A new collection from Chicago poet Michael O'Leary. Second collection of poems by Michael O'Leary. Poetry.
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“The poems in Alex Mattraw’s third full-length collection RAW ANYONE offer the reader a deep poetic examination of the social and environmental toxins that affect our lives during these pandemic times. Cells, mouths, and rooms hold spaces for quest...
A new lumnious volume from visionary poet Peter O'Leary In THE HIDDEN EYES OF THINGS, we travel through far reaches of the solar system—from “the silver of twilight” on Mercury, to the vast sea of hydrogen on Jupiter, to the “endless collisions o...
Poetry. "At heart conceptual and formally experimental, Alexandra Mattraw's WE FELL INTO WEATHER creates visual and sonic textures that link toxicity—environmental, historical, domestic—with neurodivergence and disease. These poems are alive with mu...
Poetry. In a time of ecological crisis, Peter O'Leary finds in mushrooms "an elaborate pattern," a circulation of energy, a strange Kingdom with the power to alter consciousness. From the opening line "Earth is best," each proposition takes root in ...
Poetry. "To enter these poems is to step into a baroque architecture whose ceiling has come down, dismantled in fragments and glittering dust. Look up, says the poet, to see the night these poems expose: 'In every black there is / violet. I am speak...
Poetry. "Dialogue and uncertainty seem to be in short supply these days, but Joel Bettridge's THE PUBLIC LIFE OF CHEMISTRY aims to rehabilitate them. A series of letters to and from poet friends structures his book and creates an approach to knowled...
Poetry. "In Alexandra Mattraw's much-awaited first book, SMALL SIREN, we encounter a poet of extraordinary observation and inquiry. An enchantment and engagement with the world commences: 'when is a voice a piano,' 'repetition needs to believe,' 'wh...
Poetry. Tom Fisher's SORSERE exposes the doubled, anagrammatical words hiding inside spell, story and song. Sounding the politics of a "something else" that "creeps out / across our talk," these gnomic utterances attempt reversals of the apparent to...
Poetry. There are fissures in quotidian details, light in the cracks of our daily lives, and nowhere are these gaps, reliefs, ands releases better displayed and bridged than in this book, Chris Glomski's third collection of poetry. With characterist...
Poetry. These narrative and lyric poems draw one in, word by word and line by line. Rooted in a desirous present, they reach forward into the future, and one wants to reach with them."In my dream of this book, the dead are carried high up overhead. ...
Poetry. Drawing episodes from the Kalevala, a Finnish epic, Peter O'Leary has created a poem of atmospheric intensity, full of elemental forces harnessed by supernatural craft. Line by line, it is composed of images and epithets that flicker into an...
Poetry. "Imagine this dense, long poem is a cube with eight faces. ... The surfaces are covered with details, the accumulation of which creates the cube's interiority, its density. Or densities. These tracings are actually experiences, voices, and w...
Poetry. Reverent, reverberant, THE BELLFOUNDER is both augury and echo, uniting the medieval and the modern in a theological soundscape shaped by Dante's Divine Comedy, the films of Tarkovsky, and the music of Arvo Pärt. These poems, lyric intercess...
Fiction. STORY BOOK envisions a new wave of storytelling through a series of canny narratives that swarm around the blurred edges of being. In a twisting of genres, STORY BOOK confronts the complexities of loss and the violence of memory. Haunting a...