Jordan Davis reviews
Totem
by Gregory Pardlo
The movies that illustrate the great soundtracks -- Fame, Footloose, Flashdance, Car Wash -- put the audience's feelings on a slow forward-moving track, get them wet, soap them up, hose the...[more]

Ray McDaniel reviews
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
by Tao Lin
The problem with quality concepts is that their enactment is redundant. If the idea swings, then the execution don’t mean a thing - in fact, sometimes the practice of a good idea actually reduces...[more]

K. Silem Mohammad reviews
Situations, Sings
by Jack Collom and Lyn Hejinian
I've always thought Adventures in Poetry put out good books, and I've always thought it was a great name for a press. The new collaboration from Jack Collom and Lyn Hejinian (a collaboration that...[more]

K. Silem Mohammad reviews
Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers
by Kim Hyesoon (trans. Don Mee Choi)
I saw Don Mee Choi reading some of the poems of Kim Hyesoon's she had translated for the Tinfish chapbook When the Plug Gets Unplugged (2005) a couple of years ago at a conference in Austin, and had...[more]

Jordan Davis reviews
Floating City
by Anne Pierson Wiese
People of the book once lived in New York. There was, in the words of Bernard Black, a whole revolting cycle of buying books and reading them and selling them and buying again; apartments with foyers...[more]