Nick Ripatrazone discusses new work from Alex Dimitrov, C. Dale Young, Kathryn Smith, Rebecca Morgan Frank, and Alan Gillis. Of Dimitrov's collection he writes, "This is a book about love, yes, but it is also one of the best recent books about New York City. If you love that city, if you hate that city, if you want to understand that city: read this book."
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"Real poetry, Itō reminds us, doesn’t only come from a poet simply saying something—it also comes from the ways that the poet resists the ordinary processes of saying. The writer unlocks new potential by subverting, manipulating, and defamiliarizing the patterns that structure our logic and expression. Poems need to be more than a series of simple, ordinary statements strung together."
