Nothing Personal

reviewed by Richard Weems

Originally published on April 1, 2001

There is promise for Jason Starr, but this book doesn’t quite get in touch with it yet.
In what is supposedly a noir-thriller setting, one encounters David Sussman, a successful advertising agent with (of course) a less-than-successful personal life. He never sees his daughter, his trophy wife is in the binges of an eating disorder, [...]

The Guest From the Future

reviewed by Emily Banner

Originally published on April 1, 2001

The Guest from the Future is a difficult book to classify. It comprises a goodly amount of literary criticism, and the bulk of the work focuses on the life of Anna Akhmatova, yet the author informs us in the preface that “[t]his book is not a biography of Anna Akhmatova, nor is it a work [...]

Among Women

reviewed by Rachel Barenblat

Originally published on April 1, 2001

What does it mean to be among women? As an insider, or as an outsider?
By necessity or by choice? Does being among women mean being in
community, or being [...]

One Day I Will Die

by Jason Shinder

Originally published on April 1, 2001

How proud I am
      to be the center
            of a tragedy
Again
      and again
            the same shadow.
Thank you God.
      Thank you shadow.
            Happy is the man
who looks into
      the deepest folds
            of his sorrows.
The soul, lost
      can be stirred.
            Thank you sorrows.
Thank you
      bottom of the river.
            Won’t you be forever?
No one else
      in sight.
            Soon I won’t
have to work
      to get attention.
            Thank you [...]

Because One is Always Leaving

by Jason Shinder

Originally published on April 1, 2001

Especially
      in the late afternoon
            when my nieces
close their eyes
      and bend
            their heads
to inhale
      the bubbles that rise
            from the tall glasses
of milk,
      licking the juice
            off their lips
that open
      on the softened
            black and white cookies
that have been
      dipped
            into the glass
and then dipped
      again,
            sopping with cream,
I like to think
      about stopping
            the passage of time–
not a bird
      not a branch
            in [...]

What Kind of Dark It Is

by Jason Shinder

Originally published on April 1, 2001

When she wants
      to make love
            I find myself
in a room
      with someone
            I don’t know.
So
      I tell her
            about my life
again.
      I take her body
            between
 
my arms.
      And then
            I change
the position
      of my head
            on the pillow,
moment
      to moment,
            remembering
the precise
      architecture
            of the windows,
but forgetting
      the face
            I am looking into.

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Sendecki.com

reviewed by Tom Hartman

Originally published on April 1, 2001

For the first issue of his new zine Daniel Sendecki has created some striking visuals. Unfortunately, the paintings, color photos and Flash art that embellish sendecki.com fail to compensate for what is ultimately a skimpy, uneven collection of poems.
There’s some pretension, too: as in Sendecki’s own “The Word Electric” (also available in a Flash [...]

Peter Filkins

interviewed by Derek Alger

Originally published on April 1, 2001

Peter Filkins, a poet and translator, has a forthcoming collection of poems, After Homer, due to be published in January by George Braziller Books. Filkins is the author of a book of poems, What She Knew, and his translation of a novel by Alois Hotschnig, Leonardo’s Hands, was published in 1999. His translation of the [...]

(r[-e]*l[i^]j”[u^]n)

by Ted Warnell

Originally published on April 1, 2001

(r[-e]*l[i^]j”[u^]n) is panel five from
The Pi Process by Ted Warnell – © 2001

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Shameless

by Christian Simon

Originally published on April 1, 2001

I wish school would start up again. But it’s July and Mom doesn’t believe in summer camp, where I know my best friend Susie’s kissing Jake DeMoe on the mouth. Normally that’s something I could fix during recess at eleven. But the camp they’re at – where the whole world’s at except me – is [...]