Poetry. Inhabited by spirits, shadows, and ghosts harmonizing from the bleak and muddy bottoms of The Lake—the One and Only Lake—Blueberry Elizabeth Morningsnow's debut collection of poems, WHALE IN T
Poetry. DELIBERATIONS is a master statement by one of the definitive voices of the American Great Plains. Highly polished, deeply felt, these poems are the harvest of a life lived close to the marrow.
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. Introduction by Dale Smith. Afterword by Ammiel Alcalay. Called by Andrei Codrescu, "one of the few and great readers of American poetry," Warren p
Drama. Featuring plays Nirmala Nataraj, Bennett Fisher, Stuart Eugene Bousel, Claire Rice, and Evelyn Jean Pine. In SONGS OF HESTIA: FIVE PLAYS FROM THE 2010 SAN FRANCISCO OLYMPIANS FESTIVAL, five pla
Poetry. Northeast Asia Studies. This unique collection of unembellished poems, the fourth book by veteran author, journalist, columnist and radio presenter Kim Heung-sook, invites the reader into a re
Poetry. "David Lloyd's two recent chapbooks, Sill and Vega, have seen his poetic writing develop a constellated elegance, drawing on the European dialectical lyric for the resonance of key terms such
Poetry. "In Robert Grunst's poems the city's forgotten signs rise from memory into midday light. BLUE ORANGE conveys the luster of words, revealing both an older and brightened sense of the world. The
Poetry. Latino/Latino Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Molly Weigel. Is it "shocking" that Sergio and Pablo Shoklender, two teenage sons of privilege in 80s Argentina, should
Poetry. LGBT Studies. THE RELATIONAL ELATIONS OF ORPHANED ALGEBRA is a ground-breaking collaboration of poems and poetics essays. "Began" by Eileen R. Tabios who crafted poems melding algebra and orph
Poetry. "In these newest of her poems, Harriet Zinnes has dared to accept the deepest challenge of all writing: i.e. to dwell in the moment that is the seed-time of moments and in the image that rests
Poetry. Asian American Studies. "There is a subtle mind embodied in Meredith Cole's quick poems, which operate on an odd combination of understatement, inference and smart-aleckness. As the title MINI
Poetry. "I understand Jared Hayes is conducting here a deep spelunking into connected caverns of other texts. What I don't yet quite grasp is how he's articulated all the ropes, quickdraws, carabiners
Poetry. Magical transformations, enchanted mirrors, talking animals, familiar tales in unfamiliar guises, all these and more are found in the pages of THE LAST SELCHIE CHILD.Retellings of archetypal m
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Art. ABLE MUSE SUMMER 2012 continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have bec
Literary Nonfiction. APART grew out of Taylor's memories of visiting her family in South Africa as a child and her later curiosity about her (white) mother's involvement in early anti-apartheid women'
Poetry. Translated from the Danish by Barbara Haveland. A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION is a series of meditations on walking. Divided into four major songs, or cantos, each one explores the act of walk
Poetry. John Dotson of Carmel, California, and Caroline Gill of Swansea, Wales, share poetry across the Pond, in celebration of Dylan Thomas and his daughter Aeronwy Thomas. This is the fifth chapbook
Voluptuous Pleasure is a collection of non-fiction whose title states that non-fiction does not exist. Sensuous and smart, ambiguous but incisive in their truths-these stories take you into brothels a
Poetry. REPEATER is a codebook. It is a poetic code programmed into a computer code.Using the ASCII 8-bit binary code for each letter of the alphabet as an acrostic, the poems of REPEATER encode an in
Poetry. BENT AT THE SPINE offers a "pronoun"-ced frolic where the "you" is a disconnected third party—the reader is left in the position of an eavesdropper, or a listener, or a karmasurplus author. It
Poetry. John M. Bennett's LIBER X is a tour de force of poetry, mixing textual, visual, oral, typographic, and linguistic procedures to create a unique and inexhaustible work. A delight to the eye, th
Poetry. Memoir. "Norma Farber's journal of the year after the death of her life's companion is in prose and verse. This formal doubleness turns out to be perfect for writing that is attentive as it is
Poetry. THE MALADY OF THE CENTURY is written as a swansong to a generation that has lost the will to perceive the linear progression of time; a generation that is a collapse of occasions, wherein no d
Poetry. A VERTICAL MILE from Richard Wakefield is a finalist in the 2011 Able Muse Book Award. Keenly observed themes about people and the land they live in show a profound sense of awe before natural
Poetry. There are many journeys encompassed in the pages of this mature and well-crafted first collection; literal travels to different parts of the world, to Europe and Africa, are the outward manife
Poetry. "Copeland's TRANSCENDENTAL TELEMARKETER contains beautiful lyrics of emotion and meditation, but it also contains rants against war and violence, and all the while it swings us from the U.S. t
Poetry. "How do we stay rooted in a world of flux? 'Oh, to keep ourselves / from falling,' Jennifer Arin exclaims, and here is a poet who understands and celebrates the complexity of this impossible w
Poetry. "Poets are not generally reputed to be tough-minded persons, yet they often are--as the poems of Elizabeth Jacobson demonstrate again and again. At once stoical and lush, full of terse, pierci
Literary Nonfiction. NILLING: PROSE is a sequence of five loosely linked prose essays about noise, pornography, the codex, melancholy, Lucretius, folds, cities and related aporias: in short, these are
Poetry. MORMON BOY by Seth Brady Tucker is one of the winners of the Elixir Press 11th Annual Poetry Awards. David Kirby has this to say about it: "A young man goes to a desert war, somehow returns wi
Literary Nonfiction. Art. After stumbling upon a wooden box containing a complete set of miniature wax mold figurines of US presidents at a flea market, artist Alex Forman began photographing each lit
Poetry. Well, decades passed as decades do, and Duane Locke at a robust 90 years of age continues to write at an astounding rate. A few years ago he pioneered poetry on the Web and as of this introduc
Poetry. Edited by David Clippinger, BURSTS OF LIGHT includes all of William Bronk's poetry written after LIFE SUPPORTS (1981) and approved by the author for book publication before his death in 1999.
Poetry.They are marginal. They move in rivulets.They exist not only in their details.They contain their own extraordinary destiny.They live beside a family of small farmers.They are discovered and dec
Literary Nonfiction. Edited by Dennis Barone and Peter Covino, this volume collects and expands on many of the ideas explored during the widely influential Italian American Discussion Group of the Mod
Poetry. Native American Studies. Translated into English from the Ahtna Athabaskan by the author. "In a world where such poets are more rare than people might imagine, John Smelcer is one of the truly
Poetry. DIRGE FOR AN IMAGINARY WORLD is the winner of the 2011 Able Muse Book Award, selected by Andrew Hudgins. These are poems of breathtaking craftsmanship that find inspiration in the simplicity o
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. "For some thirty years, John Taylor has been diving as a critic into the torrents of modern European poetry; that is, into the different national literatures which, in add
Poetry. Composed from source text randomly selected from On the Origin of the Species and the Old Testament, INFINITE VARIATIONS seeks to puncture the political in exploring and re-imagining these sem
Poetry. Written between December 2006 and December 2007, this long poem/journal/improvisation records in one long rush a year's worth of observations and events. Torra's eyes and ears are alert to fat
