Poetry. Karen Whalley's second book takes up the question of identity in the face of isolation and loss. At its core are twin wounds—the death of a father and the end of a marriage—and the struggle to define oneself in the ensuing absences. "Somewhe...
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Poetry. In PERDIDO, Elaine Terranova's seventh collection, the poet ponders the predicament of loss—"I want the dead but I am beside / the living." But for Terranova, perdido does not mean loss merely. Like the music from which she borrows her term,...
Poetry. In this exquisite third book, Bert Stern grapples with the elemental and the extraordinary, looking back on the length of his journey and finding realms of possibility, powerful proof of a life well lived. Moments of divine recognition perva...
Poetry. Jon Davis's latest book of poems is bursting with signature inventiveness and the nimble lyricism that David Foster Wallace once praised as "off-the-charts terrific." Like the characters of a new alphabet, Davis's creatures form the language...
Poetry. The poems in COLD STORAGE are revelations in the fullest sense, uncovering a world at once familiar and rendered new again in resplendent, transformative detail: a halo on the threshing floor, a drop of water on the skin, the nearing dark. K...
Poetry. Patricia Corbus's starting point is home, where "in pearly clouds / called fog we sit / on unseen chairs / ...We stay, we go." When she goes, there are no limits to her flights, which, for example, may take her to "the vast loneliness of fle...
Poetry. Dicko King calls this work "an ancestral chronicle," but it's bigger than that—something more like a species chronicle. King traces us out of the primordial ooze through our revolutions and migrations, and then, only finally, to his clan and...
Poetry. Winner of the 2013 Off the Grid Prize. The latest poetry collection by Whitman Award winner Elaine Terranova is her sixth, and it is breathtaking. In pellucid language the poet walks through a kind of "vale of soul making" by re–visioning ho...