Titled after a Jackson Pollock painting at once figural and abstract, this collection spans nearly fifty years of Bill Berkson’s poetry in all its deftness and variety. His poems, full of nuance, inte
"Theater such as Kenneth Koch cannot be simply paraphrased, and presents to the audience the classic Mennipean challenge: to ponder, to mull it over, to think."?Mac WellmanThe Banquet brings together
"Theater such as Kenneth Koch cannot be simply paraphrased, and presents to the audience the classic Mennipean challenge: to ponder, to mull it over, to think."?Mac WellmanThe Banquet brings together
Poets, rock stars, filmmakers, activists, novelists, and historians lend their voices to this landmark collection about the daily grind."M. L. Liebler is the poet laureate of America's working class.
Raconteur, poet, and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu delivers in his inimitable, irreverent style a collection that traverses subjects from aging to consumerism, to religion to mass media. Brilliantly
Raconteur, poet, and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu delivers in his inimitable, irreverent style a collection that traverses subjects from aging to consumerism and religion to mass media. Brilliantly
?In Stephen Florida, Gabe Habash has created a coming-of-age story with its own, often explosive, rhythm and velocity. Habash has a canny sense of how young men speak and behave, and in Stephen, he’s
Keepsake, guidebook, and wunderkammer of enthusiasms, Andy Sturdevant's essays offer a new way of thinking about urban spaces and the contemporary Midwest. Craigslist ads, homemade signs at Target Fie
Operatic in scope, ULULU (Clown Shrapnel) is a dramatic, genre-bending narrative and a lyrical cultural biography of the archetypal seductress Lulu. In a furious performance of text and imagery, Thali
The editors have collected the jazz-inspired works of close to sixty writers ranging from Julio Cortazar and Jessica Hagedorn to Langston Hughes and Ishmael Reed. "Moment's Notice is the best antholog
Dark. Sweet. offers readers the sweep of LindaHogan's work?environmental and spiritual concerns, her Chickasaw heritage?in spare, elemental, visionary language.From "Those Who Thunder":Those who thund
Dark. Sweet. offers readers the sweep of Linda Hogan's work—environmental and spiritual concerns, her Chickasaw heritage—in spare, elemental, visionary language.From "Those Who Thunder":Those who thun
A singular, genre-defying treatise from one of America’s most innovative political poets, Coal Mountain Elementary remixes verbatim testimony from the surviving Sago, West Virginia miners and rescue t
Irena Bozinska, beset by difficulties with love, language, and change, is a mathematician who has recently emigrated from Poland to America. She works as an attendant for an aging jazz musician who l
“You won’t be able to stop turning the pages.”—Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of Public Radio’s The Splendid TableState fairs are cornerstones of the American tradition, and few are as beloved as the Min
"Creativity, like information, is free to everyone who steps into a library. The Artist's Library offers the idea that an artist is any person who uses creative tools to make new things, and the guida
"The Little Free Library is a terrific example of placing books?poetry included?within reach of people in the course of their everyday lives. Free is always a good thing, and the project has a nice gi
