Quick and to the Gums: Blake Butler on Rauan Klassnik January 21, 2013: Over at VICE, Blake Butler reviews the new collection of poetry from Rauan Klassnik, saying, at first, "He seems like someone you’d find lingering out behind a porno bookstore in a jacket and hat, creeping around the dumpsters." And yet!! Klassnik's book, The Moon's Jaw (Black Ocean), "shifts continually between horny and cruel tones, [...] by Harriet Staff

At VICE: Blake Butler Cowers Before Dorothea Lasky’s Thunderbird October 3, 2012: Blake Butler puts Dorothea Lasky in a VICE grip and doesn't know whether to kneel or cover his ears. No, really! It's a review of Thunderbird (ahem—we hear the hardcovers are sold out)! MORE about this "WILD-ASS SHOUT-BRAIN": Her poems often feel this way: like an extremely powerful child has been taken over by a shitload of wild [...] by Harriet Staff