Tag: Jeremy Hauck

  • Praying Drunk, stories by Kyle Minor, reviewed by Jeremy Hauck

    Praying Drunk, stories by Kyle Minor, reviewed by Jeremy Hauck

    In Praying Drunk, his second book following In the Devil’s Territory (Dzanc Books, 2008), Kyle Minor forays beyond the realm of literary realist fiction and into conceptual work even as he makes hay from the material that literary fiction has monopolized: suicide, cancer/terminal illness, lives changed irrevocably by events lasting only seconds, travel to the…

  • “Think of Your Kid”: Microtones, poetry by Robert Vaughan, reviewed by Jeremy Hauck

    “Think of Your Kid”: Microtones, poetry by Robert Vaughan, reviewed by Jeremy Hauck

    In a recent essay in Boston Review titled “Against Conceptualism: Defending the Poetry of Affect,” Calvin Bedient writes that “Vehemence of feeling nonplusses the modern personality, a hostage to ambiguity and irony.” He says, “More and more poets are suspicious of lyrical expression and devote themselves to emotionally neutral methods.” While Robert Vaughan’s Microtones can…