Poetry. Art. Inspired by African American spirit writing, sacred sound, Tibetan meditation practice, and the study of Japanese language and calligraphy, AMERICAN LETTERS: WORKS ON PAPER is giovanni singleton's followup to ASCENSION.
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Poetry. Fiction. Hybrid Genre. Translated from the French by Kit Schluter. An experimental epic poem or novel, SCREWBALL (the indispensable deficit) follows a huntress-gatheress from home in the icy north on a journey to the other side of the world....
Poetry. Paul Killebrew's third book, TO LITERALLY YOU, is largely concerned with the passage of time and how the sincerity and tenderness of domestic life endure despite greater horrors and "the loop of assemblage / this world so relentlessly / rese...
Poetry. Written under the spell of a medieval Welsh poetic form, the poems in Anthony Madrid's incantatory second book, TRY NEVER, each offer up their own strange world. They're full of erudition, humor, and rare magnificence. A single poem can cont...
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Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Not a narrative. Not an essay. Not a shopping list. Not a song. Not a diary. Not an etiquette manual. Not a confession. Not a prayer. Not a secret letter sent through the silent Palace hallways before dawn. Making a dayb...
Poetry. Some poets are born, others are transmigrated. John Beer follows his award-winning first collection, THE WASTE LAND AND OTHER POEMS, with an even more audacious book. Using Friedrich Schlegel's novel Lucinde as a starting point, Beer has wri...
Poetry. Drama. This book contains a play about a woman who dies twice, a treatise on why there are no female absurdists, and several unfortunate references to goldfish. In fact, the book was almost called "The Fish" in the way that Gogol's story is ...
Poetry. Ish Klein's third collection, CONSOLATION AND MIRTH, has at its center a book-within-the-book, a series of short riddles which take as their inspiration a 10th-Century codex of Anglo-Saxon poetry. In these riddles and the brilliant, far-rang...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu. The first comprehensive collection of one of Japan's foremost modernists to appear in English translation, THE COLLECTED POEMS OF CHIKA SAGAWA is an essential b...
Poetry. Emily Wilson's phenomenal third collection, THE GREAT MEDIEVAL YELLOWS, attends to the world with an intense, unyielding focus.
Poetry. "In this debut from a grownup poet, heartfelt scenes are filmed by a jittery cameraman, making for a moving read that will appeal to those who don't take their poetry quite straight, who want to be led, like 'wayward bees to open windows.'"—...
Poetry. "100,000 drones above us, a headline said. / Someone must love us, must be eager to know us," Tod Marshall writes in the title poem of his third collection, BUGLE. Notes of (self) surveillance blast throughout this book, which shakes its rea...
Poetry. Translated from the Russian by Christopher Mattison. "Shulpyakov is not only the inheritor of a great tradition and anti-tradition of Russian poetry, but also a new internationalist who understands the value of the local, of the immediate. T...
Poetry. In the "calm and dangerous city" of his second book, ETHICAL CONSCIOUSNESS, Paul Killebrew asks sharp questions in his characteristically warm voice. Can an ethical artist be dishonest? What are the political and duty-creating dimensions tha...