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

Magus Magnus The Re-Echoes Furniture Press Books © 2012 ISBN: 978-0982629970 Paperback, $12 From start to finish, Magus Magnus’ The Re-Echoes "ripples,” “rips,” “ricochets,” “meanders,” and above all, sings its way through a fascinating exploration of language and listening. The book’s title suggests exactly what the text does—this book-length poem creates echoes of echoes—“a game of telephone” where complex word chains progress from sonic riffs, erasing and creating mean