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Obsessional
Poetry. "OBSESSIONAL, is remarkable for yoking an engaging Elizabethan literary detective story to a personal narrative about life as a grad school poet. Even more impressive than this set-up actually succeeding is the way McIntosh is able to tie compassion to dagger-thrust humor. If that's what 'obsessional' poetry is--personal narrative of neurosis that is aware a world exists outside the poet's gut, and is not afraid to tell a joke--maybe it will catch on among those still in the stranglehold of the confessional." --Brian Clementst
A Hole in the Ocean
Memoir. Poetry. "These irresistibly amusing and engaging recollections of the author's encounters with the great and near- great artists and poets who washed ashore in the Hamptons has a special charm, as our intrepid protagonist plays unofficial chauffeur, therapist, straight-man and witness, always with retrospective self-awareness, insight and bittersweet gratitude." Phillip Lopate "DELICIOUSLY DROLL. Stars-in-the- eyes young poet meets literary and art world icons in the Hamptons. And re- meets and reconsiders. And admires. And continues to honor and to create his own work." Laura Wells, The East Hampton Star "INTELLIGENCE, FORESIGHT AND WIT....There is something here that is at once deep, engaging and profound." Neil Leadbeater, Galatea Resurrects"
Between Earth and Sky
Poetry. "With a surrealist's touch, Sandy McIntosh wickedly maps out the psyche's contradictions and movingly explores family pain and grief. His clean, swift poems strike the reader's eye as well as heart as they rangle from hope to nightmare, from loss to social comedy"--Michael Heller.
The After-death History of My Mother
Poetry. The poems in THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER involve the work of mourning. They come to terms with mortality and reparation for acute loss in surreal, dream-like encounters between the living and the departed. McIntosh confronts the constraints imposed by history on the present and loosens those strictures through the charms of his imagination. An elegantly crafted long poem, "Obsessional" records intriguing detective work on Tudor English literary history and assesses the nature of how art is created, by whom, and under what circumstances.
Running on Empty
Explores how Southampton College went from “the jewel in the university crown” to an “albatross around the university neck.”
The Selected Poems of H.R. Hays
H.R. HAYS was a poet, translator, novelist and playwright, an historian of anthropology and zoology, and a teacher. Several of his twenty-two books, reflecting the diversity of his interests, were the pioneering works in their fields. William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Robert Bly and David Ignatow praised his poetry. His translations of Brecht, Vallejo, Borges, Neruda, and many others were among the first to bring these major twentieth century writers to he attention of the English-speaking world. His plays, such as The Ballad of Davy Crockett, with music by Kurt Weill, were performed on Broadway, and more than twenty of them appeared on television, during its early days. He died in 1980. Sandy McIntosh has published several volumes of poetry and non-fiction prose. His essays have appeared in the New York Times, Newsday, and elsewhere. He was a student of H.R. Hays.
Forty-nine Guaranteed Ways to Escape Death
McIntosh, SandyForty-Nine Guaranteed Ways to Escape DeathMarsh Hawk PressPoetry. "McIntosh spins a tantalizing web of tales-unlikely encounters with the famous; musical instruments invented not to be easily played, but rather to be beautiful objects themselves; and mega-lists, one of which is the sublime title poem. Constantly inventive, his poems are meta in their metamorphosis-one prose poem even becomes a review of his last book. He mythologizes terrorist threats and re-imagines Superman, zooming into Metropolis to scoop up Poetry and save it from the villains, Boredom and Pretense"-Denise Duhamel. Sandy McIntosh is the author of several previous collections of poetry and prose. His essays have been published by: The New York Times, The Nation, Newsday, the Wallstreet Journal and American Book Review. He is the managing editor of Marsh Hawk Press.
Ernesta, in the Style of the Flamenco
Poetry. "ERNESTA, IN THE STYLE OF THE FLAMENCO, Sandy McIntosh's latest volume, bursts with brilliance and sizzles with sass. McIntosh's new poems are audacious, ravishing, syntactic marvels, clowning-around oddballs. The energy and wit in this book will make you want to whip out your fan, put on your non-skid sole shoes, and dance"--Denise Duhamel.
Cemetery Chess
Poetry. "It really is gorgeous writing.... So much of it is just wonderfully lyrical and funny and moving. What a crazy/delicious world McIntosh invents." Lanford Wilson"
The Best American Poetry 2023
Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune). Since its debut in 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents some of the year’s most striking and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves offering insight into their work. For The Best American Poetry 2023 guest editor Elaine Equi, whose own work is “deft, delicate [and] subversive” (August Kleinzahler), has made astute choices representing contemporary poetry at its most dynamic. The result is an exceptionally coherent vision of American poetry today. Including valuable introductory essays contributed by the series and guest editors, the 2023 volume is sure to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the series.
