Tag: Meredith Blankinship

  • “WITH EDGES THAT MOVE. A river. A crisis.”: Carrie Lorig Talks about THE PULP VS. THE THRONE

    “WITH EDGES THAT MOVE. A river. A crisis.”: Carrie Lorig Talks about THE PULP VS. THE THRONE

    In spring 2016 I interviewed Carrie Lorig about her book The Pulp vs. the Throne (Artifice Press), and her now-published chapbook The Book of Repulsive Women (Essay Press). So much has happened since then, but Lorig’s ways of thinking and writing through “poetry / voice / space / life” is still very necessary to hold…

  • “An Important Message from a Mysterious Place,” poetry by Meredith Blankinship

    “An Important Message from a Mysterious Place,” poetry by Meredith Blankinship

    An Important Message from a Mysterious Place If the haunting was a haunting you deservedhow do you expect to live withoutthe quietude of my displeasure? The facesthat show when the film gets developedharnessing all the fun of a lie to provesomething by transparency. When youput a light behind some ice, whenyou flick through with alabaster…

  • Kim Hyesoon’s SORROWTOOTHPASTE MIRRORCREAM: a conversational review

    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 recipes that rupture into spells, and engages with the repetitious quality of time. This is a book of poetry, but it also a book of poetic application. I suppose when I say “mystic,” I mean…