Poetry. "It's a rare poet who can look the muse in the eye and speak through or with her as Reese has done in this fragmentary and insightful collection, which reads both as a form of exegesis, litera
Poetry. "With TRAILERS, Michael Basinski engages in a Joycean celebration offloOwering. As he 'gave up and just repeated again and again singing softly, deeply with his eyes closed,' the language bloo
`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
Charles Freeland dances under moonlight. The landscape for his delightfully curious insights is visual, symbolic, a work of art and an advanced warning dusted with allusion, playfulness and literary c
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. "With a winning mixture of verve and tenderness, the poems in THE SPIDER SERMONS confront the extreme significance of our daily lives. It's the most passionate of come-ons, but with the kindes
Fiction. Thelonious Horowitz is the next big thing, the Bob Dylan of his times, and he's feeling uninspired. In the past, traveling to music festivals always lifted his spirits. With his band playing
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. "There is a splendid lucidity to Tardos's writing, a jesting, inquisitive spirit nimbly examining the relationship between language and reality in inventive articulations that jingle with wit
Poetry. MUSEUM HOURS, Michael Kelleher's first published collection of poems since 2007, is comprised of four sections imagined as rooms in a museum with "bright white walls. / Infinitely tall." The m
Poetry. "In NOTES ON A PAST LIFE, David Trinidad exorcises the ghosts of New York with a compulsively readable, wrenching memoir in verse. His "Goodbye to All That" offers a critique of
Poetry. "What glee in the Nine, this tour de force of genius trickster complexity, 'all about equipping poetry.' And Anne Tardos does this accouterment-ing like a Buddhist deity with many arms an
Poetry. "Stephen Vincent's engagement with Jack Spicer's poetry goes arguably farther back than anyone who wasn't a friend or acquaintance. What is not arguable is the generative richness of that
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
Poetry. "Demcak continues to blossom as a poet of note with ZERO SUMMER, his newest collection of pieces of imagination married to craftsmanship. These poems define lust, desire, onanism, finding and
Poetry. Like all of Stephen Bett's recent books of poetry, this, his 22nd,is a serial poem, "minimalist" in its poetics, and subtle enough to sustain repeated readings. The title is self-explanatory:
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
Fiction. "In this stunning collection Michael Gessner pays full attention to the marginal and the marginalized—whether unwashed, rejected, condemned, or simply unusual—and brilliantly inhabits them, e
Poetry. "When Henry David Thoreau wrote "The stars are the apexes to what triangles," I'm not so sure he had poetry collaborations in mind. And yet, when Kristina Marie Darling and John
Poetry. "The mind may move faster than the hand can write but Reed Bye's poems capture the dictates of thought as processed by the conspiratorial and wandering eye, all the light and shadow of th
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. "Knuckles digging in the knee and not knowing it, while reading! To be disturbed and to be reminded of something you never quite knew. To be reminded and made to know that mem
Poetry. "The place he writes from, of void/non-void overlap, is a pure arena for the imagination to play in; and Clark is likewise pure: austere, bleak, exalted too...shimmering as ever."—Al
Poetry. "There is a kind of abstraction, based not on reductive form, nor on self-expressive mark making but on the endless variation of form, colour and shifting scale in the natural world. In this v
Fiction. "In a city that is a dream, or a frontier, or a dystopia, Nel Lowry is our pilgrim whose progress is a search for Bliss, which is a company and the promise of a lifetime position in a place t
"epic"—Christian Peet (Tarpaulin Sky, Big American Trip)"Intense and powerful in the way the language and images flow like a raging sea"—Sinan Antoon (author of Iljaam from City Lights)"amazing, such
Poetry. "In RUDE GIRL, light 'scrime[s],' a girl secretly 'places a button under her tongue,' and a tide is a 'pseudonym' both for not speaking (right then) and for what comes after: the start of seei
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
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
Langan expertly positions his poems right on the cusp between comprehension and confusion, in that wonderfully liminal state of discovery. Though the poems are often sad, as well as sly, funny, worris
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
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 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
Poetry. "Janna Plant's mixed genre book (are these diary entries poems or are they stories? are they, in fact, diary entries?) is structured around two fields of metaphor: the refinery and the human b
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
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. California Interest. Women's Studies. Film. "THE LIVING AIR by Masiela Lusha is an exceptional book of poems. Her works are based on formal associations, which open a unique poetic vein. Multi
Poetry. Film Studies. Drama. "'Dark Shadows made me believe / in a world of paranormal certainty,' and after you read this book, you will too. Tony Trigilio writes a world in which there is no separat
Poetry. In this, his 18th book of poetry, internationally acclaimed Canadian poet Stephen Bett is back to working the sassy, edgy margins of social satire. Divided into four sections, this book opens
Poetry. "A deep thinker... and a philosopher."—Rolling Stone"A magna- cum- weirdo."—Salon"Mind- bending..."—Entertainment Weekly"A major American voice."—Colora
Poetry. "Poetry is not another way of telling you what to think. Sure, be a poet, and humble(d). Jared Schickling's PROVINCE OF NUMB ERRS is a relief: out of monotime ("This time has no here
