In Emma Villazón’s own words, the title of her first collection Temporeras, or “migrant woman farm hands,” translated by Thomas … More
Tag: Ryan Bollenbach
Saturday Morning Chapbook: Chase Burke’s LECTURE (Paper Nautilus) reviewed by Nick Almeida
Chase Burke’s stunning chapbook Lecture (Paper Nautilus Press) is filled with tumbledown geniuses. Armor is a recurrent image, and penmanship … More
Saturday Morning Chapbook: Ryan Bollenbach on Jake Syersak’s VORTEX(T) (COAST|noCOAST)
Was William Wordsworth a Terminator sent back to the 18th century by Skynet to induce the self-defeating anthropocentric solipsism? A … More
Saturday Morning Chapbook: Ryan Bollenbach Monches Mai Ivjfäll’s Sick Sonnets (Radioactive Cloud)
My immediate connection to Mai Ivjfäll’s Sick Sonnets was through the band Ceremony. In their first single (“Sick”) from their … More
Two Novels: Howl Revisited and Green Detectives by Mike Corrao, reviewed by Ryan Bollenbach
Mike Corraro’s Two Novels offers a surreal diary-like meditation on the embodied power of art that turns the hunt for … More
Ryan Bollenbach: Two Poems
sometimes the word for tender isn’t tender there is a knife in the dishrack, sharp, facing the open kitchen. i … More