• Title is a collection of poems related to pain and recovery • Title will appeal to literary community, poetry fans, fans of Ross Gay, Ada Limon, and Mark Doty • Market/publicity focus: bookstores • Author plans to tour New York, Los Angeles, Asheville and other cities in North Carolina, Virginia ...
• Title is a collection of the author’s greatest short works, from a Lambda Award-winning prolific feminist poet • Feminist, LGBTQ, anti-racism collection that will appeal to Judy Grahn's existing fan base, the literary community, LGBTQ readers and social justice activists, and professors teaching courses on queer culture, feminism, and activism • Market/publicity focus: bookstores, universities • Author plans to tour New York, Los Angeles, ...
Imagine a heaven populated by familiar Greek gods. Sexy Aphrodite, gorgeous Adonis, Ares the warmonger, Artemis the huntress, wise Athena, bitter Demeter, and the like. But imagine also each of these denizens of Olympus stepping forward and revealing qualities that any reader can recognize: Hades, ruler of the underworld, lovesick for Persephone. Baffled Hephaestus, god of fire, husband of Aphrodite who can’t keep her clothes on. Add a defiant S ...
In John Barr's poems, the ancient masters encounter the modern world. Dante on a beach in China beholds the Inferno: “Flaring well gas night and day, / towers rise as if to say, / Pollution can be beautiful.” Bach’s final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds “Demagogues are the insects of politics. / Like water beetles they stay afloat / on surface tension, they taxi on iridescence.” And h ...
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's debut, <i>Water & Salt</i>, sings in the voices of people ravaged by cycles of war and news coverage. These poems alternately rage, laugh, celebrate and grieve, singing in the voices of people ravaged by cycles of war and news coverage and inviting the reader to see the human lives lived beyond the headlines. ...
Winner of the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize Ruth Irupe Sanabria’s second collection of poetry, Beasts Behave In Foreign Land examines the internal landscape of a family confronting the psychological and emotional aftershocks of genocide and exile. Drawing on her personal experience during Argentina’s military dictatorship (1976 to 1983), these poems emerge from the defining moment in which she had the opportunity to testify in the tri ...
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In Elise Paschen’s prize-winning poetry collection, Infidelities , Richard Wilbur wrote that the poems “. . . draw upon a dream life which can deeply tincture the waking world.” In her third poetry book, The Nightlife , Paschen once again taps into dream states, creating a narrative which balances between the lived and the imagined life. Probing the tension between “The Elevated” and the “Falls,” she explores troubled love and relationships, t ...
