Poetry. "If you want to get a look at the future of American poetry (and feel excited about it), read this book. In these poems, Mark Faunlagui's speakers are at once sophisticated and disarmingly vul
Poetry. "In single cigarettes sold on a city sidewalk, in 'not for individual sale' samples of drugs or beauty products hawked on the Internet, a gray economy blossoms all around us rerouting traditio
Poetry. French Studies. African Studies. Translation. Three French poets and five American poets walk into a bar...OK..OK...so one of the American poets lives in Berlin and another is also a visual ar
Poetry. French Studies. African Studies. Translation. Three French poets and five American poets walk into a bar...OK...OK...so one of the American poets lives in Berlin and another is also a visual a
Poetry. Art. Asian American Studies. Shin Yu Pai's poetry combines bare sensitivity and precision critique. In SIGHTINGS: SELECTED WORKS [2000-2005] she skillfully brings together four different poeti
Poetry. French Studies. African Studies. Translation. READ features contemporary poetry in French and in English. Four French poets and four American poets walk into a bar.... OK so one of the French
Poetry. French Studies. African Studies. Translation. READ features contemporary poetry in French and in English. The works are the results of an annual translation seminar held at Reid Hall in Paris.
Poetry. "Leif Haven's first book of poems, ARCANE RITUALS FROM THE FUTURE, resists having quotations picked out from it and set down to display the book's brilliance or beauty. This is to its credit—b
Poetry. Translation. Five French poets and five American poets walk into a bar... OK... OK. It was really a cultural institute that they walked into and spent a week translating each other's work. Or
Poetry. Fiction. Drama. Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. "Laura Vena's X/SHE: STARDRAPED consists of a series of overlapping journeys--spiritual, cultural, linguistic, cartographic, geographi
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Film. Art. UMBILICAL HOSPITAL is a poetic ekphrasis of Leslie Thornton's Sheep Machine, part of her Binocular Series. Filmed in Saas-Fee, it shows a flock of sh
Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Birds, roses, arabesques, minarets, a city, and a different sky. In A TURKISH DICTIONARY, Andrew Wessels navigates an Istanbul of the present and an Istanbul of the pas
Poetry. A collaborative text by two beloved poets, Cynthia Arrieu–King and the late Hillary Gravendyk, UNLIKELY CONDITIONS, "was written as a way to embellish and perpetuate a friendship." Of her proc
Poetry. African & African American Studies. "Ronaldo V. Wilson explodes all over the mouth of whiteness in LUCY 72 like Césaire stroking the Latin root 'niger,' courting its deranged figuration. With
Poetry. PLAYING MONSTER :: SEICHE is a book-length poem that incessantly dodges between two narratives: the speaker's childhood experiences with an abusive father and, as an adult, increasingly aggres
