Tag: The Song Cave

  • TWO MURALS, a poetry collection by Jesús Castillo, reviewed by Shannon Nakai

    TWO MURALS, a poetry collection by Jesús Castillo, reviewed by Shannon Nakai

    Gracing the cover of Jesús Castillo’s latest book Two Murals is a bi-sectioned black-and-white image: half a fingerprint merged with half a section of tree rings. Both signify the natural coding system for each of these organisms and are conjoined to suggest inherent connectedness. This symbiosis is the theme that underscores Two Murals: humans’ relationship…

  • The Living Method, a poetry collection by Sara Nicholson, reviewed by Sarah Katz

    The Living Method, a poetry collection by Sara Nicholson, reviewed by Sarah Katz

    The cover of The Living Method is reminiscent of that painting, “Vertumnus,” by Guiseppe Arcimboldo, (ca. 1590)—so reminiscent that, save for its red monochromatic color scheme, it’s a close replica of the original. Fertility, this image expresses (as the original does), with all its grape lips and hair and potato cheeks, and yet, the redness…

  • Jane Gregory’s Cryptology: De/coding My Enemies

    Jane Gregory’s Cryptology: De/coding My Enemies

    Jane Gregory’s first book, My Enemies, possesses the density, richness and protean quality of a book that seems to feel not only its own moral weight, but also its mortality. Gregory’s never breathless speaker is nonetheless often at haste, always imbued with the energy of the continuing line but seemingly uncertain of their own capacity…