In unbidden moments, Donata Polo, wife of Marco Polo, turns to perceive a Venice accelerating from Mediterranean port to global hub. In peripatetic visits to market she reflects upon the erotics and
“The poems in Bruce Bond's new collection Peal probe music's deepest sources. These beautifully crafted lyrics lead us down into intricate and sonoruous paths where we meet out own uncertain songs, at
H. L. Hix's Rain Inscription gives vivid testimony to the paradox that human making is both lasting and fleeting. Its three sections (a sonnet-sequence Q&A with contemporary cultural studies, a renewa
“Part orison, part ecstatic vision, part post-Lapsarian psalm, Venison turns the act of dressing/blessing a buck into rumination on 'the red path' of laboring, bloodshed, making, and the search for me
The Disappearance of Seth tells the interlocking stories of five New Yorkers, stumbling through their lives in the aftermath of the events of September 11 and connected by the paths of two figures -
Legible Heavens explores what the most intimate forms of experience reveal about our most cosmic concerns, and vice versa. Its four sequences act like compass points to orient a human landscape. On o
Over the decades, William Heyen has most often dreamed of, studied, and written about the Holocaust. Now, Shoah Train collects more than seventy poems written over the last dozen years, lyrics of “dis
The world of Wattle & daub is inhabited by mysterious and peculiar creatures. A woman who fears the living thing in her apartment walls. An office-based streaker with an axe to grind. Automatons that
Do bad things happen to good people? Or are those people really as good as they appear? In Lies Will Take You Somewhere, Sheila Schwartz examines the connection between chaos theory and domestic life
Drift Ice is a collection of poetry from a new Etruscan author, Jennifer Atkinson. The poems in Drift Ice view the natural world through a lens of ecological and spiritual concerns. They focus especia
Will Dowd takes us on a whimsical journey through one year of New England weather in this engaging collection of essays. As unpredictable as its subject, Areas of Fog combines wit and poetry with humo
Pointing the way to what Montaigne called unlearning how to be a slave, Human Directionalteaches us how to be free. With the deadly precision of the fey, it reveals the heartbreak and absurdity of our
"The Burning House is an achingly lovely novel about the things that bind us together in this life and the things that pull us apart. Paul Lisicky has an extraordinary gift for exploring emotional nu
"Nakedly beautiful, the book shimmers with insight, even as it creates an entirely other world, one I wish I could stay in for days, weeks, years. A one of a kind book?wistfully sweet and delicately w
What if music could bring about a revolution all on its own? What power might reside in such a potent work of art, and what hauntings, private or collective, would it have to evoke? A meditation on lo
With a lyricism that is both delicate and painful, Rough Ground explores the devastating consequences of trauma on our ability to speak about the world. Based upon Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Phil
Aard-vark to Axolotl, an eclectic series of tiny essays, is a collection of prose poems disguised as imaginary definitions, and a collaboration of text + image based on a set of illustrations from an
