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Dear Z
Dear Z traces the origins--and potential end(s)--of the species while it makes fine music of the 21st-century din.
Trio: Planet Parable, Run: A Verse-History of Victoria Woodhull, and Endless Body
"Trio: three books of poetry -- Planet Parable, by Karen Donovan; Run, by Diane Raptosh; Endless Body by Daneen Wardrop-bound together in one accommodating volume; three distinct and fully realized, absorbing universes that stand on their own but, here, not apart. Inevitably, serendipitously, the intelligences, preoccupations, prosodic signatures begin to reverberate and ricochet, not just for readers but for the poets themselves, who together, in an afterward, comment on the project and create an intriguing cento of combined lines. Individually, Karen Donovan's poems unspool lyric macrocosms and microcosms with equal and precise astonishment; Diane Raptosh's poems unveil and reclaim with intimacy the spiritual, sexual and political history of Victoria Woodhull, an American feminist purged from the annals; and the poems of Dareen Wardrop, with close and darting attention, create an intricate, syncopated network. Each of these three poets, with daring and mastery, compels on her own; together in Trio, their synergy is riveting"--
Human Directional
Following her big hit, American Amnesiac, Raptosh's Human Directional zigzags across consciousness, searing through old patterns of thought and offering.
The Orchardist
'A haunting and epic debut with shades of Steinbeck' [GRAZIA] about a makeshift family in the untamed American West. Includes Reading Group Notes. At the turn of the 20th century, in a remote stretch of Northwest America, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were his children. One day, two teenage girls steal his fruit at the market. Feral, scared and very pregnant, they follow Talmadge to his land and form an unlikely attachment to his gentle way of life. But their fragile peace is shattered when armed men arrive in the orchard. In the tragedy that unfolds, Talmadge must fight to save the lives of those he has learned to love while confronting the ghosts of his own troubled past. THE ORCHARDIST is an astonishing and unforgettable epic about a man who disrupts the lonely harmony of his life when he opens his heart and lets the world in. 'A psychologically complex novel of considerable emotional power' Independent on Sunday 'An utterly enthralling, heart-breaking story' Easy Living
American Amnesiac
The sustained dramatic monologue of John Doe describes and enacts the formidable struggles of ordinary Americans in this book-length poem.
Just West of Now
Diane Raptosh's poems balance reticence against revelation to create a poetry that is urgent, fresh, and beautiful. On the deepest level, these poems are concerned with our failures of communication, the limitations and possibilities of speech, the search for a literal and figurative home, the entanglements of love given and received. Whether she writes of stuttering or of an ill-fitting gift, her work glows with intelligence, wit, and emotion. The book's lively dramatic monologues are sure to provoke sighs of recognition, as well as some thoughtful amusement.
A Forest of Names
Poems illuminate a hidden landscape in the names of children killed in the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake How do we honor the dead? How do we commit them to memory? And how do we come to terms with the way they died? To start, we can name them. When schools collapsed in an earthquake in China, burying over 5,000 children, the government brutally prevented parents from learning who had died. Artist Ai Weiwei, at risk to his own safety, gathered the names of these children, and their names are the subject of this book. Each poem is a poetic meditation on the image and concept suggested by the etymology in the Chinese characters. This act of poetic translation is both a heartbreaking tribute to people whose names have been erased, and a healing meditation on how language suggests a path forward. July 30 Tiānwēi Celestial Awe He carried no iron into battle. When he lifted his hand, he brandished the sky.
The Way She Told Her Story
"While this is about about the Finnish immigrant experience, it's also the universal story of loss and hope of all who arrived in this country as strangers."--Kirsten Dierking.
Also Dark
Also Dark is fresh from the pen of Angelique Palmer. A Black Woman Queer Mama forced to forge her own armor and create her own path. Bigotry, ageism, sexism, colorism, homophobia, and ableism are given voice and a voracious opponent in her poems.
Aard-Vark to Axolotl
A unique compendium of tiny stories, essays, fables, scenarios, and allegories suggested by vintage images drawn from an old dictionary.
