Issue 76 | Fall 2023

Conversations: Nicole Callihan and Anna V. Q. Ross

“The intimacy, yes. The kinship. Here is my poem; here is my mind.”

If the stillness is Volcanic: Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love (2022) and Werner Herzog’s The Fire Within (2022)

Dosa and Herzog invest their gaze on two decidedly different surfaces of the taut rope on which Katia and Maurice walk: the glow and the burn. 

Borderwork: Katarina Zdjelar’s Käthe Kollwitz

It accumulates, repeats, obsesses, this interest in Kollwitz’s work, always back to the physical shock of her art.

Zeitgeist & Gristle: an Ecocritical Appraisal of Specter Mountain

When all is said and done, the mountain grants no quarter to those who refuse to respect its dominion.

A Local Habitation and a Name: On Luke Fischer’s A Gamble for My Daughter

Fischer is a poet of unique ambition and intelligence.