ANTI

by Rachel Mallino

Genres: Poetry

5 pages, e-chap

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Rachel is Founder and Editor for Tilt Press and Administrator for ITWS, an online poetry workshop.

Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in 42opus, BOXCAR Poetry Review, Pebble Lake Review, Weave Magazine, Memorious, Arsenic Lobster, Blue Fifth Review, Stirring, Lily, Clean Sheets, Melic Review, Triplopia, TRIM, Wicked Alice, Niederngasse, Poets Online, and others.

Her poem "Knucklebone" placed in Sundress Publication's Best Of The Net 2006.

She is the author of ANTI, a mini e-chap, published by Gold Wake Press in 2008, the author of Inside Bone There's Always Marrow (Maverick Duck Press, 2009, and most recently, 309.81 (Dancing Girl Press, 2011).

Reviews

[Talia · Rating 5 out of 5]

E-book. 5 great Mallino poems.

[abcdefg · Rating 3 out of 5]

So there are 5 poems and each of them are titled by the name of an over-the-counter drug used to treat depression. I think I took away from them a sense of torture even before I actually googled the titles to find out what they were. Some really playful language is used here: "pentagonal lollygag", "juice-box cretin", "Pill pauper", etc. and while there's not really a definite sense of what specifically these poems are saying, there's still a vague feeling they evoke of despair, desperation, confusion, anxiety, and pain.

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[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

There needs to be a psychopharmaceutical anthology! I love these--but I felt some of them I felt weren't violent or disjointed enough for the subject matter; though I suppose it is hard to digitally reproduce drool-stains on the page...

[John]

no, I haven't read it so far.

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like the way Mallino works her words. Very effective and interesting. Also, anyone bold enough to include such a gross pun, "pill pauper," deserves the Pulitzer.