BlogFlockAndré Breton
Translated by Austin Carder
City Lights Publishers ($18.95)
In 1946, some six years after fleeing Fascist France for New York City, André Breton returned to post-war Paris. He sought not only to resume surrealist activities with old and new comrades, but also…
Ethan Rutherford
Deep Vellum Publishing ($17.95)
Annie Dillard observed that under the influence of Herman Melville’s pen, a whale becomes “an aesthetic or epistemological probe by means of which the artist analyzes the universe.” The same might be said of…
Tessa Bolsover
Black Ocean ($18)
Tessa Bolsover’s Crane is an exercise in indexing and meshing. Though many poetry collections invest in the interconnectedness of words, concepts, and experiences, writers like Bolsover and her touchstones (including Nathaniel Mackey and Susan Howe, whose epigraph opens the book) strive…
Amelia Rosselli
Translated by Roberta Antognini and Deborah Woodard
World Poetry ($24)
by Greg Bem
We were looking for a crossing last night
not a clear country road nor a city street
but a simple passage: we found
death! as always, death!
The latest book by Italian poet Amelia Rosselli…
James Kaplan
Penguin Books ($20)
Early on in 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool, author James Kaplan mentions how disaffected jazz fans journeyed into New…
Gerald Murnane
And Other Stories ($19.95)
by Sam Tiratto
Australian author Gerald Murnane isn’t known for sticking to convention. His books lack plot, characters, or setting; though often autobiographical, they hardly resemble memoir (too much left out) and could not be called autofiction (too much left in). He pokes fun…
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Marcia Butler: Woolfian Voyager | Interviewed by E. J. Levy
Esteban Rodríguez: No Choice But To Believe | Interviewed by Tiffany Troy
Visual artist Jeffrey Hansen has lived and worked in the art community of Lowertown, St. Paul since 1994. In 1991 while attending the College of Visual Arts he opened his own workshop and studio in the downtown area…
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Lauren Markham: Language and Catastrophe | interviewed by Elizabeth Brogden
Zack Kopp: The Future Is Unwritten | interviewed by Michele McDannold
Mai…
by Claude Peck 
“Bliss is such a simple thing,” wrote James Schuyler. Also, “the wires in my head / cross: kaboom.” Navigating these opposite shores in a tumultuous life while leaving behind wondrous, one-of-a-kind poems was Schuyler’s mystery and his miracle.
Schuyler, hailed by critic Helen Vendler as “Whitman’s legitimate…