Starting from a poetic tradition of the everyday and of acute but transient attention, the work collected in HEROIC DOSE——long poems and serial poems, obsessive dialogues and distracted soliloquies——are, above all, poems chronicling the long journey...
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THE PASOLINI BOOK documents the poet Stacy Szymaszek’s engagement with the work of the Italian film director, poet, and political figure Pier Paolo Pasolini alongside her own evolving vocation as civic poet and dissenting subject within an American ...
Poetry. California Interest. NIGHTWORK collects a series of long poems, in tone and genre spanning the registers of elegy and love poem, city poem and invocation, tested against a backdrop of evolving thought practices, political action, and pulses ...
Poetry. With dystopian clarity and a submerged, fugitive generosity, the poems in OUR INSOLVENCY register the seismic distortions that the regime of financialization has had on poetic activity and on daily life. Working in an exploratory but anxious...
Poetry. In LABOR DAY—a long serial poem in fifty-six parts—Rebecca Kosick pursues a series of movements in and out of the natural and economic landscapes of the postindustrial Midwest at the turn of the twenty-first century, attempting to incarnate ...
Poetry. Named for a fast-food sandwich and written during rounds of chemo, Ted Rees's second book is a poem comprising 498 linked haiku and sent coursing through the "cemetery / Of repressed anguish" that is America. The haiku form, which should dil...
Poetry. The poetry of Ryan Dobran begins in a congenial, observational mode and crystallizes swiftly into an engrossing lattice of voice and affect, a prismatic language that pivots unassumingly through shades of the quotidian and the disenchanted, ...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. The poetic worlds of Michael Field are as surprising and inventive, as formally rigorous, and as deeply felt and lived as when they were composed over a century ago. The expansive selection of poems presente...
Poetry. Mark Francis Johnson's CAN OF HUMAN HEAT takes the traditional worldbuilding function of speculative writing and distorts it around its most far-flung, self-reflexive poles. It isn't a book about a fantasy world or alternative timeline; it r...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. In this book, Diana Hamilton extends her previous explorations of ethics and techniques of self-control (OKAY, OKAY and Some Shit Advice) onto the fraught terrain of authorship and selfhood: in two long piec...