Kidder Smith, Abruptly Dogen, Punctum Books 2024. Zen books can be quite annoying. They usually purvey spiritual non sequiturs with a sanctimonious undertone of “if you were as enlightened as…
Poetry Review
Reviews: Vinograd: “The Book of Jerusalem”; Farrington, “Flares and Fathoms”; Ladin, “The Future is Trying to Tell Us Something”.
Julia Vinograd, The Book of Jerusalem, Zeitgeist Press 2024 Julia Vinograd, poetic portraitist of Berkeley street life from the sixties on, worked throughout her life on a cycle of poems,…
Reviews: Sappho ; Hakim Bey ; Renée Vivien ; Roz Kaveney
One would always like to expand the slender record we have of Sappho’s work. The few poems that remain . . .
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Reviews: Evan Fowler, “Seeing Thing;” Th. Metzger, “Flaherty’s Wake;” Kidder Smith, “Li Bo Unkempt”
Evan Fowler, Seeing Thing, Atmosphere Press 2023. 79 pages Several poems from this book have already appeared in in 96, and this link will lead you to them. Needless to…
Reviews: Margot Farrington, Anne Myles, Jean Lorrain, Federico Andahazi, Behr’s Women Artists in Expressionism
Margot Farrington, The Blue Canoe of Longing, Dos Madres Press 2019. Available from Dos Madres and Amazon Margot Farrington’s Blue Canoe is an unqualified pleasure. Every poem in it is…
Reviews: Thom Metzger, Barbara Holland, Elizabethan Magic, Jacob Boehme
Thom Metzger, Shock Totem; independent 2022. Evil bureaucrats sterilized by dreams of power, corporate conspiracy, cops and mental institution staff, populate Shock Totem’s fallen world oozing chemical waste and humming…
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Reviews: Soviet SF, Tales of Sex & Death, Yuri, Dr. Dee, Barbara Holland
Aelita, Queen of Mars Aelita, Queen of Mars (1924) was based on a 1923 novella by Aleksey N. Tolstoy, a distant cousin of War and Peace author Leo Tolstoy. It…
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Reviews: Tcherepnin, Lermontov, Derek Owens
Three Generations, Chamber Music by Ivan, Alexander and Nikolai Tcherepnin, David Witten, piano; Quan Yuan, violin; Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin, flute; Donald Berman, piano. Nikolai Tcherepnin, Piano Music; David Witten, piano. Toccata…
Reviews: Jean Lorrain, Edmund Spenser
Jean Lorrain: Errant Vice, translated by Brian Stableford, Snuggly Books 2018 Another brilliant book by the unsung master of French decadence. The stories and the novella gathered between these covers…
Review: Nina Antonia’s Incurable
The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson, the Decadent Era’s Dark Angel edited by Nina Antonia, Amazon link here.the publisher, Strange Attractor Press, is well worth a visit. Symbolism, Pre-Raphaelites, the…