D. A. Powell’s Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
The reader feels like a delighted child, listening to a filthy nursery rhyme written by a master of the English language . . . In his Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein made it clear that his goal was not to provide a practical guide through philosophy, but rather to “travel over a wide field of thought...
Collected Body by Valzhyna Mort
In large part, this book is the speaker’s desperate attempt to reconstruct her family’s history, pulling its various characters together as best as she can, with little more than her own subjective experience to guide her recreation. Collected Body is the first book Valzhyna Mort has written in English. It is a rich and complex...
Katherine Larson: Risk
“I unroll into a grub. A grub with the mind of a girl, a girl with the lips of an insect” Even metamorphosis is transformed in Katherine Larson’s first book, Radial Symmetry, which was chosen by Louise Glück for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. The lines above come from a dream poem titled...