Issue 77 | Winter 2023-2024

Mary Jo Bang, Tennison S. Black and James Morehead, Mary Meriam, Gopal Lahiri, and more

A Note from the Editor

All things come to their end.

No Number of Dictionaries Can Save You: on Ian Ganassi’s True for the Moment

When you reach the end of the book, you can almost hear the air escaping.

So Says My Interiority: Mary Jo Bang’s A Film in Which I Play Everyone

Reading these poems asks us, guides us, to read everything with our whole being.

Conversations: Tennison S. Black and James Morehead

“What does the act of committing your memories to a poem do to the memories themselves?”

Trans-Parency: An Appreciation of Mary Meriam

An appreciation of the True Countess of the Enchanted Forest Of Flatbroke.

“There are no whole stories, only fragments:” The Poetry of Gopal Lahiri

Lahiri is a priest who presides over its rituals of adoration, chanting the mantras of creation.

Zeitgeist & Gristle: an Ecocritical Appraisal of Specter Mountain

When all is said and done, the mountain grants no quarter to those who refuse to respect its dominion.

Borderwork: Katarina Zdjelar’s Käthe Kollwitz

It accumulates, repeats, obsesses, this interest in Kollwitz’s work, always back to the physical shock of her art.

If the stillness is Volcanic: Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love (2022) and Werner Herzog’s The Fire Within (2022)

Dosa and Herzog invest their gaze on two decidedly different surfaces of the taut rope on which Katia and Maurice walk: the glow and the burn. 

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