“Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle, which she uses to evoke the haunted quality of our carnal existence.”—The New Yorker Inspired by numerous visits inside Louisiana state prisons—where MacArthur Fellow C.D. Wright served as a “factotum” for a portrait photographer—One Big Self bears witness to i ...
– Marvin Bell one of the leading poets in America – long-time teacher at Iowa Writer’s Workshop, one of the country’s foremost writing programs – first poet laureate of Iowa (2000-2004) – Bell’s last book, Rampant, was very well reviewed, including cover feature in American Poetry Review and review in New York Times – includes several new “Dead Man” poems, for which Bell is both famous and i ...
– Bass is co-author of million-seller Courage to Heal – Bass considered a pioneer in field of healing from child sexual abuse – Bass has a devoted following – The Human Line confronts many of the profound moral dilemmas of our time—all grounded in human-scale concerns – Bass is popular workshop leader and creative writing teacher – Bass poems have appeared in many national publications including The Atlantic Monthly, Ms., DoubleTa ...
– Name another American poet who also had a career as a race-car driver and was honored with a limited edition replica of his car—“Dan Gerber’s 1965 Shelby R-Model.” (Sorry, 2250 models sold out at $90 a pop.) – Dan Gerber is an ordained Zen priest – Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison’s book Braided Creek (Copper Canyon, 2003) is dedicated to Gerber – Gerber’s last book of poems won the F ...
· Abani is a very popular speaker and presenter active on the reading circuit · Abani’s most recent novel, GraceLand (Picador), won several awards, was reviewed in scores of metro dailies, and was named a “Best Book of the Year” in San Francisco Chronicle and listed as a “Notable Book” in New York Times · Abani was a Barnes and Noble Discover Series Selection · Central section of Hands Washing Wa ...
In his bold second book, Ben Lerner molds philosophical insight, political outrage, and personal experience into a devastating critique of mass society. Angle of Yaw investigates the fate of public space, public speech, and how the technologies of viewing—aerial photography in particular—feed our culture an image of itself. And it’s a spectacular view.The man observes the action on the field with the tiny television h ...
"Zapruder’s hip lyricism offers both the slippery comedy and a surprisingly grave, ultimately winning, commitment to real people, emotions, locales."—Publishers WeeklyMatthew Zapruder is a young poet reinvigorating American letters. In his second collection he engages love, mortality, and life in New York City after 9/11. The title piece, a prose-poem synopsis of an unwritten novel, turns all literary forms upon themselv ...
“The heart of Orr’s poetry, now as ever, is the enigmatic image . . . mystical, carnal, reflective, wry.”— San Francisco Review This book-length sequence of ecstatic, visionary lyrics recalls Rumi in its search for the beloved and its passionate belief in the healing qualities of art and beauty. Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved is an incantatory celebration of the “Book,&a ...
– In suppport of his last book of poems, he was a guest on NPR's «Fresh Air» for a long interview – Arthur has become a well-known poet, winning prizes, getting reviewed in national magazines (The New Yorker), and serving on prize committees – Quipo is Copper Canyon's fourth book from Arthur Sze – Sze is a staff favorite ...
