Honored as one of «Nine Great Poetry Books of 2014»— The New Yorker “ The Poem She Didn’t Write is a breakup book, full of the kinds of invective and taunts honed by a person who has spent, as all of us have now spent, infinite hours online. Its complex tones arise from the poet’s wanting equally to seduce and to repel a lover whose deepening silence only provokes rhetorical escalation. The effect can be like reading e-mails in someone’s...
an electrifying, idiosyncratic addition to the ever-growing library of Civil Rights Movement books C.D. Wright is using the tools and techniques of poetry to write a «people's history» of an ugly racist event in her beloved Arkansas The hero of this book is a woman named «V,» who became a life-long mentor to C.D. Wright C.D. Wright examines racist events in her native Arkansas and creates a layered, nuanced, and riveting tribute to a cantakerous and heroic white woman with the courage to...
This is an attempt to expose our human achievement beginning from creation or the big bang to the present time. In between, we will find an outlook of nature and how it protects us, supplies our needs, and even encourages us to cooperate for the good of man and the universe. In addition, you will find this book to stimulate your imagination and, in some cases, satisfy your curiosity.
Braided Creek contains more than 300 poems exchanged in this longstanding correspondence. Wise, wry, and penetrating, the poems touch upon numerous subjects, from the natural world to the nature of time. Harrison and Kooser decided to remain silent over who wrote which poem, allowing their voices, ideas, and images to swirl and merge into this remarkable suite of lyrics.Each time I go outside the worldis different. This has happened all my life. *The moon put her handover my mouth and told meto...
"To be both visionary and accurate, true to physics and metaphysics at the same time, is rare and puts the poet in some rarefied company. Black, like a few other younger poets, is willing to include all the traditional effects of the lyric poem in his work, but he has set them going in new and lively ways, with the confidence of virtuosity and a belief in the ancient pleasures of pattern and repetition."—Mark Jarman, American Poet Lush and daring, Malachi Black's poems in ...
“Olstein places the mystical next to the mundane. . . . She explodes theories of cause and effect and expands our notions of logic, symbolism, and the territory between dreams and waking experience.” — The Growler Poetry Review In her fourth book—a gorgeous call-to-arms in the face of our current social and political conditions—Lisa Olstein employs her signature wit, wordplay, candor, and absurdity in poems that are her most personal—and political—to date. Like a brilliant dinner conversation...
Poet Lenard D. Moore is known internationally for his involvement with the Haiku Society of America and is a revered North Carolina poet and founder of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective. He edited Blair’s anthology All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective. Blair is reissuing this collection, The Geography of Jazz, first published in 2018.
John Freeman's first poetry collection charts the impact of place on human experience. In Beirut, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Rome, and the foothills of a childhood hometown, Freeman navigates legacies of ruin and construction, illness and memory. Warm, mournful, and distinctly urban, Maps offers a compassionate perspective from the experience of one American embroiled in empire. From «You Are Here:» The city grindsits molars at night, carefully minedexplosions boring cavities...
In his bold second book, Ben Lerner molds philosophical insight, political outrage, and personal experience into a devastating critique of mass society. Angle of Yaw investigates the fate of public space, public speech, and how the technologies of viewing—aerial photography in particular—feed our culture an image of itself. And it’s a spectacular view.The man observes the action on the field with the tiny television he brought to the stadium. He is topless, painted...
–Ex-punk rock chola and mother of five-McKibbens founded The Pink Door Women’s Writing Retreat, an annual writing retreat in the US open exclusively to women of color. – She has an dynamic and large social media presence and a killer website: rachelmckibbens.com/-McKibbens is a member of Latinas Unidas and co-curates the critically-acclaimed monthly reading series Poetry and Pie Night in upstate New York.-According to her website, she is currently working on a memoir about growing up as a...