Farrago’s Wainscot
An exhibition of weirds and an almanac of experimentation, decay, and the problems with form.
Distillations: Tell Me a Story
A poem with a plot seems like a violation of some kind of natural law. The condensed design of poetry conveys the entirety of a moment at once. How can a poem build a narrative arc like that of fiction? The answer lies in the history of poetry itself. At one time, poetry’s mission was […]
Continue ReadingFarrago’s Wainscot, Part VI: Obscura
Farrago’s Wainscot clearly wants readers to believe that it is a radical, experimental e-zine. Part VI: Obscura explores themes of estrangement from society, with some interesting, multilayered storytelling, but on the evidence of the six stories presented, it would be a mistake to assume that this e-zine is in any way inaccessible or too […]
Continue ReadingFarrago’s Wainscot, Issue 5
Farrago’s Wainscot presents itself as a quarterly journal of experimentation, decay, and the problems with form and “as evidence of new ideas about artistic meaning.” Reviews of Farrago’s Wainscot have at least twice referenced the term “interstitial,” and the magazine left previous Fix reviewer, K. Tempest Bradford, feeling like an anime character with huge question […]
Continue ReadingDistillations: Assonance
This month we continue our exploration of poetry techniques with assonance, defined as the repetition of vowel sounds. Last month, I referred to assonance as “alliteration’s crafty cousin.” The reason for this is that assonance is much less visually obvious. Although the English language is quite free with the correspondence of spelling to sound, this […]
Continue ReadingDistillations: An Introduction
Welcome to Distillations, a monthly review of Speculative Poetry. The field of Speculative Poetry embraces every subgenre of science fiction and fantasy imaginable in every existing poetry form, plus some made up fresh for the occasion. What it doesn’t include is a lot of words. That means that every letter, every piece of punctuation, […]
Continue ReadingFarrago’s Wainscot IV
Issue 4 of Farrago’s Wainscot contains five stories. Two are reprints, one’s an excerpt, and two are original. As Farrago’s is “an exhibition of the weirds,” one expects unconventionality to rule. But some of the stories left me feeling like an anime character with huge question marks hovering above my head.
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