Winner of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award, this expanded edition of The Book of Frank features additional "Frank" poems and an essay by Eileen Myles. Praised by poet Anne Waldman as a "voyeuresque surr
If the book of Revelations had been scribbled in the diary of a precocious fourteen-year-old girl, the prophecies might look something like Awe. Dorothea Lasky is a daring truth-teller, naming names a
"Rohrer has an enchanting willingness to look outward, a willingness not to grasp the world using old means which have failed us, even if no new means present themselves ready-made."?Judges' citation,
"The poems of Anthony McCann are beautiful, brutal, and unerring. They present us with, or return us to, a complicated, violent, poignant, weird, and mysterious world?a world which is very particularl
"Characterized by an utter irreducibility, Noelle Kocot's poetry displays an elemental movement of thinking and suggests a poetics of vision. . .one of loss and the impossible yet necessary compensati
"One of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature?honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it."?Dennis Cooper"[Myles' writing] comes across simul
"He's a poet for our time like Ginsberg was for his."?Eileen Myles"Conrad's work shows us that the body itself is the first source of alienation and estrangement from the self, and is thus the true su
"[Nguyen] shares such a streetwise feminism, keeping the edge and making it something you can dance to."?The Poetry ProjectClear-eyed and grounded, Hoa Nguyen performs a hook and snare on what it mean
"In lines that remind me of the way William Carlos Williams insisted that only the imagination gives us access to reality, Lasky's poems evoke a practice of living, as bloody and awful and lovely as l
Juliana Spahr writes: "Birds with extremely long necks. Cassiopeia. A sister. A Marco Polo. A somnambulist. A documentary on the voyages of Columbus. A cartographer. Star charts. Young intellectuals i
The 44 stories of Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee—long-awaited by fans of Tate’s poetry—will come as a welcome surprise to readers unfamiliar with his previous work. Tate seems both awed and bemused by
"A most inquisitive poet who relishes living inside her expansive vocabulary."?C.D. WrightA web of wholly original madhattery, Flemish showcases serious language play and the skill of a master craftsp
Lake Superior is a compilation of writings around Lorine Niedecker's poem of the same title?strata that inform the poem's ecological and historical resonance.Lorine Niedecker was a major American poet
"This anti-elegy, both reverent and funny, anticipates the funny reverence that Wier finds, makes up, and sustains throughout her decades of subsequent writing."?Jacket MagazineDara Wier's loose sonne
Complex and intimate, Reverse Rapture is an account of a band of explorers who go sifting through the artifacts and sensations of our times in search of a core. The generous voices of these poems brin
"[Santiago Papasquiaro] didn't believe in countries and the only borders he respected were the borders of dreams, the misty borders of love and indifference, the borders of courage and fear, the golde
"Nutter is a true believer in the power of art, which is the power that produces these beautiful and vital poems."?Mark LevineIn his fourth collection, Geoffrey Nutter beckons us into his lush imagina
After their Fall 2002 whirlwind tour supporting their book of collaborative poems, Nice Hat. Thanks, these acclaimed poets return with a collection of the finest new poems created live as they rambled
"O'Brien's [is] a poetry that asks for patient attention, and gives back all the void's abundance."?Rain Taxi"Whether in a poem composed using words and phrases from the Patriot Act, a sestina with da
