Poetry. Drama. Translation from the Greek by Keyne Cheshire. Cheshire's translation inhabits the territory of American myth—the Wild West. With its harsh landscapes and larger- than-life heroes, it is
Poetry. George Hitchcock was a surrealist with a vast, playfully serious spirit in the universe of poetry. His is an art of carnivals, parades, and big brass instruments with top-hatted showmanship li
Poetry. Art. The spirit of Horace, the melancholy of time slithering away and turning all to dust, tempered with art, wit and good grace: Solonche's is the Horatian spirit for our time and place.—Rica
Cultural Writing. Social Criticism. Translated from the Italian with an introduction by Pasquale Verdicchio. "It is hard to think of a better point of entry into Gramsci's thought than his es
Poetry. "In this marvelous debut collection, Charlotte Pence provides us with all the pleasures of poetic tension. We have the pull of narrative and the flares of the lyric, the graceful rhyt
Auto-Fiction. Translated from the French by Beatrice Mousli. Recipient of the Prix Wepler Fondation La Poste and the Prix Pierre Simon Ethique et Reflexion, WE'RE NOT HERE TO DISAPPEAR begins with the
Fiction. In a sequence of haunted seasons, Tuesday, Hague, and their mother Karen are pained by the aporia of love and death. With powerfully elemental prose, NO OTHER lays bare the mysterious and emo
Poetry. "DAUGHTERS OF YOUR CENTURY begins with the 'aftermath of feeling' and proceeds to recover, and uncover, an acute sense of human beingness. Dan's immediate world of family, friends and
Poetry. Jessica Piazza's THIS IS NOT A SKY begins with the seed of ekphrastic literature, then yawns, then stretches, then bursts beyond those bounds. Each of these 18 poems borrows a title from the g
Poetry. "STONE WALLS administers a dose of Americana with a twist. Gil Fagiani's fifties childhood is recalled with the treats and temptations of post-war prosperity and adolescence rendered
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Bilingual English-German edition with translations from the English by Nicolai Kobus. ARCHITECTURE FOR TRAVELERS is comprised of poems toward the construction of a home an
Poetry. "THIS VERSION OF EARTH begins with the voice of the hippest, wisest teenager you can imagine, stuck in New Jersey but heading for Manhattan every chance she gets. Gradually, her world
Poetry. Lauren Haldeman's inventive debut, CALENDAY, plays and challenges with equal force: "Up from my heart / I thought of my head, / and my heart came true." These poems travel th
Fiction. Feminist Horror. A young woman's organs plot a slow and torturous cannibalization of her body. Sleeping Beauty and Rapunzel poison their bodies with gardens worth of parsley while devouring t
Drama. A play by David Williams, adapted from the novel by A.A. Garrison. What if you had to spend the end of the world with a psychopath? After a virus takes out most of the population, recovering ad
Poetry. "Michael Patrick Collins confronts the conflicts of the modern world with a mystic's intensity. The music in these poems, their fierce proclamations and sideways spirituality, remind
Poetry. "Rachel Guido deVries's The Brother Inside Me seduces with poems celebrating nature's beauty in New York. Exploring the paradoxical permanency of desire and loss, deVries writes convi
Poetry. ALL THE WASTED BEAUTY OF THE WORLD, a finalist for the 2012 Able Muse Book Award, extols the beautiful as readily as it expounds on the blemished. The reasoned commingles with the rambunctious
Poetry. SELECTED POEMS 1967- 2014 offers a major career retrospective, taking texts not only from his earlier Shearsman collected poems,with the first dream of fire they hunt the cold (2001; 2nd editi
Poetry. Mnemosyne as memory is mother to the nine muses, who bring us forgetfulness of evil and rest from pain, according to the epic poets. But what does the lyric poet do with the mother of the muse
Poetry. "LANDSCAPE WITH LIGHT, a subtle and gorgeous book of cinematic ekphrasis, asks an important question about the nature of visual culture: 'Do we still worship the old god of beauty, or have we
Fiction. Showing a distinctly un- glamorous side of Southern California, these lyrical short stories are set in run-down diners and other neighborhood eateries with names that range from the prosaic (
Poetry. "The graceful poems in Lee Slonimsky's new collection are those of a born naturalist gifted with urbane insights, verse assembled from careful observation and remarkable emotional inv
Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. The conversation with history is witnessed by the earth and etches the collisions on its body—every rock and road, riverbed and meadow hold the marks of migrations, esc
Poetry. Winner of the 2014 Kelsey Street Press FIRSTS! Contest. "Jasmine Dreame Wagner's RINGS spirals through the alphabet with both velocity and precision. To read this poetry is to feel your pulse
Poetry. Art. Photography. Edited by Larry Fagin, with photography by John Sarsgard. Why portraits of poets? Of all writers, poets are most engaged with the limits and possibilities of language—what Na
Poetry. Brittany Cavallaro and Rebecca Hazelton began with the proposition that the opposite of a dream song might be waking speech. Or a sleepless anthem. Or wakeful silence. Then they reversed that
Poetry. In poet Philip C. Kolin's seventh collection of poems, he "writes with elegance and grace about the leaps and shifts that mark life..." (Mary Swander, Iowa Poet Laureate). As
Poetry. "Dive into Karen George's SWIM YOUR WAY BACK, a moving chronicle of the poet's life with her husband—two lives that intersect and entwine like cloverleaves (the opening poem's title)
Fiction. A SEASON IN FLORIDA is Emanuele Pettener's debut book of fiction in English. Prolific in Italian with three novels, he now offers to the North American audience some of his delightfully funny
Literary Nonfiction. "Told with artful artlessness, direct and unpretentious in manner, A TEAR AND A TEAR IN MY HEART is rooted in the particularities and pleasures of the local. Just the sort of huma
"It presents English translations of all of Lunts's articles on the theater, all of his five plays and one of his two screenplays, which is the title piece. Also included are article-tributes to Lunts
Poetry. In July, 2010, Zen priest Norman Fischer travelled to Kyoto to visit temples and meet with fellow practitioners. A CRAZY LIFE OF TEARS is a poetic journal of that trip. Fischer's poetry examin
Poetry. "These merciless and irresistible poems fuse into a landscape of intimate close-ups, whether of buffalo bellowing their dominance in Yellowstone, the touch of the wife's hands covered with dou
Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Humor. David Allen takes an alphabetical tour through 26 uniquely entertaining aspects of Pomona, California with this delightful series of newspaper columns
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Wendy C. Ortiz was an only child and a bookish, insecure girl living with alcoholic parents in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He
Faced with the prospect of a world being erased or moving to a new city, these poems hold fast to light in a dark time.Mark McKee received his MFA from the University of Houston and his PhD from the U
Poetry. Written over the past 35 years, PICASSO'S TEARS is an epic account of Wong May's incisive, empathic, and visionary engagement with our strange and violent world. Politically inflamed and inten
Poetry. Jewish Studies. With the concentrated precision of poetry, VILNIUS DIARY has also the richness of a novel and the intimacy of a memoir. Memory, loss, and immigration are captured in poignant i
Poetry. In Melissa Balmain's WALKING IN ON PEOPLE, the serious is lightened with a generous serving of wit and humor, and the lighthearted is enriched with abundant wisdom. She shows us how poetry can
