Reviews - August 2022

Minds of winter

A review of ‘Dead Winter’ by Matvei Yankelevich

Photo of Matvei Yankelevich (right) courtesy of Yankelevich.

Dead Winter (along with Matvei Yankelevich’s chapbook From A Winter Notebook) has been culled from a long project whose intention Yankelevich writes, is “to reassemble winter’s / memory.”[1] This description is both tantalizing and ambiguous.

Activist documentary poetics

On Susan Briante’s ‘Defacing the Monument’

Photo of Susan Briante (left) courtesy of Briante.

Susan Briante’s Defacing the Monument is a hybrid creative-critical text that explores the possibilities for documentary poetics to interrupt injustice.