Poetry. Women's Studies. Cate Peebles' debut book of poems, THICKET, is deft and ideal in its pertinence to our current moment while also reaching both back and beyond itself. In the long poem, "The Woodlands," Peebles writes: "When the flood comes ...
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Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Winner of the 2015 Besmilr Brigham Women Writers Award. Rachel Moritz's powerfully sweet SWEET VELOCITY delivers a lived-in world—material, object-oriented and also lyrically distinctive. The song here treats a serene, somet...
Poetry. Art. "Funny and sad, the poems in COMMON SENSE sound the gulf between wants and obligations, adolescence and adulthood, love and politics. They speak to the absurdities and desperations of contemporary America, where common sense proves as s...
Poetry. "In her new collection, PARTICIPANT Linda Russo shows how to distill and clarify perception as a method of lyric practice in order to render "a world made sharp." This long poem of observation, edged with philosophy and critique, floats effo...
Poetry. "These poems are evidence of a mind that emits thought the way a quick-spinning, millisecond pulsar emits radio waves—with devastating precision. They form a record of incisive looking, and of the tumultuous perceptions sight provokes. They ...
Poetry. THE SINGING KNIVES, originally published in 1971 by Broughton's Mill Mountain Press, is Frank Sanford's first collection of poetry. Reprinted by his own press, Lost Roads Publisher, after his death, THE SINGING KNIVES, debuts the work of a t...
Poetry. YOU is a collection of poetry by Frank Stanford, published shortly after his startling death in 1979. YOU was published by Lost Roads Publishers, formed in 1976 by C.D. Wright and the author himself. Drawing from his childhood in the Mississ...
Poetry. Magazine. Featuring work by Xue Di, Karen Volkman, Elizabeth Willis, John Kinsella, Kevin Young, Bin Ramke, Margaret Christakos, Canon Tolon, Lisa Jarnot, Cyrus Console, Rishi Zutshi, Jamie Saenz, Jack Spicer, Erin Moure, Stephen Ratcliffe, ...
Poetry. Magazine. Featuring work by Rae Armantrout, Erica Carpenter, Che Chen, Michael Davidson, Barbara Guest, Michael Harper, Ken Irby, J.L. Jacobs, Lisa Jarnot, Kent Johnson, John Latta, Nathaniel Mackey, Peter O'Leary, Gale Nelson, Cole Swensen,...
Poetry . Edited by Deb Klowden and Ben Lerner. Featuring work by Will Alexander, Mary Austin, Peter Gizzi, Barbara Guest, Ann Lauterbach, Michael Palmer, Marjorie Perloff, Jacques Robaud, Eleni Sikelanios, Cole Swensen, and others. Also includes a f...
Poetry. Frank Stanford was called by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alan Dugan a brilliant poet, ample in his work, like Whitman. He was the founder of Lost Roads Publishers and the author of a number of important works, among them the epic THE BATTL...
Poetry. Carol Muske writes, I don't think I've ever read a first book of poems so haunted as THE LEAVES IN HER SHOES. Reading these poems is like listening to snatches of song or overhearing half-sentences, mutterings, broken chants of a lost tribe....
Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Asian American Studies. ENDOU is a Josey Foo primer, including a quixotic allegory of death featuring the three-legged dog Karl Barx in paper cut-out collages, lyric poems, and prose. ENDOU is an original dream ...
Poetry. "The bell-like musicality of these poems belies their grim insistence: we live in a furnace. We consume and are consumed"-San Francisco Chronicle. "Mayes has an urgent interest in the ways past and present converge. she writes with terse mag...
Poetry. African American Studies. Caribbean Studies. "Typeset in Brathwaite's trademark Sycorax video-print style, TRENCH TOWN ROCK is a harrowing account of violence in modern-day Jamaica. TRENCH TOWN ROCK, Kamau Brathwaite's long documentarian son...