Retrievals

RetrievalsBy Garrett Caples Description Reviews Retrievals is a collection of criticism about underrecognized poets, unfairly discredited critics, artists obscured by more famous relationsbasically, writers and artists that have fallen off the cultural map or never quite made it there in the first place. These essays, collected for the first time, span 10 years of Garrett Caples writing as an arts journalist and editor at City Lights. His encyclopedic knowledge

can make a poem

but the bath

I like therapy because I don't need my glasses

Here is a preternatural social sensibility that remains poignant even as it confronts what today passes for the sentimental

post confessional/ pseudo conversational set ups

Lasky’s poems are violent and enigmatic

eases immersion into the tight-knit poems

Sarah Burgoyne

the latter make up this book

Baus uses the full palette of the body to bring the inner and outer world into provisional alignment

once written

"—resonant and profound in this restless and thoughtful book