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
"What our lives permit us to perceive as givens, Nguyen reveals as mere conditions, inextricably tied to and guided by greater forcesfrom the economy to the environment, from the Mayan prediction
"Thom Gunn, Barbara Guest, Robert Creeley, Philip Lamantia, all ghosts now, are invoked without sentiment and with plenty of wry humor." Kevin Killian,Attention SpanA power ballad was a hair
A power ballad was a hair metal band's voyage into the softer side of rock, compromising to the integrity of the genre, but genuine and trailblazing. So too is Caples'Power Ballads. His poems and pros
"I adore [Caples's] prescription to read widely and even perversely; and his breezy style is engaging."?Don Share"Caples is part of a younger generation of writers reinvigorating contemporary poetry b
"I adore [Caples's] prescription to read widely and even perversely; and his breezy style is engaging."?Don Share"Caples is part of a younger generation of writers reinvigorating contemporary poetry b
"Meister's work is mesmerizingly succinct and elusive, but also ambitious to a degree almost unheard-of among presently-observed aesthetic moments. Highly recommended."?The Huffington Post"Foust and F
"Meister's work is mesmerizingly succinct and elusive, but also ambitious to a degree almost unheard-of among presently-observed aesthetic moments. Highly recommended."?The Huffington Post"Foust and F
"The poems of Anthony McCann are beautiful, brutal, and unerring. They present us with, or return us to, a complicated, violent, poignant, weird, and mysterious world?a world which is very particularl
"The poems of Anthony McCann are beautiful, brutal, and unerring. They present us with, or return us to, a complicated, violent, poignant, weird, and mysterious world?a world which is very particularl
"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,
"Best-known for his gritty and uproarious prose poetry collection Letters to Wendy's, Wenderoth began his career with two books of gimlet-eyed, world-weary, hard-hitting poetry. Now he returns to vers
"Best-known for his gritty and uproarious prose poetry collection Letters to Wendy's, Wenderoth began his career with two books of gimlet-eyed, world-weary, hard-hitting poetry. Now he returns to vers
"Melding images of natural timelessness with appearances from contemporary culture, Koeneke's collection is easily enjoyed by the well-seasoned bard and poetic neophyte alike."?BookslutEtruria is a di
"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,
""Zucker is a poet of bottom-scraping, blood-chilling existential anxiety, one among many, and a poet of New York City, one among many, and a poet of American Jewish inheritance, one among many, and o
"Melding images of natural timelessness with appearances from contemporary culture, Koeneke's collection is easily enjoyed by the well-seasoned bard and poetic neophyte alike."?BookslutEtruria is a di
"One of the wisest books I've read in years, and it would be a shame to think that only poets will read it."?David Kirby, The New York Times Book Review, on Madness, Rack, and Honey"What a civil, undo
"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
"If you take a broad squint at our nation's new poets you can find two general strategies: poets who are carrying the torch, and poets who are using it to start fires. And then we have Joshua Beckman.
"If you take a broad squint at our nation's new poets you can find two general strategies: poets who are carrying the torch, and poets who are using it to start fires. And then we have Joshua Beckman.
"[Santiago Papasquiaro] didn't believe in countries and the only borders he respected were the borders of dreams, the misty borders of love and indifference, the borders of courage and fear, the golde
"Nutter is a true believer in the power of art, which is the power that produces these beautiful and vital poems."?Mark LevineIn his fourth collection, Geoffrey Nutter beckons us into his lush imagina
"A most inquisitive poet who relishes living inside her expansive vocabulary."?C.D. WrightA web of wholly original madhattery, Flemish showcases serious language play and the skill of a master craftsp
Lake Superior is a compilation of writings around Lorine Niedecker's poem of the same title?strata that inform the poem's ecological and historical resonance.Lorine Niedecker was a major American poet
"In lines that remind me of the way William Carlos Williams insisted that only the imagination gives us access to reality, Lasky's poems evoke a practice of living, as bloody and awful and lovely as l
"[Nguyen] shares such a streetwise feminism, keeping the edge and making it something you can dance to."?The Poetry ProjectClear-eyed and grounded, Hoa Nguyen performs a hook and snare on what it mean
"Ruefle is clearly one of the best American poets writing, and her body of work is remarkable for its spiritual force, intelligence, stylistic virtuosity, and adventurousness."?Tony Hoagland"For more
"One of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature?honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it."?Dennis Cooper"[Myles' writing] comes across simul
"He's a poet for our time like Ginsberg was for his."?Eileen Myles"Conrad's work shows us that the body itself is the first source of alienation and estrangement from the self, and is thus the true su
Gennady Aygi's poems are as pleasurable for the uniqueness and clarity of their crafting as they are for the spirit they express.and ? the fields ? rise ? into the skyfrom each star ? there is ? a cou
This generous book-length poem is an investigation of the author's unique personal history as it entwines with his present role as poet, citizen, and "one of the six billion-plus."The hope of a plural
"The poems of Anthony McCann are beautiful, brutal, and unerring. They present us with, or return us to, a complicated, violent, poignant, weird, and mysterious world?a world which is very particularl
"Characterized by an utter irreducibility, Noelle Kocot's poetry displays an elemental movement of thinking and suggests a poetics of vision. . .one of loss and the impossible yet necessary compensati
Winner of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award, this expanded edition of The Book of Frank features additional "Frank" poems and an essay by Eileen Myles. Praised by poet Anne Waldman as a "voyeuresque surr
"The poems of Timothy Donnelly astonish by their inventive intelligence . . . we learn that self-knowledge can be adequate to knowledge of the world, in all its violence and complexity."Allen G
You are born and it is to a black lifeFull of abuse and strange things . . .In her brazen second collection, Dorothea Lasky cries out beyond prophecy and confession, through to an even more powerful e
“Could it be that Wallace Stevens and Gertrude Stein met in Elysium and had a son named Geoffrey Nutter?”–John YauBearing the visionary inheritance of ancient Chinese poets and early twentieth-century
