Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel of time-unhinged, Slaughterhouse-Five, is one of my favorite novels. Not only is it fun to read, but it’s also thought-provoking and interesting. Protagonist Billy Pilgrim is entertainingly dispassionate about his mundane…
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down has been sitting on my bookshelf for just about a year now. I picked it up in a used bookstore in Austin, Texas, last March and haven’t had the chance to…
I found these two poems in an anthology called Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature (pictured left). I absolutely loved “Stupid America” because of the vehemence of the poetic voice and the…
Okay, I have to start by admitting that I thought this poem was going to be a book-length work, so I was really surprised when I discovered that it was really only a few pages…
When the blurb on the back cover said Dutchman was “designed to shock–its basic idea, its language and its murderous rage,” I suppose I still wasn’t really expecting what happened. I mistook Clay’s impassioned rant…
This collection is definitely haunting. At first, I was kind of enjoying the content, since each of the poems is quite narrative (always a plus for me, since I struggle with poetry, especially of the…
Finally! I’ve been meaning to read this book for about…oh, half a decade. I have to admit that the narrative style of this novel was really anti-absorptive (to borrow a term from Charles Bernstein). Momaday’s…