Oh hey, January was been busy and I forgot to mention here that I have a new gig! I'm writing about book design for the new lit and culture website
Real Pants, edited by Amy McDaniel & Adam Robinson. (They're having a
launch party tonight in NYC.)
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Cayla Lockwood: Lick your own wounds. I'm on a diet.
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The column is called By the Cover, and is more at-a-glance-plus-a-peek-inside discussion than the classic book review. In other words, I start by looking at the book, and then see how its design speaks to its content. I'll be doing these twice a month, on Thursdays.
My first two columns have already gone up.
In the first one, I take a look at
deadfalls & snares by Samantha Giles (Futurepoem, 2014), and
Living in the Love Economy, a chapbook by Patricia Spears Jones (Overpass, 2014).
In the second installment,
Great Pretenders, I went a little bit nuts, because it's sort of a trend piece about faux finishes. So I cover more than I probably normally will be cramming into a single post, including:
The Baltimore Atrocities by John Dermot Woods (Coffee House, 2014),
Mimer by Lance Phillips (Ahsahta, 2014),
The Yolo Pages anthology (Boost House, 2014), and a chapbook called
many a holy and obsequious tear by Carolina Maugeri (Horse Less).
I also
reviewed Claudia Rankine's book Citizen, for the #1 spot in
Coldfront's Top 40 Poetry Books of 2014 countdown. (Scroll to bottom. But check out
the whole list of 40—so many great books!)
As always, I'm working on a lot of overlapping projects for
Bloof too. Did you see
the announcement of our 2015 chapbook series? Subscriptions are available for the year's chapbooks, books, or everything.
