Poetry. A second edition of this extremely popular book of three long serial poems by the Korean American poet Myung Mi Kim. The tesserae Myung Mi Kim so remarkably fashions here come gradually to for
Poetry. "Karen Mac Cormack writes a play of voices and the voicing of places as they combine. The combination is one where what would otherwise be merely singular begins to overlap. Citation, statemen
Poetry. "Part post-industrial sea chantey, part epiphany against the 'economies of loss' that expand exponentially with each morning's news that struggles to stay news, Jane Sprague's THE PORT OF LOS
Poetry. "The ever-precise and brilliant James Schuyler characterized Vladimir Mayakovsky's poetry as brimming with the 'intimate yell.' Frank O'Hara got that energy pulsing in his work, but was tender
Poetry. "the posture of the little hero is self-explanatory." In her seventh book, WARDOLLY, Oakland poet Elizabeth Treadwell traces currencies of war and home-shore, in the micro and the mac. "This i
Poetry. "Lively, innovative, and dancing with feminist passion, Jacque Vaught Brogan, 'reporting from Notre Dame,' has given us in TA(L)KING EYES a collection of perceptions for our mythic lady to cel
Poetry. "In PRESOCRATIC BLUES the presocratics walk among us, obsessed with the everyday: the rain, the bar, the blues. And the poems that result are full of correspondence, of discovery in the Spicer
Poetry. "In GHOST SNOW FALLS THROUGH THE VOID (GLOBALIZATION), Tenney Nathanson by abandoning conventions of presentation to glimpse animate nature of being invents wonderful links (passages in a date
Poetry. But not trusting something/ not seen/ to be there when needed/ the Indian drew both legs both eyes/ so the brave would have them/ not leaving to chance/ what he could see/ how he could be assu
Poetry. "In Kass Fleisher's wild and wonderful universe, 'the traffic was horrible and lots of people were late with their periods,' or again, the poet busies herself trying to 'express debt on a sly
Poetry. "'An ingenious gathering of poignant leapfrogging...a muscular memorializing...a sly haunting.' This is the book that's everything Amato says it is and is not. It bounces on water, refuses to
Poetry. "The poems in BEGIN AT ONCE are truly investigations, never simply statements of things the poet already claims to know. They wander---sometimes lightly, sometimes darkly, sometimes with a qui
Poetry. SLIGHTLY LEFT OF THINKING is a new book of "poems, texts, and post-cognitions" by Steve McCaffery. McCaffery is the author of over 25 volumes of poetry and criticism, most recently THE BASHO V
Poetry. Asian American Studies. JAM ALERTS is the newest title from this important and prolific poet. "Linh Dinh is one of the most consistently surprising writers around. One can find sources & r
Poetry. Asian American Studies. Revised and enlarged edition. Author of two highly praised collections of stories and a previous book of poems, Linh Dinh has also edited an anthology of Vietnamese fic
Poetry. "Allison Cobb's BORN TWO brings monsters out of memory and an unexpected sweetness out of the firestorms of language. Hers is the mind of poetry, driven by history and lured by love, caught in
So much depends upon Jefferson Carter, Hero of the Humiliated, Mensch of the Unmentionable. No longer can we shun the rumor that he is indeed the long-awaited love child of Rimbaud, Jim Morrison, and
Drama. Poetry. African American Studies. "Will Alexander's poetic universe could be a 1 + 1000 surface ('folded-in expanse') imbedded in a 1 + 1000 + X dimensional Historical Space-Time (the 'transver
Poetry. Glenn Mott's ANALECTS ON A CHINESE SCREEN is modeled on a form that reaches to an earlier tradition of narrative and storytelling, where the "I" refers to a protean self. The aim is at social
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. California Interest. "A polemic, a dispute, an essai, a history of real persons in poetry, of agon and salient entanglement. An investigation, an epistle. A romp a ride, b