DOUGLAS A. MARTIN
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New York Times Book Review of ACKER ("Three Literary Critics Who Engage with Their Subjects, Unconventionally," by Kathleen Rooney)
nightboat books
7stories Press: Once You Go Back
SOFT SKULL PRESS (“...full of hard-won, fraught, unsparing emotional truth...a piece of stylish and ferociously sharp prose. I love its fierce concentration and levels of obsession.” —Colm Tóibín, on OUTLINE of MY LOVER. "These are great poems cause they’re such non-poems. Torn up pieces, patches of stuff like a guy on a train reminds you of someone you used to love. If the whole category of poetry emptied out and they opened something else next door that does what poetry did—by falling down, missing the train, missing everything, and you can almost hear it—like music—well this poetry is kind of like that. It's awkward and swift. I really like it." —Eileen Myles, on IN the TIME of ASSIGNMENTS.
U of W: They Change the Subject
kammer/kammer
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Your Body Figured, review
"...an incantatory book that embodies the passions of love, sex, and death in writing that’s often suspended in a beautiful tension between indulgence and restraint. Through the lives of these three [Balthus, a.k.a. Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (1908–2001), an esteemed Polish–French modern artist who painted perversely queer and disturbing visions; gay poet Hart Crane (1899–1932); Francis Bacon (1909–1992), the Irish-born British figurative painter], Martin offers an unflinching meditation on suffering, mortality, and the beautiful in artistic transfiguration."
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