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An Image Not a Book
Rain Taxi6 posts last monthKylan Rice
Parlor Press ($16.95)
by Jami Macarty
Kylan Rice’s debut collection An Image Not a Book takes its title from a line in Yeats’s 1917 dialogue poem “Ego Dominus Tuus” (which translates to “I am your Lord”), a phrase originating in turn from Dante’s La Vita Nuova. Rice’s poems…
The Matrix and Eecchhooeess
Rain Taxi6 posts last monthThe Matrix
N. H. Pritchard
Primary Information ($20)
Eecchhooeess
N. H. Pritchard
DABA ($24)
N. H. Pritchard (1939-1996) was a New York-based artist and writer whose The Matrix Poems 1960-1970, originally published by Doubleday, has the significant distinction of remaining the most innovative one-author collection of…
The Mundus
Rain Taxi6 posts last monthN. H. Pritchard
Primary Information ($20)
When I reviewed in these pages the reprinting, fifty years later, of two books of N. H. Pritchard’s highly innovative poetry, I assumed that no more books would appear by this Jamaican American author, who died in 1996. I was wrong.…
At His Desk in the Past
Rain Taxi6 posts last monthFranz Wright
Foundlings Press ($20)
by Jon Cone
The son of a literary giant who became a prolific and beloved poet himself, Franz Wright died in 2015. While Wright’s poems were unsparing in their examination of his troubled past, they often moved heroically towards light, reaching for the possibilities of…
Loving Sylvia Plath
Rain Taxi6 posts last monthA Reclamation
Emily Van Duyne
W. W. Norton & Company ($27.99)
by Nic Cavell
Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath is a five-star act of reclamation, eschewing the densely plotted brilliance of Heather Clark’s 2020 biographical masterpiece Red Comet (Knopf) to prioritize a communicable ethic of care. This refreshing take…
A Book About Ray
Rain Taxi6 posts last monthEllen Levy
The MIT Press ($54.95)
By far the most complete framing of coyote trickster artist Ray Johnson (1927-1995) to date, Ellen Levy’s A Book About Ray engages with the work of the artist on his own terms, or at least as approximate to them as…
Hailing Rain Taxi for years of service
Rain Taxi6 posts last monthCity Pages | Wednesday, September 17, 2008 by Ed Huyck
It's a common story in the arts. Young, fresh, and brash group hits the scene, be it a band or a theater company, a visual arts group or a magazine. The group burns white hot for a time—six months, a…
There's This Book You've Never Heard of
Rain Taxi6 posts last monthbut if you had heard of it, you'd really enjoy reading it, which is why this unusual book review, Rain Taxi, continues to exist against what truly are the longest of odds
by Keith Harris
Watch your head.
To reach the office, you've got to duck. Yes, that means you,…
Ecstatic Mundane: An Interview with Elaine Equi
Rain Taxi6 posts last month
by Jim Feast
A mainstay of the New York literary scene since the late 1980s, Elaine Equi is known as a writer of aphoristic wit, philosophical depth, and visual precision. Her many books include Voice-Over (1999), which won the San Francisco State Poetry Award; Ripple Effect: New & Selected Poems