Beyond Metaphor: On Prose by Chris Campanioni & Elizabeth Powell

By Kristina Marie Darling

MAR 2019 | Books

In his book The Dialogic Imagination, M. M. Bakhtin observes that “the poetic symbol presupposes the unity of a voice with which it is identical, and presupposes that such a voice is completely alone within its own discourse.

How to Be Human: Some Beheadings by Aditi Machado

By Julie Carr

FEB 2019 | Books

Gardens and their particulars, mountain passes, deserts, and thickets—and the body—the tongue most of all—run through these mostly sparse, recursive, and quietly assertive poems. And yet, even as Machado leads us through this wide array of matter and landscape, she simultaneously leaves open the possibility that each location, each natural object, is principally a metaphor for language itself.

BARRY FLANAGAN:
The Hare is Metaphor

By Tom McGlynn

JUNE 2018 | ArtSeen

The question of poise comes up in different ways when viewing Barry Flanagan’s survey at Paul Kasmin Gallery: Strictly sculptural poise (from the ground to the plinth) but also conceptual poise, the balancing act that an artist needs to sometime effect to get their point across.

The Nameable : on experimental writing

By Eugene Lim

APR 2018 | Fiction

I’d like to propose a definition that modifies Zukofsky’s metaphor to clarify and broaden the term of “experimental writing” and which thus hopefully rehabilitates it from the censure of the many — including a formally daring writer like Erickson — who view the province of experimental writing as a naval-gazing warren, an unpopular gymnasium occupied solely by the effete.