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Rachel Sennott in Shiva Baby<\/em>. Photo: Maria Rusche. Courtesy of Utopia.<\/p><\/div>\n

The writer and director Emma Seligman is in good company. Like the breakout features of auteurs such as Wes Anderson, Ana Lily Amirpour, and Damien Chazelle, Seligman\u2019s feature-length debut, Shiva Baby<\/em><\/a>, evolved from a short film of the same name. The story centers on the near\u2013college graduate Danielle (Rachel Sennott), who struggles to keep her composure when her ex-girlfriend and her sugar daddy turn up at a family shiva. The title does a lot of work in forecasting the mood of the film, mixing sugar baby<\/em>, or one who works as a companion for an older client, with shiva<\/em>, the Jewish period of mourning. The tension between the two terms manifests in Danielle, literally and figuratively lost between bassinet and casket, no longer a defenseless child but not quite an independent woman, swirling in the awkward overlap of what were previously distinct and separate social circles. The film\u2019s genre matches this duality, with more cringe and quips than most comedies but dizzying visuals and a nervy score fit for horror, straddling the humorous nuance of Gillian Robespierre\u2019s Obvious Child<\/em> and the familial psychodrama of Trey Edward Shults\u2019s Krisha<\/em>, both of which also began as shorts. But if you\u2019re not interested in form, then show up for the cast. Polly Draper is a standout as Danielle\u2019s mother, Dianna Agron is tension incarnate, and Sennott makes good on the promise of her Twitter bio: \u201csexy in a weird unconventional dreary way.\u201d \u2014Christopher Notarnicola\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gjertrud Schnackenberg\u2019s poem \u201cStrike into It Unasked<\/a>,\u201d which appears in the Spring issue, opens with a LaserJet printer and moves into the realms of physics and faith. Similarly, \u201cVenus Velvet No. 2,\u201d one of the six long poems that make up her 2010 collection, Heavenly Questions<\/em><\/a>, begins with a pencil and its \u201cvein of graphite ore preoccupied\u2009\/\u2009In microcrystalline eternity.\u201d But it would be wrong to say Schnackenberg\u2019s work is just an experience of finding the divine in the mundane. Her verse is formally considered and lush, musical prosody rendered in mystical and expansive language. Heavenly Questions<\/em>\u00a0is a slim volume to be read with the window thrown open on a bright spring afternoon, an encounter with possibility, the passage of time, and a poignancy that both settles and troubles the mind.\u00a0\u2014Lauren Kane<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Garielle Lutz. Photo courtesy of Short Flight \/ Long Drive Books.<\/p><\/div>\n

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In the title story of Garielle Lutz\u2019s new collection Worsted<\/em>, forthcoming from Short Flight \/ Long Drive Books<\/a>, language itself has become deeply suspect. This would not be quite so notable, I suppose, if Lutz weren\u2019t known for her incredible use of English. Lutz\u2019s work is a marvel of the possibilities of language. Each of her sentences is an intricately crafted thing, deeply complex yet crystalline in its clarity; because of the technical nature of her writing, some consider her to be the only untranslatable American writer<\/a>. \u201cWorsted,\u201d however, is partially a story of language\u2019s failures. As soon as \u201csomething gets itself described,\u201d it becomes useless. The letters of the alphabet are \u201ctragedies.\u201d The narrator even points to his own potential to be read incorrectly: \u201cPeople will naturally want to have misread that adverb,\u201d he says. \u201cNo grudge will be held.\u201d But while language has failed the narrator in the opening pages of Worsted<\/em>, Lutz has once again found stunning success in its possibilities. Even as Lutz writes of a man for whom language is nothing but a tragedy, her command of each and every word remains supreme. \u2014Mira Braneck<\/strong><\/p>\n

The experimental filmmaker Ephraim Asili\u2019s debut feature, The Inheritance<\/em><\/a>, is a fascinating exploration of the history of radical Black intellectual thought and art that takes Godard\u2019s La Chinoise<\/em> as inspiration, remixing and filtering it through the lives of a group of young West Philadelphia activists and artists. The film begins with Julian, who has just inherited a house, along with a collection of books and records, from his grandmother. His girlfriend, Gwen, suggests that he turn the house into a collective. Based on Asili\u2019s own time spent living in a Black liberationist group, what follows is a collage of the daily lives of the collective\u2019s members (staging plays, discussing their backgrounds, occasionally having gently comedic arguments about wearing shoes in the house or playing the trumpet in the bathroom) interwoven with video clips of and readings from the figures with whose work they are interacting (early on, there\u2019s an electrifying clip of Shirley Chisholm at a political rally; later, Sonia Sanchez reads one of her poems). Halfway through the film, Asili includes a series of sobering testimonials from three present-day members of MOVE<\/small>, the Philadelphia liberation group that was the target of a police bombing in 1985. Like La Chinoise<\/em>, The Inheritance<\/em> is visually stunning, with a bright palette of primary colors illuminating its scenes. But while Godard\u2019s film veers into criticism of its radical-chic university students, Asili\u2019s is optimistic in its exploration of the possibility of cultural inheritance. \u2014Rhian Sasseen<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is said that old Shetland fishermen, finding themselves bereft of a nautical almanac, might still find their way home by the undercurrent that always travels in the direction of land. It is for this current that Roseanne Watt\u2019s unique 2019 debut, Moder Dy<\/em><\/a>\u2014\u201cmother wave\u201d\u2014is named. The collection is written in both English and Shaetlan, the local vernacular of the Shetland Islands. Watt describes Shaetlan as \u201ca form of Scots shaped by sea roads\u201d and \u201ca fraught coalition between English, Lowland Scots, and old Norse.\u201d That tension manifests in the poems themselves, and there is an uneasy reconciliation of different elements of home, of linguistic inheritance, and of time and generations. In the introduction, Watt recounts how her languages bifurcated around the time she started school, how the moment of realization came when she was on the phone with her grandmother: \u201cAnd with this, a choice seemed to present itself: which one<\/em>?\u201d Moder Dy<\/em> would suggest that Watt has rejected that binary and instead choreographed the two languages to more accurately reflect her own contemporary experience. But while time and tradition relent for Watt, they perhaps do not for others. From an elder we hear \u201cde saat dat coorses trowe\u2009\/\u2009dy veins is de lifebl\u00f6d\u2009\/\u2009o an aulder converseeshun\u201d (in one of Watt\u2019s \u201cuneasy translations,\u201d that is rendered as \u201cthe salt that courses\u2009\/\u2009through your veins is the lifeblood\u2009\/\u2009of an older conversation\u201d). It\u2019s an incredible work of poetics, social history, and translation, and it all seems to be happening before our eyes. \u2014Robin Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Roseanne Watt. Photo courtesy of Birlinn Limited.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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