Doug Lang's IN THE WORKS unites the charm of Robert Creeley, the energy and grace of Charlie Parker, and the urbane sophistication of John Ashbery with an inventive and original sensibility unlike anything in contemporary poetry. Writes Anselm Berri...
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Poetry. Mannerism, derived from the Italian maneria, meaning simply "style." Kovac's MANNERISM: "You refused me the vote and I had to use a rock." With phono & photo-graphic surety the photo & phono-poems of MANNERISM happen as rings, happen as chis...
Poetry. The author of "Chicks Dig War" brings you his latest selection of hits featuring "All the World Loves a Big Gleaming Jelly," "I Hate Both Time and Space," and "Rudolph the Transcendent Minimalist White Supremacist Ritual Child Abuser." Expre...
Poetry. The first collection in fifteen years from a poet whose first book Stephanie Burt called "very personal, very appealing," SHELL GAME by Jordan Davis presents a series of puzzles of feeling and mazes of history where the person speaking disap...
Poetry. Flarf. The first revolutionary artistic movement of the 21st century? An imperialist gesture? The new Dada? A marketing strategy? What began as a coinage by Gary Sullivan for certain "so bad it's good" aesthetic effects, combined with Drew G...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Edited by Rod Smith & Jen Hofer. Contributors: Rae Armantrout, Carla Billitteri, Jack Collom, Jean Day, Patrick Durgin, Kate Fagan, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Kevin Killian, Katy Lederer, Pamela Lu, Laura Moriarty, Pe...
Poetry. PRIMITIVE STATE is a book-length tour-de-force from one of contemporary poetry's strongest search-lights. Composed as an homage to the list poem as "a catalog of consciousness-beats," the result is a long poem peculiarly perfect for twitter....
Poetry. Tom Raworth's STRUCTURE FROM MOTION is comprised of work composed from 2010-2014, with additional material from the privately printed booklet Incomprehensible Things (Lulu, 2003), and one poem from 1969. Playful, political, and rhythmically ...
Poetry. Hasn't Dick Cheney enjoyed his moment, you may ask, dear reader. Yes, but like any great villain, he returns. DICK CHENEY'S HEART takes a road trip between Baltimore and the Carolina Coast and meets Dick Cheney, Michael Vick, and Sarah Palin...
Poetry. Ryan Walker's LONG TERM RAISIN is a pataphysically astute meandering through the possibilities of popping up half-obsessions. I.e. sometimes "grapes are bees in potholes," if you will. It is one longish, funnyish, hobby or poem filled with i...
Poetry. Buck Downs is a master of the short lyric a la Berrigan, Myles, and Williams (that's Jonathan and William Carlos). TACHYCARDIA collects three years of his high-impact poiesis—this from "Eventox": "sharpie-lined page-a-days / recycling down /...
Poetry. Chris Nealon's HETERONOMY is built out of five long poems, including "The Dial." Together they form an overlapping set of mediations on love and friendship and political life. Taking inspiration from a long poetic tradition of self-referenti...
Poetry. "Q: Is 'cities' a real word? A: No, there is only one city." Compressed and expansive by turns, Franklin Bruno's first collection of poems moves through the languages of commerce and philosophy, the forgotten codes of old Hollywood and the r...
Poetry. A celebration of word and world, craft and attention, constraint-based in form, wide-ranging in content; a long poem folded up like a measuring stick, set snugly in its box; a box overflowing with all that the poet has given his measure."The...