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In her stunning debut poetry collection, What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes?, Arlene Kim confronts the ways in which language mythologizes memory and, thus, exiles us from our own true histories. Juxtaposing formal choices and dreamlike details, Kim explores the entangled myths that accompany the experience of immigration—the abandoned country known only through...
Every major airport has a three-letter code from the International Air Transport Association. In perhaps history's greatest-ever feat of armchair travel, Nasser Hussain has written a collection of poetry entirely from those codes. <br> <br> In a dazzling aeronautic feat of constraint-based writing, <i>SKY WRI TEI NGS</i> explores the relationship between language...
Blurbs: Dayne Ogilvie jury citation, Jordan Tannahill Ben just won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for the most promising body of work from an emerging LGBTQ writer. Otter is in its third printing, having sold incredibly well for a debut. Otter was nominated for a Lambda Award.
World-renowned Northern Irish photographer, Bobbie Hanvey, captured some of The Troubles' most defining and devastating moments. Bobbie is lauded as much for these photographs as he is for his iconic portraits of figures like Seamus Heaney, Gerry Adams, Brian Friel, and Ian Paisley. In  Reconstructions , these photographs take on even greater resonance when set in context by...
Ein Leben in Angst: alle Menschen f?hren es. Vollkommen unm?glich, den ?ngsten zu entkommen. Kaum ist eine Angst verdr?ngt, kommt die n?chste um die Ecke, springt aus dem Schrank oder lauert nachts unterm Bett. Es w?re ein aussichtsloses Unterfangen, alle ?ber- und Unter?ngste zu klassifizieren, die Ur?ngste zu suchen und ihnen Angststammb?ume zuzuordnen. Vorgebliche Angstforscher sind oft...
Joseph J. Capista’s Intrusive Beauty reckons with reluctant ecstasy and the improbable forms that beauty assumes. In this powerful debut, Capista traverses earth and ether to yield poems that elucidate the space between one’s life and one’s livelihood. While its landscapes range from back-alley Baltimore to the Bitterroot Valley, this book remains close to unbidden beauty and its...
Blair has built a considerable list of Appalachian voices, and when Wayne Caldwell submitted this gorgeous collection, his lines were read aloud in our editorial office—and the full staff fell in love with these poems that so beautifully employ the musical language of Appalachia. This work will appeal to those in Appalachia, the Southeast, and others who admire the work of Ron Rash, Kathryn...
In Fancy Beasts, the author of Hallelujah Blackout and Mosquito takes on California, the 2008 election, plastic surgery, Larry Craig, wildfires, Wal-Mart, and rampant commercialism &#151; in short, the modern American media culture, which provides obscene foil for his personal legacies of violence and violation. This pivotal book captures the turning point in a life of abuse, in which the...
Christopher Howell&#8217;s haunted and haunting collection, Gaze, is a book of counterpoints, swinging between moments of delicate connection (touching a girl&#8217;s wrist) and striking brutality (a boy slamming a just-caught fish against a boat&#8217;s stern to kill it &#147;as he was taught&#8221;). Howell explores how our interior and exterior lives are...
In her highly anticipated new collection, Deborah Keenan sifts through inanimate objects and forgotten memories in search of personal validation. Her journal-like confessions create an instant bond with the reader, yet these seemingly simple poems daringly redefine common language. Keenan skillfully twists words to suit her ends, creating a colorful, dream-like world filled with lions,...
The poems in Black Dog, Black Night highlight an aspect of Vietnamese verse previously unfamiliar to American readers: its remarkable contemporary voices. Celebrating Vietnam&#8217;s diverse and thriving literary culture, the poems collected here combine elements of French Romanticism, Russian Expressionism, American Modernism, and native folk stories into a Vietnamese poetic tradition...
The distilled, haunting, and subtly complex poems in Adam Clay&#8217;s A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World often arrive at that moment when solitude slips into separation, when a person suddenly realizes he can barely see the place he set out from however long ago. He now sees he must find his connection back to the present, socially entangled world in which he lives. For Clay, reverie...
In her accomplished second collection of poems, Katrina Vandenberg writes from the intersection of power and forgiveness. With poems named for letters of the Phoenician alphabet, and employing such innovative forms as the ancient ghazal, Vandenberg deciphers the seemingly indecipherable in this extraordinary becoming of self through language. Moving between the physical and the abstract, the...
