Poetry. "I. The little death, first. There is no such thing as an emergency in the poetry world. Trained on. Like a third armpit. The advantage of the cordless model. You went and had all this shipped
Poetry. SOME NOTES ON MY PROGRAMMING finds Anselm Berrigan, Artistic Director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, once more in funny, irritable, tip-top form. Surveying the Bush-era cultural l
Poetry. "Kevin Finn's assured pacing, modulated lyricism, and percipient eye go straight to the heart of things, the big, deep, breaking heart of things. I know no other way to say it: SEA OF DUST is
Fiction. Spanning the years 1987-2001, from just before the rise of the internet to just before 9/11, REMEDIA: A PICARESQUE engages readers in an unruly spiritual odyssey where, in Laynie Browne's wor
Poetry. "My introduction to Mark Cunningham came when a small swarm of [beetles] arrived in my inbox at Otoliths. Delightful things, that I was instantly enamored of. Something of a paradox, though. S
Poetry. "The world is full of things unbecoming themselves," writes Maria M. Benet in Mapmaker of Absences. The poems in this collection chart more than subtractions and absences. They recover scenes
Poetry. Things happen fast and abundantly as perceived in the present tense. Not that the present isn't "selected" as much as the past is, but being less a function of memory and more of attention to
Drama. Performance Art. The pages of EMERGENCY INDEX are open to all who work with performance. In each annual volume, contributors document works made in the previous year. By including performances
Poetry. Music. Art. Combining whimsical illustrations with poems of love, humour and celebration of the ups and downs of being a touring recording artist, IDIOT VERSE is a delightful book in the tradi
Poetry. "Michael Sikkema's May Apple Deep, both sweet and tart, is the pastoral for our time. Filled with the energy of opposites, with 'a gangsta soundtrack' where 'overpasses / become snipe
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. In this genre-blending collection, Julia Cohen entwines the lyric and the essay with text messages, transcripts of therapy sessions, letters between Paul Celan and Nelly S
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian, and with an introduction by Adria Bernardi. CHRONIC HEARING contains selections from seven collections. Annino writes poems of intense sensitivi
Poetry. In FALLEN ATTITUDES, Patricia Waters' poems explore, with intelligence and panache, the elusive "bitter realm of memory." With a classicist's viewpoint, she responds to the works of Symborska,
Poetry. WRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL is Edith Rylander's fourth collection of poetry. The poems in this collection confront Death largely by celebrating Life. The poet takes stock of what's gone by and re
Poetry. With artwork by Tushar Shinde. "In these poems the heart pours out longing as a mingling of dream and arousal. The erotic potency of Wolak's love poems evokes a condition that is most profound
Poetry. "For those of us who fell in love with the putative end of DuPlessis's lifework, Drafts—'Volta! Volta!'—it's a serious pleasure to discover that it has indeed taken a turn, the serial poem plu
Poetry. The poetry of Patty Dickson Pieczka never hesitates to introduce both a startling imagination and a sense of the natural world. Here is a poet who is no stranger to either. With fast-paced lit
Poetry. "David Jaffin is a scrupulous weigher and weighter of words—by which I mean that a poem is, for him, always a matter of collaboration with the true spirit of the language. Every word is given
Poetry. Taking—and twisting—the title of an Iraq operation for its own, Laura Mullen's seventh book might be summed up in the phrase Andre Breton famously applied to Frieda Kahlo: "a bomb with a ribbo
Poetry. "Cole Swensen's STELE goes forth with an artful, graceful balancing as in a minuet, stopping, bowing and then moving towards new thought. This reading 'presumes a crossing' of empty space in e
Poetry. With 25 illustrations by the author. In a remote area modulators are singing slowly before disappearing into starlite lounges. The growers are tiny hands that weave in space. The acrobatics of
Poetry. With dark humor, spare language and a keen eye, Daniel Ames invites us all to pull up a chair to his first collection of poems. In FEASTING AT THE TABLE OF THE DAMNED, Ames celebrates, observe
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "Fifty years at work in the field, he has been changing with the times, alert to the tiniest of human feelings as well as to the larger currents of shared social struggle. Like J
Poetry. "Judith Pacht's SUMMER HUNGER is nothing less than a superb collection of poems. SUMMER HUNGER encompasses wry daily reflections as well as sobering and profound historical meditations. With e
K. Alma Peterson's language is vividly pictorial. And some of her poems are composed as a visual field. But not for the sake of the eye alone does Peterson write-her poems are saturated with feelings,
Cultural Writing. Biography. Poetry. Gilmore's long-awaited biography of one of the most celebrated poets of our time. Based on the poet's extensive correspondence and on interviews with members of th
Poetry. The poems of this new collection are concerned with the interplay of domestic life--its companionship, its fecundity, its losses--and manifestations of the abstract or, as she has put it, with
Cultural Writing. Political Science. Hernando de Soto and Francis Cheneval have edited a collection of ground-breaking cases as part of the Swiss Human Rights Book series which deal with property righ
Poetry. A major event, this volume is the first career-spanning collection of Lee Harwood's work, and its publication was timed to coincide with the author's 65th birthday in June 2004. Most of Lee Ha
Poetry. Political Science. Published anonymously by Women in the Weather Underground Organization in 1975, these poems express solidarity with the victims of U.S. imperialism--at home and abroad--at a
Poetry. "EMPTIED OF ALL SHIPS is a setting out onto crucial waters. Each word here has its own weight and position--its own vital movement between poles of loss and discovery. With our sight-lines thu
Poetry. Memoir. Asian American Studies. With I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED, Eileen R. Tabios melds the forms of poem, memoir, art monograph, play, novel and questionnaire to affirm that the poe
Poetry. "Margot Farrington's poems have the intensity, tension, and still momentum of a bowstring, or an arrow in the target. Utterly contemporary, her work unfolds with the precision of the ballad tr
Poetry. "With SELAH Joshua Corey joins a generation of exciting first-book poets who apply the fundamental poetic gift of the ear, in new ways. Sheer richness of language, and in the best poems cadenc
Cultural Writing. Travel. THE NORTH POLE is a compelling account of a summer trip the author made to the North Pole on a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker. Brown intersperses her narrative with excer
Poetry. Hurd confronts the reader with the fascinating proposition, a medical conjecture, that many of us are actually twins in our single bodies and oblivious of it, and carries us through varied per
Biography. "The poet nailed on the hard bone of this world. His soul dedicated to silence is a fish with frog's eyes. The blood of a poet flows out with his poems, back to the pyramid of bones from wh
Cultural Writing. Poetics. "Susan Thackrey's meeting with George Oppen's poetry and other writings...is as courageous, revealing, and unfailingly 'studiously unprepared' an encounter of poet with poet
Poetry. These elliptical pieces flirt with the sonnet form with a varied diction and generous use of actual ellipses. Tim Atkins was born in London in 1962. Previous books include Folklore (Heart Hamm
Poetry. This remarkably intelligent and original first collection of poems is NOT A BALANCING ACT because language can only supply an imaginary point, so that it must be delivered up with a sense of f
