Tag: Seth Landman

  • Poetry Review: Thomas Cook on Confidence by Seth Landman

    Poetry Review: Thomas Cook on Confidence by Seth Landman

    Confidence is divided into three roughly equal sections, each of which comprises a single long poem, each long poem comprising a few dozen long stanzas comprised of short lines, no more than a beat or two and without punctuation. The book’s lyric moves, therefore, at the pace of the speaker’s one-to-two-beat flitting thoughts, formally reflecting…

  • Sign You Were Mistaken, poetry by Seth Landman, reviewed by Ezekiel Black

    Sign You Were Mistaken, poetry by Seth Landman, reviewed by Ezekiel Black

    In my initial reading of Sign You Were Mistaken, I experienced a sensation that I’ve never associated with poetry before. When I drive—and I assume that this happens to everyone—I zone out, and when I regain consciousness, there is the satisfaction of abridging my commute, given that I was only aware for a portion of…