Kit Schluter Interviews Nathanaël About Danielle Collobert’s Murder March 14, 2013: Kit Schluter, translator of Marcel Schwob's The Book of Monelle (as we elaborated upon here), spotlights today none other than Danielle Collobert, the French poet whose suicide in 1978 left us with some of the "most enigmatic and innovative bodies of work in contemporary French letters." Collobert's first novel, Murder, has just been published [...] by Harriet Staff

Seth Oelbaum on AWP and ‘The Glut’ February 27, 2013: [caption id="attachment_61987" align="alignright" width="500"] The AWP 2010 Bookfair[/caption] If you need a mid-week dose of energy, head over to HTMLGiant, where Seth Oelbaum takes the AWP conference to task. But be prepared, when we say the post will give you some mid-week energy, we mean that you'll probably find yourself enraged and/or [...] by Harriet Staff

Two New Reviews on The Arcadia Project February 21, 2013: There have been too few reviews of The Arcadia Project, an anthology of "North American postmodern pastoral" poetry from Ahsahta, and edited by Joshua Corey and G.C. Waldrep. Lately, however, the massive compilation has received more attention. Patrick James Dunagan offers us 25 Points, HTMLGiant-style and Publisher's Weekly recently gave it [...] by Harriet Staff

Green Lantern Delivers Love February 12, 2013: Over at HTMLGiant, August Evans reviews the sibling titles recently release by Green Lantern Press—The White House, by Joel Craig and Palm Trees, by Nick Twemlow. Before delving into some close reading of the poems in each book, Evans writes: Two synchronous 2012 releases, Joel Craig’s The White House and Nick Twemlow’s Palm Trees, [...] by Harriet Staff

A Look at Ben Fama’s Mall Witch February 8, 2013: At HTMLGiant, Ben Tripp reviews the Wonder project Mall Witch, a book of poems attributed to Ben Fama but authored by Paul Legault and Andrew Durbin. However, writes Tripp: "For fans of Legault’s homespun ventriloquisms of John Ashbery and Emily Dickinson (some from Fence Books, or his latest from McSweeney’s) or Durbin’s precocious [...] by Harriet Staff

Some Good Points on Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writing at HTMLGIANT February 7, 2013: Michael Jauchen reviews, in 25 points, Kenny Goldsmith's Uncreative Writing for HTMLGiant. We love number 8 (image above): "8. Picasso’s Portrait of Gertrude Stein with excerpts from The Making of Americans inserted." Jauchen also makes similar hybrid images with Mallarmé and "A Throw of the Dice," Georges Perec and Species of Spaces, and [...] by Harriet Staff

Judith Goldman’s Shapeshifting l.b.; or, catenaries February 4, 2013: Anthony Ramstetter reviews Judith Goldman's l.b.; or, catenaries (Kruspkaya 2011) for HTMLGiant, writing that the collection "is perhaps Goldman’s experimentalist humor tour-de-force, and news about its release has created a ton of buzz this year." Ramstetter reassures those who might find the 200-page book daunting in size: "but [it] is [...] by Harriet Staff

An Antidote to Avant-Garde Bravado: Jesse Seldess January 25, 2013: Excitingly, John Pluecker has reviewed the work of Jesse Seldess for HTMLGiant. He looks at Seldess's books Left Having and Who Opens (Kenning Editions 2011 and 2006, respectively). Noting that Seldess was also the publisher of the magazine antennae (2000-2012) (which is-was wonderful, IOO), Pluecker links it to Seldess's work: "When work is [...] by Harriet Staff

Peter Seaton on HTMLGIANT May 18, 2011: "Because we may be it we remain. We feel we are aware we tend to think as if to keep it from rising too rapidly we see them, their rising movement through it, their ascent as it reaches this point we could move, we would have a surface as flat as the exposed beams and rafters of the roof. We are also the space we find we seek relief [...] by Harriet Staff

“If you give me a dollar I’ll take my top off / and let you see my heart” November 24, 2010: Laurel Nakadate's film Untitled simultaneously makes poetry sexy and succeeds in making sexiness entirely beside the point, reducing the body to simply a matter-of-fact vehicle for commenting on itself. Nakadate invited porn actresses to "audition" with the poems of Dora Malech, which HTMLGIANT's Jackie Wang sees as the perfect source material for [...] by Harriet Staff