Strange to think of machines that way I know the cold Grip of confidence or how A forgetting must Also be erotic How I have Always reached for a body…
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In the River by Carmen Radley Last May, on a warm Friday evening, I stood on the north bank of the Rio Grande. I gazed south and noted that…
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Trembling of the City by Hagit Grossman, tr. Benjamin Balint 92 pages Shearsman Books, 2016, £9.95 / $17 ISBN 9781848614772 Hagit Grossman’s Trembling but Open Space Trembling of the…
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You have to see him in the dying embers of a beach bonfire, the reggae from the sound system is turned low so the steady wail of the breeze is…
A part of Respect Due: Symposium on the Work of Kwame Dawes Kevin Simmonds Seven for Kwame Kwame and I have a running joke each time we begin a new collaboration….