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. "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
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. 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
Poetry. "America has been awaiting the arrival of a poet like this for a generation."—Barn Owl Review"A major American voice."—Colorado ReviewA MAGNA-CUM-WIERDO SALON PROLIX THE VO
Poetry. "Barnabas Collins, kitsch vampire but source of poet Tony Trigilio's childhood nightmares, rises from his casket in the first sentence of this intrepid fever chart of a poem. Trigilio man
Poetry. "billy cancel's new book of poetry, MOCK TROUGH RASPING CROW arrives with a giant bang! He is our era's John Donne, doused with the spittle of Mark E. Smith, while he dances to Captain Beefhea
Poetry. "These poems--at times dark and troubling, at other times passionate and openhearted--are the work of a very talented poet. MADSTONES is a book worthy of a smart and attentive audience."--Ron
Poetry. "If it's indeed darkest before the dawn, then we should immerse ourselves in Joseph Harrington's OF SOME SKY and hope—because it doesn't get much darker than this. This book surveys the
Poetry. "One of our greatest and most consummate poets, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, offers 80 poems in this collection, closely observing her Self and the planet she inhabits. She asks urgent existential q
Poetry. "Kevin DiCamillo's poems are so finely tuned that they risk calling the reader's attention too exclusively to their form and to all the fragile echoes from other writers that haunt them. This
Poetry. Illustrations by Mickey Harmon. COLOR ME WHITE focuses on straight white males, and what is often called toxic masculinity—a topic only aggravated by the current political climate. As Just Buf
Poetry. UNRULY is a book of rude girl poems describing threesomes, freewheeling, Joan of Arc, naked mole rats, and other R-rated things. It is also a book about overcoming an upbringing in the Bible B
Poetry. "Let's twin and twine together two primary aspects of how America can see herself—the good atoms of Whitman's leaves of grass, and the engines humming their freedom on the highways that cut ac
Fiction. "If these stories were mousetraps, we should all be mice. They are enticing and snap without warning, but the real surprise is their grace. The survivors escape a wee bit wiser, more alert, a
Poetry. "THE MERCURY POEM sifts through the aftermath of nuclear meltdown and lets the senses piece us together. A puzzle: in this our time of ever-expanding exclusion zones, how to take cover / take
Poetry. Edited by Jared Schickling. "Revelation and habit conspire in this selection of Michael Farrell's poetry, whose shambling virtuosity brings to mind the lost art of scat singing. From his earli
Poetry. "There are no illusions in the world of Charles Borkhuis. This is life without eyelids, and what we see is too disquieting for our own good, yet we can't look away. It's like film noir, whose
The Blind Chatelaine's Keys takes its impetus from three impossibilities: (i) biography (and autobiography) - something is always left out, (ii) artistic criticism - the critic,s subjectivity inevitab
Poetry. "There is a wise, gentle ire—ancient but not old—running through the brilliant prose poems of Susan Lewis's HEISENBERG'S SALON. This ire is embodied by a woman (maybe the poet, maybe not) who
Poetry. "Robert Gibbons (Salem, MA, 1946) is one of the great secrets of contemporary US poetry. Gibbons says that ANIMATED LANDSCAPE is the collection he was destined to write. One hopes too that it'
Poetry. "Amato gives us irrepressible ruminations, flash narratives, verbal collages. At times they seem to be struggling to rise off the printed page into our simulated 3D, stereo, holograph wor
