Book Reviews
Admiel Kosman’s “Approaching You in English”
Sitting in any of the rooms that is each poem in "Approaching You In English" you’ll notice a tear in the ceiling; none of these poems are sealed shut
Alexandra Chreiteh’s “Always Coca-Cola”
"Always Coca-Cola" comes off as a work of searing intensity that powerfully conjures the atmosphere of contemporary Beirut.
Dubravka Ugresic’s “Karaoke Culture”
Part of the allure is for the amateur to wrest the microphone away from the stars and, for a moment, to take their place in the limelight.
February 2012
Letter to the Mother
Because of you I fancied killing a hundred times.
Demonsterate
I've been wearing this tutu since I was a kid.
from “The Eternonaut,” Part II
There are other survivors!
A Great Step Forward: Memoir of the Famine
Even the roaches in the village are dying of hunger.
from “Les Mohameds”
I loved Renault like you'd love a mistress.
Romanticism
Our technology enables the resurrection of an incomplete body.
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