Poetry. Translated from the French by Heather Green. Bilingual Edition. In NOONTIMES WON, Tristan Tzara floods the pages with a torrent of images. In Heather Green's translation of Tzara's 1939 collection, in cosmic imagery beside communist imagery,...
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Poetry. Brooke Ellsworth's first full-length collection takes on the question of what poetic expression — "where sentences come from" — looks like if we reject the sources of oppression that pre-exist it. Taking their cue sometimes from haibun, othe...
Poetry. How do you find your life in the fucked up world? In her essay "The Death of the Moth," Annie Dillard writes "you can't be anything else. You must go at your life with a broadax." In her book, BROADAX, Amy Lawless goes at her life in attempt...
Poetry. TESTIFY (Octopus Books), Simone John's first full-length book of poems, experiments with documentary poetics to uplift stories of black people impacted by state-sanctioned violence. The book's first section weaves Rachel Jeantel's testimony ...
Poetry. "WEIRDE SISTER is rooted in my troubled thinking on the subject of witches, witchcraft, witch persecutions, and whether Hell is really as hot as they say. The book is both heavily researched and heavily made-up. Its plot points and character...
Poetry. Dan Hoy's trilogy, THE DEATHBED EDITIONS, is an ambitious debut collection of his three full-length poetry books (Black Atlas, Blood Work, Michael Madonna). With its mystic yet colloquial lyricism, DEATHBED evokes an apocalyptic landscape of...
Poetry. Christoper DeWeese's second book, THE FATHER OF THE ARROW IS THE THOUGHT, re-says the human against the "fucked ecosystem" of the contemporary landscape. Locating themselves in a series of varied physiographic settings, the poems illuminate ...
Poetry. Visual Art. "VIA DISSIMULATA is a hauntingly beautiful collection of deep truths and abstract emotions. Be prepared to feel feelings. Take your time. Meditate on every word and image. Savor the experience. You'll be grateful you did."—Holly ...
Poetry. In her debut collection, Cecily Iddings' poetry is always on the cusp of arriving at some destination where "one senses either tragedy / or striptease might be next." We never quite arrive, but it is not the speaker who is holding us at arm'...
Poetry. Written over the past 35 years, PICASSO'S TEARS is an epic account of Wong May's incisive, empathic, and visionary engagement with our strange and violent world. Politically inflamed and intensely personal, this fourth book of poems by Wong ...
Poetry. "Wily, witty and weird, often haunting, sometimes heartbreaking, [Frey's] poems... dive deep, for all their individual brevity."—Dana Levin
Poetry.When two cannibals start dating, they're just like us. First awkward date includes coffee or alcohol. Maybe some furious necking in a cab or in the hallway near the restroom. When she got home, she looked in the mirror and she looked the same...
Poetry.Wasting My LifeWasting my life in the gleaming snowaka cocaine. Did you realize the human bodyhas got over seven miles of braided thoughts?Under this girdle of fat I'm wasting away,in a sweater, eating from a bucket.In fat I see myself distil...
Poetry. The poems in PORTUGUESE began while Brandon rode city buses around Seattle, and were inspired by his fellow passengers—their voices and their minds, their faces and their bodies, their exuberances and infirmities, and the ways in which they ...