When I was young, I found the idea that there were people who in the world who devoted their lives to writing about literature — about Shakespeare, say — both fascinating and mystifying. Readers had been puzzling over these plays for almost four hundred years — what could there possibly be left to say? Because I didn’t understand it, I was intrigued by it — a mechanism that … [Read more...]
Sonosyntactics by Paul Dutton: A Book Review
Sonosyntactics by Paul Dutton / Wilfrid Laurier University Press / $18.99 / 2015 Sonosyntactics: Selected and New Poetry of Paul Dutton serves as a tidy overview of the work of an unheralded poet of the experimental and the avant-garde. Based in Toronto, Paul Dutton has had a long career working on the borderlands of sound poetry, live performance, and aural collaboration, … [Read more...]
Book Review – Bad Baby by Abigail Welhouse
Bad Baby by Abigail Welhouse / Dancing Girl Press / $7 / 2015 This spiky-funny little book of poems is by a young Brooklyn-based poet named Abigail Welhouse, via a charming Chicago-based chapbook publisher called Dancing Girl Press; I picked it up, on a whim, at my local indie, natch, and glad I am that I did. Bad Baby is, quite simply, a knockout: a potent but light-footed … [Read more...]