In poems brilliantly textured and layered, Salgado Maranh&#227;o integrates socio-political thought with subjects abstractly metaphysical. Concrete collides with conceptual&#151;butcher shops, sex, and machine guns in conversation with language, absence, and time&#151;resulting in a collection varied as well as unified, an aesthetic at once traditional and postmodern. Writing in...
Moving from the mundane to the profound, first through observation of fact and matter, then shifting perspective, engaging a deeper sense of self, these poems re-imagine things great and small, making us care deeply about the world around us. In this cultivated and intricately crafted collection, Sally Keith shows the self as a crucible of force&#151;that which compels us to exert...
Wilson writes from the periphery of an open field in this extended investigation into longing and loss, love and doubt.&#160; As the poet muses, «we wonder / what we're not / in the field,» and reading The Hundred Grasses, we are made to wonder as much about what exists within us as how we&#8217;re shaped by what we lack.&#160;For Wilson, the act of looking can animate what...
A grim prognosis, brain cancer, leaves the speaker in Kirkpatrick&#8217;s Odessa fighting for her life. The tumor presses against her amygdalae, the &#147;emotional core of the self,&#8221; and central to the process of memory. In poems endowed with this emotional charge but void of sentimentality, Kirkpatrick sets out to recreate what was lost by fashioning a dreamlike reality....
With intelligence and crystalline clarity, a chorus of female voices speaks through the poems in Her book, &#201;ireann Lorsung's inspired second collection.From the poet who brought us Music For Landing Planes By, &#201;ireann Lorsung&#8217;s luminous voice is distilled through multiple unnamed female speakers in this, her second collection. Full of youth, wonder, and...
The eighteenth-century glass armonica, a musical instrument whose sound emits from rotating water-filled vessels, has long held the power to mesmerize with its hauntingly sorrowful tones. Just as its song&#151;which was once thought to induce insanity&#151;wraps itself in and around the mind, Rebecca Dunham probes the depths of human psyche, inhabiting the voices of historical female...
From the poet whose stunning debut was praised as «transcendent» (Kevin Young) and «steadily confident» (Carl Phillips), Dangerous Goods&#160;tracks its speaker throughout North America and abroad, illuminating the ways in which home and place may inhabit one another comfortably or uncomfortably&#151;or both simultaneously. From the Bahamas, London, and Cairo, to Bemidji,...
In his first collection since Fancy Beasts, a book that «slice[d] straight through nerve and marrow on its way to the heart and mind of the matter» (Tracy K. Smith), Alex Lemon dazzles us again with his exuberance and candor. Whether in unrestrained descriptions of sensory overload or tender meditations on fatherhood and mortality, Lemon blurs that nebulous line between the personal and the...
Martha Collins offers haunting reflections on time and other subjects in Day unto Day, a spare and subtle seventh collection. The book consists of six sequences: during one month each year, for six years, Collins wrote a short poem each day. With perfectly distilled lines, she captures the aching, liminal beauty of one day becoming another &#151; the slow burn of time passing, the...
Based on sources as diverse as Heian period female Japanese writers and the world of science fiction, and drawing on her own experience as a second-generation Japanese American, acclaimed poet Lee Ann Roripaugh&#8217;s fourth collection explores a series of &#147;word betrayals&#8221;&#151;English words misunderstood in transmission from her Japanese mother that came to take on...
Sara Eliza Johnson's stunning, deeply visceral first collection, Bone Map (2013 National Poetry Series Winner), pulls shards of tenderness from a world on the verge of collapse, where violence and terror infuse the body, the landscape, and dreams: a handful of blackberries offered from bloodied arms, bee stings likened to pulses of sunlight, a honeycomb of marrow exposed. &#147;All...
A woozy logic dominates these poems: a heart can become a buzzing hive of bees, a rooster can trigger a series of bombs, a young man can embrace a city bus as his spirit animal. Yet Bazzett slices through his poems with a dangerous sense of humor. &#147;Your humor is deft and cutting / my fingers off one by one,&#8221; as one poem puts it. Once dismembered, Bazzett&#8217;s poems...
&#147;What is a song but a snare to capture the moment?&#8221; Eric Pankey asks in his new collection, Crow-Work. This central question drives Pankey&#8217;s ekphrastic exploration of the moment where emotion and energy flood a work of art. Through subjects as diverse as Brueghel&#8217;s Procession to Calvary, Anish Kapoor&#8217;s Healing of Saint Thomas,...
