Category: Poetry

Hostile reflections on the ideologies of the “poet’s essay.” Odette Wong Essays, edited by Dorothea Lasky. October 2023 – March 2024 I smell the wetlands around Del Mar, the rock reefs off northern San Diego County coast. A slim paperback with some familiar names on the front cover has just arrived in the mail, messing…

I was in the city that night for work.On this midsize pileamong the vessels of annihilation and blissI wandered as a magnificent beetlefrom Ernst Junger’s collection.Cicindela Ohlonewas not a position,but the description of a possibilitywe met at the empty bar.This furious eruditeshit from The Holy Familyleft illuminated Zoom transcripts, shouted, “Sickwere these descriptions of Lisbon’s…