Poetry. From Proto-Indo-European deru- or dreu-, "tryst" is cognate with duir, Ogham for oak, as well as druid. Sturdy oak for making doors for druids to open. Lovers pressed against the venerable trunk. Of course, tryst also sounds like tristis, wi...
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Poetry. "SEASPEL is a mosaic. It is formed of shells of perception, sacred narratives well or ill remembered, glimpses of ocean, reminiscences about a great teacher and his students. In island folk art, mosaic images are made from fragments of all s...
Poetry. These poems are an orchestrated selection from work not in the Tornado Island series, either composed between 2001 and 2018 or recovered and reworked during that time.
Poetry. "In these works, Mitch Highfill's writing variously blossoms and explodes: 'Form is alive.' Thinking through the contemporary moment in five complex and demanding sequences, Highfill creates poetry that celebrates quotidian blisses, bewails ...
Poetry."I have to report that I read these texts at times with almost fear, so much is at stake in them, how close to blasphemy he has to come to shake the characters back into life, the lives they share with one another, when they all change their ...
Poetry. The Lunar Chandelier Collective exists to bring fresh experimental work in many forms to the community. Both new and established writers take part in this project, which has so far published work by Billie Chernicoff, Tamas Panitz, Robert Ke...
Poetry. "The poet reads things. And she knows them all, this poet of our precise and beautiful ordinary language. She handles them, fondles them even, with her eyes, eyes that traverse the salients and re-entrants of bronze artifacts with the fluid ...
Poetry. "The magic alphabet, the mysterious hieroglyph, have come down to us only in incomplete and distorted form, be it through the workings of time or of those who stand to profit from our ignorance; let us rediscover the lost letter or the vanis...
Poetry. "Marches are borderlands, danger terrains, full of beasts or enemies or disappointed friends seeking exile. Marches are long lines, footsore soldiers stepping briskly with their minds on something else, thirty miles a day through the borderl...
Poetry. CALLS is the fifth and final volume in a cycle of long poems: Fire Exit, UNCERTAINTIES, The Hexagon, and HEART THREAD, collectively forming The Island Cycle, composed over the last decade. No narrative is delivered or implied; as with any ac...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Religion & Spirituality. "That the poetic cannot extricate itself from myth, as indeed neither can the philosophical, is sooth. There is a configurable complementarity between myth and reason; for the philosophers resort to ...
Poetry. "In absolutely limpid prosody Lila Dunlap presents her readers with household tales and deities...These are poems of specific interiorities, domestic and psychic, sage old Gaston Bachelard lives deep in their forêt noir where subtle Anima st...
Poetry. "Thomas Meyer has built a strong book cunningly wrought from fragile subtleties. His voices veer from praise to analysis, anamnesis to poises, gentle autobiography, quiet distress, overt love poems, moody summonings of wind and weather—read ...
Poetry. VIEWS FROM TORNADO ISLAND is the thirteenth and last book of an extended serial work that takes its name from the title of this book. The entire series speaks from a stock of some 26 "characters," numinous "objects," oddly configured "abstra...
Poetry. "Chernicoff gives us a world set to work, process as alchemy, the chaos within order she manifests with her patient and alert naming 'Of.' She's not shapeshifting but involving us in the radical force of language that is the world. The child...