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The latest addition to our Reviews section is a piece by Vincent Francone on MiloÅ¡ Djurdjević’s Morse, My Deaf Friend, translated by the author and published by Ugly Duckling Presse.

The chapbook itself is shortÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½”clocking in at 32 pagesÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½”and is yet another beautiful work of print done by Ugly Duckling. Here’s the beginning of Vince’s review, which tries to get a grasp on what to expect, or not to expect, from poems labeled as “avant-garde”:

ThereÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s little to say about a series of prose poems that willfully refuse to identify pronoun antecedents. Or perhaps there are a million things. The poems in _Morse, My Deaf Friend_ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½” the chapbook by MiloÅ¡ Djurdjević published by Ugly Duckling Presse as part of their Eastern European Poets SeriesÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½” will be confounding to those accustomed to poetry that holds its readerÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s hand. These poems do not. They are elliptical and strange and offer very few concrete signifiers.

For the rest of the review, go here.