Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. California Interest. Women's Studies. Art. "Gloria Frym has written a love story about how we read and why we read, and the way books invade our psyches and change our lives. Within these pages are her encounters with Pr...
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Fiction. California Interest. Women's Studies. Music. Decades before #metoo, Cal chose his punishment for going too far with a girl he was crazy about: a life-sentence with a woman he could not love, whose frequent rages, untapped spending and ruthl...
Poetry. "There is immense talent here—Chris Tysh just gets better and better. With multiple registers and citational energy, the archive is exploded and transformed: we find references to poetry, film, revolution, politics, and philosophy, all effor...
Poetry. Tysh's two-part take on presence and absence is rooted in jazz and painting, French and Mandarin, memory and longing, in a recto-verso approach to structure. Its first bareboned section, "A Thousand Words," is 100 pages, ten words per page, ...
Poetry. "These idioms and tales use language as a tool to lift a hazy film away from our perception and replace it with another. Is it surgery or a theater of cruelty, a catastrophe or a joke? It's an intervention into both the real and the imaginar...
Poetry. Drama. California Interest. Film. "EVERYTHING SEEMS SIGNIFICANT sails and embraces... such a deep, kaleidoscopic dive it takes. This is brilliant, inspired work. So much has been written about Blade Runner, but none of it penetrates like thi...
Poetry. "Life happened before it was over. Then there is the sorting out that empties into overlaid panes, mind's planets, which Bill Lavender navigates in MY ID with consummate élan and a strong dose of 'impolite, unpolitic' dissent."—Charles Berns...
Poetry. "Robert Gibbons (Salem, MA, 1946) is one of the great secrets of contemporary US poetry. Gibbons says that ANIMATED LANDSCAPE is the collection he was destined to write. One hopes too that it's the collection destined to reveal him to a wide...
Poetry. California Interest. "There is seemingly no object, image, or idea that couldn't potentially work its way into a Kit Robinson poem. His work is oracular and quotidian, straightforward and complex, offering multiple points of view and stunnin...
Poetry. "Startlingly fecund, culturally shrewd, grounded in bright particulars and sly juxtapositions, Anis Shivani shows us with diamond brilliance what happens when language takes leave of its day job to exult in its real power. No longer the bean...
Poetry. "...these poems split the seconds of daily life into splinters that, with time, catch the light..."—Charles Bernstein
Poetry. "By investigating the minutiae of life—the stuff that anchors us, a stone and its echo, paradoxes constructed by language—Ruth Danon investigates nothing short of Thanatos and Eros. The journey of the LIMITLESS TINY BOAT is fierce and fearle...
Poetry. Fiction. Drama. Women's Studies. "I can't remember the last time I read something so familiar and unsettling—like meeting someone you love after they come back from a long journey wearing differently-colored eyes. Like if H.P. Lovecraft had ...
Poetry. "What glee in the Nine, this tour de force of genius trickster complexity, 'all about equipping poetry.' And Anne Tardos does this accouterment-ing like a Buddhist deity with many arms and heads. 'Rub together two neurons and you have a mind...
Poetry. "To read MY SECRET WARS OF 1984 is to ride an old wooden rollercoaster through a spacious gallery of stained-glass windows, all their colorful shards having been stolen, shattered, then chewed into shape: what we have here are gorgeous and w...