Tag: Jackson Nieuwland

  • Sometimes I tried never to think about the past. Sometimes I tried always to think about the past: A Review of THIS PAPER BOAT by Gregory Kan

    Sometimes I tried never to think about the past. Sometimes I tried always to think about the past: A Review of THIS PAPER BOAT by Gregory Kan

    We are often told that every first book is an autobiography. With This Paper Boat, Gregory Kan subverts this expectation. This book-length sequence of poems intertwines Kan’s autobiographical writing with the work of Iris Wilkinson (a New Zealand writer who published under the name Robin Hyde in the 1930s), as well as other found language.…

  • THE SKY ISN’T BLUE by Janice Lee

    THE SKY ISN’T BLUE by Janice Lee

    I used to annoy my sister by insisting that the sky was white and the clouds were blue. It annoyed her because she knew the sky was blue, everyone knows the sky is blue, even if you’re blind you know it. If she hadn’t been so certain, she wouldn’t have been annoyed. If she hadn’t…

  • Staying Alive, poetry by Laura Sims, reviewed by Jackson Nieuwland

    Staying Alive, poetry by Laura Sims, reviewed by Jackson Nieuwland

    As soon as I read the description of this book on the Ugly Duckling Presse website, I knew I had to have it: In her fourth poetry collection, Staying Alive, Laura Sims envisions the state of the world and of human existence before, during, and after the forever-imminent apocalypse. In channeling and sampling works of apocalyptic…

  • Dalton Day’s ACTUAL CLOUD

    Dalton Day’s ACTUAL CLOUD

    Dalton Day is a cloud with whale feelings and bones made of knives. He tells us this in the opening pages of Actual Cloud, his first book of poems. He tells us he is growing a whale in his belly. That he is filled with sand but he is not a desert. He keeps his…