Poetry. "From the ugly stick to the dirty martini Jeffrey Morgan uncovers much to cry shame about in this book of crumbling points and ambiguous figures. Cry shame? I mean to suggest that there's much
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. "My soul looks back," James Baldwin said, "and wonders how I got over." Volume two of Sharon Doubiago's memoir, MY FATHER'S LOVE, reveals the legacy of her father's sexual
Poetry. A combination of poems published during Dominic Mallary's lifetime alongside poems posthumously selected by friends, DESTROYER OF MAN reveals a fiercely aware young poet writing from a place o
Poetry. "One thing I really like about Sophie Sills and Aristotle is their shared sense that music emerges most directly from a sense of awe in apprehending the object. Or, more precisely in the case
Poetry. "Many, many lives converge in THEY SAY THIS IS HOW DEATH CAME INTO THE WORLD like the illusion of parallel lines converging on the horizon. What seems quiet layers ice on a roiling maelstrom.
Fiction. Asian American Studies. "The genius of Eileen R. Tabios is as generous as it is manifold. Reading SILK EGG, I suddenly feel myself becoming more perceptive, fantastical, mordant, impassioned,
Poetry. In this remarkable anthology of poems about Weldon Kees or inspired by Weldon Kees—each accompanied by a statement by the poet regarding Kees's influence, magic, and power over the imagination
Poetry. R.H.W. Dillard's long-awaited seventh collection consists of a sequence of fifty-two poems, each sixteen lines long, each addressed to a dead poet or several times to more than one dead poet.
Poetry. "Never has the sumptuous materiality of language felt more seductive than in Landon Godfrey's remarkable debut collection, SECOND-SKIN RHINESTONE-SPANGLED NUDE SOUFFLE CHIFFON GOWN. These exqu
Literary Anthology. Young Adult. Fiction. Nonfiction. Poetry. BEYOND WORDS is the ninth anthology from WriteGirl, winner of the Governor and First Lady's Medal for Service as 2010-2011 California Nonp
Poetry. The poems in NO EDEN merge the landscapes of a rainy girlhood in the American South and the mythic world of Noah and the Flood. In these poems, a backyard stretches between a mother and daught
Poetry. By turns surreal, absurd, allegorical, and meta-fictional, this genre-defying cult classic of 33 linked sketches shows us a voice searching for meaning in the landscapes of intellect and ardor
Poetry. Translated from the Russian by J. Kates. "Intimate variety. Regina Derieva is remarkable for the range of voices she deploys"—Les Murray. "Regina Derieva's best poems are simultaneously elusiv
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Photography. Edited by Bertha Rogers. Catalog of the Eighth Americas Curated Book Arts Exhibit at Bright HIll Literary Center, curated by Elsi Vassdal Ellis and Bertha Rogers
Poetry. "I can't remember when a book of poems has invited such an attentive reading as Cindy King's marvelous first volume, PEOPLE ARE TINY IN PAINTINGS OF CHINA. Each poem, a descent through shiftin
Poetry. Drama. "In Tysh's tough, visceral, lacerating text, we bear witness to a surreal poetry for the stage, reminiscent of Buchner, Artaud, Genet, and Heiner Muller. Klara K leads us on an unspeaka
Poetry. "In TWO, Paul Vangelisti connects the antipodes of the extraordinary literary geography he has been creating through the course of his numerous previous works. Taken separately or together, th
Poetry. "He penetrates unsparingly, out of generousity. His sentiments have shadows where he focuses his examination.... His poem, like a soliliquey, seems to open up while at the same time drilling i
Poetry. "...[F]or Joe Elliot, doubt is a flexible, porous scrim through which the vagaries of human knowing pulse and stretch toward the great quotidian ensemble of unknowns"—Ann Lauterbach.
Poetry. A is for Accessible. GIVE SOME WORD is a somewhat irreverent book of poems. Cralan Kelder believes that people who read poetry should be delighted, not confused. Poems are not riddles. The poe
Poetry. "Louise Landis-Levi's pure intentions, and her uncompromising, heroic effort to realize the true nature of mind, make her poems a continuous stream of wisdom"—John Giorno.
Poetry. Edwin Torres's poetry—full of complex graphic experiments and daring sonic explorations—opens new creative possibilities, simultaneously challenging and delighting our intelligence. Coming on
Poetry. "In careful, crafty knots of language, Travis Cebula walks us through the veined structure of a city where, as in a poem, life splinters into its constituent parts: a car lot lit like Casablan
Poetry. Of DETERMINATION, poet Ted Greenwald has written: "For anyone wonders what's it doing out, don't stick a head out the window, open, stick a nose into, DETERMINATION, is an end result where lan
Poetry. Luminous epinoia, a Gnostic notion, stands for the primordial imagination from which the whole of creation came into being. Likewise, Peter O'Leary's poetry moves from a mythic unconscious to
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. Jewish Studies. This is a gathering of essays, poems, and recollections dedicated to the memory of poet, scholar, teacher, and political activist,
Poetry. "Marge Saiser's poetry is wise and generous and altogether genuine. No poet in this country is better at writing about love and, in a sense, all of her poems are in some way about love"—Ted Ko
Poetry. "Conversational eloquence is always a given in Glover Davis's poetry. Ordinary men and women are lifted by the clarity and intimacy of their observations to something resembling a state of gra
Poetry. "Gil Fagiani's muse is Italian American memory. These are poems of origins and belonging, of family, culture, politics. These are recollections, both elegiac and ironic, of a world Gil Fagiani
Poetry. "The poems shimmering in this volume represent an intense and vertiginous new beginning of the sonnet, erupting from the site of 'end words.' Tim Wood's re-embarkations are thrilling. I hesita
Nonfiction. Southeast Asia Studies. It is often said that Korea did in 50 years what the developed nations of the West took 200 years to do. This is not that great an exaggeration. When Korea was libe
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. "Urayoan Noel's plurilingual, polyphonic, & polymorphous text works are images are performance scores are records of poetry actions are homophonic translations are p
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Photography. Design. HENRY AT HOME presents photographs of objects from Henry—a shop in Hudson, NY, run by Nancy Shaver—as they appear in the homes of the people who purchase
Poetry. Nuanced yet aggressive, EARTHQUAKE TO HARLEM is a tour de force of NYC poetry. From Harlem to Bensonhurst, from a budget hairdresser to the junkie under the corner scaffold, Sheeler (a lifelon
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. LGBT Studies. "There are infinite varieties/of saying no to geography." The Prodigal Son is the Other in the gray landscape of suburbia, the dystopian glamour of Los Ang
Fiction. Son of a Mexican Creole soldier and a Comanche shaman, Coyote O'Donohughe learns shape-shifting from his mother and turns the tide of history in the Mexican Revolution, at the Alamo, the Batt
Poetry. "MOTHER SPEAKS HER NAME is classic in theme, operatic in structure, beautiful, fundamental...the very heart of a man's life and vision--all the gender myths and hells of the eons. Frank Adams
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. TUNALUNA is classic alurista: passionate, sensuous, and political. alurista's tenth book of poetry is a collection of 52 poems that takes us on a time trip through the f
Poetry. "'Euphoria is / the obligation of nightmare' he writes in WARRANTY IN ZULU. And then Matthew Gavin Frank shows us way after way that we might understand euphoria. Way after way in which we mig
Poetry. "Marjorie Becker's second collection of poems, PIANO GLASS/GLASS PIANO, is a truly remarkable achievement. Novelistic in its narrative conception and operatic in its dramatic sweep, this seque
