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MASSACHUSETTS REVIEWS: New Translations of Lost Profiles and White Decimal

January 9, 2017 - By Michael Thurston

Soupault, Philippe. Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism. Translated by Alan Bernheimer. City Lights. xiv + 99 pp. ISBN: 978-0-87286-727-7. Paper. $13.95. Daive, Jean. White Decimal. Translated by Norma Cole. Omnidawn. 144 pp. ISBN: 978-1-63243-028-1. Paper. $11.95. Collage, agglomeration, accumulation and declamation, les memes as no more than memes. As the late twentieth-century poet Pete . . .

OUR AMERICA: A Caution to Young Printers

January 5, 2017 - By Benjamin Franklin

(Portrait by Joseph Duplessis; metmuseum.org, Public Domain) Over the past year or so, events in the United States of America, a country in which, as you know, I myself have no small interest, have made it increasingly difficult for those of us who are, shall we say, permanently retired from active duty, to . . .

The Added Task

January 4, 2017 - By Erri De Luca, translated by Jim Hicks

Izet Sarajlić (photo from the Fondazione Erri De Luca) I begin the year as a reader of poets. In the second book of the Illiad one reads for more than two hundred and fifty lines the precise listing of those present in the Greek army. This section is called the catalogue of ships, for Homer . . .

10 Questions for Geffrey Davis

January 2, 2017 - By Amal Zaman

Photo by Howard Romero It took time and travel to understandhow the word father sings to me in alllanguages — I want daddy, but father-abuser crossesthe notes or keys I believe have barricadedthe badness of that man. I hear father-addictin the damn silence. Of course, my whol- hearted hope had no chance, . . .

10 QUESTIONS for A. Molotkov

December 29, 2016 - By Amal Zaman

Yesterday, blue rain fell on me. I found my hair on the pillow: lovely beige clumps,dry like distance.I remember your hands running through it. I’m on read-only access. . .—from “The Persistence of Music,” published in Winter 2016 “Words and Music” (Vol. 57, Issue 4) Tell us about one of the first pieces you’ve . . .

10 Questions for Meredith Nnoka

December 26, 2016 - By Amal Zaman

Our business is making musicwhite enough to covereven the deepest blues.We steal to earn our keep. . . —from “Race Music,” which appears in the Winter 2016 “Words and Music” issue (Vol. 57, Issue 4), available now. Tell us about one of the first pieces you’ve writtenMy first “real poem” was sort of a . . .

As if the World Has Not Turned its Back: An Interview with Mahtem Shiferaw

December 22, 2016 - By Mary Catherine Ford

Mary Catherine Ford: Mahtem, thank you so much for agreeing to this interview. It was such an immense pleasure to read and review Fuchsia, your debut poetry collection, for World Literature Today, and then to hear you read at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop last month. What a fabulous reading that was! I felt so privileged . . .

OUR AMERICA: A Letter to my Republican Neighbor

December 20, 2016 - by Jim Hicks

Dear Don, Figured I should write, for a couple of reasons. First, just to let you know that if you notice some bald guy wandering around inside my house, you shouldn’t call the cops. It’s me. After it was clear that Trump would get elected, and that my home state would help . . .

MASSACHUSETTS REVIEWS: Journalism as a Tool of War in The Age of Jihad by Patrick Cockburn

December 15, 2016 - By Ross Caputi

The Age of Jihad By Patrick Cockburn(Verso Books, 2016) Journalism as a Tool of War The Age of Jihad is an abridged but unedited collection of twenty years worth of conflict journalism from Patrick Cockburn, beginning with his coverage of the UN-US imposed sanctions on Iraq, then the invasions and occupations of Iraq and . . .

OUR AMERICA: That Cloud Over the USA

December 12, 2016 - By Tabish Khair

An excerpt frpm Tabish Khair’s novel JUST ANOTHER JIHADI JANE was published as an MR Working Title and can be purchased on Amazon, Kobo and Weightless Books. The reaction of the global left to Don Trump’s victory in USA has been predictably predictable, as can be seen from a series of articles in publications like the Guardian, the New York Times, etc. . . .

Massachusetts Review

MASSACHUSETTS REVIEWS: New Translations of Lost Profiles and White Decimal

OUR AMERICA: A Caution to Young Printers

The Added Task

10 Questions for Geffrey Davis

10 QUESTIONS for A. Molotkov

10 Questions for Meredith Nnoka

As if the World Has Not Turned its Back: An Interview with Mahtem Shiferaw

OUR AMERICA: A Letter to my Republican Neighbor

MASSACHUSETTS REVIEWS: Journalism as a Tool of War in The Age of Jihad by Patrick Cockburn

OUR AMERICA: That Cloud Over the USA

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