With a seamless weave of letters, reminiscences, poems, and journal entries, Eleni Sikelianos creates a loving portrait - and an unblinking indictment - of her father, Jon: a talented musician, a hig
This impressive debut of a major new voice in poetry begins with Blue Guide, a poem cycle of meditations on light and dark, probing the opposing/complementary nature of these universal principles and
In Body Clock, Eleni Sikelianos charts the curvature of growth and time, encompassing the bewilderment and delight of a new parent, while mapping the shape of our troubled world. Observing that "what
California is the star of this book-length poem that flies through time, memory, science, history, and imagination, mirroring the topography of the Golden State's landscape and the history of its div
Winner of the 2002 National Poetry Series, the book in four parts explores a dark world of sleep, dreams, and evil. But there is also joy in Sikelianos's work. Amidst the fears and despair for her ow
"Unforgettable."?Michael Ondaatje"Comes to me"the future comes to mewith a horrifying screechthen it comes to me softlylike a weeping cloudand it comes to me likea fish, glass-eyed, floppingand it com
Praise for Eleni Sikelianos:Library Journal Best Books 2013: PoetryElectric as a lightning storm, wild as a first-growth forest, protean as fantasy's shape-shifters?that's Sikelianos's poetry, a real
This is the tale of Melena, five times married, mother of three, burlesque dancer, and "the toughest, hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails." Located in history and memory, her life crac
What I Knew engages activities and knowledge that can’t be mined or verified by search engines or easily surveilled. Sourced from poetry’s ancient materials of dream, memory, story, and experience, Wh
Cast as a dialogue among six interlocuters, this lyric, pensive blend of poetry and prose considers light from a variety of perspectives - philosophical, physical, ethical, and metaphorical - all of t
Sabine Macher's long poem performs an archeology of sensation with particular attention to the body and modes of perception between the five senses. Macher negotiates the particulars of a "here and no
