Poetry. "In these hybrid utterances by Stephanie Cawley we are in the world of neither/nor, both/and, but not simply in terms of the way the work seeks to speak. The speaker herself balances on the tightrope between living and dying, between staring...
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Poetry. Compulsively written, rewritten, gutted, remixed, detonated, reconstituted, and reanimated for years and years, OUR PORNOGRAPHY & OTHER DISASTER SONGS channels a polyphony of voices & themes onto a toll-free highway on which we're all either...
Poetry. "This is a book of boundaries, objects, intersections. A book of multiple selves caught in the midst of self-definition. A book of conflagrations ('my hair / yesterday's / fire caught / in a disaster'). A book inhabited by all the poets who ...
Poetry. FAMOUS TIMES investigates the shapes escapism takes as a response to the malignantly mundane: the boredom of the American workforce, puttering forward and waiting for the bottom to fall out. Ilya Kaminsky writes, "in the street of money in t...
Poetry. Our intricate thinking and our ability to process the world deeply connect us as human beings. Yet we conjure inhibitors to limit our interactions with each other such as race, class, species, landscape, and limitations of understanding. Des...
Poetry. Women's Studies. As her perp comes up for parole, witness tw recalls the objects he brought to the assault. She tracks rape as a signature crime of US history and Western Civ and tests the (often underwater) escape routes offered by sources ...
Poetry. "Falling in love while losing a loved one and watching the war news on TV? Life is difficult, and the poems in this marvelous collection ask a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human? Each poem supplies part of the answer—to go l...
Poetry. "Reading GHOST MACHINES, I am reminded of Brian Eno and David Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, J Dilla's Donuts, or DJ Shadow's Endtroducing... In these sonic works, archives reanimate into loop driven compositions that stave off endin...
Poetry. "If you like eating pipe bombs for breakfast and pissing off your friends, read these poems. If you don't like those things, read these poems. If you love everyone so much that it actually makes you sick, then definitely read these poems. Th...
Poetry. "Just as the Bertolt Brecht the book invokes, Monika Zobel's AN INSTRUMENT FOR LEAVING sings to us of the dark and abundant pain of living, the very sadness of being, the wonder of the colorful objects of life, and everything else that makes...
Poetry. Winner of our 11th Annual Book Prize Contest, chosen by Matthea Harvey. CEREMONY is Mary Austin Speaker's first collection of poems. The book begins in bewilderment and ends in a hurricane of trust. In between are collaged epistles, fragment...
Poetry. At issue in these poems, written from the perspective of a professional taxidermist, is the contrast between the concepts of freedom found in Nature and that of property, the consumption of Nature and the ownership of one's self, one's body,...
Poetry. HANDIWORK is in itself a work of craftsmanship, piecing together fragments while at the same time producing anew. Borsuk summons the tradition of Hebrew gematria to investigate and engage with language's slipperiness, and, as she explains, t...
Poetry. In LID TO THE SHADOW, Alexandria Peary writes about spring, referencing classical Eastern imagery of blossoming cherry trees to talk about childbirth, female desire, motherhood, and absence of memory. This book thrives through its artful use...
Poetry. Written through a dark time, Curry's poems in OUR CHROME ARMS OF GYMNASIUM navigate, as she says, "sexual communication and logic and the breakdown that occurs when people are perceiving different realities and trying to make sex, love and r...