Brian Teare Companion Grasses Omnidawn, 2013 Paperback, $17.95 112 pages Brian Teare’s Companion Grasses is a book that immediately immerses the reader in the thicket of context surrounding it: webs of language and history both inescapable and formative, each erotic and painful in its own measure. The book pulses hardest on the moments when these webs fuse—when grammar is touch, or the pleasure of naming allows experience to derail time. Here, the press of life against lif

Editors' note: For us, inclusive feminism involves sex-positive feminism. Reynolds' exploration of the complicated relationship between feminism, writing, patriarchal ideals, and romance and erotica novels is fresh, thought-provoking, and probably NSFW. Enjoy! I write about sex. I write about sex a lot. I write entire books where the point is to stuff in as many sex scenes as I can. My novels have boy/boys meet girl, fall in lust/love, have a lot of amazing sex, and decide to

Thalia Field Bird Lovers, Backyard New Directions, 2010 Paperback, $16.95 144 pages “Given all the paper in the world to write on, what would we really have to say?” Thalia Field asks in the last few pages of Bird Lovers, Backyard. As I read her collection of essays, I often had to ask myself this question. As in, what is Field trying to say? There is the theme of time apparent in some of her essays (“Apparatus for the Inscription of a Falling Body” and “This Crime Has a N