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Ugly Duckling Presse

A Review of Modern Love by Constance DeJong

December 4, 2017

Gloria Beth Amodeo

(Brooklyn, NY: Primary Information & Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017) “I’ve been seeing too many artists,” Constance DeJong tells us at the beginning of Modern Love. “I can’t go through life looking at how objects are colored, cut out and arranged. … Continued

A Review of Staying Alive by Laura Sims

May 15, 2017

Timothy Lindner

(Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016) I, like Laura Sims, have mulled over the various ways in which the world could end on many nights.  She says it “is just a roundabout way of worrying about death, I suppose, though … Continued

A Review of Ventrakl by Christian Hawkey

October 17, 2016

Cassie Hay

(Brooklyn, NY: Ugling Duckling Presse, 2010) Berlin, July 30, 2010 The ticket-taker wears a black tuxedo with red silk cummerbund. He has a ruddy face and his body is round and broad like a bear. He tears our tickets gruffly, … Continued

A Review of Fantasy by Ben Fama

March 28, 2016

F. Daniel Rzicznek

(Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015) In Ben Fama’s debut full-length collection, Fantasy, one is struck not by how much of our contemporary culture (actual culture: smart phones, luxury cars, internet pornography, cyberspeak, etc.) is present, but by the contrast … Continued

A Review of Diana’s Tree by Alejandra Pizarnik

February 12, 2015

Heather Lang

Translated from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert (Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015) Last November, my introduction to Diana’s Tree was similar to that awe one feels when meeting an exceptional human being—I was rendered speechless. After my first read through … Continued

A Review of Commentary by Marcelle Sauvageot

September 3, 2014

Gloria Beth Amodeo

Translated from the French by Christine Schwartz Hartley & Anna Moschovakis (Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013) Marcelle Sauvageot’s Commentary begins with a woman who begs herself for words. She can sense that her lover has pulled away. The anticipation … Continued

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