Introduction Readers of the New Explorations Weblog may be, via the glowing review posted by Robert K. Logan (which has been subsequently re-posted across a variety of social media), already familiar with the latest publication by the provocative NYC-based poet, professor, and public intellectual, Adeena Karasick: Massaging the Medium: Seven Pechakuchas, published by the Institute

Although as the editor of the journal New Explorations, I have assigned the review of Adeena Karasick’s book Massaging the Medium: Seven Pechakuchas to Steve Hicks, I decided to also review her book, as I so enjoyed reading it. Karasick’s poetry is so delightful and contagious that one wants to imitate it, so at times

Upon the onset of winter, secluded in the wilds of Northern Ontario, I was inspired to revisit Glenn Gould’s contrapuntal radio composition The Idea of North (1967). This sonic artwork places the voices of various interviewees in a disjunct and non-narrative counterpoint, discussing their experiences of ‘north,’ meanwhile unified by the steady rumble of a