April 30, 2018
Author of Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter or Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances
by William Trowbridge
William Trowbridge: It has been nearly 16 years between your previous collection of poems The Republic of Self and Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter. Why so long?
Elizabeth A.I. Powell: This new collection was pretty much finished in 2005, and was a finalist that year for the National Poetry ...
April 26, 2018
Three-Minute Book Review: David Kirby on Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin, forthcoming June 2018)
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(1) If this book were a dish, it’d be one from the Cajun cookbook, because “all my encounters,” says the poet, “Are existential jambalaya.” And to wash it down? A glass of punch, the colder the better. Each of these poems is titled “American Sonnets for My Past and ...
April 19, 2018
Three Minute Book Review: Paul Haney on Hanif Abdurraqib's They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Two Dollar Radio, 2017)
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If Hanif Abdurraqib’s essay collection, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, were a mode of transportation, it would be a train line. More specifically, it would be the L in Chicago, a city Abdurraqib frequents in sections of this book which navigates between the outer neighborhoods of ...
April 15, 2018
Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here.
WHAT IS CRAFT AND WHAT DOES IT DO, PART 3
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24. Craft is an idea of craft. Which is to say both that craft is an idea and that craft is how ideas get presented as if they are not craft.
25. One can master various aspects of craft but not the whole thing. Because craft is about ownership, about who possesses it and how to possess, mastery is a conflict between owning and giving up ...
