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Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World
This “innovative” poetry collection “uses text and image to explore the strangeness inherent in everyday experience” (Publishers Weekly). “I take seven photographs turning / in a circle, a panorama, / but how will I place them hanging / on a wall back home? Something already slipping,” Kathryn Cowles writes. These poems surround a central question: how much of a moment is captured by the mechanisms we use to describe it? How much of the shore, the birds, the feeling? In pursuit of an answer, Cowles leads readers through a sequence of distinct landscapes (islands, plains, mountains, oceans), puzzling over and embracing the valley between literature and lived experience. Along the ...
Telling My Father
A collection of poems about familial bonds, memory, and loss.
The People's Field
With attention to the Japanese occupation, the Korean War and its aftermath, The People's Field reflects on the sounds, ideas and histories of the Korean peninsula. Of her selection, contest judge Jenny Yang Cropp writes, "Kwon's manuscript contains a paradoxical experience of both movement and stillness, history and the eternal present. These poems, short and spare, carry the intensity of distillation but resist the epigrammatic as they show us a rich and complex landscape that asks for and earns reading after reading."
Gold Hill Family Audio
It is hard not to fall in love with the sensual, contemplative, sharp-eyed and often playful voice of Corrie Lynn White in her gutsy debut as she traverses the landscape of her personal history--its "uneven ground" and its badass set of matriarchs--looking to chart her own "narrow road" toward a complete and fulfilling life. Sometimes that means, "delet[ing] Tinder," and going it alone. Sometimes that means embracing romance and its raw pleasure: "I sleep next to him/like a hog/ when it finds/ cold mud." Where must we go? And, who with? It is the anxieties of this poet's very human search that ring most true. And, as a woman, I have rarely felt so seen by a book. --Lauren Goodwin Slaughter, author of Spectacle
A Ribbon the Most Perfect Blue
" Christine Kwon has a playfully no-nonsense way with the agitations of being someone' s child, someone' s partner, someone' s poet, someone' s self. ' These people inside me/ make me nervous,' she writes, as her poems briskly and brazenly bear the tumults of inwardness. Kwon suffers no fools, but she does suffer-- grief-stricken, defiant and turning to poetry for a salvation she can' t quite trust. This voice is fresh, freshly wounded, clear-eyed, laid bare: ' They say when you cut into night/ There is no fat/ Only bone.' " -- Mark Levine, poet
Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World
"Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World is a collection of poems about memory, place, and distance between reality and its transcriptions"--
Hospice Plastics
"Hospice Plastics is a collection of poems examining familial ties and the intersection of work and technology. In the words of Emma Bolden, "This book absolutely hums and it's so powerful, every line of it, and the way the author uses language astounds and amazes me.""--
Proud to be
-The Missouri Humanities Council and Warriors Arts Alliance---Cover, vol. 1.
House is an Enigma
House is an Enigma is an investigation of the language used to house descriptions of the body, which so often seek to define and determine the boundaries and behaviors of the spirit that lives within. Written after Bolden's radical hysterectomy, during which she noted her doctors' use of house metaphors to describe her body and discuss her inability to have children, these stunning poems set out to expose the fissures in the foundations of the language we use to define human bodies and their behaviors, using these cracks as a lens through which she can see her own body, at last, as her own flawed but beautiful home.
Every Waking Moment
In Every Waking Moment, James Crews plumbs his past and family life for insights, yet always returns to the moment at hand, approaching the world with mindfulness, openness, and clarity. He finds the miraculous in a shaft of sunlight while waiting for the subway, in an eagle glimpsed from a train along the Hudson, or in the fields of sweet corn surrounding his house. Crews reminds us over and over in this meditative new collection: "You must / put yourself in the path of joy / to find it."
