Poetry. Women's Studies. "I once wrote to a poetry advice column because I was afraid of my emotions and the havoc they wreaked on me. I called them 'a huge problem' but Diana Hamilton comforted me and wrote: 'Feeling pleasure is a legitimate way of...
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Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Women's Studies. "As I discovered in putting this collection together, the central impulse in my poetry is duality—what it means to be both body and spirit, alone a...
Poetry. Art. Film. Music. "Paul Bowles said 'whatever one writes is in a sense autobiographical, of course. Not factually so, but poetically so.' The poems here connect with nerves in bodies, pixels on screens, letters in words and the air's water c...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. "Calenture. The first time I heard the word, I saw her diving. From the cliffs of Kuttawa, her long arc into the lake they flooded a town to create. A fever so verdant it calls you by name. The water was...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Drama. "Please excuse these pages. Every poem is a disaster and every poetic form is an insult to poetry, to proper measure and harmony. The tone is particularly off, and sometimes it seems like the author is the kind who pr...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. "Horses have been intrinsic to much of human history. Their connection to human activities has always been dualistic but have also been constantly beset with ironies. Equine connections to human activities have always be...
Poetry. Native Australian Studies. Women's Studies. "Aboriginal women are the great gatherers of many things—food, of course, but also stories and inner strength. The women who raised me had vast reserves of inner strength, and to pass that on was a...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Native Australian Studies. "What is it I take for granted? Skin. The body's fragile, necessary, and sensitive clothing marked by culture accrues value (or otherwise) in particular places for no good reason but history, and a...
Poetry. Drama. Asian & Asian American Studies. Art. "A SALIVATING MONSTROUS PLANT began as an exploration of violence present in the act of speaking, including attempts and refusal to speak. I'm interested in the body's movements and gestures, and t...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. "FLAT EXIT is about greetings and departures, learning to let go and circle back to pick up what remains. These poems jump between northeastern Victoria and Melbourne, romantic and platonic relationships, moments of personal...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Art. Code. New media. Net.art. Hybrid Genre. "Don't mistake this for an experimental poetry book. This is a five-year archival snapshot of text-streaming transmissions; a recording that documents continuity. The streams ...
Poetry. "In this cycle of post-lyrical poems, Matthew Hall questions the form and circumstances of these factors. What are they? A synecdoche of bodily presence and the signs of (an)other are wound together. A metaphor gives way to description but r...
Poetry. "THE ONLY WHITE LANDSCAPE shows the effort to think in time with the imperfection of language as it nudges into consciousness and out of order; as it turns into itself as if on a pin or because of some new patch of petrol-, Pantone-, mid-mor...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Middle Eastern Studies. LGBTQIA Studies."I won't keep you long. First, I acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, on whose land the majority of this collection was written.Now you are about to read the poetry o...
Poetry. Music. "Pieces in this book read like blips in a particle accelerator, flung into each other at lightning speed to see what deeper thought emerges among exciting cognitive flashes of collision and conjecture. This excellent sampler of Mann's...