Poetry. "Daniel Borzutzky's poems bespeak an amazing grasp of current nounage that the writer skillfully employs to achieve a piercing social and political critique. Little of current or recent histor
Poetry. Jocelyn Saidenberg's third book of poetry begins in a "dusky" wood, but instead of descending to hell she journeys through the negativity of earthly relations. We hear of friends, lovers, and
Poetry. The 77 poems in James Wagner's TRILCE are homophonic translations of Cesar Vallejo's book of the same name, or at least that was the cathartic process Wagner underwent--in creating them, his v
Fiction. "The mystery of who butchered ethereally beautiful and pregnant Elsbeth is at the heart of Keller's elegant and spooky second novel (part of a trilogy, after Jackpot). Was it the traumatized
Poetry. In THREE COLUMN TABLE, Harold Abramowitz offers a poetic analysis of languages that have helped invent, delimit, and reinforce domestic structures. By fusing an exterior and public language to
Fiction. Edited by Abigail Beckel and Kathleen Rooney. Introduction by Ron Carlson.BREVITY & ECHO is an essential anthology of previously published short shorts by Emerson College alumni. BREV
Cultural Writing. Politics. Memoir. What started as the angry scribblings of a caterer in Florida evolved into much more as the infamous Al-Qaeda soon became Scott Creney's closest confidante in this
Poetry. Art. This book of haiku and photographs was conceived as a gift for poet Edith Shiffert on entering her ninety-first year. Shiffert has lived in Kyoto, Japan since 1963. She is the author of t
Poetry. Enid Dame calls THE FUTURIST'S MISTRESS "Playful, anarchic, often hilariously funny glimpses of the world we know from a skewed, sophisticated angle." Lorraine Schein is a New York poet and wr
Poetry. Jacinta Galea'i has written a "novel" that is also a sequence of "poems," calling her genres into question at every turn. She has written a book in English and Samoan, one that straddles geogr
Poetry. "IFLIFE presents some of the wittiest, politically prescient--and best--American poems of this new century. The scope of the collection is prodigious, from the war in Iraq to domestic
Fiction. Gay and Lesbian Studies. Memoir. This collection of conversations and ruminations during walks around the city was first published in 1979 by Black Star Series, San Francisco. It was immediat
Fiction. "GOWANUS CANAL, HANS KNUDSEN is a novel of ideas unlike most written these days. Knudsen is a new Stephen Daedalus--but lacking a coherent tradition to rebel against as he misfires his way th
Fiction. Quinn, a sculptor literally and figuratively at the end of his rope, flees New York City for a capeside artists' colony. Fixated by trash, and reading Woolf's The Waves, Quinn trawls the stre
Poetry. Asian Studies. To celebrate the first anniversary of his death, a book of selected poems by the late Ku Sang (1919-2004) has been published by Seoul Selection in English translation. Translate
Cultural Writing. Most books on the 1960's focus on large liberal organizations and reformist politics. This one is unabashedly devoted to the far left of the far left. DANCIN' IN THE STREETS is a col
Fiction. Sharon Mesmer's new collection of short fiction shows a depth of feeling that permeates every story. "Mesmer's evocative poetic language provies refreshingly clear images and clever
Poetry. Asian American Studies. "There is an inevitability implicit in the directness of Tsering Wangmo Dhompa's poetry that leaves the reader quite unprepared for the sudden leaps in reality it then
Poetry. In THE THORN all kinds of materials by David Larsen are combined and presented in the form of a first book of poetry. The resulting collection makes no disguise of its debt to Behind the State
Poetry. Flarf. "PETROLEUM HAT is natural language for a country at war. Unlike the old model of protest poetry, Drew Gardner isn't interested in earnest appeals to reason and compassion. He'll match t
Poetry. "Rather than introspection, sensationalism, or mere entertainment, remembering becomes an act of engagement, one that propels the poet toward a fierce intellectual and moral reckoning. And we
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the English into Italian by Elisa Biagini. Winner of the Bordighera Poetry Prize. "What draws me to Gerry LaFemina's poems is how much of the world they cont
Drama. Southeast Asia Studies. In A YANG FOR EVERY YIN: DRAMATIZATIONS OF KOREAN CLASSICS, John Holstein adapts some of Korea's favorite traditional stories to the stage for a modern audience. Include
Poetry. The visceral and the intellectual, the fragmentary and the full, the future and memory--Jonathan Brannen interrogates opposites in these facing pairs, brilliantly illuminating the zone of lang
Cultural Writing. "At bottom, Allen Grossman is a deeply human author who writes that the 'desire for something might make it true.' His desire for poetry is a sign of a wish, formed during a traumati
Cultural Writing. Memoir. Yearning for acceptance from her Italian-speaking mother-in-law, Bea Tusiani's stories offer a glimpse into the struggle of generations. From Bushwick, Brooklyn in the 1950's
Cultural Writing. Politics. Environmentalism. POLITICAL ECOSYSTEMS is a highly original text that argues those of us who are left-progressives and environmentalists need to engage in rigorous self-exa
Poetry. This is the third full-length book of poetry from Jena Osman, following her highly praised work The Character, published by Beacon Press. Osman teaches in the graduate Creative Writing Program
Christine Gelineau, winner of the 2004 Richard Snyder Publication Prize, is the author of two chapbooks of poetry, North American Song Line and In the Greenwood World. Gelineau is the assistant direct
Poetry. Translation. "Action is word creator, anarchic alliterator, solid scholar and theoretician, composer, graphic artist, collagist, syllable-juggler, concrete poet, word sculptor, chronicler of t
Poetry. UNRAVEL addresses our universal experiences of time and place, and how those places shape who and what we are. UNRAVEL challenges our sometimes-complacent perceptions and justifies what we all
Fiction. Set in the red light district of Athens in the late 1980s, NIKE is a dark modern retelling of the story of the goddess of Victory. Maya Brennan returns to Athens after a trip to the Middle Ea
Poetry. "Clear poem by clear poem, FALLING WORLD limns an ever-widening circle of connections: familial, marital, earthly, cultural, political. As woven by Lynn Trombetta's attentive and particular vi
Poetry. Kaia Sand teaches at Saint Mary's College of Maryland and co-curates the In Your Ear poetry series at the District of Columbia Arts Center. "So shaken to alertness you will be by this collecte
Poetry. Translated from the Turkish by Onder Otcu and Murat Nemet-Nejat. Ilhan Berk stands at the apex of modern Turkish literature. Considered to be one of the great innovative poets of his generatio
Poetry. "Reading Tim Seibles reminds me of the Buddhist parable of the burning house: everyone ignores the flames, pretends there is no smoke, no pain, no prospect of death. Or, if there is,
Poetry. Originally composed in English. Translated into facing-page Italian by Ned Condini. Winner of the Bordighera Poetry Prize, Tassi's inventing, astonishing poetry "exists in unexpected juxtaposi
Poetry. "Each of these poems attends the 'dimension in a street' and the variation found there, below the 'billboard's traffic stream' and otherwise ubiquitous capitalist referentiality"--Kristen Gall
Richard Jackson is the author of five books of poems—most recently Heartwall, a Juniper Prize winner. He has received Fulbright, Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the
