Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Art."FANTASTIC CARYATIDS, by Anne Waldman & Vincent Katz, is a lush, vivid and spectacular reading/album/book of poetry, conversation and photographs. Note that the subtit
Poetry. California Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Film. Dante's Inferno meets the 1967 movie Valley of the Dolls in this collaborative descent into a Hollywood camp classic. Over ten years in the writing,
Poetry. "Barnabas Collins, kitsch vampire but source of poet Tony Trigilio's childhood nightmares, rises from his casket in the first sentence of this intrepid fever chart of a poem. Trigilio man
I'm portable. My mind travels the verse and valleys of whole people says the poet. Correct! Readers of this book will discover their own memories. They will melt in them, amazed. lullabied, dramatized
Poetry is the only means we have of talking about experience without diminishing it, and Gilbert diminishes nothing and illuminates everything: the struggles and hopes of ancestors, the care for a dyi
Sarah Sarai's poems are charged with the terrible presence of the now and the dangerous fact of words. This is poetry as it should be. Scary, strange, generous, intensely in a physical world while ill
Poetry. TRANSLANATIONS ONE is the first major installment of William R. Howe's Emily Dickinson project, translanations. The collection is a homophonic, homolinguistic transformation of Dickinson's poe
`No ideas but in things.' In lieu of abstraction and sentimentality, Anita Mohan presents `real gardens' with real apperceptions in them. More inlooker than onlooker, she enlivens the flora and fauna
Poetry. When you're ready to venture off the daily grid of life-as-planned, enter face blindness where "a fetish object is the thing/to which we want/to give and to witness" and become privy to and pa
A man tries to piece together the events of the day he nearly died. Another believes that a friend has betrayed him, or is it that he has betrayed himself? A woman tries to escape the life she has kn
Poetry. "Throughout this book and its poems, DuCharme seems to be about to define his project, but as you eagerly slide into a suggested narrowing, reader beware you are about to widen (yes you yourse
The nature of influence appears to change over time. There are an almost infinite number of variations the post-avant poets of our time have been able to figure out. Black Diamond Golden Boy Takes Bu
Poetry. "What's at stake in this book is nothing less than the fascination and frustration informing the felt distance between printed word and peopled world. With Pope-like precision, Pusateri would
Poetry. "Anne Waldman glows even in the throes of morning sickness at the Buddhist chateau. The mind empties as the belly expands, but the mind doesn't clear without a detailed expression of what it i
Poetry. "GOODBYE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE is the work of a barbarian Thomas Edison--poems that are not simply wildly inventive but rather the end-result of a perpetual cycle of creation, destruction, and re
Poetry. "Zachary C. Bush's ANGLES OF DISORDER is like a fairy tale devoured by science, language re-constructed into formulas and translated back into bold prose / poetry"--J. A. Tyler. "No matter wha
Poetry. Dan Featherston is the author of three other book-length collections of poetry, THE CLOCK MAKER'S MEMOIR (Cuneiform Press, 2007), UNITED STATES (Factory School, 2005), and INTO THE EARTH (Quar
Fiction. Nora comes across a newspaper article about her lost twin that sets in motion her search for her doppelganger and thrusts her from the safe island life that she has created and into a sweepin
Fiction. In this group of flash fiction and short stories Greg Gerke looks at the world with a sometimes absurd, sometimes tragic, but entirely compassionate eye. Two cars crash but the drivers turn o
Fiction. "THIRTY MILES TO ROSEBUD depicts a series of imploding families and fast interstates. Barbara Henning's landscapes--a rust-belt childhood, a nearly forgotten East Village Bohemia and the arid
