In this second volume in her series The Argument of Time, Teresa Carson takes us from the abandoned port town of Ostia to the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In its galleries, we encounter a marble sarcophagus dedicated by a...
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”In addition to her marvelous craft and her patent relish of language, Dawn Potter impresses by the sheer range of her enterprise. She can write about Paganini and Otis Redding, compose wrenching narratives (“Mr. Kowalski”) and witty conceits (“Love...
The poems in GLYPHS share a sense of wonder at existence, and the author's generous and forgiving passion for life.“What pulses in us? asks poet Martina Reisz Newberry in her collection, GLYPHS. With a sensibility reminiscent of Nobel Prize winner W...
“These poets write about passages—their own and our country’s—looking deeply at the world as they find it. They investigate those profound memories that shape us throughout our lives and examine the natural world that can transform us every day. The...
Stricken is captivating, this collection takes us to the deepest places grief can touch our lives. ”Gail Gauldin Moore’s Stricken is truly captivating. It’s also perfectly timed for a society shaken by all manner of plagues. “Eternity,” she writes, ...
Fiction. Poetry. Jefferson Navicky's ANTIQUE DENSITIES:MODERN PARABLES & OTHER EXPERIMENTS IN SHORT PROSE flickers between the surreal and the recognizable, entering into dialogue with elders of influence to imagine a way into connection. Somewhere ...
Poetry. In POISONS & ANTIDOTES, life is inhabited by things that kill us and things that save us. But it's never black and white, because poisons exist on a continuum, each increment representing some gradation of toxicity. Sometimes poison is clear...
Poetry. "The wind in these eloquent, elegant, tensile poems is present as spirit, of course; as spirit it can manifest as the longing or fate of the body (it expires), as intellectual momentum (it inspires), as power for social justice (it aspires)....
Poetry. "SUFFICIENT EMPTINESS holds life's contradictions in balance on the fine edge of language. With elegance and grace, Power captures moments of connection and reverie. With sly wit and savvy insight, she meditates on history, memory, and art. ...
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...
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. Art. "In the less is definitely more department, we have arrived at perfection. Stuart Kestenbaum's extracted poems are beacons of tender, funny, minimalist illumination. And beautiful to look at. In short, it is all there."—Maira Kalman
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...