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Mostly reviews of recent poetry • Affiliated with but not the same as The Volta • tweets by @triceratopcycle

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REVIEW: Who Owns Primo's by Andy Sterling @GaussPDF thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2…

REVIEW: Who Owns Primo’s by Andy Sterling

by Andy Martrich Andy Sterling’s 2016 book Who Owns Primo’s is the 24th book of the Gauss PDF Editions imprint. As with all Gauss PDF Editions, it’s available in both PDF and book form. Who Owns Pr…

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REVIEW: Calamities by Renee Gladman @WavePoetry thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2…

REVIEW: Calamities by Renee Gladman

by Sam Lohmann Renee Gladman’s new book Calamities (Wave, 2016) wrecks genre. Let’s say it’s written in the essay line, each problem leading to further problems. Line and essay problems write and d…

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REVIEW: Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong @CopperCanyonPrs thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2…

REVIEW: Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

by Michael Wasson In the body, where everything has a price, I was a beggar. On my knees, I watched… So begins Ocean Vuong’s frontispiece to his haunting and quietly devastating debut collection, N…

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REVIEW: Hardly War by Don Mee Choi @DonMeeChoi @AnsleyClark3 @WavePoetry thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2…

REVIEW: Hardly War by Don Mee Choi

by Ansley Clark Don Mee Choi’s Hardly War opens with an essay: a preface, a letter to Choi’s readers. Choi grounds us right away, explaining, “I was born in a tiny, traditional house, a house my fa…

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REVIEW: Local Extinctions by Mary Quade @Heather__Lang__ thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2…

REVIEW: Local Extinctions by Mary Quade

by Heather Lang While privy to discussions about STEM education (science, technology, engineering, and math) versus STEAM (all of the latter plus art), I’ve noticed an intriguing parallel. Alexande…

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REVIEW: Simone White's Of Being Dispersed @futurepoem @simonefonsiba thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2…

REVIEW: To Be a “Unified Person”: Simone White’s Of Being Dispersed

by Peter Myers In her recent interview in BOMB Magazine with rapper Vince Staples, Simone White describes hip-hop as “a thing that is, like a black body, both universally available and discursively…

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REVIEW: play dead by francine j. harris @AliceJamesBooks @francinejharris thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2…

REVIEW: play dead by francine j. harris

by Ansley Clark I’ve been feeling undone over the past couple of months, ever since I read and started carrying around francine j. harris’ play dead. These feelings are partly because harris’ book,…

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REVIEW: Sarah Green's Earth Science @421Atlanta thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2…

REVIEW: Earth Science by Sarah Green

by Tim Etzkorn We’ve all been there: the way fading, afternoon sun alights subtle countryside on a cross-country drive; the sleepy moment on an airplane, head bumping against plastic siding, terra …

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REVIEW: The Market Wonders by Susan Briante thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2… @jhahsahta @UtopiaMinus

REVIEW: The Market Wonders by Susan Briante

  by Connor Fisher The Market Wonders begins, begins again, and reinvents, continually readjusting itself. The book, the third by poet Susan Briante, takes as its object the titular economic s…

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INTERVIEW: Emily Wolahan thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2…

INTERVIEW: Emily Wolahan

    Reading Emily Wolahan’s Hinge (The National Poetry Review Press, 2015), I’m reminded of the fact we live in “A tenable now, immersed/ in churned waterways, calling to its transient/ p…

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REVIEW: Craig Dworkin's Alkali @CpPress @michaeljgossett @theebigsir thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2…

REVIEW: Alkali by Craig Dworkin

by Michael Gossett Writing out of the saline oikeios of Utah’s Great Salt Lake and informed by a career-long cultivation of non-expressive, constraint-based poetics, Craig Dworkin, in his new eco-c…

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REVIEW: Motherlover by Ginger Ko @BloofBooks thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2…

REVIEW: Motherlover by Ginger Ko

by Jennifer Fossenbell What if you wreck your ship in the middle of a dangerous/wavy prairie? What if “I” submits to the power of “you”? Ginger Ko’s debut book, Motherlover, asks these questions in…

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REVIEW: The Connoisseur of Alleys by Eileen Tabios thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2…

REVIEW: “I forgot algebra can become orphaned”: Eileen Tabios’ The Connoisseur of Alleys

  by Marthe Reed Eileen Tabios’ most recent collection creates a meditative, immersive experience for the reader, spelling the persistence of memory out of a litany of loss. Part of her series…

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REVIEW: Emily Carlson's Symphony No 2 @ArgosBooks thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2…

REVIEW: “The Music of White Phosphorous”: Emily Carlson’s Symphony No 2

by Robin Clarke “I felt like a number I couldn’t count to,” concludes one poem in Emily Carlson’s new prose poetry chapbook, “Symphony No 2” (Argos, 2015). “Symphony” sets out to document Israel’s …

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REVIEW: Azure: Poems and Selections from the “Livre" thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2… @weslpress

REVIEW: Azure: Poems and Selections from the “Livre” by Blake Bronson-Bartlett and Robert Fernandez

To translate the spirit is an intention of such enormity, so phantasmal, that it can well turn out to be inoffensive . . . —Borges, “The Translators of The 1001 Nights” by Jerome Keeler I I h…

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REVIEW: The Age of Virtual Reproduction by Spring Ulmer thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2… @EssayPress

REVIEW: The Age of Virtual Reproduction by Spring Ulmer

by Bethann Garramon Merkle In weaving together contrasting memories, archived photographs, and contemporary fashion fetishes, Spring Ulmer stitches a narrative in which humanity’s closet is r…

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REVIEW: Buzzing Hemisphere / Rumor Hemisférico by Urayoán Noel thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2… @AZpress@JoseAraguz @urayoannoel

REVIEW: Buzzing Hemisphere / Rumor Hemisférico by Urayoán Noel

by José Angel Araguz …poetry was there for me as a refuge and as a way to channel and redirect neural energies. In terms of the book, it is a personal struggle, but also a family and a social one. …

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REVIEW: Incorrect Merciful Impulses by Camille Rankine thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2…

REVIEW: Incorrect Merciful Impulses by Camille Rankine

by Michael Wasson A flock of birds when touched I scatter. Here we are. We seem to have reached the edge of disaster and feel, really, how still and gorgeous we are within our isolated, temporal bo…

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REVIEW: Craig Dworkin's No Medium thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2… @mustazza @mitpress

REVIEW: Sur/Dans/Par Rature: The Quest for Media’s Vanishing Point in Craig Dworkin’s No Medium

by Chris Mustazza [epiphone] The epiphone for this review is an excerpt from the leading noise at the beginning of of a 1931 recording of Vachel Lindsay reading his poetry, originally recorded on a…

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REVIEW: The Book of Joshua by Zachary Schomburg thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2… @BlackOceanOrg @zschomburg

REVIEW: The Book of Joshua by Zachary Schomburg

by Matthew Schmidt Birds. Horses. A boat. Blood. The color white. A telephone. These and other recurring motifs and objects make up The Book of Joshua by Zachary Schomburg. It is a strange journey …

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