review of Rarer and More Wonderful now up at Cutbank…

“Sometimes the lines drop quickly in columns shaped like a syringe or sometimes they break like the brim of a good tumbler. One cannot simply read this book once, drawn back to it by the allure one might associate with an absinthe cocktail. In fact, a kind of esoteric romance haunts these poems—edgy, dangerous, complex. Being that this is Calvert’s first published full-length collection, and the first book by California’s Scrambler Books, readers have much to look forward to from the future of both.

Read that and much more from a new review by Michael Roberson of Trevor Calvert’s Rarer and More Wonderful at Cutbank.

new Scrambler issue out

Issue 28 – May 2009 of The Scrambler is now available online at:
http://thescrambler.com/may09

featuring poetry by Paul Hostovsky, Chris Major, and Lyn Lifshin…5 photos by Aaron Dailey…the 20th CCACA Ceramics Conference in pictures…artwork by Aditi Laddha…State of Play & Tell No One a double movie review by Heather Craig…Playlist #15 compiled by Melanie Uyeda

Enjoy.

interview with Shane Jones

“I just keep thinking about what I haven’t written.”

From an interview done by Powell’s with forthcoming Scrambler Books author Shane Jones (A Cake Appeared will be out in Spring, 2010).