"Sherwin Bitsui's new poetry collection, Flood Song—a sprawling, panoramic journey through landscape, time, and cultures—is well worth the ride."—Poets & Writers “Bitsui’s poetry is elegant, probative, and original. His vision connects worlds.”—New Mexico Magazine “His images can tilt on the side of surrealism, yet his work can be compellingly acc ...
• Received MFA from the University of Iowa • Author of over thirty books in various genres, including genre fiction, poetry, and criticism • Sold 100,000 with psychological thriller The Church of Dead Girls • Work has been translated into twenty languages • trained in journalism – a reporter for the Detroit News • fellowships from NEA and Guggenheim Foundation; winner of multiple Pu ...
“John Taggart’s poetry is not like music, it is music.”—George Oppen Is Music—a major retrospective of an American original—gathers the best poems from John Taggart’s fourteen volumes, ranging from early objectivist experiments and jazz-influenced improvisational pieces to longer breathtaking compositions regarded as underground masterpieces. There is a prayerful quality to T ...
“Jim Harrison has probed the breadth of human appetites–for food and drink, for art, for sex, for violence and, most significantly, for the great twin engines of love and death. Perhaps no American writer better appreciates those myriad drives; since the publication of his first collection of poetry . . . Harrison has become their poet laureate.”–Salon.comIn Jim Harrison’s new book of poems, birds and humans converse ...
“Classically elegant.”—The New York Times Book Review Sze's free verse emphasizes at once how difficult, and how necessary, it is for us to imagine our world as a system whose ecologies and societies require us to care for all their interdependent parts." —Publishers Weekly “Sze’s list-laden sequences capture the world’s manifold facts one by one, then through discursiv ...
• Skoog is well-connected younger poet • Published in a dizzying range of magazines and journals, from Poetry to Forklift, Ohio • Skoog owns a house in New Orleans, and was out of town when Hurricane Katrina hit. “I was at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference when the storm was gathering,” he notes, “Those were the worst days of my life.” He still owns the house in New Orleans, & ...
• Identical twin brother of Matthew Dickman, who was published last season through the APR/Honickman Award • Dickman brothers were featured in articles in New Yorker and Poets & Writers ...
“Brenda Shaughnessy’s poems bristle with imperatives: ‘confuse me, spoon-feed me, stop the madness, decide.’ There are more direct orders in her first few pages than in six weeks of boot camp…Only Shaughnessy’s kidding. Or she is and she isn’t. If you just want to boss people around, you’re a control freak, but if you can joke about it, then your bossiness is leavened by a yea ...
Named to the Notable Books of the Year lists from The Kansas City Star and the Michigan Library Association. “Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him.”—The Times (London) “This is [Harrison’s] most robust, sure-footed, and blood-raising poetry collection to date.”—Booklist Jim Harrison—one of America’s most beloved writers—calls his po ...