Poetry. Of her collection, FORBIDDEN WORDS: "Gorgeous writing and devastating…Patricia Traxler has done crucial work here: rigorous, faithful, tragic, hopeful, true."—Marie Howe
Poetry. "Friedman emerges…as a powerful & never disappointing poet/chronicler, at the top of his form & ready to take his place among the makers & movers of our time.&
Poetry. BORROWED COATS, the fourth Hanging Loose collection of Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel's work in the last twenty years, once again demonstrates the understated power of this poet who began writing as
Poetry. "I wish there were more poets like Wilma McDaniel. One wants to return to her book again and again. Little slices of real truth, to be long savored" -Pete Seeger.
Poetry. "Poet as prime responder, constant sender, ever on call. It's Joel Lewis with the news!"—Clark Coolidge. "In this ambitious serial poem of Staten Island, Joel Lewis takes on a role equal part
Nonfiction. Music. In a voice that "delivers both respect and irreverence with convincing authority," Terence Winch gives us "a world--two worlds in fact--his parents' New York immigran
Poetry. "These poems are gorgeous and ironic and heartbreaking and angry and uplifting and tough-minded and compassionate and completely amazing. NEW LIFE is a triumph. Art wins, war loses." —Tim O'Br
Poetry. "Gerald Fleming is a remarkable writer, made more so by his commitment to the prose poem, a form which at its best, as here, is a delicious treat on almost every occasion... You'll probably lo
Poetry. Hard-hitting anthology of political poems edited by Mark Pawlak. Contributors include Jack Agueros, Sherman Alexie, Donna Brook, Hayan Charara, Jayne Cortez, Mart¡n Espada, Ed Friedman, Joanna
Poetry. In this book, Kimiko Hahn manages to take the air of atrocity we breathe in daily and turn it into fierce political/ lyrical poetry, in the tradition of Shelley's The Masque of Anarchy. Curren
Poetry. "Over the decades of writing, Joan Larkin has proved her mastery, whether the poem is mythic, elegiac, or biographical. Her honesty is overwhelming, but it is coupled with poetic cunning,
Poetry. "The most stimulating poet of his generation."—James Schuyler "He belongs on the summit of our American Parnassus."—Harry Mathews "One of the most memorable of contemporary poets."—The Washin
Poetry. Native American Studies. ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT RESCUE is the first collection by M.L. Smoker, whose work has garnered praise from Sherman Alexie and Jim Harrison. "M.L. Smoker's poems are to
Poetry. Asian American Studies. Gay and Lesbian Studies. "Headlong, harrowing, holy and at times even hilarious, Zack Linmark's poems give us the vibrant technicolor life of crossed time zones an
Poetry. This "is my new favorite book of poems and should be everyone's. The poems are so brilliantly original they defy labels or comparisons. No one writes poetry like Winch." —Michael Lally
Poetry. This book "is full of haunting extended metaphors and a pervasive sense of the metaphysical found even in the most seemingly casual situations...."
Poetry. "Pissed-off, stripped down, and deadly serious these poems spare no one."—Joan Larkin "Drop me off anywhere with Jiwon Choi—these wildly radiant poems of music & magic reel us in... this is a
