric Olsen and Glen Schaeffer
Daniel Green reviews We Wanted to Be Writers: Life, Love and Literature at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, edited by Eric Olsen and Glen Schaeffer. Skyhorse Publishing, 2009, 320 pages, $16.95 978-1602397354 A frequent criticism of creative writing programs is
Briefly About the Antinovel from Bowstring: On the Dissimilarity of the Similar
Kafka in his antinovels attempts to show the absurdity of life as a whole; nothing is alive in this world or, at least, nothing makes sense. The processes are meaningless, authorities are incomprehensible. Chancelleries and institutions have no boundaries—it is
New Elements in the Old Epic (The History of Gilgamesh) from Bowstring: On the Dissimilarity of the Similar
Let’s renew our path with examples. Gilgamesh is the hero of the Akkadian epic—of the multi-characteristic stage—who was apparently a historical figure, living nearly three thousand years before the Common Era, at a time when in the lower parts of
Forward from Bowstring: On the Dissimilarity of the Similar
I lived once by the river near Chudovo when I was a boy. It was springtime. The bird-cherry trees had finished blooming. At dusk, when the slanting rays of sunlight lit up the forest, the nightingales would start singing. They
Martha and Megaliths
We eat that fish, and the fish is delicious. Then she discusses the fish with the chef, its preparation, its presentation. We are at a Michelin one star restaurant in Quimper, Brittany. It was the sea bass or dace, flesh