Blog | Paolo Javier Rain Taxi Review |
Joyelle McSweeney offers a generous review of Paolo Javier’s two books in the latest issue of Rain Taxi. Some excerpts:
on the time at the end of this writing:
“The title of The Time at the End of this Writing is like a rhetorical burning fuse, signaling the poems urgency to get written and get read. In service of this urgency, Javier fills up rhetorical and lyric form with lashings of popping, aurally kinetic language. This makes for a various collection, by turns sentimental and syntactically experimental, gestural and thinky.”
on 60 lv bo(e)mbs:
“In his second book, all of Javiers literary and intellectual power sources, private and public languages, political stances and pop references are fused into one relentless, brilliant material which stretches unabated for 84 pages.”
It’s a great article—check out Rain Taxi.
