Poetry. "Gordon Osing's new book THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPENED is brilliant,soul-deep, questing, and fun. One thinks of Wordsworth's Preludedone with a great jazz beat, and then one thinks of all the goo
Poetry. YES, THE DUCKS WERE REAL deals with relationships of all kinds, as well as, what goes into day- to-day survival—things that concern everyone and things everyone can relate to. In these poems L
Literary Nonfiction. Music. Poetry. Art. Derived in form from Aristotle's "Minor Work" of the same title, this variation of ON MARVELLOUS THINGS HEARD explores a range of literary appropriations of mu
Fiction. Women's Studies. With more of her life behind her than ahead, Margaret Braverman, a physicist teaching at a small college, cannot help but regret the things she never quite got right. Most im
In a godless, indifferent world, backlit by sunrises and sunsets, this post-confessional long poem copes with a lost relationship and the impermanence of things through a cascade of shifting cinematic
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Douglas Kearney writes, "If my writing makes a mess of things, it's not to flee understanding, but to map (mis-)understanding as a verb.&am
Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Envisioned as a kind of mash-up of all things Hobart-related (website, print issues, book division, goofy ideas), Hobart Handbooks will publish 2-3 books/year, li
Poetry. "In the opening poem of Ralph Pennel's debut collection, the speaker lists things he looks for in a poem: 'Clear blue light / A single voice, cold, in need of fire' and 'Everything I
Poetry. LGBT Studies. Jewish Studies. "Within an absolutely concrete framework, the author of this book gives shape to those intangible things that exist in our daily lives. Following a fanta
Poetry." It took almost a lifetime's worth of emotions to read Lauren Ireland's THE ARROW. She says Time eats at the edges of things so we hear her say other things, too, I am hating you from very far
Poetry. "THE LONGEST TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF THE CENTURY continues Catherine Meng's experiments along the radiant edge of how-we-live-now. The book is, among many things, an examination of habit, the d
Poetry. "In his new collection, CONEY ISLAND PILGRIMS, John Hennessy does more than catalogue the things of this world; he sanctifies them: bruised strawberries, Kangols, an unleashed pit bull, Puccin
Poetry. THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING IN NORTHERN MINNESOTA is a collection of poems honoring what poets, mystics, old country people, as well as the plants and animals, have always known—all living things
Poetry. In PALM TO PINE, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux taps community as its source: the community of things present, of light and sound, of memory and imagination. These poems explore the collected senses of t
Poetry. ENTRIES OF THE CELL is some of Franz Wright's best writing in years. "The cell will teach you all things" is a saying of some early Christians who, in the third century, bewildered to find tha
In this first book, the desire "To reabsorb. To make to reabsorb," calls for text to be like skin. Through radical disorganization of the order of things - where "the salt is unreadable," where"you tr
Poetry. "These are mysterious poems, unlike much being written now in this country. To find things like them, you may have to go back at least a decade to some of the work being done then und
Fiction. Finding a dead mouse in the lab is not usually such a big deal. But when the lab is a Biosafety Level-3 containment facility designed to keep things in and out, and when the mouse has a brain
Fiction. LGBT Studies. "Spontaneity, Accuracy, and Mystery are the three things Elizabeth Bishop says make a great poem. I am applying her three markers to Runkle's stories today, perfect in
Poetry. Is it possible that anything you can conceive, with any combination of words, can, in the fullness of time, manifest itself materially? Some such thought will be prompted by the reading of any
Literary Nonfiction. The most brilliant writers occasionally stumble with grammar and punctuation, and the rest of us can learn from their missteps. THE GOTHAM GRAMMARIAN is a book of rules and guidel
Poetry. Brian Henry takes the blank, desolate canvas of snow and searches "for a river of color buried." With calm precision he sways from physical to abstract, from stasis to motion. The ba
Poetry. 2014 Snyder Prize winner. "THE GENOME RHAPSODIES opens with Gregor Mendel's question: 'What is inherited, and how?' Like strands of DNA, the syntax in these brilliant and moving poems
Poetry. "In a channel surfing acoustically explosive mash-up of socio-cultural commentary, Morris' pun-drenched HIT PLAY is a witty tour-de-force of juicy jouissey jewy jouissance. Pulsing with t
Poetry. "With unflinching stanzas threaded through with grief's relentless lyric, THE DAUGHTER'S ALMANAC is a masterwork, a deftly crafted illustration of the myriad ways beauty collides with
Drama. It's Labor Day weekend at the Trailerville Mobile Home Park in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. Merdelle Harris's husband of forty-one years is rapidly deteriorating with Alzheimer's. She is determi
Poetry. "Though I disprove it with all the days of my life, / who am I to deny / this blade of a faith, / surfacing"—Chloe Garcia Roberts writes in the title poem of her debut collec
Poetry. "In ORPHAN MACHINES, Carrie Hunter stages a kind of cyborgian theater where ideology is brilliantly dismantled to unmask the real. With each startling construction, spaced across aera
Poetry. California Interest. Women's Studies. Allie Marini's 2015 collection of love poems."Allie Marini warns the reader: I'm bracing up to get my heart wrecked. We walk with her to the clif
Poetry. California Interest. Women's Studies. Cassandra Dallett's 2015 collection of poetry."These poems speak of love, sex and relationships in the way they are actually lived, with all the
Poetry. The time: creeping toward the millennium, yet before Y2K panic inspires everyone to stockpile bottled water and cheap wine. The place: a Midwestern metropolis with echoes of Chicago, Cleveland
Poetry. "Antigone enters. Pesticides, eco-cide, a guiding conversation with Leslie Scalapino and the beloved dead. The drone poem and the brain-body of the dancer. Brenda Iijima gets at the h
Poetry. "GOG is an exorcism of the past, of terrible betrayals, of women churned into the earth with their stillborn children, children torn from childhood like the victims of some hideous do
Fiction. As the world's first completely illegal clone of America's 16th President, Abe Finkelstein grew up with just one wish: to live his life just like anybody else. But when you're a living ringer
Poetry. "Aaron Simon's lines feel like strokes of a pre-CBS Jazzmaster. Not plastic. More like rosewood with at least a Gibson tuneOmatic bridge. A brrruummm alliteration where each word-note
Poetry. The poems in SPAN OF THREAD range from the autobiographical to celebrations of people and outdoor work, black humor, metaphysical-spiritual poems, and they often sneak up on the reader with ou
Poetry. "Heather Woods is a lightning rod; her poems abundant with the evanescent, sensual pleasures of God and spirit in this remarkable, transformative first collection. 'May all beings be
Fiction. A Jesuit priest caught between his love and his calling. A man-eating tiger deep in the Indian jungle. A professional photographer with a turbulent past. Can any of them—including the tiger—t
Poetry. "In TJ Beitelman's poems, 'everything's a powder / keg,' where everyday occurrences explode into expressions of joy and heartache. AMERICANA begins with an examination of American ico
Poetry. Italian American Studies. "Joey Nicoletti's book, REVERSE GRAFFITI, is dotted with images from popular culture—Captain Marvel, Spider Man, the Yankees—and these images are part of the
