Fence Magazine is a print an online literary publication containing original fiction, poetry, art, and criticism of an experimental or avant garde nature (but still considered accessible to the genera
Fence Magazine is a print an online literary publication containing original fiction, poetry, art, and criticism of an experimental or avant garde nature (but still considered accessible to the genera
Collected in this volume are Chelsey Minnis’s first two books: Zirconia (winner of the Alberta Prize) and Bad Bad. Zirconia introduced a speaker described as “half-smirking, half-weeping” by the Villa
Colonial violence is a sticky phenomenon, gumming up the associational matrices of our daily lives and dreamscapes. Edgar Garcia intervenes with a poetic experiment: Every night of the three months of
This is an entertaining book of epistolary poems in prose which light up a young farmer's year through external and internal signs and cues, reaching out and reaching in, the lightness of being, lovin
Much of what is read as news is fake; still the real news is, at its very best, partial. At the heart of Strawberry Fields is the storied figure of the journalist, who despairs of accountability yet m
The Codex Mojaodicus collects three novels-in-verse My Sweet Conquistador,” Chaley Way,” and The Pocho Codex” all of which mine, mime, record and disgo
A complex and moving array of imagistic arguments-with-history about skin, postcolonialism, travel, exile, fluids, and cultural materialism.Kith describes postcolonialist relation from the painful psy
Wendy Xu articulates the whole world by freezing it all at once, looking closely at its parts, and zeroing in on the one image or phrase or feeling that makes the day seem possibly beautiful under all
"[Douglas Kearney] is at the other end of the century, using a multicultural voice inflected with the concerns of what it means to be a young black man at this time and at this place."The Lo
Prose poems explore the nature of African American identity within the spheres of entertainment and art, in a work with an accompanying CD that features archival passages of oral history.
Presents stories that explore the different crises that an individual faces in life, whether difficult or mundane, and the realizations that are made during the experience.
Love poems to the "bad," composed in the idiom of cliche, conceptualized as self-portraits, alive in the historically awesome, presently bankrupt form of the sonnet, these debut poems obsess, as do a
Moving freely through poetry's pictorial fragmentariness and literal fragments of prose, with a streaming, equanimous, nondiscriminatory referentiality, Martin Corless-Smith proposes and confers with
In her third book Jena Osman follows poet Cecilia Vicuna's procedural instruction to "enter words in order to see." The Network emerges at the intersection of conceptual and documentary poetics, as O
Putting unprecedented pressure on the line break, Emmanuel Hocquard's obliquely interlaced poetic series cracks open the facade of language to let a little light through--the glimmers are beyond defi
In his third book, Ben Doller troubles the blast zone where evolution and manifest destiny collide. Working from primary sources including Captain William Dampier's pirate narratives and the Widow Ch
Presents a collection of more than one hundred thirty text-collages--found poems pasted on top of a wide variety of images, from a chart showing different types of almonds to a picture of a living roo
When do "hermit" and "maudit" not rhyme? When you're a fellow traveler in Macgregor Card's global community of canny songsters. Card's deft, lushly Romantic speaker has "friends in London." No, he's
With her third collection, Catherine Wagner assumes a mantle of responsibility. Each opportunity for productivity is a personal call-out; she responds, "diligent and strict." A repetitive stretching e
An exuberant skeptic, Elizabeth Marie Young writes in the infidel hope that writing itself can create worlds. These hilariously erudite prose poems are cosmologies--miniature, ever-expanding universe
A mother's illness and early death is only the beginning of the story of Stranger, Laura Sims' second collection. This is a death whose presence and particulars are felt and inscribed, and which achie
Cast as a dialogue among six interlocuters, this lyric, pensive blend of poetry and prose considers light from a variety of perspectives - philosophical, physical, ethical, and metaphorical - all of t
"[This] collection of . . . multi-disciplinary adventures induces territories of dissent and identity, both of and beyond the stage. . . . [Rodrigo] Toscano has produced an often gleeful romp wherein
Lines of verse veer top-speed around corners, producing unexpectedly lucid interrogations: "The sun,/ Then, in a brief// Case blown open,/ Appears. But who is/ Here to have it,/ 2Bang4? . . ." Anger
This collection of poems by Elizabeth Robinson circles around and around the place of the individual in relation to an other or Other or others. If human experience is nested in relation, "the braid o
The Method is a manuscript of theorems and proofs written and diagrammed by the mathematician Archimedes at Constantinople in the second half of the tenth century. The Method is a book of poems by Sa
This is a youthful book, as its title implies, inasmuch as rock 'n' roll belongs yet to the young. Its debut concerns are those of the youth culture inasmuch as when we are young we are closer to hom
Poet Carl Martin's literal and figurative "Brit vernacular" asks of its reader nothing less than a total ignorance of expectation. These poems, coming after a long silence - Martin's first book, appea
