TerminationsGraham Foust The uncanny ninth collection from Graham Foust. "Reading Terminations is like watching a make up tutorial in reversewhich is to say, the deconstruction of an art that, on its face, is applied to conceal and therefore beautify what is inherently colored by the decay it daily wears. So it shocks us to see something so seemingly done up come undone and more shocking (and uncanny and satisfying) still to realize ah, that's what it looks like

Smoke trails out over distant salt mines

which combine singing

he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning

great Lauren Berlant

These poems use genres of queerness and race to reckon with the pervasive power of oppressive institutions

reclameleuzen en politieke slogans op zoek naar een nieuwe taal om de geschiedenis van zijn land recht te doen

she pursues the self

/ be alive / in that which is

The Cantos of Ezra Pound is one of the great landmarks in twentieth-century poetry

noch had de dichteres het op enig ander moment in haar leven kunnen schrijven

Asiya Wadud’s poems engage in this act

urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this divisive and stuck moment in American history