Poetry. Here is a new collection of poems entitled WILD GOODS by Bay Area poet and translator Denise Newman. "The poems of WILD GOODS 'study' death as text: death being the same as actions/birth/the text/'her,' a 'sandwichtime.' The juncture or 'silent agreement' between these and being in the world is the inside and the outside making each other: 'their silent agreement/will eventually eat container too.' Oneself is turned outside rubbing; while being a silent middle. Pleasurably subtle, frightening, and exciting, in Newman's text one's daily manual labor is 'making a soft object of the world" -Leslie Scalapino.

Author City: SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA

Denise Newman is a poet and translator living in San Francisco. Her translation of The Painted Room by the Danish poet Inger Christensen was published in the fall of 2000 by The Harvill Press, U.K. She is the author of two chapbooks, Why Pear? (Em Press) and Of Later Things Yet to Happen (Meow Press). Her poems have appeared in VOLT, apex of the M, CHAIN, and FIVE FINGERS REVIEW, where she is a staff editor. She has been a Djerassi Resident Artist, and she teaches creative writing at the California College of Arts and at Mills College.

Reviews and Other Links
Rachel Mennies in Coldfront
http://tsky-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/02/denise-newmans-wild-goods-reviewed-by.html