In the second of two essays, Chad Reynolds adjudges that in The Presentable Art of Reading Absence Wright himself could have stood to evanesce a smidge of his own ego in the course of his “users guide to evanescence”

In the first of two essays on Jay Wright’s new Dalkey Archive books, Chad Reynolds describes the work of an old poet not half ready to go under the earth and still coming to terms with what it means to live on the surface in Polynomials and Pollen.

A poem by Chad Reynolds

Two poets gather up the treasures of the past, one by tossing them in a pile, the other by building a gallery. Chad Reynolds digs into new books by Amy England and Priscilla Sneff.

Chad Reynolds muses on the power of storytellers to model and even change reality: the harsh reality of Lloyd Jones’ Mister Pip and Stephen Marche’s strange new world in Shining at the Bottom of the Sea.