&#147;If you want the earth as it really is,&#8221; N. Scott Momaday writes, &#147;learn it through its sacred places.&#8221; With this quote as her guiding light, Melissa Kwasny traveled to the ancient pictograph and petroglyph sites around her rural Montana home. The poems in this collection emerge from these visits and capture the natural world she encounters around the...
"THE EARTH BROKE OPEN CAUSE WE BROKE IT OPEN," blares the first line of this enrapturing debut collection mapping the myth of Narcissus and Echo and the Iron Range roots of Bob Dylan onto a world growing increasingly self-obsessed. Against the backdrop of the mining town of Hibbing, Minnesota, Brian Laidlaw examines the ways narcissism has flooded culture. Much like a &#147;hawk has a...
These are poems of absence. Written in the wake of the loss of her mother, River House follows Sally Keith as she makes her way through the depths of grief, navigating a world newly transfigured. Incorporating her travels abroad, her experience studying the neutral mask technique developed by Jacques Lecoq, and her return to the river house she and her mother often visited, the poet assembles...
The imagination of a girl, the retelling of family stories, and the unfolding of a rich and often painful history: Parneshia Jones&#8217; debut collection explores the intersections of these elements of experience with refreshing candor and metaphorical purpose. A child of the South speaking in the rhythms of Chicago, Jones knits &#147;a human quilt&#8221; with herself at the...
Influenced by both the &#147;gray, sinister sea&#8221; that came ashore where her artist parents were sent during the Cultural Revolution, and the beauty of the sea in the books she read as a child, Sea Summit is a collection of paradox and questioning. The sea is an impossible force to the poet: It is both a destructive force that predates man, and something to carry with us wherever...
Incantatory, intimate, and incendiary, the poems of this award-winning debut are filled with explosive wit and humor like &#147;a knife you don&#8217;t see coming.&#8221; A kaleidoscopic intelligence flows through Beautiful Zero, embracing forms of culture high and low in effort to finding meaning in the chaos. Poems about Shark Week and college football sit beside Roman Polanski...
In her second collection, Karen Leona Anderson transforms apparently prosaic documents &#151; recipes and receipts &#151; into expressions of human identity. From eighteenth-century cookbooks to the Food Network, the recipe becomes a site for definition and disclosure. Like a theatrical script, the recipe directs action and conjures characters. Grace Kelly at a party. In these poems,...
The poems of this fourth collection from Wayne Miller exist in the wake of catastrophe. It is a world populated by rogue gunmen on shooting sprees, a world where the only inheritance a father has to pass on is his debt. In this world, every box could be a bomb and what comes after is what is lived. And yet, this painful past is not set in stone. The past becomes the present, yielding toward an...
The Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry is an annual regional prize, presented in partnership by Milkweed Editions and the Lindquist & Vennum Foundation. Established in 2011 with the aim of supporting outstanding poets and bringing their work to a national stage, the prize will award $10,000 as well as a contract for publication to the author of the winning manuscript. The winner will...
First translation of a premier Portuguese poet, winner of the Espiral Poetry Prize for the best collection of poetry in Brazil, Portugal, Angola, and GaliciaBilingual poetry editions have appreciated added valueTranslator is a big asset both in reputation and tours widely in support of publications with authors
From celebrated poet Christopher Howell, Love’s Last Number is a series of musings on time’s arrow: on both the relentless march that divides each moment into past, present, and future – before and after – and the ultimately porous and recursive nature of time itself.A soldier remembers limes and curious children in Portugal. Refugees cross a dangerous land, and find each other in...
Socially engaged poetry&mdash;like Claudia Rankine's Citizen and M. NourbeSe Phillip's Zong!&mdash; have proven to have real sales potentialSadly, tragedies like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and Katrina are becoming more and more regular, driving interest in different interpretations of environmental catastropheRebecca Dunham is one of our most well-published poets across...
Reverent and profane, entertaining and bruising, Four Reincarnations is a debut collection of poems that introduces an exciting new voice in American letters.When Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen, he became the chief war correspondent for his body. The poems of Four Reincarnations are dispatches from chemotherapy beds and hospitals and the loneliest spaces in the home. They...
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