BookThug interview with Mark Laliberte, author of BRICKBRICKBRICK.
With this new collection, poet Mark Laliberte presents a series of visual meditations on the subject of "poetics". Like much of his recent output, this project hovers around - but never quite steps into - the cultural zone that pure, popular comics inhabit.
BookThug interview with Jason Dickson, author of Glenn Piano by Gladys Priddis.
A high octane thrill ride of confession and crime, told as only wunderkind Jason Dickson could tell it THROUGH A LOCAL HISTORY INTERVIEW. Cry. Laugh. And prepare to meet your match in this year's literary sensation GLENN PIANO BY GLADYS PRIDDIS - if you dare.
BookThug interview with Cara Benson, author of (made).
Isolated in cars on the interstate, people come together to crash or pile into nightcourt, assigning blame, relations askew in this atomizing economy where hands touch to exchange money, where billboards commandeer attention.
BookThug interview with Mark Goldstein, author of Tracelanguage.
Tracelanguage is a serial poem made up of six cycles all of which correspond with Paul Celan's 1967 book of poetry, Atemwende. Here, his work is re-inscribed via a transmutation of word material found or developed from within the original text.
BookThug interview with Angela Carr, author of The Rose Concordance.
Like fountains, these poems resist any one enduring shape or reading. The Rose Concordance is a fountain garden that invites the reader to tarry, and drink.
BookThug interview with Michael Woods, author of World News Story.
By retelling a year's worth of events, the book contains a familiar narrative, and if you are old enough to read it, you will have lived through the events it details.
