The Rupture Tense

From From

Dean Rader has authored or co-authored eleven books, including Works &amp; Days, winner of the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize, Landscape Portrait Figure Form, a Barnes &amp; Noble Review Best Book, and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry, a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award and the Northern California Book Award. Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly, is forthcoming in 2023 from Copper Canyon. His writing has been supported by fellowships from Princeton University, Harvard University, Headlands Center for the Arts, Art Omi, and the MacDowell Foundation. Rader is a professor at the University of San Francisco and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry.

Dean Rader

Victoria Chang is the author of OBIT, which received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN Voelcker Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Her latest book is The Trees Witness Everything (2022). She lives in Los Angeles and is a faculty member within Antioch’s MFA program.

Victoria Chang

Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of Jenny Xie’s “The Rupture Tense” and Monica Youn’s “From From”

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Best Barbarian

Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of Roger Reeves’s “Best Barbarian”

The Trees Witness Everything

Jennifer Chang&nbsp;is the author of&nbsp;The History of Anonymity&nbsp;and&nbsp;Some Say the Lark, winner of the 2018 William Carlos Williams Award. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in&nbsp;The New Yorker, A Public Space, Poetry, Georgia Review, The Believer, The New York Times,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Yale Review, and she has published essays on poetry and culture in&nbsp;New Literary History, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture, The Volta, Blackwell’s Companion to the Harlem Renaissance, New England Review, and&nbsp;Los Angeles Review of Books. She serves as the poetry editor of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nereview.com/">New England Review</a>&nbsp;and since 2003 has been on the staff of&nbsp;<a href="http://secure-web.cisco.com/1BYp8v90rGBor2AwpzWwPF7HV8e7hPhWwsjM8kvOYxX8mleGBkj0kE7dCcbpwUn8K6WqOJeOsYtN2zYPKozlQvT-tEFV4Dq6kiTByD7YTjhROl7CxyJvrIDQhixAOa9bjsic6Pa7ERPvK4wuURViOUdrEFZYKsfWgYYnswz7YSfjBjRC7PenMIjzlWQ-WL5hNVRWHftfaM5Fmw7Zo78FoXhxBwGHm9bPVyFt00zt210wrLez7mnKvMr4EMMCNxaSCc5TlqBGupkbUQlliCEcFhN8SvVbySwfn_3CeExKMQlfxo1cdbkXVbMJ9xplUnQe_RPRRw87__tGLF7tkJfvTscFep_htpiWPpYor7RsjoXxIVfob5APFHsolkUCJIdjljgciERDckOsvzd-Xw9QmRBLk5PDi8GX-PxYzH2jFfMVDbYXiL3sHIEtn7i3HmKLruN9oYdJ0Ylg2pcXeqtpNELx0FeCOtheahG62psSSxRmaPgzii4RdcERU7bxjorabCxjrRsL0g2qeoRSiEnGQkUMnFEc9NTJkYL7Z5KB3LfMdI_Px6w8ezID9E1yiHo5v_jtVxoKOZdmAYv3fDMb0Hg/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kundiman.org%2F">Kundiman.</a>

Jennifer Chang

Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of Victoria Chang’s “The Trees Witness Everything”

Dark Traffic

Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of Joan Naviyuk Kane’s “Dark Traffic”

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Such Color: New and Selected Poems

The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems

Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of Tracy K. Smith’s “Such Color: New and Selected Poems” and Arthur Sze’s “The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems”

Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of Douglas Kearney’s “Sho”

The Renunciations

Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of Donika Kelly’s “The Renunciations”

The Earliest Witnesses

Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of G. C. Waldrep’s “The Earliest Witnesses”

TWO ROADS: POETRY REVIEWS IN DIALOGUE