Poetry. "This is a book I had to struggle my way through. Often I wondered, what is going on here? Slowly it dawned on me: Jared Schickling has devised a poetics that oprates like an ecology. It is, a
Poetry. "Nate Pritts's BIG BRIGHT SUN probably feels so thoroughly lived because reading it feels so like living in it. Robert Creeley wrote that for him in poems 'the world came true.' In these poems
"The arts of remembering in Margaret Kaufman's Inheritance are as various as the tones of voice available to her as a poet. Her voice can be political, and it can be sensual portraiture. But always, s
Poetry. Come along on a wild ride with this clear-eyed drunken rodeo clown cowboy who takes the bull by the horns and flips him so you see belly side up through a pickup window the country this holy f
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. "Jorge Guitart's poetry is not for the masses but it is for everyone. THE EMPRESS OF FROZEN CUSTARD is awash in marvels. Guitart is a master of language, a tongue tricks
Poetry. "Elizabeth Hatmaker has a quiet way of crunching up our world. She excels in shaking out the dirty little corners of the mind, particularly the mind of misogynist history. In the person of Eli
K. Alma Peterson's language is vividly pictorial. And some of her poems are composed as a visual field. But not for the sake of the eye alone does Peterson write-her poems are saturated with feelings,
Before reading the poems in Mike Smith's remarkable new book, the reader must take a good long look at his opening note on method. Smith means and does just what he says in this note. I've seen these
Poetry. "Anyone who still wants to view experimentation as a purely intellectual exercise will be convinced otherwise by Donna de la Perriere's exquisite second collection. Under the threat or promise
Poetry. "There is a darkness at the heart of Peter Gizzi's new collection of poems, ARTIFICIAL HEART, that is far from artificial...The title accurately locates the site of writing as the "h
Fiction. Poetry. In NOT BLESSED, a story is told not once, but twenty-eight times in twenty-eight shifting versions. Here, a story acts as a chosen narrative constraint, a constraint which, once chose
Poetry. The always elegant, often heart-wrenching poems in Rachel Hadas's eleventh collection are no-holds-barred dispatches from the front lines of a loved one's surrender to dementia. "Stunning"—Mol
Poetry. "I can't remember when a book of poems has invited such an attentive reading as Cindy King's marvelous first volume, PEOPLE ARE TINY IN PAINTINGS OF CHINA. Each poem, a descent through shiftin
Poetry. Winner of the 2011 Grub Street Book Prize. "Frances McCue's book is the most moving account of a spouse's death I have ever read. While living abroad in Morocco he died suddenly, and the after
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by Laura E. Ruberto. "An immigrant woman's moving account of what one gains, but also what one loses, when emigrating to the
Fiction. Asian American Studies. "The genius of Eileen R. Tabios is as generous as it is manifold. Reading SILK EGG, I suddenly feel myself becoming more perceptive, fantastical, mordant, impassioned,
Poetry. "Poetry needs Michael Miller. Indeed, anyone able to write a powerfully spare pair of lines like 'He tells himself, Nothing but a woman, / tells himself, We scavenge together' rewards the read
Poetry. "We have in Vogelsang a poet furious with history but attempting a mad escape. It's a swollen poetry, maximal at the least and packed with his rare rage. Sexual, sizzling really, and full of i
The poems in Motion Studies steady our ears and ignite our imagination on the dazzling workings of language and verbal song. With superb intellect, Brad Richard draws a wondrous and discursive line be
Fiction. Moazzam's Sheikh's sexually-charged tales unfold against a backdrop of colonization and ethnic tensions in Pakistan and the Middle East, and they also explore the immigrant's dilemma in the U
