“Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air.” —NPRIn these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation “as specul
Experience in Groups sings and thinks the forms of belonging that organize our lives, offering poems that move with honesty and formal intelligence between the individual and the collective. In a time
In Hear Trains, Caroline Knox seeks further contexts for her striking diction and syntax to establish new forms of understanding. With her signature wit and erudition, she plumbs the depths of etymolo
“The political arrives in pieces, settling across his sprawling poems like dew or debris. Berrigan has always matched his experimental drive with a personable quality.” —Boston GlobeAnselm Berrigan’s
“The political arrives in pieces, settling across his sprawling poems like dew or debris. Berrigan has always matched his experimental drive with a personable quality.” —Boston GlobeAnselm Berrigan’s
“In a flurry of ideas, and with her typically sparse and open-ended lines, Minnis approaches her subject from a dizzying array of angles: ironic, celebratory, mournful, panicked, and often funny.” —Pu
“In a flurry of ideas, and with her typically sparse and open-ended lines, Minnis approaches her subject from a dizzying array of angles: ironic, celebratory, mournful, panicked, and often funny.” —Pu
“SPRAWL in fact does not sprawl at all; rather, it radiates with control and fresh, strange reflection.” —Bookforum“Reads as if Gertrude Stein channeled Alice B. Toklas writing an Arcades Project set
Body & Glass extends Koeneke’s experimentations in Ertruria with a tightly woven set of more compact poems that brighten and sharpen the lyric’s usual corners. The ‘anonymous’ forms of folk song and e
Body & Glass extends Koeneke’s experimentations in Etruria with a tightly woven set of more compact poems that brighten and sharpen the lyric’s usual corners. The ‘anonymous’ forms of folk song and ep
"Wier is a poet concerned with capturing the fluidity of thought and experienceand not diminishing its forward charge in doing so. Wier's lines have always had a wild whitewater crash to them, o
"Wier is a poet concerned with capturing the fluidity of thought and experienceand not diminishing its forward charge in doing so. Wier's lines have always had a wild whitewater crash to them, o
A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer by one of the most original voices in contemporary literature. Each essay takes a day as its point of inquiry, observing th
"Cedar Sigo is a Frank O'Hara for the twenty-first century: witty, erudite, serious, with a terrific ear and eye for the minutest details, at home in the world of the arts."?Ron SillimanThe gravitron,
"Cedar Sigo is a Frank O'Hara for the twenty-first century: witty, erudite, serious, with a terrific ear and eye for the minutest details, at home in the world of the arts."?Ron SillimanThe gravitron,
"O'Brien's [is] a poetry that asks for patient attention, and gives back all the void's abundance."?Rain Taxi"Whether in a poem composed using words and phrases from the Patriot Act, a sestina with da
"O'Brien's [is] a poetry that asks for patient attention, and gives back all the void's abundance."?Rain Taxi"Whether in a poem composed using words and phrases from the Patriot Act, a sestina with da
“The Book of Funnels is one of the strangest and most beautiful first books of poetry I have read in a long time.”—John AshberyChristian Hawkey constructs a visionary world rich with fantastic imagery
“Equal parts punk rock and pastoral, [Rohrer has] a voice that seems unearthly in its ability to be detached and simultaneously tender.”—American PoetApproaching pleasure and terror with the same sear
In-depth interviews with poets have been a popular feature of Verse magazine—and this volume collects many favorites, along with new interviews commissioned for this collection. The poets represent a
"For Richards, life in a poem is like life in a body—most at risk, and most fully at play."—David Rivard, Ploughshares Exfoliating language with wit, Nude Siren is sardonic, intimate, sump-tuous; an e
Dara Wier’s poems call to mind "the philosophical comedy of Wallace Stevens and Wislawa Szymborska . . . [and] draw a reader away from a recognizable world into one in which women waltz with bears, ho
Experience in Groups sings and thinks the forms of belonging that organize our lives, offering poems that move with honesty and formal intelligence between the individual and the collective. In a time
Audacious and highly innovative collection that cunningly engages with the assumptions and boundaries around translation, identity, and gender.In Sawako Nakayasu’s first poetry collection in seven yea
In her first collection since Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008, Nguyen returns to poems of dailiness and raw humanity. Her language hops and skips, vivid with color, in turn political, ecological, funny, sp
