Cultural Writing. Philosophy. Why do a second edition of DISTRACTED? According to the author, "Because it is now starkly clear to me that there is a limited number of concepts, figures and postures th
Drama. Native American Studies. "One of the most vital of the younger writers. Watch this guy. He's making myth"--Joy Harjo. "Displays a mastery of language, a breadth of vision, and an astonishing ra
Poetry. Asian-American. Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is one of the very few poets writing in the United States today whose voice and writing style are immediately recognizable. In her new collection, NEST, t
Poetry. "Rod Smith is submodernism's first genius. In his wild and amazing poems, honesty is music, listen"-Peter Gizzi. "MUSIC OR HONESTY will remind you of just how powerful the pleasures of the ton
Poetry. New poems by the author of SHINER. "These poems manage to say everything about everything-each determining day, each shifting sense of inexhaustible person. Back of it all is an extra
Poetry. African American Studies. DRAG by Duriel E. Harris is a PoMoFunk symphony weaving the harmonics of language and culture into a transcendent whole. Forrest Hamer said: "We've been wait
Kathryn Winograd holds a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry and a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, among them The New Yorker, TriQuarterly, T
Poetry. "These poems in prose are instructions for (not interpretations of) dreams and, as such of intrinsic value. They take fully into account 'what is lost,' 'what cannot be told,' 'the mi
Cultural Writing. From one of our most esteemed contemporary poets, a collection of essays about reading and poetics, written over many decades, and touching on many centuries. "We expect poets to giv
Cultural Writing. Poetry. Art. "DURER IN THE WINDOW offers a selection of Guest's work on art written between the 1950's and 2000. It features the early art reviews, collaborations, longer essays, and
Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Dhompa's potent suite of poems elucidates the humanness and adversities of the Tibetan diaspora. You enter the immigrant girl-child's bifurcated world, coming and goin
A collection, culled from the past thirty years of prose and oratory celebrates such figures as James Baldwin, Miles Davis, Kimako Baraka, Dizzy Gillespie, and Toni Cade Bambara.
Poetry. "An enlightened work singing of death, physical pain, social fearfulness, and where when or whether one is. The intricate variable stanza...sounds one of Scalapino's favorite themes:
Poetry. Essay. Asian American Studies. "Sinavaiana-Gabbard draws her imaginative strength and mana from the fertile depths of her Samoan people's mythologies, past, and wisdom, as well as from the cul
Poetry. "Sobin's poetry grants us a clarity of vision but most of all it grants the capacity for silence and for hearing in silent stillness the infinite possibility of generation and renewal"--Robert
Poetry. African American Studies. "If you haven't read Jayne Cortez you're missing some of the best that life has to offer. Here is always a compelling voice of fire and freedom. Her surreali
Nonfiction. Poetics. Literary Criticism. The first book devoted to the work of the Objectivist Poets: Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, Lorine Niedecker. Though not a histo
Poetry. Risa Kaparo is a teacher, therapist and writer who makes her home on the island of Kauai. Her life, like that of the Handless Maiden-the character from the fairy tale that forms the thematic u
Poetry. African American Studies. "If you haven't read Jayne Cortez you're missing some of the best that life has to offer. Here is always a compelling voice of fire and freedom. Her surrealism-the ho
Poetry. "Eula Biss writes in spare brushstrokes that evoke an emotional universe, by turns funny, scary, dreamlike, haunting. These prose poems are shards of gleaming observation, fragments of intimac
Poetry. The son of Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan has been surrounded by poetry and poetics his entire life, a fact that was much noted after the publication of his first book, INTEGRI
Poetry. Poet Hannah Weiner died in 1997 having written some of the most challenging, experimental, and compelling poetry of her generation. Born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1928, she died in Manhat
Poetry. Lynne Knight's first book won a Quarterly Review of Literature prize in 1996. Her second full-length collection has won the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize for 2002. In it Knight explores the id
This irreverent and amusing collection consists of over 800 "misheard" song lyrics, as compiled by poet Kenneth Goldsmith, "the Napster of the malapropism [who] downloads the poetic genius of the mass
Poetry/Prose. Translated from the German by Harry Mathews, Christopher Middleton, and Rosmarie Waldrop. "An Oskar-Pastior-poem is like life. As soon as you think you've got hold of it, it has already
Poetry. Edith Perloff, who selected this collection for the 2001 National Poetry Series awards, writes of Sullivan's work: "HOW TO PROCEED IN THE ARTS is an amazing tour de force...by turns deeply tro
Poetry. VISIONS, a new collection of Marc Elihu Hofstadter's poetry, documents the attempt to reify the optics of paintings into the text of poetry. "Marc Hofstadter wields an optical instrument that
Cultural Studies. Native American Studies. This new book explores American Indian gaming practices froma variety of angles. This timely publication confronts the complex history and future of the rece
Cultural Writing. Literary Criticism. In THE "FALLEN WESTEN STAR" WARS, Jack Foley documents the heated debate that surrounds literary California. "When Dana Gioia, the author of "Can Poetry Matter?,"
Poetry. How rare!--A published translation of work that is still news in its original, but then Tarkos, a complex and vital force in contemporary French poetry, is going to be news for many years. And
Cultural Writing. Edited by Graziella Parati and Ben Lawton. ITALIAN CULTURAL STUDIES includes selected essays written by participants of the Italian Cultural Studies Symposium at Dartmouth College in
Poetry. Translated from the Macedonian by P.H. Liotta. "Bogomil Gjuzel [pronounced Dzyuzel] is Macedonia's greatest living poet. The publication of these fine translations illustrates how the sense of
Poetry. From 1956 till his death in 1999, William Bronk published thirty books of poetry and essays. Bronk returned again and again to a fundamental assertion that what is real--the world, truth, and
Poetry. ACE, complete! This reprint of one of Raworth's most well-received works includes "Bolivia: Another End of Ace," as well as drawings by Barry Hall only seen in the very limit
Poetry. A series of wry meditations on the relationship between the ordinary and the extraordinary, the human and the divine, everyday experience and the limits of bliss, THE BOOK OF ORGASMS maps the
Prose. Jane Unrue's extraordinary prose unfolds within the confines of a mythological house: I used to walk when the moonlight was just enough to make the metallic structural elements (the rest of the
Best and deservedly known for the essay collection UNBOUND: A BOOK OF AIDS, Shurin also penned THE PARADISE OF FORMS: SELECTED POEMS, a Publishers Weekly Best Book last year. A book of thresholds, mid
Cultural Writing. Native American Studies. AMERICAN INDIAN THEATER IN PERFORMANCE: A READER is the first comprehensive collection to present the views of leading playwrights, directors, scholars, and
Poetry. The young, English experimental poet Miles Champion has established an impressive reputation on this side of the Atlantic, tweaking the sense that the British are more poetically staid than Am
