"With skill and imagination, Bertrand Mathieu gives us an intimacy of the spoken American that allows readers to absorb themselves in Rimbaud's private drama as in an obsessive dream of our own.... Ma
Laure-Anne Bosselaar's poetry captures the lives of "lost souls roaming" - be they young girls in convents, merchants, whores, widows, soldiers, nuns or farmers. Eccentric, vibrant people, who lived
With both ardor and sensuality, Darling Vulgarity challenges us to embrace humanity’s imperfections while urging us toward new spiritual realities. And then, sometimes, the poems are just plain sexy.
In Peter Makuck's Against Distance nature is both a reprieve and a danger. Here, various landscapes - oceans, inlets, rivers, foothills, deserts - pressure and test human relationships. The book's tit
Born in San Francisco, Anne Germanacos has lived between Greece and San Francisco for thirty years. Her stories are just as strange and tragic as the Greek myths they riff on. Using a spare, image-lad
"These are funny, bizarre, moving stories—a pleasure to read."—Lydia Davis"Grandbois is a master of the double-edged word, of stories that both cut through the world like butter and double-back to saw
In Cradle Book, Craig Morgan Teicher has looked back at the long tradition of the fable, one of the oldest literary forms, and updated it for our era. These short fictions---most no more than a page
Winner of the 1994 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry. Barton Sutter's poetry is earthy and muscular, chiseled from his native Midwestern landscape. Drawing from the narrative, formal tradition of Robert
In this robust collection Crystal Bacon explores vision and the nature of myth-making, from cultural archetypes, such as Persephone and Narcissus, to Anne Frank and Chet Baker, to the personal myths t
A collection of poems focusing on Crazy Horse, the Native American who, according to the author, embodied the spirituality of his culture and the fierceness of a people under attack
