Vyt Bakaitis, poet and eminent translator from the Lithuanian, has gathered here poems from the past decade. This new collection, REFUGE & OCCASION, pursues several strands that ultimately braid together with characteristic freedom of shape and musi...
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"Words say too much to let you know the truth.'' George Quasha's torqued, enigmatic proverbs create unlikely balances among discrepant engagements. WAKING FROM MYSELF is the sixth volume published of George Quasha's "preverbs," an invented poetic ge...
Homophonic translations create poems that foreground the sound of the original more than the lexical meaning: sound-alike poems or "sound writing." This essay presents a dizzying number of examples of sound mimesis as a way to explore the poetics of...
Poetry. TOKYOATOTO is made of and from a hand-written book composed by the poet Sam Truitt during a 2019 Tokyo sojourn. The writing includes, among other elements, descriptions, impressions, insights into Japanese life and culture and the concrete e...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. COSMIC DIASPORA is Jake Marmer's third collection of poems. It brings together fantasy, hard-boiled sci-fi, Jewish mysticism, experimental poetics, free jazz, and dark, deadpan humor. Born in the wild steppes of Ukraine, Marm...
Poetry. THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER spans the 15-year arc from 9/11 to 11/9, concluding with a poem based on voices overheard the night of Trump's election by poet Michael Ruby, a journalist who has covered U.S. politics for decades. Ruby began the boo...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Bernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh wrote PIECE OF CAKE as a work of collaborative prose poetry, based on a process of each writing on alternate days in the course of August of 1976. It recounts the quotidian details of dai...
Poetry. Chris Tysh's HOTEL DES ARCHIVES is a trilogy of books comprising verse recastings from the French novels of Beckett, Genet and Duras. These are transcreations that allow her to forsake the traditional mode of self-expression in favor of one ...
Poetry. IN THE WORLD ENORMOUS is a collection of poems engaged in transition, conversation and what transforms. Focused on a time that beginning shortly before the death of Tomer Inbar's mother and ending after the birth of his twin daughters, these...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Translated with an Afterword by Kristin Dykstra. In 2002, while temporarily living in Europe (mostly Amsterdam), the poet Omar Pérez began writing in a notebook. His journey began as a short professional visit that shift...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Edited and with an afterword by Eirik Steinhoff. In collaboration with Publication Studio-Hudson, A FIERY FLYING ROULE: TO ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH; SPECIALLY THE RICH ONES reproduces a series of pamphlets distri...
Poetry. OUT OF THE QUESTION: SELECTED POEMS (1963-2003) gathers together a generous sample of work from Lewis Warsh's many earlier collections. Warsh has been associated with the community of New York School writers who first met at The Poetry Proje...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Louise Landes Levi's CRAZY LOUISE, OR LA CONVERSAZIONE SACRA is a deliberate departure—both from the formal construction of her previous works & from her focus on early (medieval) forms of feminine process & liberation (Swee...
Poetry. Edited by Larry Fagin with an introduction by Bill Berkson. Clark Coolidge is a revered figure in the world of American and world experimental poetry. SELECTED POEMS: 1962-1985 will be how Coolidge's revolutionary early works will be read fo...