The first time my parents caught me lying it was summer & I told them I was sleeping at Spencer’s when I really slept in a car parked in a field next to the leftovers of a bonfire & woke up to a bee flying into my forehead over & over. My mom called Spencer’s […]
Issue 75
Mercer Bufter: The Truant Lover Review
Juliet Patterson’s The Truant Lover (Nightboat Books, $14.95) strikes a rich, full chord, delivering moments of disjunction as well as high lyric beauty. While sampling or adapting work from a host of sources including Rae Armantrout, Tomaz Salamun, Richard Meier, Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, Grey’s Anatomy and The Golden Book of Birds, Juliet Patterson weaves […]