Winner of the 2008 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence "Weaver has crafted a virtual planet in this book with plenty of alternate geographies for readers of all flavors and stripes. Marvelous. Huge. Prodigious.
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Winner of the 2008 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence "Weaver has crafted a virtual planet in this book with plenty of alternate geograph...
"After the Fall" refers to the twin towers, and is Field's ode to the events that transpired thereafter--the war in Iraq andthe attack on civil rights in America--as well as his own personal struggles over the indignities of aging.
"After the Fall" refers to the twin towers, and is Field's ode to the events that transpired thereafter--the war in Iraq andthe attack on civil rights...
I was on the subway today, and a guy showed me his ostrich. I'm serious, I looked over and he had this checkered smile and his ostrich by the neck, squeezing.
I was on the subway today, and a guy showed me his ostrich. I'm serious, I looked over and he had this checkered smile and his ostrich by the neck, sq...
This collection is a love letter to language with poems that are drunk and filled with references to the hyperkinetic world of the twenty-first century. Yet Zeus and Hera tangle with Leda on the interstate; Ava Gardner becomes a Hindu princess; and Shiva, the Destroyer, reigns over all. English is the primary god here, with its huge vocabulary and omnivorous gluttony for new words, yet the mystery of the alphabet is behind everything, a funky puppet masterwho can make a new world out of nothing.
This collection is a love letter to language with poems that are drunk and filled with references to the hyperkinetic world of the twenty-first centur...
Reliably sharp and entertaining. Duhamel's knack for blending tones--especially the personal and sociological, the ludicrous and the horrifying, the silly and the pathetic--gives poem after poem its distinctive and unforgettable character. --ALA Booklist, starred review
Reliably sharp and entertaining. Duhamel's knack for blending tones--especially the personal and sociological, the ludicrous and the horrifying, the s...
-An artist who moonlights as a dentist. A worm who's eternal. A farmer who milks his cow to death. Not to mention the guy with a belly button for an eye. Russell Edson, self-named Little Mr. Prose Poem, returns with See Jack, a book of fractured fairy tales, whose impeccable logic undermines logic itself, a book that champions what he has called elsewhere 'the dark uncomfortable metaphor.' 'What better way to die, ' he writes in the final prose poem, 'than waiting for the fat lady to sing in the make-believe of theater, where nothing's real, not the fat lady, not even death . . ....
-An artist who moonlights as a dentist. A worm who's eternal. A farmer who milks his cow to death. Not to mention the guy with a belly button for ...
Drawing upon intersections of astronomy and mathematics, history, literature, and lived experience, the poems in Open Interval locate the self in the interval between body and name.
Drawing upon intersections of astronomy and mathematics, history, literature, and lived experience, the poems in Open Interval locate the self in the ...
I am reminded of the Argentinean writers Julio Cortazar and Jorge Luis Borges, but with sunglasses and in California. "The Flying Garcias" is a sure voice and a fine book.
Alberto Rios "
I am reminded of the Argentinean writers Julio Cortazar and Jorge Luis Borges, but with sunglasses and in California. "The Flying Garcias" is a su...
Winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize "Nicole Terez Dutton's fierce and formidable debut throbs with restless beauty and a lyrical undercurrent that is both empowered and unpredictable. Every poem is unsettling in that delicious way that changes and challenges the reader. There is nothing here that does not hurtle forward." --Patricia Smith
Winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize "Nicole Terez Dutton's fierce and formidable debut throbs with restless beauty and a lyrical undercurrent th...
