Tag: PANK Books
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Exclusive Excerpt from And Yet, a book-length speculative essay by Jeff Alessandrelli
An innovative work of speculative fiction, Jeff Alessandrelli’s And Yet interrogates contemporary shyness, selfhood and sexual mores, drawing out the particulars of each through personal history, cultural commentary and the author’s own restless imagination. And Yet builds off the work of authors as disparate as Michel Leiris, Marguerite Duras and Kobo Abe, while quoting from and alluding to texts…
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“Genre and Selfhood and Speculation, Endless”: Jeff Alessandrelli on writing And Yet
Genre and Selfhood and Speculation, Endless I recently published a book that, like thousands of books, is nebulous vis-à-vis genre. And Yet is a book-length fictional essay. It’s a long prose poem. It’s an experimental novel. It’s a commonplace book with a wavy, fragmented narrative. It’s a work of eclectic literary collage. It’s autofiction. It’s…
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An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe, a poetry collection by Heidi Seaborn, Reviewed by Deborah Bacharach
An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe, I could pick this book up for the title alone: funny and terrifying for the juxtaposition of insomniac and slumber, enticing for being set in a space where girls share their secrets, and thrilling for the chance to do so with the icon Marilyn Monroe. In Seaborn’s second…
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“From Extract to Artifact”: Review of Max Brett’s PANK Books poetry collection NOR DO THESE by Juliana Converse
To introduce his first book, Max Brett describes the collaborative exercise that prompted the poems in Nor Do These. He hints at a contentious and ill-fated set of relationships that ultimately ended the collaboration. But the pieces themselves are far from confessional. In fact, the observing voice in these poems is often detached, as though…
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MANNEQUIN IN THE NUDE, a poetry collection by Logan February, reviewed by Barton Smock
… My story was much too long, soI cut it to bits. —from Portrait of The Mannequin as my Brother … Forinstance, homoerotic. For instance, a boy who eats glass. —from Boy Lolita … When I died, I stopped trembling. Imagine a mechanicalboy being powered down. —from Ars Moriendi ~ With a lyric that pushes…
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After the Death of Shostakovich Père, a memoir by Maya Sonenberg, reviewed by Barton Smock
“I wish you could hear the bells” We are many and we sit in a circle. I light a match for us to pass around. Inquiry is distraction’s lover. Our fathers have died, or will. We have read Maya Sonenberg’s After the Death of Shostakovich Père, a dark music of spiritual interruptions, a predictive diary,…
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YOU COULD STOP IT HERE, Stacy Austin Egan’s debut fiction chapbook, reviewed by Kim Loomis-Bennett
Stacy Austin Egan’s prose chapbook, You Could Stop It Here, is an encounter with a memory snag that just won’t smooth out: youthful regrets, missed chances, and ultimately transformative ordeals that wake us in the middle of the night—rumination from an adult perspective. Like encountering someone you used to love in an unexpected time and…
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