Apperceptions of Reinterpretations (Calliope Nerve Media), poetry by Felino Soriano, Reviewed by Lynn Alexander. Felino Soriano has this amazing ability to weave a multi-dimensional scene replete with hidden histories and surmised contexts from works of art. I first became familiar with these poems from the work published in Full of Crow Poetry, then set out [...]
Connie Stadler (Calliope Nerve) reviews David Blaine’s new chapbook from Outsider Writers Collective: “Antisocial”. David’s Blaine “Antisocial” is a hidden treasure. You expect poetic diatribes and rants, you get wonderful wit laden bites that must be read a second or third time or the rich profundity/in-your-face irony will surely be missed. Though seeming toss-offs ,these [...]
Ceilings, by Jeffrey S. Callico. Poetry. Reviewed By Lynn Alexander. Ceilings is not at all what I expected from Jeff Callico, but there it is: simple language, clear, cool, basic. They sit there, these short lines on these open white pages. You are alone with the poems. I am familiar with a lot of Jeff [...]
A Brief Compilation, by polycarp kusch. Reviewed By Lynn Alexander. polycarp kusch has an ebook collection housed at The New Absurdist, featuring an assortment of writers, misanthropes, and malcontents. A Brief Compilation is an ebook offering at The Absurdist Monthly Review, and features collected shorts by polycarp kusch, who claims to have invented the letter [...]
The Giant’s Fence by Michael Jacobson. Reviewed by Lynn Alexander. The Giant’s Fence is a visual novella by Michael Jacobson, eighty pages of something many people have not experienced before: asemic writing. I’ll get back to what “asemic writing” is and what it isn’t to the extent I can, but The Giant’s Fence is an [...]