Poetry. From the celestial vault to the crypt, from the bank vault to memory, from gymnastics to the cultural vaults of dictionary, encyclopedia, folk lore and myth, these poems embody all the meanings of the word. Just as a vault can hold or leap, ...
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Poetry. "Ed Smallfield's TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN enters into the unfixity of time and experience. In this elusive realm, Smallfield unerringly finds the 'curve of binding energy' in which a protagonist who is an 'unself' emerges. Throughout Smallfiel...
Poetry. "We all want to know the face of the future, given the broken tablets and barely recognizable mirror images of our human selves, rampaging and chattering. Can language show us something new, something unfolding in time? It's so hard to smash...
Poetry. "In Laura Walker's splendid book STORY, she shares the strategies of telling, which, as every savvy writer knows, is a constant tug between sharing and holding back, finding, losing, and recovering the threads of narration—as Paul Ricoeur sa...
Poetry. "Pattie McCarthy's QUIET BOOK keeps its steady gaze trained on the mother/child unit—from the inside out and back in again. In gorgeous poems of formal range and daring, McCarthy gives us birth and motherhood like no other writer—she is unaf...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. "Khaty Xiong writes a penumbra poetry. In POOR ANIMA, lyric and narrative intertwine to form a site where 'blacknesses trade spaces with each other, extensions/of shadow and smoke.' Xiong's po...
Poetry. Women's Studies. "In Barbara Tomash's exquisite new book, ARBOREAL, a narrator leads us through a set of deep questions about life and death and all that is in between... This is a poetry that burrows deeply into the earth, the body... ARBOR...
Poetry. "PEEPING MOT is a collection of brilliant and occult profundity. It is a book of uncommonly beautiful language and enigmatic intelligence, packed with soft surprises."—Maggie Nelson
Poetry. "In Pattie McCarthy's MARYBONES, the vision of Mary so proliferates that the frame of personhood (really, womanhood) stretches within the poems, demonstrating 'the difference between unknown & anon.' McCarthy makes a fascinating study of the...
Poetry. "Using a linguistic constraint centered exclusively on entries from F-H in the OED, Walker manages to hit on charged words—face, lost, boat, river—words that seem to hold all of human history within them—in ways that set them off in dozens o...
Poetry. "With PLUNGE, Alice Jones brilliantly and with beautiful tact revives the art of menippean satire. In our disfigured state, she finds somehow surviving vivid emblems of our moral nature and brings them to the fore. En route, she proves willi...
Poetry. "These carefully crafted poems look, feel and sound like the human heart and its rhythms. Each line, each breath, a syncopated beat that enters through the lips and into the body and yet I have this overwhelming urge to read these poems out ...
Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Tsering Wangmo Dhompa's MY RICE TASTES LIKE THE LAKE echoes in the mind, mouth, and heart as its strangely calm English phrases settle into measured lines and stanzas. This is serious, beautiful, haunting work—a uniq...
Poetry. "In a triptych of agile forms, this marvelous book faces the foreign frankly and openly, opening it up and making openings for it, ultimately bringing it within, without domesticating it even slightly. At its center is the truly astonishing ...
Poetry. "Pattie McCarthy sifts with nervy precision through the debris of spoken English as rendered in definitions and on public platforms from the Middle Ages to something like now. In TABLE ALPHABETICAL OF HARD WORDS she has developed a powerful ...