The cover for Christian Hawkey’s first collection of poetry, The Book of Funnels (Verse Press, 2004), features a stuffed, anthropomorphized … More
Tag: Action Books
Justin Sun Reviews prepoems in postpanish and other poems by Jorgenrique Adoum, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen & Victor Rodríguez Núñez
On the home page of jorgenriqueadoum.com, there is a rotating carousel of pictures. Jorgenrique Adoum lighting a cigar, Jorgenrique Adoum … More
Esteban Rodríguez Reviews Edinburgh Notebook, an Action Books poetry collection by Valerie Mejer Caso
There is no telling what anyone’s reaction to death will be, but for many putting pen to paper helps process … More
“Chthonic Poetics”: Mike Corrao on Choi Seungja’s Action Books poetry collection Phone Bells Keep Ringing for Me
In her new book, Phone Bells Keep Ringing for Me, Choi Seungja (translated by Won-Chung Kim & Cathy Park Hong) … More
Esteban Rodríguez on The Trilogy, an Action Books poetry collection by Bruno K. Öijer
Horace Engdahl, the former Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, once said that the United States was too isolated from … More
“Notes on Archi-text-ure”: Mike Corrao Reviews Candice Wuehle’s second poetry collection Death Industrial Complex from Action Books
Candice Wuehle’s newest book, Death Industrial Complex, is a collection of ekphrastic poems made in conversation with the works of … More
“The Monstrous Maternal in Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s Third-Millennium Heart”: A Poetry in Translation Review by Jayme Russell
Third-Millennium Heart is awash with red blood, black blood, a flood of names and namelessness. The poems pulse with RED. … More
Wild Grass on the Riverbank, poetry by Hiromi Itō, reviewed by AK Afferez
(Be carried from your native land to foreign soil, where you will grow wild and propagate) Marking her return to … More
Rain of the Future, by Valerie Mejer
The poems in Valerie Mejer’s Rain of the Future are mesmerizing and irresistible, and the translations are first-rate. Mejer delivers … More
Kim Hyesoon’s SORROWTOOTHPASTE MIRRORCREAM: a conversational review
Candice Wuehle: Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream is a mystic book for me in many ways. It uses incantatory language, possessed and possessable bodies, contains … More
Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer, by Abraham Smith
The poems in Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer surface and ripple the tongue before diving into the depths of … More