Sensitive Skin Books
Border Crossings
Thaddeus Rutkowski
Sensitive Skin is proud to present Border Crossings, acclaimed writer Thaddeus Rutkowski's first full-length collection of poetry.
Border Crossings is Thaddeus Rutkowski’s first full-length collection of poetry. The ...
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Review
Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats – Review
Marc Olmsted
Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats
by Robert Inchausti
$16.95, Shambhala Books
The title of this collection comes from a rather obscure Bruce Springsteen song that David Bowie covered and ...
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Poem
Wallace Stevens Loses His Job
William Considine
Moment in flux: Tuesday, February 8, 1916.
Place in passing: 55 Liberty Street, Manhattan, New York City:
a new tower, the Liberty Nassau Building,
Liberty Tower, first called the Bryant Building for
William Cullen Bryan...
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Review
Ingmar Bergman Centennial Retrospective
Franklin Mount
The first Bergman film I ever saw was Cries and Whispers. My father took me. At age 14. It was on a double bill with Amarcord. If that sounds like a strange juxtaposition of films for a double bill, well, it is.
Cries an...
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Blade Runner 2049: The Enigma and Exegesis of ‘K’
James Reich
Zwei Selle wohnen ach! In meiner Brust. (Two cells live in my chest.) ... I must go on being a Christian, acting out the role of a genuine revolutionary apostolic Christian, as a strategy: in order to overthrow the Black Iro...
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Poem
Hells Kitchen
Ron Kolm
Hells Kitchen
After the war in Vietnam
Wound down, and my stint
Doing alternative service
Came to an end,
I had to stop
And take stock
Of my situation.
I could return to Pennsylvania
And get a job in a factory
D...
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Review
Best Chinese and Korean Films of 2017
Jim Feast
Best Chinese and Korean Films of 2017
1) The Battle of Memories (Leste Chen, China)
Phillip K. Dickish plot where a futuristic technology goes awry. A process of selectively erasing painful memories gets mixed-up, and th...
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Essay
I Blame Louise Hay for Trump
Larissa Shmailo
I am listening to Abraham Hicks, whom the well-loved New Age maven Louise Hay, may the Universe rest her soul, calls “one of the best teachers on the planet.” Abraham is an “ascended” energy being channeled by a woma...
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