Arias Seeking Understanding and Other Poems of Being Human: A Review of SUITE FOR HALLUCINATED VOICES by CJ Scruton
Review by Tori Bissonette “Suite for Hallucinated Voices is a book of revelations for a life that refuses to end. CJ Scruton moves beyond deconstructing illusion and reaches toward the task of interpretation—examining the messages she’s received, near and far, deciding which false-speaking idols can be torn down and where her own song belongs in…
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The Silent Body: Stasis, Space, and Ethical Reflection in the Cinema of Yasujirō Ozu
Guest post by Amir Zadnemat In the cinema of Yasujirō Ozu, stasis and his characteristic low camera position do more than frame family stories. They give expressive weight to restrained bodies, minimal gestures, and carefully organized spaces, allowing questions of social change, temporality, and human attachment to emerge through cinematic form. Seated postures, fleeting gazes,…
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Celebrating with broken glass in Matt McBride’s AT THE MERCY OF THE FLIES
“At the Mercy of the Flies renders the mundanity of daily life as a series of dislocations. What emerges is a record of survival written in the margins of collapse. Anchored in the author’s experiences with depression and the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, these poems chart the cartographies of a life and a…
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Searching for Connection, Truth, and Trust in “Seeking Sasha” by Laura Frost
Review by Tori Bissonette “Sasha lives off the grid-new name, new town, same story. Haunted by a traumatic childhood and the mistakes that followed, she scrapes by with odd jobs. The only rule? Never go home. But when she runs into Cole, her childhood best friend turned cop, the persona she’s carefully crafted begins to…
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