(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
(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
(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
(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
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
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