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From the cover of Scattered at Sea<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week, in anticipation of sending files to our printer, I\u2019ve mostly been reading the work that will make up our Fall issue. But I\u2019ve snuck moments to read from Amy Gerstler\u2019s new collection, Scattered at Sea<\/a><\/em>. Gerstler\u2019s poems are witty and direct, informal but also decisive. She seems to be thinking about things that other people aren\u2019t thinking about\u2014or they are thinking about them but don\u2019t take notice of the fact. So we have \u201cOn Wanting to Be Male,\u201d in which she \u201cLusted after their sprint speed, briefcases, Tahitian aftershave, crew cuts, blue nuts, thrusty cutlasses\u201d instead of the \u201cundulating, oft-colonized potential baby cave\u201d of the \u201cfemale model.\u201d Elsewhere, she imagines herself as a cavewoman who \u201cCan\u2019t keep cave clean\u201d and has \u201cTender feeling for baby mammoth as we eat him.\u201d There are moments of sublimity, too, as when she describes a sunset as \u201ca cocktail of too many boozes \/ she\u2019d like to switch off \/ via remote control \/ but there\u2019s no antidote \/ for celestial events.\u201d And when she says of the early Greek philosophers, \u201cgetting a lot of the science right \/ \u00a0While still pawing through entrails to divine the future,\u201d I feel the distance between then and now shrink to almost nothing.\u00a0\u2014Nicole Rudick <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Speechwriter\"<\/a>Barton Swaim\u2019s memoir The Speechwriter<\/a><\/em> is about his time working for Mark Sanford, the disgraced former governor of South Carolina\u2014but Sanford\u2019s name never appears in print, which helps the book to shrug off the lurid connotations of political tell-alls. There\u2019s actually nothing scandalous in The Speechwriter<\/em>: it\u2019s a sober, lucid, funny story about language and its fraught relation to statesmanship. Early on, Swaim learns that what the governor wants from him isn\u2019t well-honed rhetoric\u2014it\u2019s logorrhea, a torrent of verbiage designed to conceal the total absence of content at the heart of the gubernatorial body. \u201cSometimes,\u201d he writes, \u201cI felt no more attachment to the words I was writing than a dog has to its vomit.\u201d In the extent of its dysfunction, Sanford\u2019s office seems like something out of an Armando Iannucci show, and Swaim allows himself to feel cynical about it, but never inhumane or Orwellian. In fact, unlike nearly every book of its kind, The Speechwriter <\/em>at its core is sensitive and apolitical: Swain just wants to understand why we so often insist on mangling the language. \u2014Dan Piepenbring<\/strong><\/strong> <\/p>\n

Matthew Gavin Frank\u2019s anti-cookbook, The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour Through America\u2019s Food<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>will make you hungry, yes; more important, it\u2019ll interest you in the autoerotic side effects of preparing crawfish \u00e9touff\u00e9e, and what Jefferson Davis had to do with the creation of the Philly cheesesteak. The fifty essays\u2014one from each state\u2014and accompanying recipes are heaped with digression on top of digression: they have titles like \u201cThe Material Consequence of Boston Cream Pie.\u201d I couldn\u2019t help but laugh when I saw his recipe for barbecue ribs placed happily after the essay \u201cA Blow to the Head for St. Louis Barbecue,\u201d which is nearly entirely about murder and the slow-motion killing of a pig with a hammer. The Mad Feast<\/em> specializes in this kind of absurdity by juxtaposition; it\u2019s a raucous gastro-crawl through regional American cuisine that\u2019s left me curiously hungry for, among others, Creamy Cape Cod Clam Chowder, Key Lime Pie, California Rolls, Peanut Soup, and Moravian Spice Cookies. \u2014Jeffery Gleaves<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"selectedLaterPoems_mech_NEWTRIMSIZE.indd\"<\/a>A few weeks ago I took home a big book, C. K. William\u2019s Selected Later Poems<\/a><\/em>. As I find often happens with big books, the collection sat on my floor for a while, bolstering a small tower of more slender volumes. And it stayed there until my friend came over and spotted the author\u2019s name on the barely visible spine. \u201cHave you read this?\u201d No. \u201cYou would like him. He\u2019s smart.\u201d When he left, I opened it. The book is big because the poems are big, wider than my hand is long, with sentences stretched and hanging over lines\u2014all while avoiding the familiar poetic metaphors for vastness, the eyes-glazing-over-ness, the grandeur. I myself had never read intelligence, or maybe the act of thinking, so clearly manifested as a form of ongoing expanse that one can get lost in or gorge on. Of course, most people who will pick up this book know this, and much more, about Williams already. But if you, like me, are new to reading him, this selection feels like a logical place to start. In other words: You would like him. He\u2019s smart. \u2014Jake Orbison<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wayne Koestenbaum\u2019s recently reissued Andy Warhol<\/a><\/em> is billed as a biography, but the book is far from traditional. Koestenbaum\u2019s extravagant theoretical leaps, like Roland Barthes on pep pills, are the primary showcase here. See how he traces Warhol\u2019s infatuation with insubstantiality and arresting physical processes to a complex family relationship with \u201ccandy,\u201d silk-screen blotting from his mottled complexion, and the interminable studies of subjects on film as a dissecting sexual act. The scholarly chassis undergirding the process shows through in Wayne\u2019s take on Warhol\u2019s largely neglected films, which reveal Andy\u2019s perception of \u201ctime as traumatic and as erotic.\u201d This ethic is particularly evident in the erotic trilogy spanning 1963-1964, where \u201ceros does not exist apart from time: time is arousal\u2019s medium. Excitement imposes a \u201cbefore\u201d and \u201cafter,\u201d and extends the \u201cduring,\u201d making the duration of sex \u2026 seem, some days, spacious and airy, and, other days, cloistered as a tomb.\u201d \u2014Casey Henry<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, in anticipation of sending files to our printer, I\u2019ve mostly been reading the work that will make up our Fall issue. But I\u2019ve snuck moments to read from Amy Gerstler\u2019s new collection, Scattered at Sea. Gerstler\u2019s poems are witty and direct, informal but also decisive. 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