From the ancient to the contemporary, the personal to the literary, THE FLYING HOUSE is an investigation of the "relic" in the largest sense of the term. Written on-site in the Middle East and Europe, the poems inhabit a space at once contemporary and historical, in which current conflicts recall old wars and archeological artifacts rhyme with cutting-edge fashions. Part travelogue, part cultural compendium, the poems move through a poetic space in which the influence of Robert Duncan and Gustaf Sobin are as apparent as the influences of Alice Notley, Joanne Kyger, and Susan Howe. Informed by...
From the ancient to the contemporary, the personal to the literary, THE FLYING HOUSE is an investigation of the "relic" in the largest sense of the te...
As Ron Silliman has written, "Attention is all." The poems in REMANENCE are supremely attentive to the world-or rather to the traces it leaves in our brains. They also make a study of misperception and error. This is a form of meditation. Much of the book is composed of five-line poems, each long line a semi-separate thought, a probe. Each a kind of echolocation. Gently, insistently, they bring us news of our position. -Rae Armantrout Boyer Rickel's titles read like names of constellations Leonardo's man might have inscribed inside his magic circle, each poem mapping points from sources near...
As Ron Silliman has written, "Attention is all." The poems in REMANENCE are supremely attentive to the world-or rather to the traces it leaves in our ...
Since at least the days of Horace, poets have found in nature, in the local flora and fauna, an invitation to observe, name, meditate and wonder. In QUARRY, Carolyn Guinzio s second collection, this tradition continues, in poems of tautly drawn, subtle eloquence. Her tone is somber, her pace gradual, as if, at any moment, something might happen to alter everything and toss the great endurance of life into ruin, or revelation: A tremendous question hangs in the December sky. Ann Lauterbach Good painters often talk of nameless colors. Brice Marden once told me he spent a month just mixing. The...
Since at least the days of Horace, poets have found in nature, in the local flora and fauna, an invitation to observe, name, meditate and wonder. In Q...
Brittany Perham's first collection, THE CURIOSITIES, fixes its sure and unsettling gaze on daughters and fathers, sisters and brothers, madness, sickness, longing and love. These poems make up a cabinet of curiosities because they hold what is fascinating or frightening, beautiful or awesome- a "stomach plumed by syringe," a "zoo's lost leopard," a "forest of high-waisted trees"- up to the eye. In their image-making, the poems place language itself beneath the glass slide of a microscope in order to discern its component structures, its natural patterns. Curiosity here is a way of...
Brittany Perham's first collection, THE CURIOSITIES, fixes its sure and unsettling gaze on daughters and fathers, sisters and brothers, madness, sickn...
"Ethel Rackin's Go On immediately calls to mind Beckett's 'in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on, ' and out of that silence come these brief and powerful poems written 'after centuries of loss/ in the last century.' A visionary, Rackin's preoccupations are seeing and its impossibility. Time is both full of historical weight and the mysterious present, 'as if the before and after had frozen/ and couldn't be tracked down.' Quiet, sure, possessed of a subtle, winning tenderness, and often most at home in the quotidian, the poems dart among truths...
"Ethel Rackin's Go On immediately calls to mind Beckett's 'in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on, ' and...
Overyellow is part of a series that Nicolas PesquEs has been writing over the past twenty-five years; beginning with a mountain that he sees outside his study window in the ArdEche region of France, PesquEs uses an evocation of nature to reflect upon the nature of language and its tendency to separate us from immanent experience. The overyellow of the title refers to the brilliant color of the fragrant English broom that flowers all over the mountain every June. Subtle inter-relations of various powers, from the personal to the universal, create a meditative weave that...
Overyellow is part of a series that Nicolas PesquEs has been writing over the past twenty-five years; beginning with a mountain that he se...
