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rimertown
A poetic charting of Laura Walker's rural, southern hometown, Rimertown/an atlas delves into the startling landscapes created by the passage of time through people and through place; it is an atlas born of image and voice. Composed of four interwoven strands—a collection of "maps," a collection of "stories," a series of vernacular prose poems, and a fractured narrative—the volume explores various geographies: of the physical world, of the intersection of natural and peopled landscapes, of the passage of time, of leaving and returning, of human relationships, of soldiers and war. Walker asks: how is "home" carried in memory, in landscape, in story, in time? Her poems break and merge, stitching and fragmenting narrative, syntax, and image as they push toward their own geography, "a fever doll, tapered song/ engineered into dusk/ hold the watery stream, its buck and clanging."
Fourteen Hills
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Open Book
Poetry. "In a triptych of agile forms, this marvelous book faces the foreign frankly and openly, opening it up and making openings for it, ultimately bringing it within, without domesticating it even slightly. At its center is the truly astonishing 'open book, ' written in a startlingly inventive hybrid genre that plays narrative off against rapid-fire associations and saucy meta-fictional echoes. The whole works seamlessly and shows an extremely accomplished poet surpassing herself to enter brand new territory, territory that manages to be both foreign and intimate at the same time" Cole Swensen."
Five Fingers Review
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Cloudlife
Poetry. "Aphoristic, enigmatic, and startling Stefanie Marlis' newest collection evinces her gift for pressing absence into presence. Part elegy for her father, and the brisance of his twentieth century, part cautionary tale for this one, mediated by Southwestern clouds, mesquite, dung beetles. Once more Marlis converts an intimate history into a distinctive, austere expression"--C.D. Wright. Be sure to check out Marlis' other books, including SHEET OF GLASS and FINE, both available from SPD.
Edge and Fold
Poetry. "EDGE AND FOLD comes in short couplets that have the pith of aphorisms, but dismantle any expectation of closure. They push thinking over the edge into the folds of all minds. In this amazing plural space (tenuously tethered to the white of the page) subtle discriminating intelligences unfold lyric intensity into question, wonder, mystery. EDGE AND FOLD confirms Paul Hoover as one of our important poets"--Rosmarie Waldrop.
Swarm Lure
Poetry. "This is writing of high intelligence and an architectural sense of structure. The title series, `swarm lure,' takes as its occasion the language of Italian beekeeping. Like Montale's `The Pledge,' constructed of motets, each section is a movement in time and presence, a part of the whole comb. This is poetry that can `cry the wagon and its horse tightly up a mountain,' which is to say it matters"--Paul Hoover. "Lure over lore tumbling, head over heels, image and prosody, Laura Walker translates the lushness of fragment. Her poems--hungry, bewildered--are incarnated on memory's body, her mysterious gesture "writing recipes on our arms"--Elizabeth Robinson.
The Orphan & Its Relations
This collection of poems by Elizabeth Robinson circles around and around the place of the individual in relation to an other or Other or others. If human experience is nested in relation, "the braid of bodies that engendered this self," it is also disrupted by "an intimacy that can disassemble and recreate itself" until an uneasy form of empathy emerges from the radical isolation of human introspection. Using prose poems to suggest the narrative logic of the story, The Orphan & Its Relations takes references from domestic life, myth and folktales, and artworks "to bridge," as Robert Creeley said elsewhere of Robinson's work, "between the physically given world and that other we gloss with words, yet apprehend insistently as the defining presence of our lives themselves."
Zyzzyva
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Fold Books
Poetry. "Stephen Hemenway's attention to language is constant, and his attention to "reality" is equally faithful. The world of people, of cities and of nature is rendered with an honesty that is possible only in the most serious of poetries. There is a gravity, an acceptance of the responsibilities that speech entails, in every syllable of this beautiful book"--Edward Smallfield. "Pondering and playful, discrete yet expansive, Stephen Hemenway's "books" exude the elegance and emotion of an ideal gallery installation. The whole moving adventure is both conceptual and imbued with unmistakable sensibility defined uniquely through the work alone--a hallmark of compelling poetry"--Stacy Doris.
