Underscore Red Schiff pauses to invoke three

Schiff pauses to invoke three terrifying muses-parasitic wasps-in desperate awe of their powers of precision and generative energy

Stephane Mallarmé

Japanese suffering body after World War II

drawing its source material from chance encounters—wordless interactions in basements or bathrooms or hotel rooms—to archives of 20th century critical theory

Underscore Red Schiff pauses to invoke threeJulie Carr Julie Carrs deeply intimate collection, Underscore, is dedicated to two of Carrs foundational teachers, the dancer Nancy Stark Smith and the poet Jean Valentine, both of whom died in 2020. Elegiac, tender, and at times erotic or bitter, these poems remain deeply invested in human relationships amid a life whose backdrop is human suffering. Reaching toward the ghost companions in the thicket and to the beloveds who still pulse with activity,