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Review: GHOST/LANDSCAPE by Kristina Marie Darling & John Gallaher

ByGuest Reviewer July 22, 2016

In the collaborative poetry collection Ghost/Landscape (Blazevox, 2016) by Kristina Marie Darling and John Gallaher there is no beginning or end. The first poem is “Chapter Two.” So begins traversing a time loop of poems where the reader can really “begin” anywhere. What is a beginning and what is an ending? Is moving forward and looking behind you the same thing? A circle never ends. “Chapter Two,” begins like a bed time story:

“We must have known there was no going back…that morning, before our windows had been broken, you asked about the lock on the door. I realized it was only a matter of time before the alarm sounded, which always seemed out of place in the dead of winter.”

Pictures of a couple of rows of books on a shelf.

Series

The Best Poem I Read This Month: Joshua Jennifer Espinoza’s “Wrapped In My Body I Dream”

ByJohn Rufo July 21, 2016

Apogee Journal’s new folio “Queer History, Queer Now” acts as an “altar” to “reject the whitewashing, the profit-making, and political tokenizing that warps queer struggles and tragedies.” For this month, I decided to write regarding Joshua Jennifer Espinoza’s “Wrapped In My Body I Dream.”

Reading

Some Call it Dick Lit

ByCassie Gonzales July 21, 2016

Some call it Dick Lit, others call it Lad Lit, but many male authors reject both of these genre categories as being reductionist, inaccurate, and for unfairly lumping disparate novels into a single arbitrary category. How can gender be a genre, they ask.

Interviews

Poet Activist Spotlight: Jacqui Germain

ByStevie Edwards July 21, 2016

Jacqui Germain, a poet based in St. Louis, MO, is a Callaloo Fellow, promising political essayist, and remarkably visionary young public intellectual and activist.

Reading

Crafting A Novelscape

Bylaurajeanschneider July 20, 2016

In the words of my own personal goddess of literature, Joyce Carol Oates, one should “…never underestimate the power—benevolent, malevolent, profound and irresistible— of place.” These words make my heart keen.

Reading

Food in Cuba (and PARADISO at 50)

ByFrank Strong July 20, 2016

Angshuman Das’s excellent series on food writing has made me think about the role cuisine plays in Cuban literature and about the meals I ate when I visited the island in 2012 to do research for my dissertation.

Series

In Defense of Lingering: Ethan Canin’s “Pitch Memory”

ByAmber Caron July 20, 2016

As a teacher, I am occasionally accused of lingering. One poem by Emily Dickinson can fill an entire class. An hour isn’t too long to unpack the final page of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

Critical Essays | Writing Advice

“If I Can Bear the Nights, the Days Are a Pleasure”: On Not Writing

ByBruna Dantas Lobato July 19, 2016

I’m a slow writer and I accepted that a long time ago. But earlier this year, I noticed I was becoming slower and slower, writing a sentence a day, even a sentence a week at times. I was experiencing a period of drought.

Authors | Book Reviews | Fiction

Whit Stillman and Jane Austen: Together Again for the First Time

ByFrances Katz July 19, 2016

Everybody from P.D. James to your best friend’s sister seems to be writing Jane Austen fan fiction but the only fanfic I’m really excited about right now is Whit Stillman’s reimagining of Lady Susan, an early epistolary novella.

Review: GHOST/LANDSCAPE by Kristina Marie Darling & John Gallaher

The Best Poem I Read This Month: Joshua Jennifer Espinoza’s “Wrapped In My Body I Dream”

Some Call it Dick Lit

Poet Activist Spotlight: Jacqui Germain

Crafting A Novelscape

Food in Cuba (and PARADISO at 50)

In Defense of Lingering: Ethan Canin’s “Pitch Memory”

“If I Can Bear the Nights, the Days Are a Pleasure”: On Not Writing

Whit Stillman and Jane Austen: Together Again for the First Time

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