Vladimir SorokinTranslated by Max LawtonNew York Review Books ($18.95) by Garin Cycholl They say that those who live by the nail will probably die by the nail—that is, unless the nail is made of tellurium, set by a member of a guild of highly skilled technicians, and driven into one’s skull in a ritual that […]
John FreemanCopper Canyon Press ($17) by Joanna Acevedo John Freeman’s third collection of poetry, Wind, Trees, has Freeman’s characteristic quietness: an understated, restrained quality which lends itself particularly well to post-pandemic writing. As a follow up to 2017’s Maps and 2020’s The Park, both also from Copper Canyon Press, Wind, Trees has a similarly dedicated […]
Maya MarshallHaymarket Books ($17) by Rachel Slotnick Maya Marshall does not mince words in All the Blood Involved in Love, her debut poetry collection. Twitter declares #believewomen and #sayhername, and Marshall claps back, “Down the maternity halls black women are dying.” Reading this book is like looking through a kaleidoscope at a cross section of […]
Mary Ford NealTaproot Press (£9.99) by Nick Hilbourn The cryptic theme of distance pervades Mary Ford Neal’s second poetry collection, Relativism. Neal’s ethereal, almost anodyne verse masterfully introduces characters and objects that seem to float above the sediment. At one time, a reader imagines they are witnessing the diatribe of a disillusioned lover, while in […]
Jean-Luc ChamperretEdited and translated by Philip TerryCarcanet Press ($26.99) by John Bradley What if the Ice Age markings found on the walls of the famous cave of Lascaux, France, are poems? A Frenchman, Jean-Luc Champerret, while scouting the caves in the Dordogne in 1940 as a possible shelter for the local Resistance during World War […]
by Chrissy Kolaya Writer, publisher, and community builder Ryan Rivas is a familiar face in the Florida literary community. As the founder and publisher of Burrow Press, Rivas has focused not only on developing a press devoted to taking artistic risks, but also on working to cultivate literary community by launching and supporting an impressive […]
Check back as we add more features and reviews in the next months! Interviews Documenting the Suburban Gothic: An Interview with Ryan Rivasby Chrissy KolayaAuthor Ryan Rivas talks about his new book, Nextdoor in Colonialtown, the accidental “truth bombs” of his neighbors’ posts on Nextdoor, and what it means to illustrate the “slippery time” of our historical […]
Roger Williamson is a visual artist, residing and creating in Minneapolis Minnesota. Born in Loughborough, England, in 1947 and growing up in Coventry he was inspired from an early age by the French Symbolist painters of late nineteenth century France. These artistic influences, in conjunction with his own esoteric upbringing and practical experiences of magick, […]
To purchase issue #108 using Paypal, click here. INTERVIEWS Dara Barrois/Dixon: Poetry is Elemental | interviewed by Lesle LewisCarl Watson: Relentlessly Culpable | interviewed by Jim Feast FEATURES Of Shapes and Shifting: The Fiction of Pauline Melville | by Alicia L. ConroyThe New Life | a comic by Gary SullivanSusan Lewis’s Sublimations | by Kurt Kimmelman […]
Rain Taxi’s annual Benefit Auction is taking place from December 11 through December 18! Why simply buy your holiday book gifts when you could win them? Up for grabs are a wide variety of books, chapbooks, and broadsides — many signed, some very rare! — and some other fun surprises. We’re selling out-of-print poetry, cool […]