Covering a variety of subjects - from the plague and the first danse macabre to the development of perspective and recipes for pigments - the poems in this collection are set in 15th-century France. They explore the end of the mediaeval world and its transition into the Renaissance.
Covering a variety of subjects - from the plague and the first danse macabre to the development of perspective and recipes for pigments - the poems in...
A deed is a governmental conveyance, a power asserted by the written, for, as William Carlos Williams wrote to Robert Creeley: "the government can never be more than the government of the words." The question of ownership, of the words with which we define ourselves and each other, and of whose and what claims are legitimate is much at issue in Rod Smith's "Deed, " a lyric, ambitious, rebellious work thoroughly grounded in the New American tradition of poets such as John Ashbery, Allen Ginsberg, and Charles Olson.
A deed is a governmental conveyance, a power asserted by the written, for, as William Carlos Williams wrote to Robert Creeley: "the government can nev...
As restless, reckless, and precise as the Colt revolver for which it is named, Robyn Schiff s "Revolver " repeats fire without reloading as it reckons with the array of foreboding objects displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the traces of their ghosts one hundred years later. A dirge on the Singer Sewing Machine, an exuberant and unnerving rumination on multipurpose campaign furniture, and a breathless account of Ralph Lauren s silver Porsche 550 Spyder are among the collection s exhilarating corporate histories, urgent fantasias, and agonizing love poems. The long, lavish, and...
As restless, reckless, and precise as the Colt revolver for which it is named, Robyn Schiff s "Revolver " repeats fire without reloading as it reckons...
Michele Glazer s poems take on questions of being and value, exploring not just "what" is, but "how" it is. The poems trouble borders between self and other, old and young, sick and well, stranger and intimate; between physical states in processes of decay; and between line and phrase, sentence and interruption, prose and poem, resisting the desire for something irrefutable with an abiding skepticism. The poems are drawn to missteps in perception and in language, those fractures that promise to crack open a surface to yield some other, greater meaning: What is looked at is changed / what...
Michele Glazer s poems take on questions of being and value, exploring not just "what" is, but "how" it is. The poems trouble borders between self...
