That was the summer at Bognor, back in the dunes, when Iris at nineteen held in Nancy Manners’ Kirby Grips a tiny smoldering ember of hashish wrapped in a strip of The Telegraph (Father called it The Tory-graph), inhaled deeply and waited, as Nancy vomited on the sand, for what would come. Some aspirant boy had […]
Tag Archives: Benjamin Goluboff
Ho Chi Minh: A Speculative Life in Verse and Other Poems by Benjamin Goluboff Review by Unbroken staff
Take a subject, any subject, pass it through the speculative heart of a poet, and it is transformed, it becomes something new, or maybe reveals something that was there all along. This is what Benjamin Goluboff has done in this collection. With powerful language and stunning imagery, the poet begs us to look again at […]
Walker Evans Saves The Bridge by Benjamin Goluboff
Their fathers had been, if not friends, associates in the elaborate network of capitalist exchange whose ramifications seemed to extend to the very boundaries of the Columbus Heights neighborhood where the two young men, along with certain kindred spirits, had established a kind of demi-monde. And so it was only natural, when brought together by […]