Poetry. "In this book, Anne Gorrick writes poems of heft and delicacy. Each is constructed as a musical thinking through of an idea, as she builds a poem through deft and fluid repetition and musical
Poetry. Norman Stock's direct expression of gut-level feelings, surreal fantasies, and riotous humor, invite the reader to experience poetry in a new, more immediate way. The boring posturing of acade
Literary Nonfiction. This volume collects the essays presented at The Hyphenate Writer and the Legacy of Exile colloquium, held in February, 2008. This colloquium was born from a discussion that has b
Poetry. Factory Hollow's first full-length book, CRASH DOME is a book-length poem by Alex Phillips. "That from the twenty-six letters of our alphabet this book could be born is a miracle, a heartbreak
Poetry. "Not nostalgia transports us here, but the sweet pulse of 'vanished ephemerae,' love of the Voyage, the illumination, and 'throbbing rituals' of a life lived always inside poetry. Tom Clark's
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. These multilingual poems, by a highly honored Chicano poet and children's author, celebrate our unity as human beings and announce the coming of the New Sun--which the M
Poetry. In Bett's new book, TRACK THIS, we see a surprising, but highly engaging shift in sensibility. TRACK THIS is a risk-taking, stunningly beautiful book of poems that "tracks" an evolving love re
Nonfiction. Korean Language Reference. Writing Systems. Southeast Asia Studies. Hangeul, the indigenous writing system of Korea, was promulgated in 1446. It is an ingenious system that utilizes modern
Poetry. Native American Studies. RED WILLOW PEOPLE is like sacred text from the great spirit, great mother earth, wisdom beyond knowing, Holy Writ. As Cynthia Hogue, author of The Incognito Body and O
Poetry. A philosophy of architecture conveyed through poetics. Organizing Principle: We begin our lives unconsciously in fully formed homes, abstract the architectural structure from the built environ
Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Art. The ABLE MUSE ANTHOLOGY celebrates Able Muse's journey through its first decade and beyond by showcasing the best of the published poetry, fiction, essays, i
Poetry. His seventh full-length volume of poetry, Phillip Foss's THE VALLEY OF CRANES excavates a wordscape--at once archaic and prophetic, imagined and lived--originating in the poet's homeground of
Nonfiction. Travel. Southeast Asia Studies. This guide will get you packed up and ready to hit the road. The Baekdu-daegan chain of mountains forms the backbone of the Korean Peninsula. It has always
Drama. "For myself and the cast, directing Leslie Scalapino's FLOW has been an extraordinary journey into language and the language in breath, the rhythms of effort to say as precisely as her savage d
Poetry. The always elegant, often heart-wrenching poems in Rachel Hadas's eleventh collection are no-holds-barred dispatches from the front lines of a loved one's surrender to dementia. "Stunning"—Mol
Poetry. Latino/Latino Studies. "The word 'cosmopolitan' has unfortunately come to connote a kind of haughty (perhaps affected) sophistication, so some other adjective is needed to convey the unusual c
Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. The large majority of the twenty million Italian Americans are law-abiding, hard-working, and accomplished. Yet the image of Italian Americans is often distorted
Poetry. "Bruce Williams's THE MOJAVE ROAD AND OTHER JOURNEYS is simply one of the most breathtaking and heartbreaking collections of poetry I've read in many years. These poems constitute a sequence o
Literary Nonfiction. Poetics. Literary Criticism. Editor Joshua Hoeynck has given the poetry world great service by uncovering two key essays from the Charles Olson Archive at the University of Connec
Poetry. "In this collection of deeply felt poems--fine-tuned and beautifully rendered--Carroll Kearley constructs watches of great intricacy and accuracy whose hands point to the temper of the tragic
Poetry. "Her painful evocations of Argentina during the dirty war (she grew up in Buenos Aires), her re-creations of Irish history (where her maternal ancestors lived and died), her tender po
Cultural Writing. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Brian Whitener, Daniel Borzutzky, and Fernando Fuentes. GENOCIDE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD (an English translation of Genocida en el B
Literary Nonfiction. Southeast Asia Studies. Poetry. Translated from the Korean by Brother Anthony of Taize, Hong Keong-Hee, and Steven D. Owyoung. Three ancient texts expressing the essence of the Ko
Drama. LGBT Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. DANCING AT FUNERALS: SELECTED PLAYS invites readers to a world of violence, passion, and comedy. Rane creates characters and plots that caputre the hard wor
Poetry. East Asia Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu. TIME OF SKY & CASTLES IN THE AIR is the first full-length translation of Ayane Kawata's poetry to be published in Englis
Poetry. "A strange intelligence guides the works in THE NEW MAKE BELIEVE toward insistent, yet nearly ineffable, redefinitions of commonplace words, as if everything were, in being named, strange. 'Ac
The Foot of the Rainbow finds Thomas R. Smith writing at the height of his powers, bringing the world's abundance within his poems' vibrant circumference:At a crossroads I turned east: a rainbow curve
Literary Nonfiction. Photography. Southeast Asia Studies. As if it weren't bad enough that the Korean War is, for many in the West, a "forgotten war" wedged between the larger conflicts of World War I
Poetry. "Imagine a novel whose setting is dark and indeterminate, whose nameless characters are shadowy, and whose circular plot unfolds timelessly--and you will be imagining John High's A BOOK OF UNK
Poetry. PIGAFETTA IS MY WIFE enters the crisis that is the love between the colonizer and the colonized. These poems fragment the journals of Antonio Pigafetta, a 16th Century traveler who recorded Ma
Sanketown tells of a ploace that captivates and holds hostage, a place hermitle and congoniral like the families that populare it. It tells the story of heredity and tragedy, how evil can magnerize as
"Reading John Bradley is like holding a flashlight and staring into the abyss. His poetic vision is, by turns, terrifying, humorous, and illuminating. Each poem conveys something of the psyche of cont
"The arts of remembering in Margaret Kaufman's Inheritance are as various as the tones of voice available to her as a poet. Her voice can be political, and it can be sensual portraiture. But always, s
Poetry. "This is an immense book, one in which Notley takes language, as she has it, 'from hearsay to heresy' by the speed and awe of an unwavering attention to the seams, seems and semes of words and
"Ever since reading America, Amerika, I've been a fan of Marilyn Zuckerman's work. The poems in this newest volume rage, they celebrate, they despair and they rejoice. They tell truths both terrible a
Poetry. "Imagine an ocean leaving its bed to hover above itself, where it should not be, to form a 'silhouette' visible against an 'afternoon.' The technology of displacement is deployed, in Andrew Pe
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by Laura E. Ruberto. "An immigrant woman's moving account of what one gains, but also what one loses, when emigrating to the
Poetry. "Elizabeth Hatmaker has a quiet way of crunching up our world. She excels in shaking out the dirty little corners of the mind, particularly the mind of misogynist history. In the person of Eli
Poetry. "Rarely has a book of poems been as aptly titled as Barbara Crooker's MORE. Propelled by her hunger for beauty and language, she flies in low over human experience, noticing every gesture, eve
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. Poetics. "Opinions tend to be uninteresting, which is one of the reasons why I always like reading poet Gary Lenhart's critical pieces: he gives us
