Poetry. HOLD TIGHT is Jeni Olin's second full collection of poems, following her exciting debut, BLUE COLLAR HOLIDAY. Writing about that book, John Ashbery praised her "wonderfully caustic and vulnera
Poetry. "Someone walks around town, sees things and writes them down. He remembers what people say to him: 'The planes kept going / transporting a strange cargo, bodies packed in ice and oranges.' He
Drama. Translated from the Italian by Ilaria Papini. "Building on a classic noir premise—the discovery of an unidentified dead girl, dumped on the side of a road—Fausto Paravidino's STILL LIFE IN DITC
Poetry. This collection includes the work of twenty-four Chinese avant-garde poets, representing the new generation of artists who have emerged over the last twenty years, during a period of tumultuou
Poetry. "Let me know if this is or isn't ok. Reading the book made me very happy. If it were possible to work 'a dialectical lasagna of grays' into the blurb, I'd do it, but I don't know that I can ma
Poetry. "This collection refuses to be pinned into a corner and has enough corazon to face taboo square in the eye. This is Einstein mixed with Wu-Tang-thought experiments gone wild, the if/then propo
Poetry. Native American Studies. FIRST INDIAN ON THE MOON opens with the section "Influences": "where I have been/ most of my lives/ is where I'm going/--Lucille Clifton". The stories and poems of She
Literary Nonfiction. Translated from the French by Yves Henri Cloarec. Winner of the Third Annual Loose Translations Award, co-sponsored by Hanging Loose and Queens College-CUNY. In France, winner of
Poetry. These poems are based on the extraordinary career and personal struggles of Pulitzer Prize-winning war reporter Paul Watson."Very powerful poems."—Andrew Motion
Poetry. "I wish there were more poets like Wilma McDaniel. One wants to return to her book again and again. Little slices of real truth, to be long savored" -Pete Seeger.
Poetry. "Maggie Nelson has such drive in her language. Things do not dangle off this drive, but rather get resolutely pushed aside by her poem's forward motion. Also, she exercises the infini
Poetry. THE ALCHEMIST'S DIARY is strong first collection featuring poems of family and Detroit's Arab-American community. Hayna Charara is a star -- follow him -- Naomi Shihab Nye. Sense and feeling..
Poetry. This book achieves "a consistency of vision and linguistic vigor I can only marvel at and applaud. Pawlak is among the very best poets working today."—Pablo Medina
Poetry. Fourth Winner of the Loose Translation Prize, co-sponsored by Hanging Loose Press and Queens College. This book contains his own poems and translations of Anna Akhmatova.
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Edited by Lisa Birman with an introduction by Bill Berkson and afterword by Anne Waldman. Frances LeFevre's reports on Bill Berkson's poetry class at the New School, sent
