"Orange Alert is a poetic and yogic salvo across the bows of our defensive imperial posturing. Kazim Ali's essays leap deftly from homages to avant-garde artists (Yoko Ono, Agnes Martin, John Cage) to awestruck meditations on ancient architecture, from analyses of poets (Jane Cooper, Agha Shahid Ali, Mahmoud Darwish, Lucille Clifton) to twitter aphorisms. Orange Alert is a revelation, a salve, an invitation to breathe again." ---Philip Metres, Associate Professor, Department of English, John Carroll University
"With their delicacy of attention and bold range of...
"Orange Alert is a poetic and yogic salvo across the bows of our defensive imperial posturing. Kazim Ali's essays leap deftly from homages t...
"Political poetry at its finestwith his soaring lyrics, Espada broadens our appreciation not only of poetry but of resistance itself." ---The Progressive
"(Espada) writes beautiful poems about terrible realities." ---San Francisco Chronicle
A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.
This collection of essays on poetry and politics comes from...
Prior praise for Martin Espada:
"Political poetry at its finestwith his soaring lyrics, Espada broadens our appreciation not only of poetry ...
In this new collection of essays, award-winning poet David Mason broadens his exploration of Western and frontier themes. Beginning with the subject of poetry in and about the American West, he then widens his canvas to examine poets as diverse as James Wright, Anthony Hecht, and B. H. Fairchild, as well as taking up the idea of the West in global terms.
In this new collection of essays, award-winning poet David Mason broadens his exploration of Western and frontier themes. Beginning with the subject o...
"Poetry of great dignity, grace, and unrelenting persuasiveness Joseph gives us new hope for the resourcefulness of humanity, and of poetry." ---John Ashbery
"Like Henry Adams, Joseph seems to be writing ahead of actual events, and that makes him one of the scariest writers I know." ---David Kirby, The New York Times Book Review
"The most important lawyer-poet of our era." ---David Skeel, Legal Affairs
A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering...
Praise for Lawrence Joseph:
"Poetry of great dignity, grace, and unrelenting persuasiveness Joseph gives us new hope for the resourcefulnes...
Windows and Doorsis a poetry handbook that places poststructuralist and postmodern ways of thinking alongside formalist modes, making explicit points of overlap and tension that are usually tacit. Each of Natasha Saje s nine essays addresses a topic of central concern to readers and writers of poetry while also making an argument about poetic language and ideology. Foundational topics diction, syntax, rhythm, surprise, figurative language, narrative, genre, book design, and performance are explained through the lenses of theory, history, and philosophy and illuminated through vibrant...
Windows and Doorsis a poetry handbook that places poststructuralist and postmodern ways of thinking alongside formalist modes, making explicit ...
