Tag: Ben Tripp
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Poetry Review: Ben Tripp Reads Susan Landers’ Collection What to Carry into the Future
People sometimes ask poets: “Is your writing true, or did you just make it all up?” The truth (so far as poetry is concerned, anyway) is usually a combination of both, as in the latest collection from Brooklyn-based poet Susan Landers: What to Carry into the Future. The book deftly hybridizes a certain accessible kind…
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The Future Has Poetry: “Poem (hive emoji flag mind)” by Ben Tripp
hive emoji flag mind waking up virtue no quality but in repetition parasocial, brutal efficiency, it is its own counter-effect. The paradox of tolerance, and the un- tolerable, de facto exceptionalizing horoscopes today read simply “cut” and I rode the train with caution, drafting apology letters for later in my mind already. I held up…
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Poetry Review: Ben Tripp Reads Richard Loranger’s Collection Mammal
The latest poetry collection from multi-genre writer, performer, and artist Richard Loranger should be read aloud whenever possible. It is fit for the acoustics of any space: an outdoor park, a busy street corner, commercial flights, bars, art galleries. In one moment, the work jets out lines of willful cacophony: “a beaming lump of ectoplasm…
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Fiction Review: Ben Tripp Reads Tom Comitta’s Novel The Nature Book
Some will be familiar with the style of experimental writing found between these covers. “This novel contains no words of my own,” the author ominously portends in the book’s short, explanatory preface. “I have gathered nature descriptions from over three hundred novels and arranged them into a single book.” The aesthetic of collage, or, more…
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Side A Poetry: “Sousveillance, or: The Springfield Sarah Jessica Parker Disaster” by Ben Tripp
Sousveillance, or: The Springfield Sarah Jessica Parker Disaster when money became speech Dyads parafin the duration non-machinable flesh mic at jowl non-camouflage couldn’t alter or predict cephalopod high-arousal unheroic teller city with lake interior The false antique no and subject theory I have failed the task of radiation cryptographic An air freshener with the…
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Bed, a poetry collection by Elizabeth Metzger, reviewed by Ben Tripp
The fundamental operation of Elizabeth Metzger’s new short poetry collection Bed is a careful reduction: the mortar of her true life experience shines as a thing somewhat negated or at any rate sublimated and newly preserved as a partial element in this ripe synthesis, which seems to also subversively toy with the idea of poetic…
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Queenzenglish.mp3, a poetry | philosophy | performativity anthology edited by Kyoo Lee, reviewed by Ben Tripp
Most publishers now are more risk-averse than ever. And this while also, globally, we are led to believe that English still reigns somehow more or less undisputed as the one language that; as Kyoo Lee writes, “everyone comes to inhabit … [everyone] gets enmeshed Englishly, how, when, and where does it grow?” The answers presented…
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