Poetry. Winner of the 2017 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. "Sometimes time is the subject, sometimes materiality as these poems point us toward the strangeness at the heart of being. We are swept away, almost in spite of ourselves, by the hypnotic pr...
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Poetry. "The pace too quickened to be a flaneur's, the passion too corporeal to seem the eye of a camera. Jon Curley's latest book of poems, SCORCH MARKS, is a visceral shout-out, a call—as much prayer as dare—to those who would acquiesce by keeping...
Poetry. "Paul Pines' poems are a bringing down of the mind into the heart, a bearing of witness to the eternal dance between the everyday and the numinous, (the unseen miracle of it). The poet in GATHERING OF SPARKS, even when suspended above the ab...
Poetry. "OBSESSIONAL, is remarkable for yoking an engaging Elizabethan literary detective story to a personal narrative about life as a grad school poet. Even more impressive than this set-up actually succeeding is the way McIntosh is able to tie co...
Poetry. Art. "Vivid, hybrid writing... It is the perspective of someone who has been trained not just to look, but to see, and to not miss anything in his field of vision."—Ammiel Alcalay"Going into [King's] sentences is like entering sounds br...
Poetry. "'Windows slam shut, like widows, or stones'—these poems carry a braid of unspoken stories. Visionary, honed, distilled, charged with the immediacy of a dream before you coax it into a story and the challenges of our baffling history, Patric...
Poetry. Winner of the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize 2016. "With a naturalist's precision, a subtle sense of the way the line pushes its music against silence, and with great emotional restraint, the poetof AFTER studies the world—the spathes of skun...
Poetry. The pared-down and essentialized poems in ABANDONED ANGEL show Kimmelman's further explorations of the procedural dynamic in syllabic forms."By way of a precise and pared-down language these poems artfully render a physical world while simul...
Poetry. A long gnostic poem, SOWING THE WIND interrogates modern notions of friendship, which, compromised by possession, need, and performance, becomes simply and essentially another expression of change."As a writer, critic, editor, and teacher, E...
Memoir. Poetry. "These irresistibly amusing and engaging recollections of the author's encounters with the great and near-great artists and poets who washed ashore in the Hamptons has a special charm, as our intrepid protagonist plays unofficial cha...
Poetry. "A book of ruthless poise, LATEST VOLCANO masters form and forms—pantoum, sestina, terza rima, narrative, elegy—well-suited to its wily protagonist, Eros. A canny figure, unabashed by war or fidelity, in league with cruelty and memory, Eros,...
Poetry. From the Foreword:"A phrase from Comte de Lautréamont's prose poem Les Chants de Maldoror (1869) has been used by many as a definition of surrealism: 'the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella.' Such fancif...
Poetry. "Fink collages fractured dialogue, political farce, pop song lyrics, and tabloid tidbits to make his deliberate music and 'tactful oomph.'"—Denise Duhamel"If you want plain speech, go to the groves of academe...But if you want plain speech t...
Poetry. "The twenty-three poems in Claudia Carlson's CHOCOLATE SARCOPHAGUS combine raw courage and absolute beauty. Powerful, poignant, ecstatically lyrical, and beautifully crafted, they present us with an unflinching contemplation of mortality tha...
Poetry. "'Isn't intimacy the thin ice / of address?,' asks Stephen Miller's endlessly jaunty and energetic narrator. And he adds, 'I mean if we become one another.' Throughout this irrepressible series of imaginative intimacies and confrontations (w...