Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Afterword by Antonino D'Ambrosio. BROKEDOWN PALACE is Maggie Dubris's ode to St. Clare's, the Hell's Kitchen hospital where she worked as an EMT for more than 25 years, until it closed. She weaves together prose...
Learn More...
Poetry. "Brendan Lorber sits at an ancient East Village window sill—a time traveler adept at the patterns of emotional cataclysm, a Chesire Cat mediator between science and what air believes in...'the world's, not flat, it's bubbly.' To eavesdrop in...
Poetry. "Daniel Bouchard constructs poems by meticulous accretion—and, before we know it, has made the world blooming, decaying, and blooming again. Here is a concentrated poetics of the everyday: the almost-forgotten town and the American highway, ...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Creole. Haitian Studies. Poems selected and introduced by Antonino D'Ambrosio. Invoking the dreams of his Haitian ancestors, who now haunt his memories, Denizé Lauture's poetry is imbued with a sense of ne...
Poetry. California Interest. Music. "In the eary 90's hordes of gifted young experimental writers met and gathered in the San Francisco Bay Area to participate in a few years of making work that, were I more given to hyperbole, I would term a verita...
Poetry. Translated from the Danish by Mark Kline. For some time now Mette Moestrup, one of Scandinavia's most important contemporary writers, has been writing an edgy poetry about the body, about being a mother and a lover in Denmark. She is renowne...
This product is temporarily out of stock
Poetry. "For those of us who fell in love with the putative end of DuPlessis's lifework, Drafts—'Volta! Volta!'—it's a serious pleasure to discover that it has indeed taken a turn, the serial poem plumbing its manifold interstices for a way to 'unbe...
Poetry. "Max Winter's poems are full of the permission of comedy and the precision of laughter. He is urbane, witty, and a New York poet, though that appellation doesn't capture his eccentric grace, or his way of slipping to the center of another wo...
Poetry. In her third collection of poetry, Camille Guthrie engages with Louise Bourgeois's deeply personal sculptures, paintings, and drawings in her own taut, emotive abstractions, carving new meaning out of a body of work central totwentieth-centu...
Poetry. "The Diogenes of the New York langpo scene."—Ron Silliman
Poetry. This work was commissioned by Isabella d'Este for the walls of her studiolo after she attended a daylong screening of Matthew Barney's Crewmaster at The Roxy in Brixton, London, and a few weeks later stumbled upon an artist's talk by Raphael...
Poetry. "Kimberly Lyons wants to 'stay with the poem in this uncomfortable singular place / Where the flies and moths co-exist.' It is hard to listen when 'The poems says: / You can't have any lobster, you stupid, hungry poet.' But that is exactly w...
Poetry. "The experience of MATERIAL GIRL begins in a field of distinct flowers—poems are 'the flowers of associational thinking,' as Charles Bernstein teaches—each composition held in its own light, which it produces. Can the experiment 'express our...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. Poetics. "Opinions tend to be uninteresting, which is one of the reasons why I always like reading poet Gary Lenhart's critical pieces: he gives us far more than thumbs up or thumbs down. In his clean...
Poetry. "I'm standing in for a huge range of U.S. readers and writers for whom Rob Holloway's work will be a delightful surprise—and a challenge, for we're not used to a meditative, analytical poetry with this many moving parts. The first thing I no...