In MEMPHIS SHOALS, the second volume in Brad Crenshaw’s extravagant epic poem that began with his book Genealogies, we return with Bartlett Smith, narrator of both books, to Memphis, Tennessee, where Smith confronts his personal demons and those of ...
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Poetry. Brad Crenshaw's GENEALOGIES, an epic poem in blank verse that transgresses andtranscends conventional poetic genres is a tour de force of dazzling originality.This book-length poem concerns a sixteenth-century privateer renderedimmortal by h...
Poetry. Edmund Keeley, novelist, critic and celebrated translator of modern Greek poets has written a heartfelt suite of poems, a requiem to his late wife Mary.
Literary Nonfiction. In these hybrid writings—a mixture of memoir, prose poetry, personal essay, travel journal, and spiritual meditation—Stephen Kessler synthesizes a lifetime of experiences in language of extraordinary concentration, vividness, an...
Poetry. Asian American Studies. The poems in GATHERING THE PIECES are remarkable for their quiet insight and humility, for their keen attention to and transformation of the small details of a life. Carol Lem's is a true voice in sure command of her ...
Poetry. Brad Crenshaw's formally paradoxical prose sonnets combine wild control and wacky gravity, clinical description and lyric incantation, story and song, memory and vision. His book lives up to its Rabelaisian title with abundant energy, sensor...
Fiction. At the dark end of the 1960s, a young poet is launched on a bizarre odyssey that leads him from the ill-fated gathering of rock-and-roll tribes at Altamont through San Francisco City Prison to various psychiatric hospitals up and down Calif...
Poetry. "ARROWS IN HAND reveals those moments of clarity and mystery that shape and define our conscious lives. Mastering an impressive range of forms and strategies, McKown consistently identifies those details, dark as well as shining, that hold u...
Poetry. BEAR FLAG REPUBLIC features poems from ninety poets, including Killarney Clary, Wanda Coleman, Peter Everwine, Richard Garcia, Amy Gerstler, Robert Hass, Eloise Klein Healy, Jane Hirshfield, Garrett Hongo, Mark Jarman, Dorianne Laux, Philip ...
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Forty-one American poets respond to the poetry and life of the great Peruvian poet César Vallejo. This anthology includes poetic homage, variations on a theme and imitations of this seminal 20th century master by such ...
Poetry. This new edition of UNSELECTED POEMS—a consistent SPD best-seller since its original publication—gathers the poems left out of SELECTED POEMS and NEW SELECTED POEMS. "I really think he is extraordinary, a visionary of our dense, troubled, my...