The Stoker

Having trouble viewing this email? [Click here]( to view it in your browser. [Newsletter Banner]   July 5, 2024 [Share on Twitter]( [Share on Facebook]( [Forward to a Friend]( [A black-and-white photograph of Wolfgang Hilbig in a dark coat and gloves, a satchel over his shoulder. Behind him is a desolate country landscape.]( Essay [The Stoker]( Wolfgang Hilbig wrote poems of gothic lyricism while laboring in Germany’s bleak industrial landscapes. By Matthew Spencer [A black-and-white collage of hands affixing chains to a large human heart.]( Essay [Attached and Riveted]( The links between queer memory, activism, and transpoetics in Julian Carter’s Dances of Time and Tenderness. By Megan Milks [A collage art as the cover of the Poetry and Film collection]( collection [Poetry and Film: Reading in the Dark]( Poetry, like the movie theater, is built out of dark and light. The ink and the page. The room and the screen. By Adam O. Davis [A photo of Guild Literary Complex staff members Kenya Fulton, Caroline McCraw, Andrea Change, and Alanis Caref posing in front a stage lit with red and green lights. Red and black graphical elements frame the photo.]( Foundation News [Meet our Grantee-Partner: Guild Literary Complex]( The Guild Literary Complex (Guild Complex) was established in 1989 as a community bookstore, which soon became a nonprofit organization providing poetry programming to communities in Chicago that did not have access to such opportunities. After more than 30 years, the organization continues to provide dynamic poetry and literary programming across the city. [Cover of If Today Were Tomorrow by Humberto Ak'abal]( Book Review [If Today Were Tomorrow by Humberto Ak’abal, tr. by Michael Bazzett]( Kʼicheʼ Mayan poet Humberto Ak’abal was born in the western highlands of Guatemala, a place his translator, Michael Bazzett, describes as holding “mountains covered in cloud forest.” This strangely enticing and obscured view of the mountains is echoed in If Today Were Tomorrow, in which the visible is often difficult to grasp. REVIEWED BY Janani Ambikapathy [Cover of Good Want by Domenica Martinello]( Book Review [Good Want by Domenica Martinello]( Domenica Martinello’s Good Want explores how precarity can shape one’s relationship to desire, language, and valuation—cultural, moral, and aesthetic. REVIEWED BY Virginia Konchan [Cover of Landsickness by Leigh Lucas]( Book Review [Landsickness by Leigh Lucas]( In Leigh Lucas’s startling chapbook, Landsickness, “Nights // Are each the same” as the speaker “lie[s] in bed and stare[s] into the messy monuments in search of signs from the beyond.” REVIEWED BY Leonora Simonovis [GET POETRY]( [The Poetry Foundation]( [The Poetry Foundation on Twitter]( [The Poetry Foundation on Facebook]( [The Poetry Foundation on Instagram](   You have received this email because you submitted your email address at www.poetryfoundation.org. You may [unsubscribe]( or [change]( your newsletter subscription preferences at any time. © 2024 Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation 61 W. Superior Street Chicago, IL 60654 USA #