Poetry. Astonishingly deft poems that highlight an excess, an emptiness, and a wilderness on the other side of use. In UNIDENTIFIED POETIC OBJECT, his twelfth collection of poetry, Brian Henderson strikes from language an "alphabet of lightning," an...
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Poetry. Poems that examine the creative achievements of the human hand, from cave art to contemporary photography. John Reibetanz's twelfth collection, BY HAND, begins with an epigraph from Lewis Mumford: "Until modern times, apart from the esoteric...
Poetry. Poems of serious wordplay—an affirmation and celebration of the spectacles we make of our lives. On-stage in Matthew Gwathmey's debut collection are agitated 19th century horsemen, 80s comic book beetles, plaid-clad suburban grunge enthusias...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Environmental Studies. Poems that stride bravely into the day-to-day, recovering the misdirected intensity at its core. Brenda Leifso's WILD MADDER is about way-finding—through those moments in which you no longer recognize ...
Poetry. Poems that unfold like liturgy, confronting old violence with a trembling, dignified restraint. REUNION is a parable, an origin story, a cautionary tale. It is also a time machine in which poems commune with ghosts in an attempt both to reck...
Poetry. Inviting, human, capacious poems that grapple with ideas while also lightly grieving our capacity for ruin. YELLOW CRANE, Susan Gillis's fourth collection of poetry, is a book of many views, many voices. A long look at the changing landscape...
Poetry. Both "grave and brave, serious and hilarious"—new poems from a Governor General's Award–winning poet. HOW TO AVOID HUGE SHIPS, Julie Bruck's fourth collection of poetry, is a book of arguments and spells against the ambushes of time. Parents...
Poetry. Poems about commitment and catastrophe, from a voice of intense lyrical skepticism and wonderful tonal mobility. FALSE SPRING, Darren Bifford's second collection of poetry, is a book largely concerned with various forms of collapse and cultu...
Poetry. Anxious, twitchy, urgent poems—a collection that's at once sardonic and "chronically wishful." RECKON, Steve McOrmond's first book of poems since his acclaimed 2010 collection THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT ARMAGEDDON, hones in on those fugitive momen...
Poetry. Poems that skitter between life and death, "sleep and hurry," at their heart a kind of tender panic. By turns funny, frank, mysterious, and heartbreaking, STANDING IN THE FLOCK OF CONNECTIONS, Heather Cadsby's fifth collection of poetry, is ...
Poetry. What does it mean to be a man now? These poems' answers are bold and deeply moving. The poems in Degan Davis's debut collection, WHAT KIND OF MAN ARE YOU, move between the title's societal taunt (prove yourself) and its more tender and inqui...
Poetry. Sports. A new edition of a hockey saga, wrapping the game's story in the "intense, moody, contradictory" character of Terry Sawchuk, one of its greatest goalies: "Denied the leap and dash up the ice, / what goalies know is side to side, an i...
Poetry. A pitch-perfect debut and a call to act in the service of Earth through radiant attention.Humankind, at present, has breached floodgates that have only been breached before in ancient stories of angry gods, or so far back on geologic and bio...
Poetry. Women's Studies. MUSEUM OF KINDNESS, Montreal poet Susan Elmslie's searching second collection of poetry, is a book that bravely examines "genres" familiar and hard to fathom: the school shooting, PTSD, raising a child who has a disability. ...
Poetry. Art. LGBTQIA studies. Women's studies. A long poem memorializing the art and lives of sculptors Frances Loring and Florence Wyle. Arleen Paré, in her first book-length poem after her Governor General Literary Award-winning LAKE OF TWO MOUNTA...