A part-time stand-up comedian and songwriter, McGimpsey is widely respected as an excellent, engaging and entertaining performer of his work.McGimpsey's last book, Li'l Bastard, was shortlisted for a Governor General's Award. Sitcom received a A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and a ReLit Award nomination. ...
I'm ill-equipped  for this. I sit    by a fake fireplacethat frames a real flame.  I've been crossed    by two crows today.‘Multi-vectored, Rogers's poems hum with life and tension, their speaker poised as mother, seer, reporter and daughter. They speak of loss and cold realities (misplaced charms of luck, a tour of ...
"Robertson proves hard to explain but easy to enjoy. . . . Dauntlessly and resourcefully intellectual, Robertson can also be playful or blunt. . . . She wields language expertly, even beautifully."— The New York Times What if the cinema of the present were a Möbius strip of language, a montage of statements and questions sutured together and gradually accumulating color? Would the seams afford a new sensibility around the ...
"This is a wonderful new edition of the Poetic Edda . It captures the language, vitality, and rhythms of the original."—Jesse Byock, PhD, UCLAGods, giants, the undead, dwarves, Valkyries, heroes, kidnapping, dragons, and a giant wolf are just some of the stars in these Norse tales. Committed to vellum in Iceland around 1270, The Poetic Edda has compelled the likes of Richard Wagner, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jorges Luis Borges, and W.H ...
"Ken Babstock is a wonderful and spirited poet, his work is full of musicality, syncopation, wit, and formal acuity, it's all good."—Peter Gizzi"The flavor of this poetry is complex—it will have to be consumed in small amounts like a sipping tequila. It inebriates quickly. It imparts a convivial brilliance to life. And it is not without its sinister edge."—Ange MlinkoWith poems on perfect blue and a sonnet ...
Blurbs from CAConrad and Craig Dworkin A fun, lively, funny collection of poems about the everyday that somehow transcend the quotidian.Here you'll fine Andy Warhol, Frank O'Hara, Frank Ocean, Aaliyah and the Temptations: Dowling appropriates pop culture in what she calls the intersection between the «zany» and the «merely interesting.» ...
Currin's last book (The Inquisition Yours) won the Audre Lore Award for lesbian poetry, and was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award in the same categoryCurrin identifies as a LGBTQ writer and her work may be of interest to bookstores with an LGBTQ focusBook may be of interest to political/social activists, given its scope and themes of collective change. ...
"Sina Queyras is a poet to read and reckon with."— Lambda Literary Review MxT , or «Memory x Time,» is one of the formulas acclaimed poet Sina Queyras posits as a way to measure grief. These poems mourn the dead by turning memories over and over in their hands, by invoking other poets, by appropriating science, by studying the history of elegy. Devastating, cheeky, allusive, hallucinatory: this is Queyras at her most powerful. Al ...
Revelling in the value of social polyphony from Walt Whitman's «Song of Myself,» Multitudes looks at its contemporary theatres of Facebook and Twitter, post-riot police surveillance, protest culture and poetry itself. With wit, perceptiveness and her trademark linguistic sonar, Margaret Christakos keenly examines intimacies and banishments, as well as intergenerational grief, self-display and social hope. ...