The poems in "Juan Luna' s Revolver" both address history and attempt to transcend it through their exploration of the complexity of diaspora. Attending to the legacy of colonial and postcolonial encounters, Luisa A. Igloria has crafted poems that create links of sympathetic human understanding, even as they revisit difficult histories and pose necessary questions about place, power, displacement, nostalgia, beauty, and human resilience in conditions of alienation and duress.Igloria traces journeys made by Filipinos in the global diaspora that began since the encounter with European and...
The poems in "Juan Luna' s Revolver" both address history and attempt to transcend it through their exploration of the complexity of diaspora. Atte...
With a salve in one hand and a burcher's knife in the other, Janet Kaplan offers her masterful third collection, "Dreamlife of a Philanthropist," winner of the 2011 Ernest Sandeen prize in Poetry. The prose poems and sonnets in "Dreamlife" are packed with postmodern language-leaping, modern irony and absurdity, and a poet's ageless ear for the pleasures of the lyric and formal experimentation. These are poems that can never quite abandon the hope that life--and language--are worthy pursuits; but they never offer up easy assurances about the benefits of humanity to anyone or anything. Get...
With a salve in one hand and a burcher's knife in the other, Janet Kaplan offers her masterful third collection, "Dreamlife of a Philanthropist," w...
The poems in Manuel Paul Lopez's "The Yearning Feed," winner of the 2013 Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, are embedded in the San Diego/Imperial Valley regions, communities located along the U.S.-Mexico border. Lopez, an Imperial Valley native, considers "La Frontera," or the border, as magical, worthy of Macondo-like comparisons, where contradictions are firmly rooted and ironies play out on a daily basis. These poems synthesize Lopez s knowledge of modern and contemporary literature with a border-child vernacular sensibility to produce a work that illustrates the ongoing geographical and...
The poems in Manuel Paul Lopez's "The Yearning Feed," winner of the 2013 Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, are embedded in the San Diego/Imperial Valley...
We encounter many voices in life: from friends and family, from media, from co-workers, from other artists. In a highly connected global world, where people and entities are electronically enmeshed, we filter these voices constantly to get to what we determine to be the truth. Taking inspiration from pop culture, politics, art, and social media, Martin Ott mines daily existence as the inspiration and driving force behind "Underdays." "Underdays" is a dialogue of opposing forces: life/death, love/war, the personal/the political. Ott combines global concerns with personal ones, in...
We encounter many voices in life: from friends and family, from media, from co-workers, from other artists. In a highly connected global world, where ...
Among Ruins is the final volume of Homestead Works, a collection of four books of poetry that explore the industrial past and legacy of the old steel town of Homestead, Pennsylvania, and, by extension, Pittsburgh.
Among Ruins is the final volume of Homestead Works, a collection of four books of poetry that explore the industrial past and legacy of the old...
Among Ruins is the final volume of Homestead Works, a collection of four books of poetry that explore the industrial past and legacy of the old steel town of Homestead, Pennsylvania, and, by extension, Pittsburgh.
Among Ruins is the final volume of Homestead Works, a collection of four books of poetry that explore the industrial past and legacy of the old...
