Poetry. DARK LADIES is an explosive meditation on death and laughter cast as both a Menippean masque and a user's guide to the tragi-comic. Mixing erudition with illogicality and vaudeville vulgarity
Poetry. "In LIZARD, Rosenthal explores the creaturely membranes that lie between the known-social and the unknown-social. When ratified nations, nationified peoples, and "self-evident" identities of e
Poetry. California Interest. "Like Whitman, Kit Robinson celebrates himself, the world, and the amplitude of time. In LEAVES OF CLASS, we are treated to poetic clarity and a sense of rectitude. Whimsi
Poetry. Asian American Studies. Revised and enlarged edition. Author of two highly praised collections of stories and a previous book of poems, Linh Dinh has also edited an anthology of Vietnamese fic
Poetry. Women's Studies. Translated by Ann Cefola. "Sanguinetti takes on the archetype of the hero from every angle--at times many simultaneously--and in a language itself heroic in its leaps and shif
Poetry. "ENTANGLED BANK opens with a set of five line poems dedicated to the 'beauty' of various poets, a nuanced and generous version of Joseph Kaplan's infamous KILL LIST, and concludes with a wrenc
Poetry. Art. "Relevant disturbance," "weigh your words carefully," and weigh is one of the things Mac Cormack does so well in this melange of poetry and visual poetry by one of the most innovative of
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. California Interest. "A polemic, a dispute, an essai, a history of real persons in poetry, of agon and salient entanglement. An investigation, an epistle. A romp a ride, b
Poetry. Edited by Trace Peterson, Gregory Laynor and Eli Goldblatt. "More than any other individual, Gil Ott was the person most responsible for the strength of the poetry community in Philadelphia du
Poetry. "In five stunning sequences, Sarah Riggs has created a poetics of elastic migrations that imagines the world as clusters, skeins, and motions whose innate peril is miraculously saved in hte ac
Poetry. Asian American Studies. JAM ALERTS is the newest title from this important and prolific poet. "Linh Dinh is one of the most consistently surprising writers around. One can find sources & r
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Art. Translated by Mark Weiss. "With each new book of Orozco's one exclaims: 'Why didn't I think of that?' Each book unique among his oeuvre, and unique within the body
Poetry. What is the meaning of light? Can humans even comprehend such a thing? In VISIBLE INSTRUMENTS, Michael Kelleher invites the reader to be mindful of these questions, and to ask what she can kno
Fiction. Poetry. Hybrid Genre. "The title is TITLE. What's the title? TITLE. That means the book is the book, or 'A' book, and implies that the book questions itself along the way, or perhaps just mak
Poetry. Glenn Mott's ANALECTS ON A CHINESE SCREEN is modeled on a form that reaches to an earlier tradition of narrative and storytelling, where the "I" refers to a protean self. The aim is at social
