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Examines language and humanness in a way that extends insights into the nature and necessity of poetry. This book includes eight essays that range from lively considerations of the writings of Henry Thoreau, John Ashbery, and others. It also includes essays which examine the relationships between language and life, memory and culture.

A collection of poems. It features poems that examine the historically gendered gaze of artistic and cultural narratives and their impact upon the individual, the symmetries that interlink to figure our social and political horizons, or the destructive forces that both expose and explode our meaning of self.

A chapbook on the post-Soviet writer and the author's own experience in the white nights of Saint Petersburg

Loom searches for reconstructions of gender, dwelling, and the sacred.

In the Pure Block of the Whole Imaginary pushes past the line and the fragment and toward the sentence, the thought trying to complete, the paragraph, a distinct passage.

Fortino Samano (the overflowing of the poem) is a collaborative work by the emerging French poet, Virginie Lalucq, and the distinguished philosopher, Jean-Luc Nancy.

Calvin Bedient's fourth collection, The Multiple, meets an unspeakably excessive reality with an unremitting intensity of its own.

Collects the poems that explore various paths of life, from that of an ardent lover and a mystic to a cosmic pastoralist responsive to the presences of the natural world, and contain a spirit of defiant freedom.

Win These Posters and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside opens with a foreword, an envoi laying out the concerns of the book. The book's rhythmic geography tracks a shadow epic with its "1400 Facts," aspects of feats, or anti-feats, events on the ground, but the hero/anti-hero is "you" & "I" & "we" and the narrative is "splinters of stars.

Using a replica of the native Chamorros' outrigger boats as his figurative vessel, this title explores the personal, historical, cultural, and natural elements of the poet's native Guam.

What does it mean to dwell in a place? These adventurous poems go on foot in search of answers.

Ann Lauterbach considers the animated, elastic relation between what is given and what is chosen through the lens of art, critical thinking and her own experience as a poet.

Ventifacts highlights the currents between imaginary relations and physical conditions.

Written over the course of two decades, The Book of a Thousand Eyes was begun as an homage to Scheherazade

Sohrab Sepehri was in Iran, a modernist Muslim for whom the black stone of the Kaaba was the sunlight in the flowers.

A full-length collection from a classic French symbolist poet that explores an innovative, organic form of free verse. Juxtaposing common objects with romantic ideals, it projects the authors ideas into uncharted territories of spiritual realms, sexual extremity, and the purity of despair.

A tale of an old man reciting the same story of Lucia Luna to a young boy. It tells how this once beautiful girl became a bitter old woman, destroyed by the jealousy and superstition of her village.

fault tree is a book-length poem divided into three connected effects stemming from one undesired state: time.

Readings in World Literature is the daybook of a speaker haunted by the prospect of perpetual night.

Breaking communication into its discrete components, this collection of poems examines forced loss, violence, and impoverishment. Exploring hidden relations in sound and sense, it includes the language that communicates more than just ideas by testifying to the oppressive concepts and cultural practices that are dominant in society.

This novel tells of a young man's attraction and ultimate addiction to skunk musk, and the social difficulties he encounters as a result.

Describes a man late in life who has been around and who's thought about what he has seen and heard.

A collection of poems where the author evolves her own mediums of address that suggests slipperiness in human emotion and in human speech.

Saga / Circus brings us two distinctly different long poems

"The narrator of Anon opens the sluice gates of embittered confession and philosophical reproach to release a deluge of wildly extravagant lyricism, at first submerging its readers in the ecstatic rhythms of its music, then leading their pursuit of the behemoths of the human condition in turning its gaze upon the storm-tossed tropes of the narrative itself. Seidenberg engages his characteristically aphoristic style to manage multiple lines of inquiry at once. The resultant fragments navigate between testament and treatise, storyline and system, in a manner only echoed in the speculative vehemence of Beckett, Lispecter, and Blanchot"--

"Both Apollo speaks from inside the bodies and binaries that are felt as constraints. Sometimes it tries to negotiate. It laments, celebrates, reasons, jokes, and occasionally begs. It runs into a wall and hugs it, offers it pizza, and speeds through the rotary of grammars and cities until dizziness catapults it from the grid. It tries to queer the echoes of its language in the hope that a queer rhyme might break the logic of either/or and give rise to both/and. It would rather evade than refuse. It would rather embrace than hold. It's basically a love poem to whatever has the grace to appear. But the battleground is not all battle, even if there is no safe place above the fray. Moments of humor and tenderness accompany the speaker with each act of crossing and circling back. If the poems hope, this is where and how they do it: quietly, at the boundary"--

"Wind moves through this book. Wind opens the poems: to the dying beauty of the natural world; to the weathers inside the psyche and without; to the connections between father and son, husband and wife, the speaker to his mentor, the great poet Jack Gilbert"--

A collection from celebrated poet Martha Ronk considering the relationship between person, body, and place.  The Place One Is explores the intersection of person and place, the ways in which changes in the tangible world alter one‿s vision, bodily posture, vocabulary, and concern for‿to take one example‿the dwindling water supply in California. The body‿s position, its geometry, and the topography of the surrounding land become less and less recognizable as body and world blend together. Gravel giving way underfoot mirrors the way that words dissolve into mumbles, and the skeleton of a rusty car on the sand appears like one‿s own skeleton. Ronk shows that disintegration here is disintegration there. These poems also wonder at interdependence, considering how lines intersect and continue to connect us to the sea‿and to islands, lagoons, greenery, sky, and space.    In the first part of the collection, the poems focus on a rural landscape, and in the second part, they consider the overly bright urban world of Los Angeles.  Â

"This bilingual edition of Nicole Brossard's exuberantly lyrical collection, entitled in English Distantly, is a sequence of lush, taut cityscapes. Known for her elliptical and materially grounded poetics, Brossard creates in Distantly an intimate series drawn loosely from urban experience. The poems are linked by their city settings, drawn from a woman's observations, emotions, perceptions, and dreams as she wanders the streets of her world. The cities of the individual poem titles are evocatively conjured rather than realistically described. Taken together, these poems distill postmodern urban life through their sharp flash sketches of cultural and gendered histories of violence and beauty, personal and shared struggles for survival and intimacy. Distantly expresses a redolently postmodern sensibility, at once utopian and real"--