Fred Pollack's collection The Beautiful Losers appears to have pretenses toward a near-universal scope. This is its ambition, to representing the exacting precarity and simultaneously overwrought decadence of life in the contemporary world: class inequality, privilege, and the primacy of material power over ideological quibbles.
Read MoreAnd if we wonder why it’s so hard to apprehend God or the Big Mysteries, well, we often
don’t even see the small ones.
Read MoreNeither myself nor Fred Pollack could, at first contact, fully conceive of the nature of our year-long email exchange regarding postmodern classicism and what turns out to be its apocryphal progenitor. “I’m a bit older, and have always described myself as a Beat Classicist” he explains…
Read MoreAlice Notley has been publishing her ‘doodles’ on twitter and instagram since September of 2019. Although the poems have always retained strong visual features, crossing words and lines together, enjambing with whimsy, and integrating (literal) visual imagery for expressive purposes, there is an undeniable growth which we have noticed in her artistic method, which becomes increasingly complex in its visual element as time goes on (and continues to present).
Read MoreStephen here, and I'll try to keep it brief, but know that I really could ramble on for quite some time about fellow Rambler, DM Rice;
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