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

ByGuest Reviewer

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.”

The Words Beneath the Sound: Music Inspired by Literature

The Words Beneath the Sound: Music Inspired by Literature

ByLara Palmquist

As Virginia Woolf famously observed, the best writing often begins with a rhythmical “wave in the mind,” an inner tempo around which syntax and diction are arranged, a guiding beat of artistic intuition that, when struck upon, makes it nearly impossible to set down the wrong word. Other writers have similarly expressed the importance of…

“Another Way to Honor the Book”: An Interview with Odette Drapeau
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“Another Way to Honor the Book”: An Interview with Odette Drapeau

ByLara Palmquist

Bookbinder Odette Drapeau has been internationally honored for her modern and dynamic approach to what is often considered a traditional craft. To Drapeau, the book is both “a visual and tactile object where the container and content can connect to generate other visions.” While continually experimenting with new concepts that transform her practice, Drapeau also…

“Fallingwater: The Rock Opera”: The Collaboration of Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Hall

“Fallingwater: The Rock Opera”: The Collaboration of Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Hall

ByNancy McCabe

“Architecture is a study in theft,” says Gary DeVore. We’re standing in an echoing room in Port Allegheny, PA’s Lynn Hall, a building constructed in 1935 by Walter Hall, who later became the chief builder for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater. For the last couple of years, Devore and his wife Sue have undertaken the restoration of…