Poetry. A book length poetic meditation on and response to decapitation in literature, history, and popular culture.
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Poetry. "Turn your clocks / sideways / to the hour / where / nobody / can get a good clean / shot at you."—Kenneth Patchen
Poetry. "This book ripped me the hell open. I felt like these poems written with dirt, bones, blood, and rust were my own forgotten memories that came rushing back into my wound. Sometimes I was afraid to turn the page, but I kept going because I ha...
Poetry. "Personal, dark and really interesting poems, made in 'conceptual' framework—and there are words of others—turned into what happened to oneself. Very good ear here, and place, and descriptions of moments not hithertofore described in poetry....
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Poetry. "Inhabiting the space between elegy and prophecy, Marty Cain's poem floats in a drowning country parallel to the United States of America. Where loss flickers at the edge of each frame, 'the earth turns itself inside out' like a teenager in ...
Poetry. "CUNTRY is an elegant excavation of Sanders's twinned obsession with pornography and country music. Effortlessly slipping between poetry, memoir, and music criticism, Sanders disrobes the country song of the 90's and uses it as a lens to exp...
Poetry. Winner of the of the 2016 Bob Kaufman Book Prize. "OROGENY buries deep into rock and soil, silence and speech, into the pulse of what connects us as mothers, sisters, lovers, and ghosts—the quest for home and for a language that can account ...
Poetry. "RED OF SPLIT WATER, A BURIAL RITE—a book that is also ritual—to read (write) as ritual, one of waking, and in its two-fold sense: to come into awareness (to be born), and to keep vigil ('a sitting up at night with a corpse'). Here is a rite...
Poetry. Everything is future waste and nothing disappears in FILL: A COLLECTION, a poetic collaboration between Erika Howsare and Kate Schapira. The two writers sent their words on waste, profligacy, persistence, reclamation and degradation back and...
Poetry. "Lisa Cattrone dazzles with these investigations of form, plying her linguistic materials until they give out and reveal the something even newer at the core of the new. This work ascends and descends, too, rising like thrown confetti, sinki...
Poetry. Hybrid Genre. "Where storms are stories that 'cannot be pulled apart from one another,' and stories storms swirling up around 'precarious' bodies ('if the body doesn't end at the skin')—this book: hybrid of play nonfiction and poetry. Where ...
Poetry. "The poet Paul Celan changed his German when it sought to eradicate him. In parallel, Andrew Brenza constructs tongue-twisting portmanteaus and neologisms because English refuses to register the environmental eradication (the 'horrorscope') ...
Poetry. "Open [ THE DOOR ] to stanzas of dream and enchantment, to chambers of magnetic fields, to the mezzanine of spellbinding diction, to the balcony of this passion play. And 'how do I wish / to approach autobiography?' asks the poem quietly, th...
Poetry. "Michael Sikkema's MAY APPLE DEEP, both sweet and tart, is the pastoral for our time. Filled with the energy of opposites, with 'a gangsta soundtrack' where 'overpasses / become sniper towers,' is a book length lyric punctuated by grids or f...