Winner of the 2021 Burnside Review Press Book Award, selected by Sommer Browning. “They say timing is everything. I can’t remember what they say that about. Romance? Language? In Nathaniel Rosenthalis’ I WON’T BEGIN AGAIN, timing is everything is tr...
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Winner of the 2020 Burnside Review Press Book Award, selected by Jennifer Chang"An ecstatic skeptic, Meghan Maguire Dahn writes at the edges of knowledge and feeling to excavate a life out of the god-hungry, terrified, and terrifying landscape that ...
"Angelo Mao's ABATTOIR is an unnerving yet moving take on the cold-metal safety cabinet of human consciousness, with its five different kind of scissors, in which we are all imprisoned, the experimental subjects of our own destructive and tender syn...
Poetry. "Szporluk has often been read and praised as a visionary surrealist, but her body of work, evinced by VIRGINALS, shows her also as a powerful dramatist, enacting scenes rooted in very real moments of tension and danger. These shocking stanza...
Poetry. "Kary Wayson entrusts her whole art to the ludic music of language, seeking its way, syllable by syllable, phrase by sprightly turn of phrase, through way stations of feeling. She is funny and devastated and electrifying at every turn: '…he ...
Poetry. Taking its inspiration from the work of Russian Absurdist authors such as Alexander Vvedensky and Daniil Kharms, FUR NOT LIGHT interrogates how deep senselessness runs in a post-truth and truthiness world. Incorporating serial poems such as ...
Poetry. "One way to introduce this posthumously released book by the beautiful enigma of Mark Baumer is to say something about how, as he lived, Mark was the writer most possessed of freedom—pure, uncompromised creative freedom—that I've probably ev...
Poetry. "The poems in Sara Miller's SPELLBOUND are deeply imagined, bizarre, and bent toward the light. Unafraid to dissect the animals of the night, the way the natural world beckons, the inner madness that makes us all obsessive creatures, this is...
Poetry. "Jake Syersak's debut collection pulses with seeking exaltation, stunning inquiries into what it is to make art in the disintegrating present, refracted through ekphrastic missives to fellow artists. Part entreaty and part ode, the poet's ca...
Poetry. Winner of the 2015 Burnside Review Press Book Award, selected by Mary Syzbist. "'To mark' means many things: to stain, to sign, to correct, to celebrate. Montreux Rotholtz's UNMARK ambitiously means much more, performing and undoing those ac...
Poetry. "The poems in Paula Cisewski's THE THREATENED EVERYTHING take on a teetering, siren-infused world in which 'bullets rip through every modern poem,' and the speaker, like the rest of us, is 'always and forever / on a stairway to a stairway to...
Poetry. "I like the arrogant flick of love in these words. Tactile, muscled,and angry with desire, these poems reach for you. If you're alone at the end of this book it's because you dove from love's edge and you have chosen your loneliness." —Emil...
Poetry. "Sometimes transcendent joy is sitting quietly and plainly in front of us. Or it arrives when we aren't looking for it. We may look at it or ponder it and simply blink—the stunned heart, the stunned mind. An epiphany is one thing, but being ...
Poetry. GOOD BEAST terrifies, its poems possess air-like clarity. They are vast and mostly invisible. Roberts turns away from narrative in search of the moment and the emotion, which he has the ability to view through a microscope or telescope, and ...
Poetry. Winner of the 2013 Burnside Review Book Prize. "In GOOD NIGHT BROTHER, the tension between saying and not-saying is palpable, intense, and deeply moving; similarly, the gestures of innocent ease and alert vigilance are unnervingly close. Kim...