Unbearable Splendor
Poetry as essay, as a way of hovering over a subject, approaching it from positions of identity (Korean, American, adoptee, mother, Catholic, Buddhist) and interest (mythology, science fiction, Borges,...
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Hewett is among our most experiential and painstakingly careful poets—drawing inspiration from the grand and the mundane—but he’s really writing about transitions. In poems that are witty, touching,...
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Marjorie Welish uses the page—not as a surface upon which to buoy language, but as a core construction of the poem, in visual and kinetic relationship with text. Here, her spatial acuity is tuned to...
View ArticleMake Yourself Happy
Using text and images, moving jaggedly across the page and across ideas, creating ever expanding loops, Sikelianos asks how it is we have come to wreck earth’s ecosystem—and continue to wreck it—in a...
View ArticleFugitive, in Full View
Poetry by Jack Marshall Lyrical, activist poetry rooted in a deep appreciation for family, for love, and for beauty. June 13, 2017 6 x 9 | 112 Pages Trade Paper Thanks to a 2013 ADA Access Improvement...
View ArticleThousand Star Hotel
Thousand Star Hotel confronts the silence around racism, police brutality, and the invisibility of the Asian American urban poor. Bao Phi is a multiple-time Minnesota Grand Slam poetry champ and...
View ArticleGood Stock Strange Blood
Poetry by Dawn Lundy Martin Bold, formally innovative prose poems that challenge our ideas of race, voice, bodies, and justice. August 1, 2017 6 x 9 | 144 Pages Trade Paper Thanks to a 2013 ADA Access...
View ArticleBeneath the Spanish
FROM “PUERTO RICO”: “To the bad times give a happy face, place a red amapola in your black dark hair. Revive the mummies, the dead, burst the bodies out of the coffins let’s all walk to the plaza this...
View ArticleThousands
FROM THOUSANDS: “Snow as metaphor for everything lower than the predicted low in this my last February of loving you here (a rhyme begun in one poem may be landed in a later one).” Reviews “Lightsey...
View ArticleThe Cataracts
FROM “UNFURL”: “Your souls, if you have them, depart without having spoken. They issue reels and loops of thread, filaments lengthened by longing, coming apart in the sky like the tails of a shower.”...
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View ArticleHow to Be Perfect: An Illustrated Guide
“Make eye contact with a tree.” “Do not practice cannibalism.” “Wear comfortable shoes. “Sing, every once in a while.” “In later life, become a mystic.” Offbeat, warm, and funny, Ron Padgett’s...
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