Thoughts About “You, An Apocalypse Survivor, Lie in the Grass to Watch a Comet”
In this three stanza poem, Gordon Smith evolves his use of punctuation to help evolve the flow of the poem…
Thoughts About “Hologram”
In the poem “Hologram,” Lauren Westerfield makes use of a variety of different forms of repetition. Anaphora, in particular, is…
Thoughts About “Interstellar Fingerprints”
Annie Marhefka, in Interstellar Fingerprints, weaves reality and metaphor into a heart-wrenching, though gentle, tide. “[W]e were three sailboats whipping…
Thoughts About “The Prairie Wife” and “What Got Into Us”
In both The Prairie Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld and What Got Into Us by Jacob Guajardo the narrator jumps back…
Thoughts About “I Minotaur”
In Natalie Diaz’s essay “A Lexicon of the Indigenous Body: Images of Autonomy and Desire” for LA Review of Books…
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