Norma Cole says that "a poem is a made place, a deedless deed that stakes out or constellates ambiguity without laying claim to it, without attempting to master or contain it." She has here assembled
By drawing the small instances of living to the forefront of meaning, this collection of elegant and lyrical poems reveals the value of simple events in our lives. Allowing the reader to follow the pe
With each poetry collection, Martha Ronk has further refined her unique use of the sentence, its textures and tangents, to extend the ways that a meditative lyric might address the most intimate and s
Life in a multicultural, multiethnic nation like the United States leads to complicated, sometimes fragmented experiences of our background and identity. In Locus, Jason Bayani’s poetry explores
"Sometimes collage essay, sometimes daybook, sometimes poetry, Day Counter counts the ways in which one act of creation (motherhood) threatens not only to erase another act of creation (writing), but
"As iZ is a tripartite lyric (Pharmacy, To Market and Library), a multi-prong investigation into the relationship between the West and East, the entangled networks among Judaism, Christianity, and Isl
"Jane Tokugawa leads a U.S. delegation from the Center[s] for Disease Control to investigate a new retroviral gene therapy--Hratthnâif ("fast knife")--approved in Iceland, a shining nation churning ou
Ghost Of is a mourning song, not an exorcism or un-haunting of that which haunts, but attuned attention, unidirectional reaching across time, space, and distance to reach loved ones, ancestors, and st
"A searing book-length poem ... an unbridled account of an apocalypse-in-the-now." ---Publishers Weekly"`Ask time to make the pieces fit,' Anna Rabinowitz writes as the structures---as is her way---a
Employing a wild mix of tall tale, rich metaphor, and contemporary science fiction, this darkly hilarious novel explores a young man's attraction and ultimate addiction to skunk musk and the social di
A lyrical story of bittersweet memories and the enduring power of love, this is the tale of an old man reciting the same story of Lucia Luna he has told hundreds of times to a young boy. The boy can n
Although written in English, it is an English that surprises with its sharply etched and yet resonant cadences that pay tribute to the great poets writing in the Ibero Hispanic tradition of the 20th c
In this collection, Waldrop has dedicated many poems to other writers whom she esteems, and in each poem, echoes subtly that writer's forms, tones, and textures. From this synchronism, Waldrop evolves
A book-length, syntactically surprising poem divided into many sections, it is interspersed with delightful descriptions of daily experience with references to illustrious writers and thinkers of the
Bridging traditions of secular, religious, modernist, and post modernist writing to encounter living at its most provocative and urgent, Caton's poems—at times conversational, meditative, minim
