Poetry. African American Studies. The author of ten books of poetry, monologues, and short stores, Sekou is a St. Martin writer who has recited his poetry throughout the Carribean and the world. His w
Poetry. "In these two interwoven meditations, Charles Alexander continuously redefines the position of near and random acts, be they political, cultural, or linguistic. Probing and insistent, always v
Poetry. Winner of the 2004 Three Oaks Fiction Prize, John Taylor is the author of five collections of stories and short prose, also known for his critical work on contemporary French literature. "This
Cultural Writing. Native American Studies. Latino / Latina Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Asian Studies. This collection of articles is the outcome of an international gathering of indigenous and ot
Poetry. Translated from the French by Norma Cole. Born into a Breton family active in the Resistance during the Second World War, Danielle Collobert moved to Paris at the age of 19. There, she took he
Literary Nonficion. Essays. Asian-American Studies. Second Edition. A collection of talks and concrete poems by Hawaii's "pidgin guerrilla," Lee Tonouchi. Included in the book are such essays as "Da S
Poetry. Across several decades, Lyn Hejinian has been constructing an exemplary and profoundly influential body of exploratory work, work of a discrepant lucidity that undermines commonplace assumptio
Cultural Writing. Nonfiction. Asian American Studies. ASIAN AMERICANS ON WAR AND PEACE is the first book to respond to the events of September 11, 2001 from Asian American perspectives, from the vanta
Poetry. These poems, chosen from previously published works, comment upon facets of an Italian American experience. In the introductory essay titled The Allegory of the Hyphen, Stefanile identifies hi
Cultural Writing. Art. Poetry. In the collection WRITINGS ON ART: TOM MARIONI 1969-1999, one of the early practitioners of conceptual art, Tom Marioni (1970 founder of MOCA, Museum of Conceptual Art i
Cultural Writing. African American Studies. Interviews. George Lamming received early encouragement from Frank Collymore, his teacher and mentor, and editor of the literary journal BIM. Lamming left B
Music. African-American Studies. This annotated, in-depth discography and itinerary of Eddie South, the jazz violin virtuoso, includes a cassette of SELECTED TEST AND BROADCAST PERFORMANCES 1927-1953.
Poetry. A remarkably pure lyricism of word and silence and of skepticism. I think there should be recognized in these poems the presence of a lyric poet of depth and delicacy and power. I think, moreo
Fiction. African-American studies. Gay and lesbian studies. Using traditional storytelling and nontraditional verse to chronicle the course of love returning in the lifetimes of one woman-loving-woman
Poetry. Upon publication of PAGAN OPERETTA, Rux's debut collection of poetry and prose, Rux was selected by the Village Voice Literary Supplement as one of Eight Writers on the Verge of Shaking Up the
Poetry. Cultural Writing. The poem looks back on the decades previous to the first Gulf War and forwards--toward a duration of events, which, because the poem is in history, do not cease to occur. In
Poetry. "There is a darkness at the heart of Peter Gizzi's new collection of poems, ARTIFICIAL HEART, that is far from artificial...The title accurately locates the site of writing as the "h
Poetry. Translated into Polish by Adam Szyper. Stanley Kunitz views poetry as "the telling of the stories of the soul" and "a form of spiritual transformation." He eloquently states "If we want to kno
Fiction. Italian Studies. A collection of newspaper columns written over a four-year span, Fred L.Gardaphe's MOUSTACHE PETE IS DEAD! is an insightful look into the world of the Italian immigrant. Thro
Poetry. "Sobin's work has an inevitability in its momentum and its music that only great poems achieve. This is not an imitation of motion, a copy of nature, but true poiesis in which meaning is synon
Andrew Levy uses thought to restructure language in the direction of feeling. Andrew places feeling against the grid of thought. Which of these is correct? -- In the central section of this book Andre
Fiction. An established writer from an Eastern college returning to his former San Francisco haunts becomes entangled in a labyrinthine series of events that culminate in the sudden violent death of a
Poetry. "The poems in SECOND LAW are terse, precise, ecstatic and luminous. White letters serve as lures and traces through gaps of ordered scientific discourse the rapture of the poet's will
Poetry. Robert Dana's WHAT I THINK I KNOW is the fruit of a lifetime's quiet dedication to the art of poetry. These rigorously clear and deeply felt poems repay the closest reading. My hope is that th
The five stories that make up 99: THE NEW MEANING are created entirely from fragments of other works. From Abish's introduction: These works were undertaken in a playful spirit--not actually 'written'
Poetry. Stephen Ratcliffe's new collection is a rift of poems which pluck a few words from Shakespeare's sonnets and on that absent space create their own space and shape: "to still all one n
Fiction. African American Studies. Translated from the French. AMONG THE BLACKS consists of two works: Ron Padgett's translation of Raymond Roussel's early story "Parmi les noirs," first published in
Poetry. "There is a pacific, morning coolness about Kit Robinson's 'ICE CUBES.' These poems seem, in their reserved, slightly removed chilliness, to forecast the heat of day, and the fuller poems such
Poetry. David Bromige has said of DEVOLUTION: I have been waiting for this poetry a long time, a poetry politically relevant and at the same time unapologetic in its confidence. These works are comple
Poetry. "Paul Hoover is an important sustainer of the comic tradition and one of our linguistic champions. He presents such a fresh and heightened choice of language, it makes reading feel li
Music. Designated by the NEA in 1987 as one of the "best independent press books of the year," this book is compilation of the texts, scores, and ideas of seven American composers who use words as an
Poetry. A reprint of this 1982 book of prose poetry by the nearly legendary avant-garde stalwart Clark Coolidge still exudes freshness. "A long-time master of the jazzy long work, Clark Coolidge has t
Poetry. Printed in three colors. Printed offset by Meriden Gravure edition of 500 hardcovers smyth sewn. Two chapters: first chapter: Poems, most were used as lyrics for the opera Einstein on the Beac
GRAMMAR is a marvelous investigation of the relational quality of words, the ways we inhabit them and they us. What emerges in these poems is a celebration of the unruly and insubordinate realm of the
Poetry. Fantasy, fear, and freedom all play parts in A STORY OF WITCHERY, a book-length narrative poem by Jennifer Calkins, and illustrated by Sarah Lane. Here we meet Emily, our "small and weedy" pro
