Poetry. "The poems in WHAT HAPPENS NEXT allow us to enter the patience and calm of a poet who expresses himself after long listening, creating a welcome intimacy and a sense of life considered and savored. Natural as their diction, unforced, these p...
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Poetry. "This book is a poetic family memoir. It is roughly divided in three parts: 'Childhood - Youth,' 'Parents' and 'America.' Naturally, there is a significant overlap in terms of themes, moods and approach to the material. For the reader it wil...
Fiction. THE SUN EATERS unravels the story of two brothers in a small village of an Eastern European country just post World War II. The two boys and a handful of their colorful mates struggle to survive famine, desolation and destruction, as well a...
Poetry. Ekphrastic poetry is often written about encounters with paintings or sculpture. The poems in EK reference a wide variety of images, music and events, including such unconventional subjects as a book bound in human skin, a eucharistic wafer ...
Poetry. "'What are the strata / of pastness?' a poem in this fine book asks, and David Gullette responds with ghosts, dreams, daydreams, visions— 'questionable shapes' that live beneath the surface of richly lived and recorded experience, like 'wave...
Fiction. Short Stories. From the ever-fertile mind of acclaimed memoirist (The Next Better Place) and author of over a dozen short story collections comes a new and extraordinary cache of tales that frequently incite, often enlighten, and (on occasi...
Poetry. "In GEOGRAPHY OF LOVE AND EXILE, Susannah Simpson explores the deepest of human desires: to belong to this world. Through language translucent with longing, she introduces us to her many worlds. We walk with her through the bazaars of Kabul,...
Poetry. Translated from the Uzbek by Dennis Daly. "Dark-eyed ones come, revealing their inner selves. Alisher Navoiy, or Nizam-al-Din 'Ali-Shir, a fifteenth century poet, mystic and artist, is reawakened in Daly's sublime translations. True to their...
Poetry. MELANCOLÍA explores the emotional and psychological landscape of today's mad world. The poems wrestle with loss, despair, love, longing, the challenges of being a father and a husband, the search for identity, and the fight for one's soul. W...
Poetry. "Gulnar Ali Balata's fourth volume of poetry, A PEACEFUL COLOR FROM THE SILENCE, is an intimate gift by a mature poet infused with love for her tattered homeland of Iraqi Kurdistan. Her pen ripples with sparkling rivers and her expectant hea...
Poetry. Translated from the German by Marc Vincenz. Observing the smallest movements across the moor from her bedroom window, Erika Burkart gives us passage into the innermost recesses of her mind. In a fleeting moment of observation, language, thou...
Fiction. Just as Soylent Green is people, so THE CHINTZ AGE is now. Everything is cheaper and chintzier than in the past, from consumer products to culture itself. Our great cities, and, in particular, New York, are being transformed as we speak, as...
Poetry. "BECOMING AN ANCESTOR carries us from the very beginning of this great clock-universe through human migrations to the bitter end, where however a horned lark is singing beside a field of silver hairgrass in winter. When this confluence produ...
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Travel Writing. "Matt Potter unflinchingly allows us inside his mind and heart, sharing fears and insecurities that most of us would never dare to reveal. His book is both poignant and funny, and through Potter's eyes we...