Poetry. "Gary Lenhart's brilliant meditations on family life and love seek out the perfect middle distance where there are no limitations on self or selfhood, no objective/subjective borders"--Lewis W
Poetry. "Like her great forebear Bertolt Brecht, Elizabeth Swados is a consummate theater artist who is a poet at the core. With her composer's ear, director's intuition, and startling linguistic econ
Poetry. "Like her great forebear Bertolt Brecht, Elizabeth Swados is a consummate theater artist who is a poet at the core. With her composer's ear, director's intuition, and startling linguistic econ
Fiction. "Part love song, part lamentation, Chuck Wachtel's 3/03 calls to mind the work of generous, lyrical moralists from Walter Benjamin to Grace Paley. It's a beautiful, immensely serious, immense
Poetry. Fiction. Published in 1992, well before Sherman Alexie became well-known as the screenwriter for the film SMOKE SIGNALS, THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING has now been turned into a film with none
Poetry. Fiction. Published in 1992, well before Sherman Alexie became well-known as the screenwriter for the film SMOKE SIGNALS, THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING has now been turned into a film with none
Poetry. "The most stimulating poet of his generation."—James Schuyler "He belongs on the summit of our American Parnassus."—Harry Mathews "One of the most memorable of contemporary poets."—The Washin
“As a long-time admirer of Jack Anderson’s poetry, I am again impressed by his enduring mastery of the art. His latest collection reveals all his wit, his wayward charm, and the innocence that allows
Poetry. "Someone walks around town, sees things and writes them down. He remembers what people say to him: 'The planes kept going / transporting a strange cargo, bodies packed in ice and oranges.' He
Poetry. The wit, power and elegance of Towle's poetry is brought together at last in one definitive volume. One of the clear, authentic voices of American poetry -- Kenneth Koch. Meditative, erudite,
Poetry. "Gary Lenhart's brilliant meditations on family life and love seek out the perfect middle distance where there are no limitations on self or selfhood, no objective/subjective borders"--Lewis W
Poetry. "These poems are gorgeous and ironic and heartbreaking and angry and uplifting and tough-minded and compassionate and completely amazing. NEW LIFE is a triumph. Art wins, war loses." —Tim O'Br
Poetry. Fourth Winner of the Loose Translation Prize, co-sponsored by Hanging Loose Press and Queens College. This book contains his own poems and translations of Anna Akhmatova.
Poetry. "Jack Anderson takes wing and lights everywhere... sheer delight, total pleasure."—David Kirby "easily one of the most compelling and unforgettable reads of 2017."—Patricia Traxler
Poetry. This book achieves "a consistency of vision and linguistic vigor I can only marvel at and applaud. Pawlak is among the very best poets working today."—Pablo Medina
Poetry. Fiction. Cultural Writing. Keith Taylor's collection of poems, short stories and creative non-fiction, GUILTY AT THE RAPTURE delights readers with its austere and gentle sensibility. "All thin
Poetry. "A ferocious appetite for life underlies MAY ALL MY WOUNDS BE MORTAL. The humor and ache in these unforgettable poems are a matter of life and death."—Lloyd Schwartz
Fiction. Stories by Tankred Dorst with Ursula Ehler. Translated from the German by Anne Posten. "Despite its great importance and influence on German theater and letters, Dorst's work is still relativ
Poetry. William Corbett is a poet who lives in Boston's South End and is Director of Student Writing Activities in MIT's Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies. He writes frequently on art, directs
Poetry. OVERNIGHT is Paul Violi's eleventh book of poems. On receiving the Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was cited for "bringing the sharpness and surprise of the avant
Poetry. "`Who touches this book, touches a man,' said Whitman, and that is certainly the case with this astounding volume by Bill Zavatsky, who generously imparts his whole life and soul in these vita
Poetry, Latino/Latina Studies. Jack Agueros was born in East Harlem and has been a lifelong observer of and participant in New York's vibrant Puerto Rican community. A former director of the Museo del
Poetry. "These poems both about those who died in, and those who survived, the Tsunami of 2004 memorialize with anger and beauty one of the most devastating tragedies of our time. In its largeness of
Poetry. "The poems in Joanna Fuhrman's MORAINE are just as layered and organic as the landforms alluded to in the title. Fuhrman sifts through the debris of modern day life and makes beautiful new scu
Poetry. This book "is full of haunting extended metaphors and a pervasive sense of the metaphysical found even in the most seemingly casual situations...."
Poetry. These poems are based on the extraordinary career and personal struggles of Pulitzer Prize-winning war reporter Paul Watson."Very powerful poems."—Andrew Motion
Poetry. Of her collection, FORBIDDEN WORDS: "Gorgeous writing and devastating…Patricia Traxler has done crucial work here: rigorous, faithful, tragic, hopeful, true."—Marie Howe
Poetry. "A large masterpiece consisting of small poems... keeps reverberating like a percussion player who still hears the beat."—Hal Sirowitz. "So very, and beautifully, human."—Katie Ford "Spar
Poetry. Native American Studies. "Whether slyly identifying irony as a white man's invention, or deftly moving from prose-like multilayered narratives to formal poetry and song structures, this fifth
Poetry. Native American Studies. Sherman Alexie's poems, fiction, and essays have won him an international following since his first book, THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING, was published to great acclaim
Fiction. Sharon Mesmer's first fiction collection follows the 1998 publication of her first book of poems, Half Angel, Half Lunch, which Allan Ginsberg called beautifully bold and vivaciously modern.
Poetry. "This is a badass book of poems and you will suffer if you don't find your way into its pages."--Anselm Berrigan"It doesn't get any better."--Robert Creeley
Poetry. "The spirit of these poems, bracing, great-hearted and unafraid, gives me hope for the future." —Amy Gerstler "Enjoy POP VÉRITÉ, reader; there's no way not to." —David Kirby
Poetry. HOLD TIGHT is Jeni Olin's second full collection of poems, following her exciting debut, BLUE COLLAR HOLIDAY. Writing about that book, John Ashbery praised her "wonderfully caustic and vulnera
Poetry. Young Adult Fiction. Edited by Mark Pawlak, Dick Lourie, and Robert Hershon. Introduction by X.J. Kennedy. Afterwords by Kathleen Aguero, Joanna Fuhrman, Martin Skoble, Kip Zegers. Cover art b
Poetry. Young Adult Fiction. Edited by Mark Pawlak, Dick Lourie, and Robert Hershon. Introduction by X.J. Kennedy. Afterwords by Kathleen Aguero, Joanna Fuhrman, Martin Skoble, Kip Zegers. Cover art b
