Poetry. Audio CD included. FAREWELLIA A LA ARALEE opens with a nine-poem tribute suite that tracks the end-times dynamic of the American poet, Aralee Strange, and concludes with an appendix, entitled
Poetry. "Joe Safdie's new book exists in a place where poetry joins with other forms of thought & knowledge—'history, myth, politics, autobiographical narrative, criticism, prose,' as he lists the
Poetry. "Meg Ronan is a pirate. The architect of her own barge, Ronan (with an R) brilliantly and relentlessly argues here for the found, the topical, the washed ashore with a sharp articulate reticen
Literary Nonfiction. A self-guided tour of ten places in Greenwich Village, New York, associated with the Welsh poet and author Dylan Thomas who visited New York four times and died in St Vincent's Ho
Fiction. Joellyn—as judgmental as she is insecure—tells her unborn daughter the story of her courtship with an unemployed, terribly-dressed man named Zachary. The novella is a romantic comedy—if roman
Poetry. With irreverent wordplay, Hagerty digs to the roots of language itself, showing the unbreakable links between our inner and outer worlds, and between the world that is "real" and the worlds we
Poetry. "Ken Arkind is the wildness of the west. Grounded and headstrong but with unimaginable breadth of heart, his work is rife with the complexities of a man unafraid to face exactly what he is—and
Poetry. "The poems of Yoon-Ho Cho are delicate, detailed, and strike the reader with their sensitive beauty. The opening poem, 'Apple Tree,' illustrates in itself the wonderful qualities of Korean poe
Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. LIVING AS A LESBIAN is Cheryl Clarke's paean to lesbian life. Filled with sounds from her childhood in Washington, DC, the riffs of jazz musicians, and
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
Drama. Italian Studies. Translated from the Italian by Thomas Simpson. In its first founding manifestoes of the 1980s, Teatro delle Albe defined itself as "Politttttttical Theatre," with seven t's, to
Poetry. "Think of a deer, nervously alert, stepping into a meadow hushed with dawn light. That is the way language moves in Tiff Dressen's poetry. Every pause, every space in this work seems charged b
Poetry. Winner of the 2012 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award."David Ray Vance's STUPOR is unwaveringly contemporary. In this linguistically intriguing and imaginative engagement with Western life, V
Fiction. California Interest. Myra Scar lies murdered on the floor of her gourmet restaurant, stabbed in the back with one eye cut out. The Chief of Police of Paso Robles will not find her killer by i
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "If we ever forgot that sisterhood is powerful, Julie R. Enszer's poetry reminds us—with frank wit, grief, compassion, and a clear sense of the joy and burden of love. Enszer is
Poetry. Inspired by nineteenth-century Webster's Dictionary engravings, ENGRAVED explores a fantastic land at the edge of obsolescence and loss. The poems teem with whaling schooners, passenger pigeon
Poetry. Edited and translated from the Spanish by Donald Wellman, with an essay by Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza. Bilingual edition. The poetry of DESCRIPTION OF THE LIE (DESCRIPCION DE LA MENTIRA) is rich in
Poetry. Edited by Kevin A. Gonzalez and Lauren Shapiro, with a foreword by Dara Wier. THE NEW CENSUS captures the kaleidoscopic range of contemporary poetry, spanning a complex array of aesthetic, for
Poetry. African American Studies. Edited by Adrienne Christian. "Cedric Tillman's poems are straightforward and full of rich details. These poems unfold with rhythm and resonate with remembering; they
Poetry. Women's Studies. AFTER THAT addresses the complicated emotions and confusion in caring for parents with advanced dementia, while also examining the psyche of the caregiver—the former child—ent
Poetry. Critical Introduction by Jeremiah Webster. Starting with Eliot's infamous The Waste Land, the collection unfolds with some of Eliot's finest early poems, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Set mid-to-late 20th century (with the heart of the book set in the 1950s and '60s), MY FATHER'S EYES is a loving daughter's memoir of a family coming to terms with a lega
Poetry. "Lynne Thompson's START WITH A SMALL GUITAR is a dazzling collection of love poems, wickedly wise and stitched with the darkest nuances of desire. These poems are rich in childhood play and th
Fiction. It begins with the unseen princess—named Lonely by the wind—of a City whose people have forgotten their bodies, hearts, and souls; as she escapes from her illusory tower to search for the mys
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "With an enormous sense of hope checked by doubt fit to match it, Evan Kennedy demonstrates the heroic in a contemporary landscape. Not only are the proportions somehow believabl
Poetry. "In this pair of wry, dark, brilliant books, we hear tell of domestic partnerships with a shifting array of W and M. Women and Men? Names multiply, genders reverse, and those initials, flipped
Poetry. Composed in a hybrid form that braids personal narrative with philosophical reflections, Sabrina Dalla Valle's book ponders the complexities of human communication and perception. It time-trav
Poetry. THE CONTEST is rich in humor, filled with love and angry at injustice. About her first book of poems, THE ONE AND ONLY HUMAN GALAXY, Honor Moore wrote "Let us welcome Swados the poet! [This] i
Poetry. Art. With drawings by Basil King. "The specificity of Burt Kimmelman's poems has, for more than thirty years, been a singularly locating force. It situates us in space, in relation to the lumi
Poetry. Steve Shrader's poetry combines elements of the tradition of Dickinson, Stevens and Ashbery, with the location of O‘ahu. These posthumously published poems represent an important addition/reco
Poetry. "The figure of the infant Moses-child of slavery, exile, captivity; lying in an ark of woven bulrushes 'daubed... with slime'—is the figure for this remarkable collection. 'Bring on the damn s
Poetry. VIRTUE, BIG AS SIN is impressively wide-ranging in theme and style. It illuminates everyday vignettes with solicitous spotlights such as the bereaved son sorting the contents of his father's m
Poetry. Translated from the German by Marc Vincenz. "NIGHTSHIFT / AN AREA OF SHADOWS is a moving book of a couple struggling with the inevitable."—Tages-Anzeiger"Erika Burkart is without a doubt the m
Fiction. "A good mystery is a dialogue with a reader, a city, a certain time in history, an exploration of a people's attitude towards humanity, socialmores, the downtrodden, the vulnerable. Set in Sa
Poetry. "Bennett has been the avant in avant-garde in the latter half of the 20th century with his Lost and Found Times, one of the great 'small press poetry rags' of all time, and then through his Lu
Poetry. "'By dint of / positioning,' these poems unfold a lyric voice with few certainties but, rather, positionings, juxtapositions, movements across and over, settlings then movements again. Hushed,
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Art. With the work of artists William Xerra and Courtney Gregg, and poets Dennis Phillips and Paul Vangelisti, MAPPING STONE explores the "statue stele" in the Lunigiana r
Poetry. "A FAR-SHINING CRYSTAL presents the reader with collages of made-up history, memory, and untamed sanity. A perplexing book of complex word-working, these poems are dense yet condensed. Both th
Literary Nonfiction. THE END OF MY WITS is a collection of the epigrams of Thomas Farber with recent additions, including an essay on the epigram by poet and fiction writer Laura Glen Louis."To revive
