Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book: An Anatomy of a Book Burning
In 2011, Canadian writer Lawrence Hill received an email from a man in the Netherlands stating that he intended to burn The Book of Negroes, Hill’s internationally acclaimed novel. Soon, the threat was international news, affecting Hill’s publishers and readers.…
Whirr & Click
Micheline Maylor’s many-textured poems explore the liminal space where finite life and infinite time expand and contract into one another. In a duet of contrasts, memory, coming of age, danger, the erotic, and love twine into elegy and wonder. Time plays a featuring role and acts to freeze moments exactly as they arrive and simultaneously…
Recognition and Modes of Knowledge: Anagnorisis from Antiquity to Contemporary Theory
Anagnorisis, or recognition, has played a central role in the arts and humanities throughout history. It’s a universal mode of knowledge in literature and the arts; in sacred texts and scholastic writing; in philosophy, psychology, politics and social theory.…
iii
iii is a summation of the dread, the absence and the anguish a man in his mid-thirties experiences as he contemplates his past and future. It has a lot to say about alcohol, drugs and sexual politics. iii is a lesson in what not to do, who to avoid, what choices to rethink. Then again,…
The Last Temptation of Bond
In a penetrating, violent, sexy, and often hilarious apocalypse, a world-famous superspy meets his demise at the hands of an audacious, painstaking poet. Kimmy Beach fuses popular culture and narrative poetry to astonishing effect in this, her fifth book.…