Tag: Joe Hall

  • Fugue and Strike, a new poetry collection by Joe Hall, reviewed by Zach Savich

    Fugue and Strike, a new poetry collection by Joe Hall, reviewed by Zach Savich

    Let our meditation on Joe Hall’s terrific new collection of poetry, Fugue and Strike, begin with a brief survey of fecal refuse in nature poetry. Here’s Tommy Pico: Crappy water Shoots thru purgatory creek On its way to the Colorado River And here’s Trevino L. Brings Plenty, resplendent: You mean, if you see this world…

  • Six Essays from Self-Erasing Portrait by Joe Hall

    Six Essays from Self-Erasing Portrait by Joe Hall

    Smoker’s Lounge Take the inscrutable diners and staff behind the plate glass of Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks.” Take the plate glass and bury it deep in the street-like incandescent night of a factory. Replace the counters with folding tables. Make everyone older. Give each one a newspaper and a cigarette to pull on then smudge the…

  • The Devotional Poems, by Joe Hall

    The Devotional Poems, by Joe Hall

    In his 1961 film Through a Glass Darkly, Ingmar Bergman famously portrayed a god in the form of a spider. The woman to whom the god appears, a young schizophrenic named Karin, initially reacts to the sight of the spider with horror—and then revulsion. After being administered a sedative, she calms and says, “I was…