Friday, August 21, 2026

Brief Review: Zone (correlations 1973 2021), by Barrett Watten

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  The poems in Zone: correlations (1973 2021) , by Barrett Watten, (Chax Press, 2025, 259 pgs.) by Barrett Watten meet at the pinnacle of at...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Some Pickups from Recent Travels: A.C. Benson, R. H. Benson, and M.P. Shiel

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  Some pickups from recent travels. Some people know that I read a lot of horror literature, with a specific interest in gothic literature a...
Friday, July 17, 2026

Broken Lens #11 and "The Palace of Light"

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  I’m pleased to have some work featured in Broken Lens Journal Issue #11, which has returned after a hiatus with its first issue in 18 mon...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Some No Doubt Mainly Personal Refections on The Collected Poems of Charles Olson

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  I ’ve read a fair amount of the work of Charles Olson: The Maximus Poems (twice), the Selected Writings , which at one point in time was ...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

Ross Macdonald, the Early Novels

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  Some of Raymond Chandler's short stories were published in magazines in the years before his first novel, The Big Sleep , cane out. He...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

Flash Review: Mort(e) by Robert Repino

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  I liked the concept of the novel Mort(e) by Robert Repino, a science-fiction tale about an animal revolution against human control over t...
Friday, October 31, 2025

Lafcadio Hearn, Japanese Ghost Stories

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  I had a read a few of Lafacadio Hearn’s ghost stories set in Japan in various editions over the years and never quite connected with them,...