Crystal Curry's Our Arms of Gymnasium is a "gorgeous, fast-moving, fast-morphing catalogue of attitude, this is a book with a sense of sass firmly attached to its excellent sense of humor and of socia
Poetry. "Reading GHOST MACHINES, I am reminded of Brian Eno and David Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, J Dilla's Donuts, or DJ Shadow's Endtroducing... In these sonic works, archives reanimate i
Poetry. At issue in these poems, written from the perspective of a professional taxidermist, is the contrast between the concepts of freedom found in Nature and that of property, the consumption of Na
Handiwork probes the relationship between writing and torture—the ways poetry can wound us, and the ways it wrestles with language itself. Implicating the poet herself in the creative and destructive
Poetry. Drama. Women's Studies. Who is "Jenny"? Well, who isn't she? Tara Rebele, in her debut, crafts a series of alternately defiant, sublime, racy and hilarious monologues in the latest hybrid text
Poetry. Our intricate thinking and our ability to process the world deeply connect us as human beings. Yet we conjure inhibitors to limit our interactions with each other such as race, class, species,
“Falling in love while losing a loved one and watching the war news on TV? Life is difficult, and the poems in this marvelous collection ask a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human? Each
Poetry. Winner of our 11th Annual Book Prize Contest, chosen by Matthea Harvey. CEREMONY is Mary Austin Speaker's first collection of poems. The book begins in bewilderment and ends in a hurricane of
Poetry. "If you like eating pipe bombs for breakfast and pissing off your friends, read these poems. If you don't like those things, read these poems. If you love everyone so much that it act
Poetry. FAMOUS TIMES investigates the shapes escapism takes as a response to the malignantly mundane: the boredom of the American workforce, puttering forward and waiting for the bottom to fall out. I
Poetry. "This is a book of boundaries, objects, intersections. A book of multiple selves caught in the midst of self-definition. A book of conflagrations ('my hair / yesterday's / fire caught / in a d
Poetry. Women's Studies. As her perp comes up for parole, witness tw recalls the objects he brought to the assault. She tracks rape as a signature crime of US history and Western Civ and tests the (of
