Our publications explore the boundary between the virtual nature of digital information and the viscerality of text.-A Fence imprint-

Our publications explore the boundary between the virtual nature of digital information and the viscerality of text.-A Fence imprint-

CONSTANT CRITIC

Jordan Davis Reviews Mary Ruefle’s Apparition Hill

Mary Ruefle’s poetry has always preferred to be read at twilight, when what appears at first to be a tissue of wryly-observed but loosely related details can become in an instant as solid as a…

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Ray McDaniel Reviews Olena Kalytiak Davis’s shattered sonnets love cards and other off and back handed importunities

Reading shattered sonnets et al is like reading an anthology of love poems condensed, crushed, laced with a mild hallucinogen, and distilled—via loop and tube and silly straw—into a mead and…

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DIGITAL CORRESPONDENT

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Imaginary Liminality Steps From The Train: How To Dreamwalk the World of Craigslist Apartments

In an ever changing and increasingly depressing internet landscape we, the collective users, have learned to restrain our expectations...And yet, within this vast ever darkening digital ocean one human island remains: Craigslist.

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Automata Paint Bucket Abject 9

Hysterically Real’s De-automata, or Picture Books

There’s a poetics of deflation at play: deflating expectations, deflating ego. I enter, say, Abject-Oriented Anthology with my smart theory boy hat on and realize it’s a flip-book.

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And The Next Thing You Know

The digital poem “plays with a sentence spoken by the comedian and actor Gabriel Iglesias on the documentary series Inside Jokes — ‘And the next thing you know, there’s Mexicans in Canada.’”

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ELECMENT

A Memoir of Editing Diane di Prima’s Revolutionary Letters

we are in the middle of a bloody, heartrending revolution / not western civilization, but civilization itself / i have just realized that the stakes are myself

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The Compendium and Dream Books: A Short Essay About Lists and Books of Lists, That Itself Contains a Number of Lists

Artifice, then, is the thing that gets a poem to precision and truth.

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