Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. Memoir. THE NEW PLANTATION: LESSONS FROM RIKERS ISLAND chronicles Trask's quest to cross the cultural divide between his students and him. While he is a white guy from rural Maine—among the wh...
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Poetry. Skillman's new collection explores themes of exile, nostalgia, and chronic illness. Artists, literary, and mythic figures who travel through these poems include Andy Warhol, Günter Grass, Iphigenia, and the Shakespearean characters Prospero ...
Poetry. "Judith Farr's literary talents are known, and now she gives us new poetry with mastery of language, lasting characters; her soul and heart connected to the word. A seasoned writer keeps the promise that storytelling becomes poetry only when...
Poetry. Poems of varied form including prose poems, mostly influenced by 20th century thought, with beautifully modulated language, presenting brilliant insights and observations on the contemporary world, human impacts and conditions, hitting us wi...
Poetry. "With variously sized poetic scopes, ever focused, Leonore Hildebrandt finds us connective paths through space and time, delineating the material and spiritual dimensions of shelter. WHERE YOU HAPPEN TO BE takes its cue—and title—from Buckmi...
Poetry. Erasure Poetry. In these poems, Yocom offers a new vision of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's "All Kinds Of Fur," a little-known version of Cinderella that rarely appears in fairy tale collections since it opens with a widowed father who demands to...
Poetry. Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning...
Poetry. "The most striking aspect of Dennis Camire's poems is how they recalibrate our lens on the familiar. They celebrate poignant moments when honest curiosity allows a reader to assume an unfamiliar point of view."—Jeanine Hathaway
Poetry. ARCHAEOLOGY covers several subjects through reflection and memory. Details and impressions, the visible and invisible, past and present, reflection on life, human conditions, and nature; the reader travels the currents in the verse by way of...
Poetry. Francis Blessington's new book of poetry is an inspiring collection of great imagination. Blessington places the ancient side by side with the contemporary, capturing moments that are gone but live on, reflections and refractions of a visual...
Poetry. Sarah White's second Deerbrook Editions book TO ONE WHO BENDS MY TIME is something of a poetic memoir whose artfully compiled verse is sometimes experimental, exploring language and memory through stages of its existential connections with g...
Poetry. Finalist in the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance Lit Awards for poetry. Jim Glenn Thatcher's collection takes the reader on a journey that embodies the metaphysical, spiritual, and literary essence of the poet's existence."He has an under...
Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Omer Zamir's new collection, CHRYSOPYLAE, decodes a mind turned in on itself, pills sealed in "tin wombs impatient for birth" that wait like "…little saints/ Unborn," the paternal legacy in a bottle of a "Sea-tameless...
Poetry. NEVER COMPLETELY AWAKE is a book of 99 poems. One endorsment called it "nothing short of breathtaking." The substance and acquity of Martina's writing demystifies itself through refractive language. Poems playfully at times, at times serious...
Poetry. "I have been drawn to Judith Skillman's work for three decades, ever since her first book, Worship of the Visible Spectrum. In her latest volume, she inhabits the mind of Franz Kafka, as well as some of those who loomed large in his life: fa...