

The Thicket of Context: Brian Teare's Companion Grasses
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


"Elemental utterance guttural": A Review of Magus Magnus' The Re-Echoes
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