Rising star in poetry worldFirst book enthusiastically reviewed in Publishers Weekly, American Poet, The Believer, The Poetry Foundation, Rain Taxi, American Book Review, Gently Read Literature, and others"Each of the book’s three sections dramatizes how even in our high-flying fantasy lives, the ordinariness of the natural reasserts itself as a source of both limitation, and, paradoxically, extraordinary beauty." —David Gorin, The BelieverA bra ...
Star student of very distinguished writers: Tony Hoagland, Dana Levin, Dean YoungBread Loaf scholarEmotionally hard-hitting work with mature visionPublished in TriQuarterly, The New England Review, The Massachusetts Review, and FIELDPoems featured at length in American Poetry Review several timesStrong support from big-name writers ...
Influenced by survival lessons from the natural world, Cleopatra Mathis’ Book of Dog traces a harrowing personal journey from hard endings—a divorce, the death of a beloved dog—to the fierce arrival of acceptance and change. All manner of life thrives in these pages–plovers, foxes, the companionable beetle on the bedpost, and the coyotes just beyond her back door. This poet’s discerning eye, focused ...
*Bohince grew up in Pennsylvania but has strong ties to NYC *Debut collection from an up-and-coming young poet: won the «Discovery»/The Nation Award in 2007, the Grolier Poetry Prize, and grants from the Puffin and Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. *Will be 2008 Amy Clampitt Resident Fellow in Lenox, Massachusetts *Blurbs from Stanley Plumly, Claudia Emerson, and Jane Mead ...
Considered one of the finest of Canada’s early poets, the raw intellect and emotional appeal of Isabella Valancy Crawford’s poetry drew author Elizabeth McNeill Galvin on a personal journey that traced Isabella’s life which began in Dublin, Ireland, and ended in Toronto, Canada. Isabella emigrated to Canada with her family around the year of 1858. After settling first in Paisley, Ontario, the family later lived in Lakefield and Peterborough. As ...
Celtic Woman explores with open honesty and engaging irony how cycles of personal discovery have connected international performing artist Treasa O’Driscoll to heaven and earthbut not the way you’d expect. This surprising memoir of an Irish woman attuned to poetic updrafts and spiritual downloads in the lives of real people, many of them celebrities in Ireland and North America she counts as personal friends, exudes her Celtic heritage on eve ...
Award-winning poet explores new formal terrain in seven long poems against the violence of the present political moment. "[Warren] has begun writing longer poems, putting her stamp on a running notational mode whose other practitioners include Stephanie Young, Anselm Berrigan, and Jacqueline Waters. I think you can hear the durational projects, the self-conscious day-scores, of Bernadette Mayer and of Lewis Warsh farther back in the trad ...
Herr von Ribbeck auf Ribbeck im Havelland … Ein beliebtes Gedicht bei Jung und Alt von Theodor Fontane, vorgetragen von Stefan Kaminski. Diese Lesung umfasst au?erdem die Titel «Schneeglockchen» von Joseph von Eichendorff, «Gingo biloba» von Johann Wolfgang Goethe und «Von Garten» von Francis Bacon. Inhalt: 1. "Herr von Ribbeck auf Ribbeck Havelland " von Theodor Fontane (gelesen von Stefan Kaminski), 2. «Schneeglockchen» von Joseph von Eichendo ...
