Poetry. "I had the privilege of interviewing Richard Hague not so many years ago about poetry and teaching and this, among the many things we discussed, will always remain with me: as far back as his
Poetry. "Of the many good things I could say about these beautiful poems, the one I want to sing the loudest is that each presents a secret of some kind: the surprising cargo on a ship in the harbor,
Poetry. "FILCHED: to steal a small thing, casually, as if it belonged to the filcher, anyway, or as if it were no one's thing to keep. The poems in James Tolan's FILCHED are such stolen things, treasu
Poetry. "These poems lie in wait, offering to show you things. Some are exact and immediate, like visits to a moment; others take you to locations that reveal themselves slowly. Here, too, are ex
Poetry. "RAVENNA DIAGRAM is a long poem which follows in the vein of 'Leaves of Grass,' 'The Bridge,' 'Paterson,' 'The Cantos,' 'A,' and 'The Maximus Poems.' It is an attempt to come to new terms with
Poetry. Women's Studies. "Ruth Handel's MOMENTARY STAYS is a remarkable hybrid of lyric, documentary poetics, and inspiration for teachers. Drawing on seven years of poetry workshops with women in a p
Poetry. "From their earliest setting out, the poems of Norman Finkelstein have fetched a new Vision, not only mapping but marking the Vision with supernal inscription, the signature of Heaven as it we
Poetry. "...[these poems} release the human heart to connect with the universe's numinous energy...these compositions...convey the reader to a heliopause of sorts on the edge of the unknown. Then thin
Keith Holyoak's reputation as a meticulous translator of classical Chinese poetry is already established. Now his powerful new book My Minotaur presents us with a wide-ranging selection of his own poe
Poetry. PRESENCE OF LIFE is Eric Hoffman's poetic adaptation of scholar Brad Inwood's original translation of the extant fragments of the Pythagorean Pre-Socratic Empedocles, one of antiquities' most
Poetry. So taken for granted, we hardly know it's there, the body's inhale and exhale from first breath to last. In tune with the heart's beating, whose life breathes us here? Whose laughter, tears, s
Poetry. Enviromental Studies. "Carol Alexander's latest poetry book, ENVIRONMENTS, is steeped in our time. It is forthright and often poignant. With confident voice and consummate skill she illuminate
Poetry. "Where were these poems when I was growing up and being filled with enough fear to have us in hell at recess while believing every platitude about God's good will? In language as bracing as an
Poetry. Illustrated by Jean Dibble. With critical commentary from Robert Archambeau. REVOLUTIONS is a unique collaboration between poet John Matthias, printmaker Jean Dibble, and critic Robert Archamb
Poetry. "With precision and rue, these poems bear witness to a lost world, the wounds still fresh, the tenderness undiminished. In a delta where landscape, body and dreams converge, consolation is sou
Poetry. Collages by Wayne Atherton. "Sharon Olinka's poems ripple with intense clarity and passion. Collage artist Wayne Atherton contributes eerie, haunting pieces that evoke the identity issues
Poetry. "A FURNACE IN THE SHADOWS is much more than a new collection of poems by Paul Pines, or even a 'selected poems.' It is a body of work--a man's life, embodied in a lifetime's work. From the fir
Poetry. "I call these poems LIFE LINES because poems have been for me, since childhood, a way into the life of poetry where there is emotional truth, assurance and balance. I call them life-saving lin
Poetry. Women's Studies. "In ALL WE HAVE IS OUR VOICE, Carole Stone's fierce dramatic monologues, delivered by the wives and lovers of such titans as Tolstoy, Lincoln, Freud, Yeats, Joyce, and (Dylan)
Poetry. "In her new, bold poems in A MAP AND ONE YEAR, to feel the energy run beneath the poetic 'found-ness' of language is to behold Karen George's pure, wise vision. George splices, stretches, and
Poetry. "Stuart Bartow is a poet of boundless imagination. Though his obsessions--birds, stars, myths, ships, spiders, love--remain constant, he rings constant and surprising changes on them. He is a
Poetry. "Whenever I look for the avant-garde in literature and the arts, I often lament, thinking that I must forge one for myself. Then I regard Gerd Stern sternly and know that he was/is the last of
Poetry."We have to take this writer at her word; we have no choice. The integrity in the telling. The consideration of the reader which borders on holy. The elegant and convincing voice. Susan Glassme
Poetry. "Losing a beloved mate of many years to cancer is a transformative grief for the soul left behind, a painful odyssey of discovery that rearranges every former certainty as we mourn. Grounded i
Poetry. "I emptied two magazines of my .380 PPK at Jeffrey C. Wright's bulletproof poems, and they didn't make a dent. A poet true to his word and the Word, Jeff takes himself as seriously as a threat
Poetry. "The ambitious poems of Marc Vincenz don't fit into any poetic scene or aesthetic camp I can name--he is an internationalist, and his work mixes far-flung flavors: a little Hart Crane, a littl
Poetry. "A five-year (2013-2018) project, MURDER DEATH RESURRECTION (MDR), includes 'The MDR Poetry Generator' that brings together much of my poetics and poet tics. The MDR Poetry Generator contains
Poetry. "I have been an admirer of David Giannini's work since I first heard him read Antonio and Clara, a moving tribute to his grandparents. While that book invites comparisons, as most good poetry
Poetry. "Originating in Malay, prior to the fifteenth century, the pantoum probably developed from an oral tradition of rhythmic and repetitive rowing songs. Whether the pantoums in this collection su
Poetry. "The first lines of Patrick Pritchett's brilliant and beautiful new book suggest this world as his Eurydice, lost but not lost, 'its noise a form of shelter.' A world to be recovered not only
Poetry. "In constructing this book, I have been thinking about the English language serial poem from Jack Spicer to Lisa Robertson. Some of my poems sustain themselves over considerable lengths. Diffe
Poetry. "'I was the grand-daddy long- legs thrown / hard against the garage door today, / and I was the hand that threw it.' Thus concludes one of the most stunning poems in Rhonda Pettit's new collec
Poetry. "Remember high school? Sure you do! Those tentative looks in the mirror, the guy in the leather jacket, the myth of Hook Man and Lover's Lane? David Lee Garrison's poems capture the awkward gr
Poetry. "an obscure-side apprenticeship, akin to learning pick- pocketry ; a dark economy guild of seers & sounders a practitioner of call/caul poetics, a self-embodied variorum; a calling forth from
Poetry. Art. Color photographs by the author. Rick Mullin's TRANSOM is a poet's odyssey through the year 2016 set primarily in the financial district of Manhattan. The poems are written in a 15-line s
Poetry. "David Giannini's FACES SOMEWHERE WILD spans his 45 years in the Berkshire hill-towns of Massachusetts. Like the farmer whose 'face resembles what's fixed and moves around him,' he is an astut
Poetry. "David Giannini's FACES SOMEWHERE WILD spans his 45 years in the Berkshire hill-towns of Massachusetts. Like the farmer whose 'face resembles what's fixed and moves around him,' he is an astut
Poetry. Dos Madres Press is pleased to announce the publication of an anthology of poems from its first ten years. Edited by Richard Hague, REALMS OF THE MOTHERS contains work by sixty-eight poets fro
Poetry. Art. "John Trause's learned, at times daffy, provocations outdo the achievements of his two patron saints—the snarkily crafty Catullus, and the outrageously conceptual Duchamp. What Trause get
Poetry. In A 24-HOUR COTILLION Leonard Trawick has chosen what he considers his best poems written over five decades, many of which have appeared in various anthologies and magazines but have never be
