For Full Stop, I reviewed madison moore’s Fabulous (Yale University Press, 2018). Read it here: https://www.full-stop.net/2018/04/17/reviews/adam-fales/fabulous-madison-moore/
Category: Essays and Reviews
See? On Jenny Xie’s Eye Level
For Debutantes (now Debbie), I reviewed Jenny Xie’s poetry collection Eye Level (Graywolf Press, 2018). Read it here: https://debutantes.squarespace.com/lessai/2018/4/4/see-on-jenny-xies-eye-level
Here Comes the Sun
For Real Life, I wrote an essay about the history of morning shows and one recent attempt to revamp the morning show for Twitter. I use this history to think about the regulation of time and the way that we sync our schedules together. Read it here: https://reallifemag.com/here-comes-the-sun/
If Walt Whitman’s language provided the basis of a book called Better Nature that reworked his journals and poetry to show their colonizing implications; if that book were to be reviewed in Debutantes
For Debutantes (now Debbie), I reviewed Fenn Stewart’s poetry collection Better Nature (BookThug, 2017). Read my review here: https://debutantes.squarespace.com/lessai/2018/1/3/if-walt-whitmans-language-provided-the-basis-of-a-book-called-better-nature-that-reworked-his-journals-and-poetry-to-show-their-colonizing-implications-if-that-book-were-to-be-reviewed-in-debutantes
Review of Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs. Caliban
For Full Stop, I reviewed the reissue of Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs. Caliban (New Directions, 2017). This essay was collected in The Full Stop Reviews Supplement #3. Read it here: https://www.full-stop.net/2017/12/06/reviews/adam-fales/mrs-caliban-rachel-ingalls/
What a Punderful Word: On Joanna Walsh’s “Worlds from the Word’s End”
For LARB, I reviewed Joanna Walsh’s short story collection Worlds from the Word’s End (And Other Stories, 2017). This review follows up on some literary theoretical research I had done on puns, as they are taken up by poets like Harryette Mullen. This review particularly attends to the way that Walsh uses the pun as a form of thought to create inventive and surprising connections that would not be knowable otherwise. Read it here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-a-punderful-word-on-joanna-walshs-worlds-from-the-words-end/
Foreign Companion: Jean Giono’s “Melville: A Novel”
For LARB, I reviewed Jean Giono’s Melville: A Novel (NYRB Classics, 2017). This review thinks through the fictionalization of Herman Melville’s biography and its resonances with the French context of Giono’s own writing. Read more here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/foreign-companion-jean-gionos-melville-a-novel/
