Daniel Borzutzky, whose work Eileen Myles calls “violent, perverse, tender,” offers a bracing new book that confronts violent action, from state sponsored torture and the bombing of civilians and othe
In hart island, the poet narrator walks and works in the East Village of Manhattan navigating the day to day needs and desires of a community, an organization, a changing neighborhood, as well as her
LETTERRS is a book of poems that examines and interrogates language to its core, the shapes and sounds. In these poems Orlando White explores the origins and existence of letters, words, typography, t
Javier s new book of long poems is both intimate and elusive, a simultaneity brought to the fore by the author s interest in the occult and intuitive processes, in oblique and plain spoken discourses.
Vincent Katz’s new collection, his first in a decade, presents an aesthetically and emotionally diverse series of poems that attempt to tune in to particular details of the poet’s life, from friends a
The Middle Notebookes began in French, as three carnets, written in keeping with three stages of an illness: an onset and remission, a recurrence and further recurrence, a death and the after of that
A collection of essays presents thoughts on the nature of translation and representation of a wide range of thinkers and artists including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Derrida, Dmitri Shostakovich, Ga
Crossings in Text and Textile explores the diverse range of transatlantic representations of clothing in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature. This collection of essays demonstrates that
First published in 1927, Deluge is one of the most famous of the English catastrophe novels. Beautifully written and action packed--RKO Radio Pictures even filmed this story--the novel depicts a flood
An unconventional travel guide takes readers on a tour of weird New England--from cursed statues in Maine to artwork made from insect parts--spanning the breadth of oddities offered by the six states
In the title poem "Fortress", the medieval walled castle is the stronghold in which the family dwells. There are stories here of people in the "fortresses" of the self, the city, or the natural world.
Jay Ladin is a devotional poet who is also blasphemous, sometimes simultaneously. What he most surely opposes is cant. The "alternatives to history" that he examines - more accurately, celebrates - ha
"About a shift in geographic imaginings that occurred in African American culture as the United States evolved into a bioceanic global power"--Provided by publisher.
