Poetry. "Inside this collection are poems of great patience and attention. As Willitts writes, 'I fell into earth like seed'—so too does the reader, into a remarkable flow of poems. Each page is an act of deep listening, and an ache of nostalgia tha...
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Poetry. "The poems in Linda Aldrich's new book BALLAST are stunning and vital. Like the cardinal's color she describes as pulsing in the darkness, these poems acknowledge the dark, but stand bright against all that would break us. Aldrich is beautif...
Poetry. Book I in The Argument of Time series. "Rome's harbor town, Ostia Antica, the other well-preserved ancient city in Italy, has long paled beside Pompeii, whose high drama and fiery demise fixed its place in literature and the popular imaginat...
Poetry. "A memory, Deborah Cummins tells us, is a mind-painting, and she paints her memories with the precision and beauty of the Old Masters. UNTIL THEY CATCH FIRE is a gallery of stunning mind-paintings, many of them about the heart-rending loss o...
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Poetry. "When a poem enlarges my world, I am happy. When a book is filled with one such poem after another, all singing on the page, I am joyful. In IRIDESCENT GUEST celebrating the spirit of art is personal, as when the poet reads Edward Lear while...
Poetry. Winner of a Notable Indie, 2020 Best Indie Book Award from Shelf Unbound. "The spirit of Horace, the melancholy of time slithering away and turning all to dust, tempered with art, wit and good grace: Solonche's is the Horatian spirit for our...
Poetry. "Years ago, I predicted that David Sloan's name would easily join those who revel in the stubbornly elusive meld of craft and lyric. Ever since I've known him, he's mastered it with enviable ease, in deftly-spun poems probing what consoles a...
Poetry. Women's Studies. California Studies. Environmental Studies. "Newberry's poems arrive like a friend bearing news. We think we are to hear something ordinary, then suddenly it becomes unusual. Or we find ourselves being told something odd... a...
Fiction. Short Stories. Asian & Asian American Studies. In this short story collection from HC Hsu, love and death converge in a maze of desire where strangers find intimacy with as well as inflict violence on one another as their lives twist togeth...
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...
Poetry. Beginning again is a major theme in these poems, implying grief and breakage, but also wonder, Stuart Kestenbaum's new book includes some experimental poems using source words supplied by others.
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. This poetry is rich, in observation, stunning sensual detail, and the connections she makes between detail and insight, as when she describes the swifts going down a chimney as if they had been inhaled by the past. Tibbetts' poems are also r...
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...