Poetry. "In these delightful and energetic lyrics, Serge Gavronsky shows himself to be the master of the everyday in all its pleasures and horrors. These poems are sardonic, witty-sometimes even nasty-in their perceptions of life "on the front" in t...
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Poetry. "In FIRST LIFE, Burt Kimmelman captures the tactile language of childhood and the sensate world of the pre-verbal and newly verbal. His poems are intricate and wise nursery rhymes exploring the intimacies of family life—what takes place just...
Poetry. LE MOTS ANGLAIS, says Sawyer-Lauçanno in his introduction, "is based on Stephane Mallarmé's 1877 English grammar book Les Mots anglais, and on the exercise books (Themes anglais) he prepared for his students, probably between 1872 and 1884, ...
Poetry. Widely respected as a critic as well as a poet Susan Shultz is the editor of The Tribe of John and the journal TINFISH. Saddlestapled.
Poetry. THE FUNERAL JOURNAL by Ed Friedman, director of the St. Mark's Poetry Project, is drawn from Space Stations, "a journal I've been keeping since 1979." "Cold and dark. Drifting through space. Everything is an interruption of an interruption a...
Poetry. Returning to Maine after years living in Israel and Jordan, Stephen Ellis, the respected publisher/editor of Oasii Press, brings with him poems threaded with references to Petra, Jerusalem, the crusades: The crusader ruins at Apollonia / shi...
Poetry. Spiritual son of Ted Berrigan and distinguished editor/publisher (Poetry New York, Spuyten Duyvil Press), Tod Thilleman is a considerable presence in the New York poetry world. Tod Thilleman began to attract attention with his sequence colle...
Poetry. Image, phrase, cadence and tone, all indicate, in the poetry of Stephen Sartarelli, some anterior and shattered perfection. A fundamental but never fully disclosed schism haunts the lines. Only a longing so extreme as to be apocalyptic seems...
Poetry. A dozen new poems, including the title work written on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the 1992 LA Rebellion: in the freeway with a palm frond/ who is it/ stopping cars/ blazing strand of the real pulled out/ waiting behind thinking...
Poetry. Richard Blevins, well-known editor of the CHARLES OLSON-ROBERT CREELEY LETTERS and former publisher of Zelot Press/Clarel Editions, has a long track-record of distinguished books and chapbooks ranging from COURT OF HALF-KING (1980) to CLAREL...
Poetry. Widely published and respected, Philip Foss is the author of CHROMATIC DISPLACEMENT, THE COMPOSITION OF GLASS, THE EXCESSES THE CAPRICES, and COURTESAN OF SEIZURE (all available from SPD). I cannot distinguish between what I have thought/ an...
Poetry. Translation. Asian Studies. Major sequence translated from the Chinese by the author with well-known younger writer, Eleni Sikenianos. VERSES ON BIRD, to borrow Pound's phrase, is a coherent splendor: Where can we find enough names to name a...
Poetry. "The quiet village where Barone lives, with its tight-lipped locals and New England decorum, seems a suitable palette from which to draw ruminations about half-meanings, truncated logic, and the deception of language. In any case, it's clear...