"Ever since reading America, Amerika, I've been a fan of Marilyn Zuckerman's work. The poems in this newest volume rage, they celebrate, they despair and they rejoice. They tell truths both terrible a
Poetry. In his follow-up to the acclaimed THE TO SOUND (Verse Press/Wave Books 2004), Eric Baus's second full-length poetry book is a continuation of his experimentation with the elongated lyric prose
"INRI" responds to the need to find a language for an event that was kept hidden and excluded from official records in Chile: the fact that the bodies of the disappeared were thrown out of helicopters
Fiction. "Carol Novack's GIRAFFES IN HIDING mirrors our weltanschauung by using its own language against it or by using its own language to pry open the circus hidden within it. If we say the world is
Poetry. "To 'adapt.' To deflect 'entities.' To 'autocue.' Travis Macdonald's book of predictions possesses a playful and dark momentum. Questions of 'trembling' and 'submerged' experience mix with a j
Poetry. "In AN ARCHITECTURE, Chad Sweeney reveals himself to be a Frank Gehry of language: making an overwhelming but coherent form in precise words that measure 'the violet gleam of girders,' where '
Poetry. Nuanced yet aggressive, EARTHQUAKE TO HARLEM is a tour de force of NYC poetry. From Harlem to Bensonhurst, from a budget hairdresser to the junkie under the corner scaffold, Sheeler (a lifelon
Poetry. Charles is a writer who has, through his poetry and prose, told the story of his time and his life. He knows the craft of writing and with the sureness of that craft he has looked deeply, past
Poetry. "In this book, Anne Gorrick writes poems of heft and delicacy. Each is constructed as a musical thinking through of an idea, as she builds a poem through deft and fluid repetition and musical
Poetry. Alan Gilbert's much anticipated debut threads desire and loss, image and consumption, memory and hope through a dystopian landscape of war, ecological disaster, and the ruins of empire. As in
Poetry. Part theoretical treatise on the ethics of origination, part assemblage-art investigation of the dissemination of public knowledge, THE SOURCE is a book-length conceptual essay, a polemic in d
Poetry. LGBT Studies. The forest is a place of refuge and story, created by characters who enter and enlarge it beyond the fantasy of any one person. Authority is diminished and recuperated. Personali
Poetry. Asian American Studies. Selected by Judge Denise Duhamel for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection. In IMMERSION, Wolf juxtaposes the intimate and the global in poems about adoption, identity, co
Poetry. "This is an immense book, one in which Notley takes language, as she has it, 'from hearsay to heresy' by the speed and awe of an unwavering attention to the seams, seems and semes of words and
Frustrated by his poor financial situation and hoping to impress a smart girl, seventh grader Trino falls in with a bad crowd led by an older teen with a vicious streak
Fiction. FASCIA is a series of Southern vignettes describing various angles of life, from the silent-movie starlet, to the high school prom queen approaching middle age, to the adolescent boy. In each
"Reading John Bradley is like holding a flashlight and staring into the abyss. His poetic vision is, by turns, terrifying, humorous, and illuminating. Each poem conveys something of the psyche of cont
The Spark Singer by Jade Sylvan is an intellectual and visceral carnival ride. Spanning a range of forms, styles, and subjects, the poems in this book finally crest into a feeling of identification wi
Poetry. "How does Jean LeBlanc make her poems so comfortably alive? Her candor, yes. Images already there. Full of surprise, but amiably free of shock. She is one of us, being singular. Such a pleasur
Poetry. "It is refreshing these days of spreading capitalism and colorless urban life to read lines of poetry that insist on 'summer music' of talking about trees, with attentiveness and affection. Hi
