Category Archives: Lit Review

It’s always going to sound better coming from a lover, and I don’t fight those battles for others anymore.

I believe this interview, printed in the Feb/March 1998 issue of the Poetry Project Newsletter [#168], was a rapprochement meeting for me and Bernadette. — Read on http://www.poetryproject.org/publications/newsletter/272-spring-2023-for-bernadette-mayer/an-interview-with-bernadette-mayer

Out there, looking for an editor.

deeper down deeper riskdeeper livesdeeper things deeeper notessteeper steps don’t u knowwhat comes next?

Capital violently forces dispossessed people into markets, workplaces, and prisons. But such forced meetings could end capitalism itself. — Read on http://www.publicbooks.org/let-us-gather-together/

it’s a double murderfreedom rides weneed to ride it’s a double murderfirst they kill you in the streetthen they kill you on the screenit’s a double murder freedom dreams need to dream it’s a multi-jeopardy they can kill yousix ways from sunday on the subwayit’s a jeopardy

Dylan slams on books and papers while calling off the deal with the book publisher on the phone. — Read on m.youtube.com/watch

The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. — Read on http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch01.htm

Tryinfg to identify the font, which the poet uses throughout his work. Thank you. — Read on fontid.co/13842/early-1990s-macintosh-font-used-poet-kamau-brathwaite-books