Fiction |
“His Odette”
“Back in his apartment after seeing Swan Lake for the ninth time, after Dzerzhinsky was toppled, Pete undressed, brushed his teeth without turning on the bathroom light, and lay on his light blue sheets.”
Commentary |
on My Bishop and Other Poems by Michael Collier
“Collier reminds us that there is in poetry a political place for the genuine — the closely attended-to, paradoxical full menu of experience that yields a sense of something akin to what might be called a truth.”
Poetry |
Three Sonnets
Poetry |
“Killing A Turkey At Belle’s”
Commentary |
on Human Hours, poems by Catherine Barnett
“The poems seem to assemble not so much a voice but a body … an embodied mind living awkwardly and graciously in the vulnerable body that orchestrates that mind”
Fiction |
“The Silkworm’s Address”
“Testing the omnipotence of thought, we would turn off the heaters when it got really cold, our foreheads burning.”