A Contrived World by Jung Young Moon Trans. by Jeffrey Karvonen & Mah Eunji Dalkey Archives Press, 2016 $16.00 Constructing A Contrived World, Korean writer and translator Jung Young Moon layers thoughtful vignettes, pulled from his narrator’s vivid imagination, to weave fiction and reality together. Set in the streets of a fictitious San Francisco, the narrator’s world …
Radio Silence Poems by Philip Schaefer & Jeff Whitney Black Lawrence Press, 2016 $8.95 Winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition, Philip Schaefer and Jeff Whitney’s collaborative effort, Radio Silence, is as much an urgent call to arms against cyber immersion as it is a nostalgic ode to human connectivity and curiosity. The voices of Schaefer and Whitney …
Prosthesis by Ian Hatcher Poor Claudia, 2016 $17.50 In The Question Concerning Technology German philosopher Martin Heidegger explains that technology is a framework through which man can access a higher plane of truth and understanding. However, the creation of this framework inherently conceals truth in its attempt to provide a comprehensible platform. It’s a paradoxical relationship, and Heidegger …
Rochester Knockings: A Novel of the Fox Sisters by Hubert Haddad Trans. by Jennifer Grotz Open Letter Books, 2015 $16.95 In Rochester Knockings Tunisian author Hubert Haddad brings to life with exquisite historical detail the theater and sensation of the Fox sisters, spiritual mediums who captivated the world in the mid-nineteenth century. Haddad travels through time and …