Bettridge on O'Leary.

The estimable Joel Bettridge has published a penetrating book in the Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature series entitled Avant-Garde Pieties: Aesthetics, Race, and the Renewal of Innovative Poetics. The fourth chapter, entitled “Case Studies,” includes a reading of Phosphorescence of Thought in relation to Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely and Kenneth Goldsmith’s The Weather. Strange bedfellows! But Bettridge’s reading is unusually astute. He really gets the poem. Here’s a PDF of his reading of my poem.

Bettridge on Phosphorescence of Thought.

And if you’re interested, Avant-Garde Pieties.

Kylan Rice on Verge Books.

A major review of Verge Books by Kylan Rice at West Branch. Rice treats in detail Alicia Cohen's Coherer and Joseph Donahue's Dark Church, along with Verge co-captain John Tipton's translation of Aeschylus's Seven Against Thebes, and my own Phosphorescence of Thought. A feast of a review!

In other Verge news, Tirzah Goldenberg's first book, Aleph, has at last been published. Get yourself a copy!

Phosphorescence of Thought.

Here are some reviews and noticings of Phosphorescence of Thought (Cultural Society, 2013).

Stephen Burt, New Yorker's Page Turner (mainly on Ronald Johnson's ARK)

Publishers Weekly

Nate Klug, The Economy

Brandon Krieg, Poetry Northwest

Jacqueline Lyons, Colorado Review

J. Peter Moore, Chicago Review

Jeff Hamilton, GoodReads

Amy Brown, Plumwood Mountain Review

Forrest Gander, Recommended Readings

Ismael Belda, Revisita de Libros

Ricardo Cázares, Mula Blanco (see p. 29)

Not a review, but a YouTube bonus: me reading the Benedicite hymn in Phosphorescence of Thought at Harvard in December 2014, joined by Dan Beachy-Quick, Fanny Howe, and Patrick Pritchett. Gnostic mysterium.