Poetry. "Hi, Buck Downs would like to add you to his human network. This writing is wishing you will be here. A kind of private reception beyond the book space. Measured in the poem-postcard's shade, there is no such thing as a stranger. The Downs s...
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Poetry. "This is clever meaningful wordplay in the purest sense." —Ashleigh Brilliant
Poetry. Women's Studies. "A speaker in GLASS ACTRESS asks, 'Can I even be sexually appealing / without a gun or a cigarette?' Women who have never been perplexed by this question may cast the first stone. Just what I thought—silence. Nicole Steinber...
Poetry. "In poems that manage to be both pity-less and mercy-full, Susanne Dyckman's A DARK ORDINARY takes us deep inside the lives of Lewis Hine's early 20th century photographic subjects: child laborers, low-wage workers, and newly arrived immigra...
Poetry. "If Abraham Lincoln was, as Marianne Moore says, a 'Euclid of the heart,' then Jen Coleman, unacknowledged legislator extraordinaire, may be that little muscle's bittersweet cartoonist. I go back to and through her poems for their eerie clar...
Poetry. Four years after the release of his debut collection, Joshua Ware delivers his second and third books of poetry in a single, tête-bêche artifact. In UNWANTED INVENTION and VARGTIMMEN, respectively, Ware charts the luckless lovers' course: fr...
Poetry. Winner of 4th annual, Furniture Press Poetry Prize, selected by Elizabeth Robinson. "Kate Colby's poems unfurl like a complex melody. You wander through the day with them, following the loop of tune. 'Everything might already exist,' she wri...
Poetry. "From tenement to 'arm's breadth exit ramp' to hills and trees 'suitable for wandering,' Elizabeth Savage's IDYLLIAD traces a vital new territory (not property) for American poetry. Sparse and abundant; ordinary and surprising; brutal and hu...
Poetry. "DAUGHTERS OF YOUR CENTURY begins with the 'aftermath of feeling' and proceeds to recover, and uncover, an acute sense of human beingness. Dan's immediate world of family, friends and forebears becomes the reader's world as well; and opens a...
Poetry. "The control in Chris McCreary's new lyrics is exquisite & subtle, like the calming voice of the ER physician knowing that she must calm the patient long enough to get them to surgery. Underneath is blood & guts, much thrashing & just possib...
Poetry. "Ryan Eckes' VALU-PLUS continues his incisive, wry, sincere, & gorgeous examination of the city-landscape. In Eckes' work, the city—Philadelphia, specifically—cannot be contained, but is well lived in & observed & explored. There is 'a box t...
Poetry. Opera. American Studies. Women's Studies. Foreword by Brenda Coultas. "The legendary Calamity Jane was plucked up by Doris Day and tarted out by Jane Russell in the movies, butched down by Robyn Weigert on Deadwood, and tackled with varying ...
Poetry. "LA GOON is hella funny. I feel I should don a Cardin leisure suit and pisstinted erectorset sunglasses to proclaim that Noel Black has hit comic poem paydirt here."—Julien Poirier
Poetry. Winner of the 2014 Furniture Press Poetry Prize. "Iris Cushing's WYOMING is a figure of place, a topos: the West as acid trip, art-space, corny historical re-enactment, and land mass of brute and awesome beauty; locus of an almost erotic nos...
Poetry. "Quirky, electric poems, spare and challenging."—Peter Matthiessen"WABAC MACHINE begins innocently enough with the thought that a cat has no real name and proceeds through inexorable dream/dervish/fairy tale logic to a place (the wild?) wher...