MAYDAY

THE NEW EXTREME EXPERIMENTAL AMERICAN POETRY by David-Baptiste Chirot

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Filed Under: Art

Further Reading

Interlopers
by Carolyn Oliver

Early sun nestled under trees and eaves that cupped our voices counting up past ten and naming creatures—shrews, dolphins, bats, whales— who’d catch the news of our passing through fog, or night, or krill clouds in the deep. Mothers, I told you, echolocate too. For months I’d hummed and heard you in my dark, held […]

MICHAEL ROBBINS’S RESPONSE TO “SOME DARKER BOUQUETS”

I prize wit and brio in reviews—style—more than confirmation of my own aesthetic judgments. Manny Farber on John Wayne: “the termite actor focusing only on a tiny present area, nibbling at it with engaging professionalism and a hipster sense of how to sit in a chair leaned against the wall.” It is more difficult to […]

Resonance
by Alison Sanders

The plastic bed is cold against Tamiko’s calves, her butt, her shoulder blades. The monstrous contraption hums, as if hungry for her. She’s heard stories of people who freak out in these things; she holds in her hand, in fact, a panic button. The earnest young technician who handed it to her wears scrubs and […]

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