Joel Calahan

Translator, teacher, reader.


Shelf Life: Sandra Doller, NOT NOW NOW

Sandra Doller, NOT NOW NOW. Rescue Press, 2025. 134pp. Link.
Source: purchased from
The Book Catapult, signed

It is hard to think of these as poems and not as poetic writing that pauses when it hits a margin. The impulse is tumbling wildly forward, echoic but not repetitive, sometimes light but not playful, not designed so much as whipped around with improvised impishness. Hiccuping haecceity. Anxious.