"'I am more than the smell / of fear grasping my collar,' Lorna Dee Cervantes tells us in one of the powerful poems in this new collection. Indeed, she is. But Cervantes' brilliance here is her ability to speak the fear as well as the resistance to ...
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Poetry. "Recalling 'Lycidas,' in which young Milton overcomes doubts about his poetic commission to mourn the loss of Edward King, his drowned Cambridge companion, Jon Curley successfully navigates his 'own twin sense of faith and doubt' to embrace ...
Poetry. Winner of the 2020 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. A book of poems based on a legendary UFO Encounter. "Near Lancaster, New Hampshire, in the White Mountains, they noticed a bright light in the sky that seemed to be following them. The light ...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. THE IN(TER)VENTION OF THE HAY(NA)KU: SELECTED TERCETS 1996-2019 presents tercets that Eileen R. Tabios created during her writing career, a process that led to her invention of the hay(na)ku p...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. "Edward Foster's poetry, always exacting and infinitely sweeping, comes to us like a whisper from behind our own ears. . . His poems suspend themselves just above language, connotative of some understanding—perhaps commo...
Poetry. Art. Basil King's DISPARATE BEASTS PART 2 follows the same reverence for painters that he expressed in 77 BEASTS: BASIL KING'S BEASTIARY published in 2007 by March Hawk Press. Each poem speaks about the painting and the painter.
Poetry. "In A PAGEANT FOR EVERY ADDICTION, Fink and Mason give us poetry that goes to the brink, peering off the cliff, before they pull one another back to safety. These poems—about death and dying, inheritance (monetarily and otherwise), and famil...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. "Writing about the Holocaust can be difficult now, not that it was ever easy. It has become myth or something people use as a metaphor for something they object to; those who know, who went through it, are dying off. Those wh...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. At once, an origin story of a poet's beginnings, "a human genome project of the lyric." A title in Marsh Hawk Press' Chapter One Series: On Becoming a Poet.
Poetry. Art. "BLUE POLES vibrates with the rhythms of our century's linguistic upheavals, resonating in lines that beat-track each syllable's blue note. Read it aloud to catch the humor that resides as much in the sound as in (between) the words."—D...
Poetry. "With Lynne Thompson's new collection FRETWORK, one feels spurred on by the cherished care of the American emigrant story, which is to say, the buttressing and fortifying of the dream with all of its inglorious and joyous plots and twists. I...
Poetry. "Susan Terris is a poet of tensile, particular language and fearless investigation. In this far-reaching book, Terris's gifts of superb observation and word-craft turn in multiple directions—into the myths, stories and realities of childhood...
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. This second collection of memoirs continues McIntosh's coming of age story set in Long Island's famous Hamptons arts colony. Included are stories of wild adventures in filmmaking with Norman Mailer and Ilya Bolotowsky, t...
Poetry. Winner of the 2019 Eric Hoffer Prize for the Best Book Published by a Small Press. In THE JAGUARS THAT PROWL OUR DREAMS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1974 to 2018, Mary Mackey writes of life, death, love, and passion with intensity and grace. Her ...
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...