Author: Heavy Feather
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Two Poems by Parker Tettleton
I’m Somewhere Has An Apostrophe It’s honest to feel anything but. I’m older every day, younger every year. There’s beer in our mouths and smiles are pilgrim as fuck. It’s midnight when I can look my teeth in the mirror. Hands In Lapse I smoke in the shower, someones in my sleep I drink. That’s…
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Poetry Review: Katie Hibner Reads Crystal Curry’s But I Have Realized It
The genre of bildungsroman, since it literally translates from the Latin into “education novel,” is, by definition, limited to narrative prose. If Anne Carson chips at that barrier with her verse novel Autobiography of Red, Crystal Curry shatters it with the surreal lyricism of her coming-of-age collection, But I Have Realized It. Curry asserts the…
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“An Undertow to Struggle Against”: Anne Valente in Conversation with Dustin M. Hoffman
Dustin M. Hoffman’s debut short story collection, One Hundred-Knuckled Fist, is filled with the voices of workers and the environments of workplaces: what so often goes unnoticed in fiction, as if how we spend so much of our day must remain invisible in literature. Instead of viewing work as only one small token of characterization,…
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Three Poems by David Brennan
Robert Frost, OMG, above me is the moon and Mars and scalloped dictionariesof cloud falling open to the page obsoletelives on. Like a Jazzercise class with one studentand a militant instructor, that’s how the moonmakes Mars work its lower abs. And the coldis gorgeous and tender, like you, and meanand abrasive, like you, and you…
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Fiction Review: Greg Marzullo Reads Troy James Weaver’s Marigold
For the depressive, a bouquet of blooming roses is more for funeral arrangements than Valentine’s Day, and every moment is a gateway to a bleak eternity. Troy James Weaver evocatively captures the sense of otherness lingering on the borderlands between life and death in Marigold, an impressionistic chronicle of a florist’s suicidal ideation. As if…
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Graphic Novel Review: Karl Schroeder Reads Ricardo Cavolo & Scott McClanahan’s The Incantations of Daniel Johnston
In Daniel Johnston’s early years in Texas, when he was just beginning to find an audience, in order to give someone a copy of his album, he’d have to run back home and record the whole thing over again, from start to finish, in a single take. Aside from illustrating his technical limitations, this detail…
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Nonfiction Review: VHS & Why It’s Hard to Live by Tatiana Ryckman
Memory is built from pieces of itself: perfect enough at best, like a glued-together mirror or you or me. This makes the fragmentary personal essays of Tatiana Ryckman’s VHS & Why It’s Hard to Live both a curious and not-so-curious delivery of memoir. The short bursts of recall accurately transcribe the way our minds work,…
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Natural Wonders, a novel by Angela Woodward, reviewed by Katie M. Flynn
Benjy, first slide, please. So begins Angela Woodward’s innovative and allegorical novel about, well, everything. We find ourselves in a lecture hall at some point in the twentieth century. The instructor, known only as Jonathan, whose specialty is “jaw measurement,” is giving a slideshow presentation for his introductory course on the earth and its prehistory…
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“This, being absorbed”: Alicia Wright on Gale Marie Thompson’s New Poetry Collection Soldier On
“I only wanted for to see / the spectral light,” writes Gale Marie Thompson in her first collection of glistening poetry, Soldier On. Yet it is not as much the idea of light that governs this collection, more the gesture of “hand[ing] each other daffodils in the dark,” that speaks to the sort of intimate…
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