Poetry. "In KYOTOLOGIC, Anne Gorrick takes Sei Shonagon's poetic diaries as materials for a new performance of eccentric intimacy. A book of days that is also a "model of interruptions," Gorrick's wor
Poetry. "Deborah Meadows' GOODBYE TISSUES constructs a conduit connecting the sharpened margins of the cleaved world. Whose voice can converse with her 'speech's speech' emitting from the inward-spira
Poetry. In her first full-length collection of poems, THE WIFE OF THE LEFT HAND, the poet Nancy Kuhl explores the lyric possibilities found within the sometimes narrow space of the domestic interior,
Poetry. This book records a sustained plunge into the imaginative elixir of a dream. The dream starts with a waking vision — "the door of the train flew open" — and continues as reverberat
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Jennifer Clement. LA SUAVE PATRIA is often regarded as the Mexican national poem, an extraordinary tour-de-force that would change forever
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Mark Weiss. "Gaspar Orozco's extraordinary BOOK OF THE PEONY blew me away by a storm of quiet flame and blackness and nothing everythingne
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Dan Bellm. Among the most ambitious and varied work of Pura López Colomé's distinguished career, SPEAKING IN SONG displays the poet's extr
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated by Paul Hoover. María Baranda is one of the leading Mexican poets of the generation born in the 1960s. Her work has received Mexico's distinguished Efra&
Poetry. DAY FOR NIGHT, Richard Deming's searching new collection of poems, takes its title from the cinematic term for shooting night scenes during the day. With a complex lyricism, these poems often
Poetry. In this accomplished first collection, Erica McAlpine draws truths from the everyday, meditating over contingency and luck and the often- vexed relationship we have to these things. The casual
Poetry. Women's Studies. In 1989 the five members of the Bugan family were allowed to leave Ceausescu's Romania with one suitcase each and death-threats in their wake. In 2010 the poet Carmen Bugan to
Poetry. "Suspended between home and the city, which glows abstractly in the background, THE BRIDGE is a timely book in this age when commutes and device-driven inwardness consumes so much of our
Poetry. Cameron Gearen's first full- length collection of poetry, SOME PERFECT YEAR, opens with a poem entitledInvitation, and it's one we should heed. 'Come with stones and a selectively green car. /
Poetry. "By turns erudite and lyrical, esoteric and oracular, profane and ethereal—Joe Doerr's TOCAYO contains multitudes. This vast miscellany, a bravura poetic performance by every measure, signals
Poetry. "David Jaffin is a scrupulous weigher and weighter of words—by which I mean that a poem is, for him, always a matter of collaboration with the true spirit of the language. Every word is given
Poetry. As the title suggests, APERTURE opens gaps through which to see and hear the lives of imagined and actual women. This collection becomes a stage on which these women perform, and the poems pla
Poetry. Fascinated by strangeness that's made in the USA—its beliefs and organization, its affinity for violence and its elusive relationship with the past—STRANGE COUNTRY lyrically addresses itself t
Poetry. ROAM marks a migration: back, forward and round again. Who stays? Who is allowed to roam? Mistakes, reverses—what do we take of our presence and past as we discover the world through our own p
Poetry. This is a translation of Chávez's Mexican volume from 2013, a book of poems that deals with life on the border, its dangers, its delights and its peculiarities. I'D ASK YOU TO JOIN ME... won t
