These poems bear witness to various atrocities at large and domestically, but also to the role that liberal Democratic ideology plays in the atrocities of genocide and cultural imperialism. Poets like Dan Featherston go a long way toward making the reader aware of the artifice…

This book takes the idea that history is not linear as its starting point. Can “outmoded” discursive forms do more than appear as the junkyard backdrop for the imperatives of capitalist cultural production? What speaks through what is already there? If we can think of…

Linh Dinh’s third book of poems, Borderless Bodies, is a fierce yet playful investigation into the body as metaphors, with its various processes as allegories. The body as polity and politics is also given a serious patdown. This is perhaps Linh Dinh’s most ambitious and…

From the homeless streets and the poor places rubbled by war, the ‘I’ of these poems is that of the anonymous ‘nothing that is all.’ The voice of this singular and collective subject is the music of the fire that rises from the cracks in…

obedience, by kari edwards (1954–2006), offers a rhythmic disruption of the relative real, a progressive troubling of the phenomenal world, from gross material to the infinitesimal. The book’s intention is a transformative mantric dismantling of being. Factory School. 2005. 86 pages. Paper. ISBN: 1-60001-044-X out of…