"Nakedly beautiful, the book shimmers with insight, even as it creates an entirely other world, one I wish I could stay in for days, weeks, years. A one of a kind book?wistfully sweet and delicately w
ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award WinnerFinalist for Foreword’s 2011 Book of the Year Award in Literary Fiction"[Nahoonkara]?incorporates elements of historical fiction with experimental fiction
Presents revisions and reconfigurations of the author's own previously published poems, and features new works as well as pieces from two of his essay collections.
H.L. Hix’s newest poetry book, Chromatic, bears as its epigraph the philosopher Baruch de Spinoza’s assertion that “desire is the very nature or essence of every single individual.” The three sequence
In a sequence of poems at once playful and grave, National Book Award finalist H.L. Hix raises questions about religion and war, freedom and responsibility, power and justice, art and truth. Quoting G
Michael Lind has been described by Rolling Stone magazine as “that rarest of figures: an intellectual with name recognition.” Now the Whitehead Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washingto
Drift Ice is a collection of poetry from a new Etruscan author, Jennifer Atkinson. The poems in Drift Ice view the natural world through a lens of ecological and spiritual concerns. They focus especia
“Manzano’s poems go beyond the traditionally circumscribed lyric, beyond the often humble and household range of so many contemporary poems. Translating those poems, and talking with Manzano about his
Alexis Stamatis has been hailed as “one of the most gifted writers of his generation” (Francoise Noiville, Le Monde) in both Greece and Europe. His work has not yet been published in America and thus
Legible Heavens explores what the most intimate forms of experience reveal about our most cosmic concerns, and vice versa. Its four sequences act like compass points to orient a human landscape. On o
“William Heyen’s music and meditations continue to amaze. I’ve now read and absorbed all the poems of A Poetics of Hiroshima. I am not ready to write anything about them, except to express my awe.”—Cy
“With the luminous precision of music, Bruce Bond has crafted, in Cinder, a generous and urgent collection of poems, a work that celebrates the human condition and terrifies us with it in equal measur
Over the decades, William Heyen has most often dreamed of, studied, and written about the Holocaust. Now, Shoah Train collects more than seventy poems written over the last dozen years, lyrics of “dis
What would poets say about each other’s poems if they were really honest? The answer is in Wild and Whirling Words. Thirty-three of America’s best and most important poets, diverse in gender, ethnicit
“‘Nothing attested, everything sung.’ And these poems are the songs, the mournful lieder of a reimagined life. H. L. Hix’s melodies are pure; his harmonies are haunting and strange. Incident Light c
“Shadows of Houses, H.L. Hix’s new collection, is both vatic and precise. Patiently looking at and through the quotidian, Hix registers the tiny and immense phenomena of change and variation the seaso
Do bad things happen to good people? Or are those people really as good as they appear? In Lies Will Take You Somewhere, Sheila Schwartz examines the connection between chaos theory and domestic life