Ennui

by Jared Daniel Fagen (Editor), Anton Ivanov (Editor), Evan Lavender-Smith (Contributor)

Featuring Brad Baumgartner, Donald Breckenridge, Patty Yumi Cottrell, Ashley David, Helmut Dosantos, Ian Dreiblatt, Berit Ellingsen, Ennio Flaiano, Daniel James Fraser, Frank Garrett, Adam Golaski, Anton Ivanov, K. Thomas Kahn, Paul Kavanagh, Lital Khaikin, Jesse Kohn, Meghan Lamb, Jonathan Larson, Evan Lavender-Smith, Eugene Lim, Adam Lovasz, Friederike Mayröcker, Adam McOmber, Iris Moulton, Elliott Niblock, Pierre Senges, Jacob Siefring, Haley Hemenway Sledge, Matt Trease, & John Trefry

230 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2016

About the author

Jared Daniel Fagen is the author of The Animal of Existence (Black Square Editions, 2022). His poems, prose, and conversations have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Lana Turner, and Asymptote, among other publications. He is an adjunct assistant professor of poetry in the Writing MFA program at Columbia University, an adjunct lecturer in English at the City College of New York, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, and the editor and publisher of Black Sun Lit. Born in Jeollanam-do, South Korea, he lives in Brooklyn and the western Catskills.

Reviews

[Bob Comparda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Evan Lavender-Smith - The Cliff's Edge ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Iris Moulton - The First Step is to Always Be Aware ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Adam Golaski - Two Poems ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Lital Khaikin - ВѢДѢТИ from "Outplace" ⭐⭐
Daniel James Fraser - Shopping ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Adam McOmber - Sleep and Death ⭐⭐⭐
Haley Hemenway Sledge - Two Girls ⭐⭐⭐
Friederike Mayröcker - Fragments from "Fleurs" ⭐⭐
Paul Kavanagh - Journey ⭐⭐⭐
Donald Breckenridge - Gates Avenue ⭐⭐⭐
Berit Ellingsen - Nordaustlandet ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Patty Yumi Cottrell - The Forest of Tnak ⭐⭐⭐
Matt Trease - Five Poems from "Bailiwick \ Bay-luh-wik \ Noun" ⭐⭐
Ian Dreiblatt - Fragments from "Ill Ibid" ⭐⭐⭐
Pierre Senges - A Slightly Vain Exercise in Style ⭐⭐
Frank Garrett - The Passion of Passivity: Blanchot, Bartleby, and the Ethics of Writing ⭐⭐
JD Larson - Four Poems ⭐⭐⭐
Ennio Flaiano - The Second to Last Supper ⭐⭐
Eugene Lim - Inspector Tate from "Ursula's Curse" ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Brad Baumgartner - Meditations of Libby Grenot (Love's Patience) ⭐⭐⭐
Ashley David - Four Poems ⭐⭐⭐
John Trefry - Mummy from "Apparitions of the Living" ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Meghan Lamb - Inventory ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
K. Thomas Kahn - Three Poems ⭐⭐
Adam Lovasz - The Promise of Carelessness ⭐⭐⭐
Helmut Dosantos - Everyman Man ⭐⭐
Elliott Niblock - Three Poems ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Jesse Kohn - Preface ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