Highly anticipated book: Ossip's previous poetry collection, The Cold War, received rave reviews from The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Huffington Post, American Poet and many others. Craig Teicher at Publishers Weekly called it his favorite book of the year.Broad appeal: These poems are both melancholy and funny, and incorporate accessible references to popular culture.Extensive tour appearances: Ossip is using a semester sabbati ...
What is important is to avoidthe time allotted for disavowelsas the livid woundleaves a trace leaves an abscesstakes its contraction for those cloudsthat dip thunder & vanishlike rose leaves in closed jars.Age approaches, slowly. But it cannotcrystal bone into thin air.The small hours open their wounds for me.This is a woman's confession:I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me.Simone Muench is the author of Orange Crush, L ...
"The poems in [i]Antiquity very much abandon themselves to language, to the collective poetic endeavor, and they do so in a rich, textured, and sustained voice."—Mary Ruefle, from the introduction  Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize, Michael Homolka’s [i]Antiquity offers the present infused with the past, from Ancient Greece to the Holocaust to contemporary battlefields. A haunting and evocative debut.[b] [b] ...
Amelia Martens's prose poems reveal expansive ideas in compressed language. From the domestic to the geopolitical, from the mundane to the miraculous, these brief vignettes take the form of prayers, parables, confessions, and revelations. Intimate and urgent, Martens's poems are strange, darkly funny, and utterly beguiling. Amelia Martens is the author of the chapbooks Purgatory (Black Lawrence Press, 2012), Clatter (Floating Wolf ...
Excellent publishing history: Author's poems have appeared in nearly every top-tier English language publication, including The New Yorker, Granta, The Nation, and The New York Review of Books.Highly-anticipated follow-up: Author's previous collection, The Children, was praised in the New York Times Book Review and many other outlets (including several overseas publications) ...
Timely issues: Poems address vivid troubles of contemporary America, including political and societal distresses related to immigration and citizenship ...
"David Martinez is like an algebra problem invented by America—he's polynomial, and fractioned, full of identity variables and unsolved narrative coefficients. . . . Hustle is full of dashing nerve, linguistic flair, and unfakeable heart."—Tony HoaglandThe dark peoples with things:for keys, coins, pencilsand pens our pockets grieve.No street lights or signs,no liquor stores or bars,only a lighter for a flashlight,and ...
Francesca Chabrier’s poems hold on to the possibility that the sorrowing parts of our lives may be transformed. The collection offers loose, sensuous, gentle associations, combined the interplay of comic and coy images. A debut of remarkable freshness and delight, through which syntactic innovation yields new meaning. Chabrier's poems entertain, startle, cast a spell, and bless. ...
