On Walking On looks outward onto—or rather, walks through—the work of various writers for whom walking was or is an important element of daily life. The number of writers who were or are serious walke
Influenced by the history of landscape painting, Cole Swensen’s new book is an experiment in seriality, in the different approach and scope that language must take to record the way that fluctuations
"Ghosts appear in place of whatever a given people will not face" (p. 65)The poems in Gravesend explore ghosts as instances of collective grief and guilt, as cultural constructs evolved to elide or to
Praise for Cole Swensen: "One of the most assured voices in contemporary poetry."---Library Journal "Engaging and delightful."---Publishers Weekly A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which colle
These poems are about gardens, particularly the seventeenth-century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, Andre Le Notre. While the poems focus on such examples as Versailles, whi
The post-impressionist Pierre Bonnard painted, among other things, dozens of paintings of windows. Starting there, this extended poem?part art criticism, part history?considers the phenomenon of glass
The hand is second only to language in defining the human being, and its constant presence makes it a ready reminder of our humanity, with all its privileges and obligations. In this dazzling collecti
First published in 1997 by Sun & Moon Press, Noon was chosen by Rae Armantrout as the 2000 winner of the Gertrude Stein Award (formerly known as the New American Poetry Series Awards), an annual c
Treating subjects from landscape to sculpture to a 19th century technical encyclopedia, the poet is fascinated with light, glass, mirrors, flame, ice, mercury—things transparent, evanescent, impossibl
Poetry. "Cole Swensen's STELE goes forth with an artful, graceful balancing as in a minuet, stopping, bowing and then moving towards new thought. This reading 'presumes a crossing' of empty space in e
Flare is the culminating project of the 2007–2008 collaborative Artist and Poet in Residence Program sponsored by the Yale University Art Gallery & Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale
Poetry. Oulipo writings by Herve LeTellier, originally published as Encyclopedia inutilis in 2002, delightfully translated into English by Cole Swensen.
Featuring a neon and metallic cover, this spectacular volume is a work of literary art. From Genesis to the Book of Daniel, it recounts 35 stories from the Old Testament in a modern and inviting way,
In the middle of the night, when the fruitis scariest. I hold my hand outand feel your nibbling. Don't worry,my eyes are still closed. I've onlypeeked that once. The coldthat is your breath?these wind
Art Studies. Literary essays. Translated from the French by Cole Swensen. Jean Fremon writes about painters he loves, contemporary and otherwise, about writers, whose books are sometimes named, and wh
Juliology is an extended poetic meditation on a mountain (Juliau) that is visible from the poet's house in the Ardeche region of south-central France. Focusing in particular on the flowering yellow E
Poetry. Translated from the French by Cole Swensen. For over twenty-five years, Nicolas Pesques has been writing an homage to Juliau, the mountain he sees out his window. In PHYSIS, the fifth book of
Is he a madman or the best butler you've ever had? Cadiot's zany first novel takes the British weekend house party paradigm and keeps shifting its terms. At this book's center is the enigmatic "I" - a
For mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, partners, and friends, here are 30 stirring poems about the experience of being a woman. Rousing and empowering, There Are Girls like Lions is a celebration of
Poetry. Translation. Five French poets and five American poets walk into a bar... OK... OK. It was really a cultural institute that they walked into and spent a week translating each other's work. Or
Poetry. French Studies. African Studies. Translation. Four French poets and four American poets walk into a bar... well, one of the American poets is originally from Germany and one of the French poet
Poetry. French Studies. African Studies. Translation. READ features contemporary poetry in French and in English. Four French poets and four American poets walk into a bar.... OK so one of the French
The extraordinary artist, the spider woman, the intellectual, the rebel, the sly enchantress, and the “good girl” sing together in this exuberant, lithe text beautifully translated by Cole Swensen.
As Cole Swensen argues in the introduction tothis comprehensive new anthology, the long-acknowledged "fundamental division" between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poet
Artists have utilized walking as an autonomous form of art, a subject in their work, and as social practice since the early 20th century. Today walking continues to offer a salient means for artists t
Poetry. French Studies. African Studies. Translation. Three French poets and five American poets walk into a bar...OK...OK...so one of the American poets lives in Berlin and another is also a visual a
Poetry. French Studies. African Studies. Translation. Three French poets and five American poets walk into a bar...OK..OK...so one of the American poets lives in Berlin and another is also a visual ar
This landmark two-volume edition follows Adnan’s work from the infernal elegies of the 1960s to the ethereal meditations of her later poems, to form a portrait of an extraordinarily impassioned and pr
These poems are about gardens, particularly the seventeenth-century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, Andre Le Notre. While the poems focus on such examples as Versailles, whi
