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-
Ray McDaniel Reviews Monica Youn’s Barter
March 30, 2024
As a metaphor, of course, clarity fails. This idea that the language of which poetry is made exists optimally as a transparent sheet, a substance through which Something Other can best be…
Jordan Davis Reviews Mary Ruefle’s Apparition Hill
February 29, 2024
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…
Imaginary Liminality Steps From The Train: How To Dreamwalk the World of Craigslist Apartments
March 13, 2022
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.
Hysterically Real’s De-automata, or Picture Books
December 21, 2020
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.
And The Next Thing You Know
August 3, 2020
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.’”
A Memoir of Editing Diane di Prima’s Revolutionary Letters
October 16, 2021
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
The Compendium and Dream Books: A Short Essay About Lists and Books of Lists, That Itself Contains a Number of Lists
September 10, 2021
Artifice, then, is the thing that gets a poem to precision and truth.