Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. "Both a song of survival and a summoning of ghosts, HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE is not only a record but a recovery, a shipyard of stories that reckon with what it means to be displaced, to haunt your own home. In th...
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Poetry. "A chapbook that weaves the strands of history with the complicated life in the now, these are poems that celebrate the many selves we contain within the body. Lush poems of lineage and what is passed down, along with poems of the heart's in...
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Arturo Mantecón. "This is the final collection of Spanish poet Leopoldo María Panero (1948-2014): the 'incomplete fish that he carries in his hand', a coda to a body of work that took up wher...
Poetry. "Like A.R. Ammon's "Corson's Inlet," David Oates in THE HERON PLACE makes a walk in a wild place into an excursion into nature and mind, drawing a stunning sense of landscapes inner and outer, the wounds and failures and beauties that attend...
Poetry. "Open this exquisite volume, THE HAUNTINGS, and you'll find the same exacting attention to language and life that Gail Waldstein paid to the still bodies of children she examined for decades as a pediatric pathologist. What unifies her medic...
Poetry. Edited by Robert Pesich, with associate editors James DenBoer and John Espinoza. "In this sensual and deeply informed collection, J. Bruce Fuller gives us two floods in the lower Mississippi River, almost a century apart. Describing the 1927...
Poetry. "Stephen Kesseler's SCRATCH PEGASUS captures the poignancy of the human drama in poems as great as Ferlighetti's observing and honoring young lovers and aging poets recalling their youth. Amazing sonnets paint miniature portraits of iconic c...
Poetry. Asian American Studies. Henry W. Leung's PARADISE HUNGER is a masterfully crafted set of poems that explore, in lyric narratives, the experiences of immigration and exile, grief and loss, transformation and renewal. Revolution, history and m...
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Poetry. "This gathering of once-published poems represents a portion of my writing that I want conserved alongside the collections in print from Ecco Press, and Wesleyan, Indiana and Illinois university presses. The books is meant to extend the life...
Poetry. This winner of the 2011 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Contest will delight everyone who enjoys poetry. Written with a flair for language, a unique way of looking at the natural world, and a compassionate regard for human emotion, Michael Hettic...
Poetry. Oscillating between alienation and wholeness, OTHER SUNS carves a path between light and darkness, grief and continuance. From the edges of violence and doubt to "ridiculous hope," these poems are firmly grounded in both the material world a...
Poetry. Asian American Studies. Southeast Asia Studies. The second book published by a Hmong poet by Swan Scythe Press, THE DEAD I KNOW: INCANTATION FOR REBIRTH is winner of the Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Contest 2010. Burlee Vang's poetry is a powe...
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. These multilingual poems, by a highly honored Chicano poet and children's author, celebrate our unity as human beings and announce the coming of the New Sun—which the Maya believe arrives in 2012—and Alarcón identifies...
Poetry. In poetry that is formal in traditional and contemporary ways, Swift closely examines a case of neonaticide--the killing of an infant, usually by its mother, soon after birth. This social problem, though not common, may be on the rise in the...
Poetry. James DenBoer has selected 35 poems to include in his collection entitled STONEWORK. "James DenBoer is the awake one, and vulnerable to his awakeness. In this physical world he has ties to the comic and to the suffering. He pays tribute, he ...