Poetry. To explore MANTIS is to explore language as organic material in formation, information as material. The work is bit-mined, one might say, from The Maintains by Clark Coolidge, taking as rudiment processes of jazz improvisation, particularly ...
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Poetry. Art. "Relevant disturbance," "weigh your words carefully," and weigh is one of the things Mac Cormack does so well in this melange of poetry and visual poetry by one of the most innovative of America's (and formerly Canada's) poets. This is ...
Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. Art. Performance Studies. "In WHO DO WITH WORDS, poet, performer and critic Tracie Morris joyfully and instructively blerds out in her love letter to and lecture on Black spee...
Fiction. Poetry. Hybrid Genre. "The title is TITLE. What's the title? TITLE. That means the book is the book, or 'A' book, and implies that the book questions itself along the way, or perhaps just makes a lot of leaps, flops, and fade-away hook shot...
Poetry. Women's Studies. "Jennifer Bartlett writes, 'a word here, a word there,' yet, somehow, never manages to write like anyone else. These poems concern themselves with the messiness of relationships and how those relationships operate in both re...
Poetry. Drama. African & African American Studies. "The new powerful play by Will Alexander, AT NIGHT ON THE SUN, seems to be the beginning of a new phase in his work as a playwright. After his four earlier plays, that have been collected as INSIDE ...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. "Getting back to the theme of writing from the outside, I published this in the American Poetry Review in 2004, 'I've come to realize that I much prefer to live on the periphery of the English language, so tha...
Poetry. What is the meaning of light? Can humans even comprehend such a thing? In VISIBLE INSTRUMENTS, Michael Kelleher invites the reader to be mindful of these questions, and to ask what she can know, what he can do, how they might live in the pre...
Poetry. Art. Poetry by Leonard Schwartz, art by Simon Carr. "What do you get when you put ten frogs in a coffee pot? Answer: SALAMANDER, the latest in a long, imaginative line of animal inventories that began in classical Greece, if not on Noah's Ar...
Poetry. California Interest. "Like Whitman, Kit Robinson celebrates himself, the world, and the amplitude of time. In LEAVES OF CLASS, we are treated to poetic clarity and a sense of rectitude. Whimsical forays into the boundaries of meaning and lan...
Poetry. California Interest. Zen Buddhism. "'without love no quirks,' writes Norman Fischer in the midst of ANY WOULD BE IF. One might add: without quirks, no life, as in this book Fischer proceeds 'by ellipsis,' and suggests that living, noticing, ...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. California Interest. "A polemic, a dispute, an essai, a history of real persons in poetry, of agon and salient entanglement. An investigation, an epistle. A romp a ride, but open as conclusion. Across boundaries of time ...
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Art. Translated by Mark Weiss."With each new book of Orozco's one exclaims: 'Why didn't I think of that?' Each book unique among his oeuvre, and unique within the body of contemporary Mexican poetry. Its procession of ...
Poetry. California Interest. Music. "Over the course of thirty-five years, Ted Pearson has been incrementally publishing a masterpiece, present here before us at last within the covers of this book as AN INTERMITTENT MUSIC. He describes it as 'a ser...