In January, 1974, Tomas Edward Bojeski, aka Thomas James, put an end to his life by shooting himself in the head with a handgun.  He was only twenty-seven, and had just published his first book, Letters to a Stranger, which would receive one disdainful review describing him as a “pale Plath.”  But Letters would acquire [...]

Drive down a freeway through typical North American urban sprawl – whether it be Toronto, New Jersey, Houston or L.A. – and you will encounter a cluttered yet relentlessly vacuous landscape.  In her latest collection, Expressway, Sina Queyras takes that landscape as an extended metaphor for our contemporary world:  a world of blurring speeds, heavy [...]