"Lucy / your secret book / that you leaned over and wrote just in the dirt - / Not having to have an ending / Not having to last"... and so begins Jean Valentine's provocative new work, Lucy, a poem
"Readers will find that the words profiled here have a new trace of meaning, warmth, and a time-worn glow."?John Morse, publisher of Merriam-Webster, Inc.In One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words
Winner of the 2009 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Dan Chiassonn From "The Above Song":Foie gras has been outlawed. So has gravitas,faux grass, middle class. Soon: the past.Julia Story
Thirteen women confront dramas both everyday and outlandish in Caitlin Horrocks' This Is Not Your City. In stories as darkly comic as they are unflinching, people isolated by geography, emotion, or c
[T]here is something utterly in thrall here, honey-slow and fixated. Driven by obsession—in particular, obsession with the legendary French poet, Robert Desnos—Muench’s identification with a true self
The eleven gorgeous stories in Head are remarkably varied in setting and cultural context: a bullying cattleman forces his two stepsons to lay fence in a Florida swamp; a haunted gay drifter hooks up
Well established writers such as Peter Matthiessen, Amy Hempel, Mark Richard, Lucille Clifton, Yusef Komunyakaa, Susan Minot, and others are assembled in The Beach Book to offer discerning readers an
A collection of poetry, fiction, and essay where language isn’t strictly functional but comes at the world in its most intense states—in reverie, in revelry, in fine excess; writers who must have, as
Poems, said Robert Lowell, should be events, not records of events. The poems of Twice Removed are events, set in the "bright between," that place between short days and long shadows, between past and
In Three Poets of Modern Korea, American poet James Kimbrell, and translator and native speaker Yu Jung-yul, have gathered and translated leading representatives of three generations of Korean poets.
"Tate’s originality was confirmed almost thirty years ago . . . testifying to the broad appeal of his wonderfully eccentric and generous poetry."—John AshberyJames Tate’s Selected Poems was published
"So persuasive are Yoon's powers of invention that I went searching for his Solla Island somewhere off the mainland of South Korea—not realizing that it exists only in this breathtaking collection of
At times a Dickensian tale of a poor boy made good, at other times an exploration of the intricate relations between writers and their readers, this inventive novel spans nearly two centuries, follow
“Reading these absolutely terrific poems, with their southern colloquial drawl and sober Buddhist insight, is a bit like having a sage old sleepy tiger purr in your ear while you lie at the edge of th
?Fort Red Border?the title itself an anagram for the name of this remarkable collection’s imaginary beloved?shows how language can be pleated, unfolded, and creased all over again into an endless orig
A unique collection that revisits Dante's classic with translations by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky and full-color artwork by internationally renowned artist Michael Mazur. This rare and stunni
"These [stories] are rust-belt blues, then, a vision of and lament for a past time and a swiftly changing place. They're not showy?the language is plain, the tragedy muted, the comedy low-key and wry?
