“This poet brings a sparkling consciousness to the page and an exciting new voice to American poetry.”—Library Journal “Most appealing is Olstein's sensitive, quietly pained and earnest tone, w hich, more than the unusual subject, is the real star of this book.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review In Lisa Olstein’s daring new book, an unnamed lepidopterist—livin ...
"I write hungry sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, «because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them.» This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative: A sister fights for or against a brother on meth, and everyone from Antigone, Houdini, Huitzilopochtli, and Jesus is invoked and invited to hash it out. These darkly humorous poems illuminate far corners of the heart, r ...
Book will come with French flaps Newest title in Feminist Press's Amethyst Editions imprint This book is a sister title to The Beautifully Worthless (City Lights), winner of the 2006 Lambda Literary Award for best lesbian debut fiction. Ali Liebegott has a cult following and a strong personal literary network that will help support this book. Lesbian relationships rarely survive the death of a parent , Ali Liebegott's thera ...
Dancing at Lake Montebello begins at the dawn of the civil rights era, calling up memories of life in Baltimore, the most segregated U.S. Northern city, and moves through the poet’s coming of age in the turbulent ‘60s and ‘70s. The book’s final section, “More Dangerous for All of Us,” melds the personal and the political—illness, death, loss and grieving, as seen through the eyes of one moving through middle age—and acknowledges the solace that ...
Winner of the 2018 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, selected by Henri Cole Author’s poems have been widely published in Best American Poetry 2017, Boston Review, Poetry Northwest, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere Author’s work has been previously lauded by influential poets like Ada Limon, and we expect strong blurbs Book’s engagement with toxic masculinity, science, and the environment provide opportunities for wider coverage and crossover into larger market ...
From one of our finest poets comes a collection about time—about memory, remembrance, and how the past makes itself manifest in the world.<br><br> Called “the poet of things” by Richard Howard, Don Bogen understands the ways objects hold history, even if they’ve grown obsolescent, even when they’ve been forgotten. So objects—rendered in cinematic detail—fill these poems. A desk, a mailbox, a house delivering its own autobiography. H ...
Book’s focus on the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster provides opportunities for crossover media into larger markets interested in environmental consequences, and disaster similar in scope to Chernobyl Strong blurbs forthcoming; author’s previous work has been lauded by Ishmael Reed, Stephanie Burt, and Ray Gonzalez Author is Poet Laureate of South Dakota Author has been widely published in Poetry , Poem-a-Day, and Southeast Review ...
Includes a section of erasure poems from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos Book’s engagement with the instability of the Earth’s ecosystem as well as racism, police brutality, queertagonism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, human exceptionalism, and raising a daughter who was born around the time of Trump’s election provides opportunities for wider coverage and crossover into larger markets Winner of the 7th annual $10,000 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetr ...
Author’s poems have been widely published in Best New Poets 2015, Copper Nickel, Sycamore Review, and New Poetry from the Midwest 2017 Blurbs from breakout poets include Victoria Chang (prize judge), Alison Joseph, Matt Rasmussen, and Sara Eliza Johnson Book’s engagement with toxic masculinity (and more compassionate alternatives), violence, and rural landscapes/flyover country provides opportunities for wider coverage and crossover into lar ...
