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• Three great new issues of Sol, beginning with life-threatening politics and poetry from THE POTOMAC JOURNAL OF POETRY AND POLITICS; post Pif palaver from DEL SOL REVIEW; and coming up strong from behind and threatening to pass, a new THEATER issue from IN POSSE REVIEW. New issues of DOUBLE ROOM and PERIHELION in the works! God bless America and Web del Sol!
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"Everlasting Delays and Bitching" Issue
Chief Editor Derek Alger of Pif Fame
On again, off again, the way gravity defies wind. I always get it wrong, timing--like a focus group gone awry. Tonight, my corner of the self needs tending, your undivided attention (resins of fresh coffee at 2 am.)
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"Never In, Never Out of Print" Mudlark Poetry
Chief Editor William Slaughter
I praise the earthworm's muddy snout, along with my amazement that he can toil underground all his life, and by instinct alone. I praise the cockroach's understanding of age and necessity ...
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Web del Sol Review of Books - They'll do it again!
Editors Kaminsky, Myhr, and Jones
Unfolding Ann Carson's Nox, Creating Quarantine, Rae Armentrout, Trust in That Spectral Image, Harold Jaffe, Ilya Kaminsky, Felix Nicolan, and a score of wise, unique, and provocative reviews.
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Del Sol Review
Editor Derek Alger
Starring The Sadhana, Obtuse Diary, Catwalk Plastique, + Bras= Deadly Weapons
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The Literary Explorer
Editors Cummins + Kennedy
A Visit to Hunger 120 Years Later, and Knut Hamsun? Hunger is a strange city no one leaves
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Writers On The Job
Editor Tom Kennedy
TK produces Bouncing on my Heels by Elise Johansen, plus Blumenfeld + many more jobs
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CTHEORY.Net
Editors: The Krokers
The Einstein Brain Project, Triumph of Culture, Who's Your Daddy? Silo Psychosis, and lots more
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"The Blatherings of Bass" From Mag Blogger
Editor Kristian Markus
Is this the face of evil? The Mag Blogger bumped into Bass one day on YouTube ... We encourage critical review at WDS, and so MB takes on the blatherings of a "poet" that some consider a true sociopath. Is she, or does she just write bad poetry? Just click and plop the Alkaseltzer.
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In Dissent Reviews
Editor Cooper Renner
The Coopster takes on Jean Follain, Alice Oswald, and Kay Ryan's "Best of It" from Grove ...
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Poets in Rags
Editor Rus Bowden
The best damn poetry blog out there with vids, pics, reviews, peeps, commentary, and more. A must see ...
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The Perihelion Down Under Issue ... Yehhh Mite!
Editor John Anderson
John Anderson puts together some of the strongest Australian poetry ever, for example, Bird, lemons; Bird, turning; Bird, magic; Bird, fish; The Semiologist Meets a Psychic for a Reading, and much more!
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Mark Strand's "Elegy for My Father"
Author: Cooper "The Coop" Renner
From: In Dissent
Greg Orr's early surrealist verse finds its deepest source in a biographical fact: while both were still boys, Orr shot and killed one of his brothers in a hunting accident. Orr reached the apogee of this record in "Gathering the Bones Together," the title poem of his second volume, a short sequence blending elegy with nightmare and hope to create, perhaps, the poet's "bridge" out of the past. Like Orr, but far more prominent (as well as half a generation older), Mark Strand built his reputation with user-friendly dreams and nightmares more eager to invite than repulse the reader ... more
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From the WDS archives of Del Sol Review, the ho-ho Jan Pehechan Ho lives again. Who are they? What do they want from planet Earth? Gina and a son who? Test your dates with this film.
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WDS profusely thanks reviewer Levi Asher for saying what we've all wanted to say for years, namely, that the Vollmann emperor is naked to the point of nausea:
"I have tried hard, so very hard, to appreciate Vollmann, a wildly original postmodernist obsessed with history and human aggression who is considered a great intellect by several people I respect. I've eagerly bought his thick, intimidating books, and I have put in solid time trying to read them. I will not try anymore.
William Vollmann is, in my opinion, the David Blaine of literature. It's all an endurance act. Can a skinny kid with pimples and glasses really write a seven volume chronicle of the settlement of North America, follow it with a 3,300 page history of human violence and then toss out an 800 page rumination on the Eastern Front in World War II? Yes, he can. But if you take the "wow" factor away from William Vollmann, does his work stand up?" Thank you, Levi! OMG, thank you!
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Past blast into the Foghorn cosmos and watch him get abused by a psycho-chick. Web del Sol's new mascot says howdy to all his fanz. Doo Dah, Doo dah. "I say, I say, WDS gives me the fantods, I do declare!"
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Rus Bowden's poetry news on Poetry and Poets in Rags: Little ant dramas, Celia, Celia, oxymorons, Garrison Keillor, and more from Web del Sol.
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Writer Liz Brody, makes points on the query letter wars and the dual purpose of a novel pitch ... from Arts and Palaver.
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PLATO'S SCREW AT DSR: a serialization of a novel from Linda Janakos, one of the writers you should know about, but one who isn't a part of the BS American "literary" network; from Del Sol Review.
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Do The Editors of Narrative Magazine Fix Their Contests for The Sake of Friends and Associates? from Arts and Palaver.
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