Poetry. "Ted Pearson writes in sentences that pay readers back handsomely for their attention. 'Psychoanalysis still makes sense where people take siestas.' This is a wry comment on the trajectory of Freudianism (maybe nodding toward Lacanianism in ...
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Poetry. "Composed of delicate, roving parataxis located between the visible and the invisible, a rotting globe and an everyday porch, shadow countries and future possible worlds, Gillian Parrish's fierce, tender lyrics of supermoon offer balm and tr...
Poetry. Phillip Foss trains his nomadic eye and ear on the interdependence of all things—rocks, birds, stars, rivers, women, men, trees, insects—as they migrate with and as each other in the entwined cycle of existence. The strategic absence of punc...
Poetry. "EXIT MUSIC is a song of limits sung anyway. The statements, predictions, suspicions, and conclusions point to 'a brutal economy [that] rules the playground.' The cadence is solemn and then not. There is aphorism and narrative. There are lau...
Poetry. OF RAIN AND NETTLES WOVE is Gillian Parrish's first full-length book of poetry; it is; however, as Gillian Conoley notes, "a mature work, so wise in its playfulness and sudden depths. Haunted by the American West and Midwest (one thinks of N...
Poetry. With AT THE EDGE OF THE SEA: PUSHING WATER II, Charles Alexander extends and amplifies the long poem that took shape in his 2011 volume, Pushing Water. As Alice Notley remarks, "Reading AT THE EDGE OF THE SEA is a dynamic experience, being p...
Poetry. "In this new riveting long poem, Rochelle Owens shows herself once agan to be our mythographer par excellence, the inventor of the rich and strange. The germ of HERMAPHROPOETICS, DRIFTING GEOMETRIES seems to be a single photograph of 'A herm...
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Expressing the freshness of each moment as it arises, THE ARTE OF NOW: PRACTICE OF IMMEDIACY IN THE ARTS® (PIA) is a technique that allows life to guide you in creating art. As opposed to operating from a conceptual place, ...
Poetry. "In Pearson's AFTER HOURS' four-set suite, you will find ontological parlays with the negative, sublunary encounters with what it is to be alone with words' 'implausible music' in the hours of blur between night and day, Adorno-like reflecti...
Poetry. Translation. "Norman Fisher has created, for the time being, the perfect introduction to Leslie Scalapino's poetics. MAGNOLIAS ALL AT ONCE offers a set of commentaries on Dogen, the astounding medieval Japanese Zen writer, by the mind-bendin...
Poetry. Phillip Foss's THE WORLD'S DESCRIPTION: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS is a carefully culled selection from an astonishing body of work that reaches back over thirty years. Rather than present a chronological retrospective, Foss creates an original ...
Poetry. "Billy Strayhorn famously wrote the jazz standard 'Lush Life,' an anthem of world-weary sophistication, when he was 16. Ted Pearson's EXTANT GLYPHS, begun in 1964, announces a similarly prodigious talent, one wise beyond his years. Romantic?...
Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Poetry. In THE REAL PEOPLE OF WIND AND RAIN—a remarkably wide-ranging set of essays—Andrew Schelling takes on poetry, Buddhism, baseball, ecology, and the art of translation with wit, concision, and good humor."If Mauric...
Poetry. "SHE'S WELCOME TO HER DISEASE" [DEMENTIA BLOG, VOLUME TWO] is Susan M. Schultz's follow-up to the highly successful DEMENTIA BLOG (Singing Horse Press, 2008). Continuing the blog format of the first book, Schultz's new book tracks the final ...
Poetry. Following the trail he set out on in FROM THE ARAPAHO SONGBOOK, the poems in Andrew Schelling's A POSSIBLE BAG takes us further into the recesses of the Southern Rocky Mountain bioregion, tracking the remnants of the Arapaho language that wa...