Poetry. "In his new collection, CONEY ISLAND PILGRIMS, John Hennessy does more than catalogue the things of this world; he sanctifies them: bruised strawberries, Kangols, an unleashed pit bull, Puccin
Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Still reeling from the loss of his family in an accident that he feels responsible for causing, Hank Singer accepts an invitation to move to the isolated and beautiful
Poetry. Translated from the Greek by Peter Bien. OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS, the first collection by this prolific poet to be published in English, interleaves poems of brilliant hope with poems of d
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Art. Edited by Peter Huttinger and John M. Bennett. Before the untimely death of the word artist and Fluxus artist Davi Det Hompson, he and avant-garde poet John M. Bennet
Literary Nonfiction. LGBT Studies. Italian American Studies. Edited by Joseph Anthony LoGiudice and Michael Carosone. OUR NAKED LIVES: ESSAYS FROM GAY ITALIAN AMERICAN MEN includes essays by Michael C
Poetry. "Max Winter's poems are full of the permission of comedy and the precision of laughter. He is urbane, witty, and a New York poet, though that appellation doesn't capture his eccentric grace, o
Poetry. "EMPTIED OF ALL SHIPS is a setting out onto crucial waters. Each word here has its own weight and position--its own vital movement between poles of loss and discovery. With our sight-lines thu
Poetry. "In these intensely female, lively luscious songs it's Colette meets Beyonce meets Lil Mama meets Cixous and in comes Kristeva meets Molly Bendall meets Gail Wronsky, and therefore streams con
Poetry. "Kevorkian finds the extraordinary in patterns of everyday life. Whether moving through an arid landscape of desert flora, exploring the waving of inflatable tube men, or registering the inces
Poetry. Native American Studies. RED WILLOW PEOPLE is like sacred text from the great spirit, great mother earth, wisdom beyond knowing, Holy Writ. As Cynthia Hogue, author of The Incognito Body and O
Poetry. HALLELUJAH, GIANT SPACE WOLF offers both an irreverent and sincere exploration of desperation and hope. Bailey's poems pair the personal with the mythical and traverse many linguistic quadrant
Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Trilingual Edition. Full text in English, Arabic, and Hebrew. "These poems are burning off the pages with a rhythm embedded in fury and a beauty embedded in the ancient
Poetry. His seventh full-length volume of poetry, Phillip Foss's THE VALLEY OF CRANES excavates a wordscape--at once archaic and prophetic, imagined and lived--originating in the poet's homeground of
Jonathan Harris' poems are lovely and musical. This dialogue between son-poet and deceased mother-poet has the poignancy of a medieval ballad or an American song, maybe one of those Sixties songs with
Poetry. "Judith Pacht's SUMMER HUNGER is nothing less than a superb collection of poems. SUMMER HUNGER encompasses wry daily reflections as well as sobering and profound historical meditations. With e
Poetry. "Conversational eloquence is always a given in Glover Davis's poetry. Ordinary men and women are lifted by the clarity and intimacy of their observations to something resembling a state of gra
Poetry. "Like Philip Levine, Florence Weinberger's poems evolve masterfully from the ordinary into the extraordinary. Consider marrowbones, lovingly boiled down to their essence so her husband can spr
Poetry. "ALL THE BIRDS AWAKE joyfully demonstrates how, like the salmon, all our lives 'are swirling forward.' Carefully negotiating the terrain between an 'I' who inhabits an intensely felt present a
Poetry. "If Carroll Kearley relied on mere reminiscence to propel the reader from poem to poem in THE PLAIN ABOVE THE RIVER, the collection might devolve to 'fragments of memory keep[ing] family toget
Poetry. "Sam Pereira's poems are built to last. The expertly turned sentences and lines show exquisite craftsmanship. But Pereira's poems reach way beyond craftsmanship. With a tonal range that includ
