A Farther Shore: On Three New Poetry Collections
Paul Vangelisti considers Susan Thackrey’s “Farther,” Joel Chace’s “Maths,” and Claire DeVoogd’s “Via.”
Paul Vangelisti is the author of more than 30 books of poetry, as well as a noted translator from Italian. In 2020, his collection Motive and Opportunity was published by Shearsman Books in the United Kingdom, while in 2021 Liquid Prisoner appeared from Lithic Press in Colorado. In 2022, his collaboration with artist William Xerra, Fragment Science, was published by Edizioni il verri in Milan. In 2014, he edited Amiri Baraka’s posthumous collected poems, SOS: Poems 1961–2013, for Grove Press. Vangelisti lives in Pasadena.
Paul Vangelisti considers Susan Thackrey’s “Farther,” Joel Chace’s “Maths,” and Claire DeVoogd’s “Via.”
Paul Vangelisti reviews Guy Zimmerman’s “Outlaw Theatre: Field Notes from the Padua Hills Playwrights Workshop and Festival.”
Paul Vangelisti appreciates the poetic voyages in Kyle Harvey’s “Cosmographies” and Dolores Dorantes’s “Copy,” translated by Robin Myers.
The publisher of Cuneiform Press discusses his new book, “A Poetics of the Press,” a documentary history of small-press publishing.