Author: Heavy Feather
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Dark Matter, poetry by Aase Berg, reviewed by Jeremy Behreandt
One contracts and soon succumbs to Dark Matter more than one begins to read it; no matter how this review begins, a cursory tracing of infection patterns would be more suitable. Recurrent throughout this latest translation of Aase Berg’s poetry is the image of the black shell, which might be a cracking, hatching chaosmic egg,…
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“Something to Believe”: An Interview with Charlie Mosbrook by Robert Loss
Voted the city’s “Best Singer-Songwriter” in 2011 by Scene magazine, Charlie Mosbrook has been one of a handful of people at the heart of the Cleveland folk scene over the past twenty years. Known for his intimate performances, warm voice and sterling songwriting, he’s also been the emcee of many open mics, fostering with understated…
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“Aleksandar Hemon’s The Book of My Lives”: A Reflection by Joseph Riippi
Some things you should know about me. The day a new Radiohead record comes out, I buy it. The day a new Aaron Sorkin show premieres, I watch it. And the day a new Aleksandar Hemon book is announced, I find a galley and devour it. That’s not to say those things correlate. This is…
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Review: Louise Henrich on ANIMAL collection, a fantastical zoo trip by Colin Winnette
Instead of speaking about the trunk of an elephant or the way an elephant moves, Colin Winnette begins his story by reminding the reader “an elephant never forgets,” but gives the common aphorism a sinister angle: Never owe an ELEPHANT money. It will make a point of humiliating you. It will find you on public…
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A Review of Andrew Rihn’s The Hunger Dictionary by Lisa M. Litrenta
In The Hunger Dictionary Andrew Rihn defines the numerous types of hunger one can feel when a romantic relationship falls apart. In these poems, Rihn’s narrator is hungry to communicate with a closed-off partner. The Hunger Dictionary serves as the narrator’s first opportunity to identify and evaluate the problems in the relationship. When I think…
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“Cabbage Language”: Joseph Riippi Interviews Robert Duncan Gray
[Let’s call this paragraph a professional “full disclosure.” I first met Robert Duncan Gray as a publisher, not a poet (although one could say he had the look of a poet). Gray, alongside Lindsay Allison Ruoff and Riley Michael Parker, founded HOUSEFIRE Books a few years back. In 2011 they had asked me to write…
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A Review of Daniel Romo’s When Kerosene’s Involved by Jordan Sanderson
Direct and accessible, the poems in When Kerosene’s Involved blaze with memory. As the title suggests, fire is a common motif in the book, but it kindles in unexpected places. While the tone remains steady throughout the collection, Romo creates several personae, alludes to a broad range of pop culture icons—often reimagining them in other…
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“I Thought Often of the Hem of a Skirt, Unraveling While Someone Runs, the Thread Creating Its Own Design”: An Interview with Kristina Marie Darling & Carol Guess by Nathan Moore
Here I get the chance to talk to Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess about collaboration and their book X Marks the Dress: A Registry, forthcoming from Gold Wake Press in 2014. Our conversation takes place via e-mail over a period of about two weeks. Carol Guess is the author of eleven books: Seeing Dell…
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Michael J Seidlinger Reviews Scott McClanahan’s Crapalachia: A Biography of Place
“It’s a story full of death and dying, living and life, tits and ass and balls and dicks and pussy. It’s an old, old, old story that always begins—they begat and they begat and they begat.” It is every story; or, in the case of Crapalachia, Scott McClanahan’s latest, it is the story of family,…
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