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A Testament to Love & Other Losses
Poetry. "The suspicion that writing will be the last utopia is wonderfully fulfilled by the extraordinary promise and quivering present of Wade Stevenson's lyrical, deep and lustrous oeuvre. Here is a writer of extraordinary adventure and imagination and in this book of poems he portrays the cycles of the human condition recognizable to us all. Lyric in its intensity, evenly paced, the delivery is light and swift, well suited to the tension and humor that are so much a part of this work. The states of being alive, in love, alone, in an embrace, a companion of small animals, and the life of a poet are all explored. The commingling of images is a prominent theme within this book, a doubling of ideas, as a mirror looking at itself to reveal the nakedness of all things" Geoffrey Gatza."
First Baby Poems
Poetry. "Anne Waldman glows even in the throes of morning sickness at the Buddhist chateau. The mind empties as the belly expands, but the mind doesn't clear without a detailed expression of what it is letting go of, and the body doesn't fill without a rich chronicle of sensation. She takes us all the way to term and then, the baby gets the pantoums. What a retreat she takes us on. What a euphonic spell of sleep-deprived wonder she casts"--C.D. Wright. "With her warm subtle fleshy FIRST BABY POEMS Waldman creates an infant power that did not exist before in her words. These poems are complex joyful bioalchemy"--Michael McClure.
Transcendental Telemarketer
Poetry. Copeland's TRANSCENDENTAL TELEMARKETER contains beautiful lyrics of emotion and meditation, but it also contains rants against war and violence, and all the while it swings us from the U.S. to Japan to Afghanistan, from Islam to Buddhism to Christianity It's compelling, playful, and well-crafted.--William Allegrezza Beth Copeland's poems are music. She combines powerful alliteration ('following blue rivers of blood / flowing back to the heart') with unobtrusive rhyme ('silver wolves / howl, owls hoot'). Occasional use of form seems to grow from the poem. Asia influences Copeland's writing; as in Japanese poetry, nature imagery becomes philosophy. Fresh juxtapositions 'explode like po...
Everything Seems Significant
Poetry. Drama. California Interest. Film. "EVERYTHING SEEMS SIGNIFICANT sails and embraces... such a deep, kaleidoscopic dive it takes. This is brilliant, inspired work. So much has been written about Blade Runner, but none of it penetrates like this. The spell of it all is distilled and caught in the sly, prescient grip of Bottiglieri's poems."--Hampton Fancher, Co-screenwriter for Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 "Astonishing! This book uses Blade Runner as a template to deal with much more. Jan Bottiglieri knows Roy Batty, Pris, J.F., Tyrell, and Deckard very, very well, evoking them beautifully. Her work is every bit as rich and original as the movie. It's Blade Runner, the poet's cut."--David Peoples, Co-screenwriter for Blade Runner and 12 Monkeys "For fans of Blade Runner, this poetry is a journey deep into the mind, heart, and soul of a classic, neo-noir, science fiction saga. The images flash, and shuffle, creating hiraeth--nostalgia and longing for a place we can never visit, which may never have existed. Powerful poetry; intimate moments."--Richard Thomas
Look to Your Left
The essays in the collection examine, from a variety of perspectives and conceptual standpoints, the ways performative language in contemporary poetry can be politically charged. The poetic text, then, becomes a spectacle, which ultimately renegotiates the power dynamics implicit in the simple act of looking. As the language unfolds before the reader, they are involved and implicated in a revision of what is and what always has been an unequal share of power on the stage of textual authorship and readerly interpretation. In Look to Your Left: A Feminist Poetics of Spectacle, Darling grounds these ambitious theoretical discussions (and interventions) in poetry by women, non-binary writers, and writers of color, with a particular emphasis on texts that have been heretofore undertheorized.
The Mercury Poem
Poetry. "THE MERCURY POEM sifts through the aftermath of nuclear meltdown and lets the senses piece us together. A puzzle: in this our time of ever-expanding exclusion zones, how to take cover / take care inside foregone conclusion? What is not forgone? What is poetry inside such disaster? Ear to the ground, eye on the facts, and with heart and subtle humor, Jared Schickling offers a volatile music where 'flammable animals cavort / bioplastic / in the bioplast' and the fish choir takes over. Here is poetry that pulses, in search of. Read up."--Ryan Eckes "Writing from the liver of what he'd call a National Sacrifice Zone, Schickling's oozy syntax mixes tire fires and shrimp songs, transbound...
