Chosen for the National Poetry Series by Hayden Carruth. Erin Belieu has an uncanny knack for listening and for locating the perspective of various others within her poems. Armed with humor, anger, an
Top Ten Book of the Year.-BooklistIn her twelfth collection, Patricia Goedicke explores-without sentimentality-the complexities of aging and human relationships."Goedicke's poems have a hard, truthful
Alberto Rios explains the world not through reason but magic. These poems—set in a town that straddles Mexico and Arizona—are lyric adventures, crossing two and three boundaries as easily as one, betw
Ruth Stone has rightly been called America’s Akhmatova, and she is considered "Mother Poet" to many contemporary writers. In this, her eighth volume, she writes with crackling intelligence, interrogat
From Ars PoeticaSix monarch butterfly cocoons clinging to the back of your throat— you could feel their gold wings trembling. . .Dana Levin’s singular voice and talent are unmistakable. Wedding Day is
Make no mistake: Christian Wiman’s poetic endeavors are ambitious. From the personal lyrics of solitude and loss to “Being Serious,” the long poem that concludes Hard Night, his poems examine emotions
You never know what to expect from Ron Padgett, a poet full of delightful surprises and discoveries. This witty new collection glides from comic to elegiac to lyrical, in celebrations of fairy tales,
"Waldman is at the apex of her career, and the legitimate heir to Allen Ginsberg’s crown as America’s underground ‘poet-ambassador’ laureate."—Colorado Springs IndependentIn the Room of Never Grieve c
In poems as beautiful in their telling as they are powerful in their ethos, poet and memoirist Hedge Coke draws upon her background as a tobacco sharecropper, factory worker and fisherwoman, articulat
“[Marshall] understands that the neighborhoods and cities that no longer exist can be conjured by memory and reanimated by art.”—San Francisco Chronicle“Born in Brooklyn of Arabic/Jewish heritage, Mar
“Ron Padgett makes the most quiet and sensible of feelings a provocatively persistent wonder.”—Robert CreeleyRon Padgett has reenergized modern poetry with exuberant and tender love poems, with except
Obsessed by his lifelong erotic fantasies of silent movie icon Louise Brooks’s amoral character Lulu in the 1928 film Pandora’s Box, legendary theatre critic Kenneth Tynan spent three days with the th
In Jamaica Inn, at the heart of the bleak Bodmin Moor, young Mary Yellan soon discovers mysterious goings-on in the dead of night. But worse is yet to come as Mary finds herself helplessly ensnared in
“Drawing on legend, history, memoir, literature, and film, Hussein’s stories are meant to be cupped in both hands and savored slowly.”—GuardianIn his fourth collection, Aamer Hussein charts the geogra
Rappaccini's Daughter is the Mexican Nobel laureate Octavio Paz' lyrical tale of love, death and living for the present. Night of the Assassins is Cuban Jose Triana's controversial masterpiece, in whi
A unique, personal guide to William Shakespeare's life and plays told through the experience of a leading classical actor. Michael Pennington illuminates each of Shakespeare's plays with his own consi
"An enor-mous-ly ambitious and sonorous work of the eye-magination." —Lawrence FerlinghettiThe Diamond Signature is what Penny Rimbaud considers his most important work. It formed the basis for the ba
"The tone may vary from one essay to another, but more than anything else, these are love stories, not rose-colored romances, but love that includes doubt, violence, wrestling with angels, and devils.
What sort of view of our history do we get from Hollywood movies? Why are some stories told and others not? In this informal talk given at the Taos Talking Film Festival, Zinn turns his attention to H
