As cultural absurdities, apathy-inspiring ambient noise, and political and ecological disasters threaten the 21st-century world, art’s role in engaging society and coalescing dissent becomes more appa
I know the occurrence of objectsin this climate. Even music, if leftto our weather, will warp within days.Conceived in the years before Hurricane Katrina and deeply influenced by its aftermath, Saltwa
“The pages of The Blast seem to smell of black powder, or better, seem to have blown out of the eye of a social hurricane. A sense of absolute emergency pervades almost every column.” —Richard Drinnon
In The Persistence of Objects Richard Garcia gives us a poetry rich in the improvisational surrealist tradition while still deeply rooted in the humanist tradition—this is sur-realism with heart. A ma
Jane Kenyon, who was married to the poet Donald Hall, earned wide acclaim for her clear, vivid, deeply spiritual lyrics, many of them written in the face of her own -mortality.During the year of her d
A bitter-sweet comedy spanning five decades of frustrated philandering. Volume includes Duologue, a play for one actress, originally written for television and never published before.
Rather than polluting watercourses with sewage, many ways exist to recycle it. Sewage Solutions explains such natural methods of treatment as reed beds, cess pits, water stabilization ponds, septic ta
“Boisterous black comedy . . . funny and goodhearted, with much incident and expert enthusiasm for sex, food and drink.”—The Literary Review“Much to enjoy in the clash of cultures and superstitions, e
Praise for Holy Smoke, the first in the Antoine series:“A terrific black comedy …both a blasphemously funny satire of provincial Italian chicanery and a wry acknowledgment of the ambivalence that ambi
Intense and pristine lyrics by a poet living in the age of AIDS. He takes his subject head-on without a shred of sentimentality or self-pity. In spite of its difficult subject, this is not a dark book
In these powerful lyric poems, Idra Novey’s exploration of ?country” extends beyond national boundaries into the countries of marriage and family, history and the unspoken, leading to a bold and imagi
Wanting to earn a ten speed bicycle, 12-year old Ellen reluctantly agrees to spend a summer as a companion to 77-year-old Lilith. A powerful friendship grows between these two intriguing characters, a
Arthur Sze has rare qualifications when it comes to translating Chinese: he is an award-winning poet who was raised in both languages. A second-generation Chinese-American, Sze has gathered over 70 po
The Dragon and the Doctor was the first book published by the Feminist Press. Immensely popular by word of mouth through the 1970s, it is the charming story of a dragon who has a sore tail. When she g
Hidden Doe is a young member of the Mesquakie tribe, who, though forced to move to a reservation in Kansas, devise a way to get back their homeland and hold on to their customs and language
“Dubie has already been recognized as one of the most powerful and influential American poets . . . his poems have always been generous and inclusive, capable of containing multiple and conflicting wo
“Marshall’s canvases, expansive as Jackson Pollock paintings, comprehend every thing from string beans to string theory.”—PoetrySoulfully introspective and viscerally engaged, Jack Marshall’s poetry w
