You Are the Phenomenology is a cross-genre book -- a blend of poetry, songs, lyric prose, and invented forms -- that explores the everyday junctures of perception, compassion, and multiplicity. How mi
In the study of sound waves and optics, the term transmission loss refers to how a signal grows weaker as it travels across distance and between objects. In this book, Chelsea Jennings reimagines the
This distinctive collection introduces a new type of mythmaking, daring in its marriage of fairy tale tropes with American mundanities. Conspiratorial, Goodbye, Flicker describes the interior life of
With rhetorical estrangements that recall John Ashbery, and rhythms and ambitions that recall Wallace Stevens and Walt Whitman, the voice in these poems is nonetheless distinct, aware that its own tim
The poems in Brandon Dean Lamson's first volume, Starship Tahiti, explore imprisoned bodies and the tension between captivity and imagination. Beginning on Rikers Island, the book traces a creation my
EXCERPT What do you know?How I hide my flaws.What do you know?How butterfliessweeten themselvesopening and closing their wings togetherin a little hillon the beach. -- "The Worrier bed"The Worrier p
EXCERPT All right, I'm a little afraid.It's the zeroing in of All That CouldPossibly Go Wrong vs. Myself. -- "Small Talk with an Imagined Son"The Spirit Papers explores the magical thinking that prece
Sui generis, Dana Roeser's poems are spoken by a stand-up comic having a bad night at the local club. The long extended syntax, spread over her quirky, syncopated short lines, contains (barely) the sp
What does it really mean when people are viewed as bytes of data? And is there beauty or an imaginative potential to information culture and the databases cataloging it? As Too Numerous reveals, the r
"Let no lip, shoulder, hip, go untasted tonight. Let no one be unscathed. And as you close the door & fold yourself in sleep against anotherlook for a moment at the empty stretch of dark between heave
The poems in Rebecca Black's first volume, Cottonlandia, move through myth and landscape, beginning in the deep South's "shimmer and tar" and ending in the "soot and orange dolor" of the California de
