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Contributed By: (WANLI) Mari Furukawa
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When they threw me into the pit, a shard of flint split my chin. I flicked it out of my jawbone and lay In my leaking heap, regarding the fineness of its flesh- incising point. Up the black chimney of my prison Vulture stars were circling, repeating all the familiar horrifying patterns. There was blood […]
Almost everything Kent Johnson says here seems true to me. I, too, would support some anonymous reviewing, though it’s worth remembering the disadvantages there (look up an essay by F. W. Bateson, “Scandalously Anonymous,” directed at what was then the TLS’s all-anonymous all-the-time policy). It’s also worth noting the meanings of reviewers’ names. Reviewers whose […]
Examens Négatifs: A Roster Incompleat Of course what is duly (and dully) lacking in poetry-reviewing (genus norteamericano) is the sublime (awe-striking) negative: it resides in (and emerges out of) the rhubarb and hubbub of regular, aggressively independent, and bravely committed engagement (and retaliatory exchange) with the contemporary (increasingly international) scene, a poking into all the various corners of […]