From the monthly archives: September 2011
“Evil has become a product of manufacture, it is built into our whole industrial and political system, it is being manufactured every day, it is rolling off the assembly line, it is being sold in the stores, it pollutes the air… Perhaps the way to cope with the adversary is to confront him [...]
For me, the experience of poetry has most often been a painful one. Reading poetry is usually like trying to catch a butterfly—I’m running and leaping and stretching with all I have, trying to get that damn butterfly, but it always remains just out of my grasp. There are some poets with whom I [...]
I was in my fifties and David had touched sixty when we met for lunch on a cool fall day in a Pan- Asian restaurant in the heart of Chelsea. Our on-line correspondence had escalated to animated phone conversations and, finally, to a face-to-face encounter. I liked his workmanlike gloves, his orange parka, and [...]
To ascend into Blake Butler’s fictional worlds, viewed through the prism of his novella Ever, the novel-in-stories Scorch Atlas, and his most recent work, There is No Year, you have to strip the skins of traditional plot and narrative off of you. Strip them off hard, because you’re not going to get that. [...]
In January of 2007, Shaking Like a Mountain was born in a small Mexican restaurant in Shadyside, Pittsburgh on the idea that music and literature are intimately connected. Within months we set up a site, began accepting submissions and later that year, July, released the first issue. We’ve grown over the years, eventually [...]
Just skinny girls and boys but they hold anyway green-streaked fingers to the sky, as if even now— the tear gas coming down, sad-eyed men owned by some other man shouting orders, wrecking precisely machined clubs against ordinary necks and knees, rifles on their backs intricate and [...]
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