Close Calls With Nonsense

At the Whitney Biennial, by Jordan Wolfson (via Jessie). A must read see.

Just back from the AWP conference, where our panel went quite well (more about it here soon, I think). As usual, I came back with a sackful of books and journals (though a smaller sackful than last time– less time in the bookroom). The best so far (I haven’t read them all!) come from writers whose names I already knew: the current Black Warrior Review has sestinas by Sandra Beasley that stand among the best poems of hers I’ve yet seen, and Liz Waldner has a new book called Trust from Cleveland State. I’m still processing said book, but there’s at least one poem, called “On the Way Home,” with St. Joseph at the end and a great deal of existential angst at the beginning, that made me feel like the top of my head, etc.– I’m considering mailing photocopies to friends.