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Big-eyed Afraid
'Big-Eyed Afraid' is a fast-paced, breathlessly witty and illuminating riff on the multiple effects of race, sex, biology and social pressure on who we are and how we see ourselves. Dawson's dazzling rhymes, her perfect pitch for an array of idioms ranging from the smutty to the sacred, and her extraordinary combination of metrical control and jazz-like syntactical elaboration make her work feel at one and the same time chiselled and improvised, traditional and utterly distinct. Brilliantly alert to multiple influences yet irreducibly tied to this particular poet at this particular moment in our collective history, Big-Eyed Afraid is one of the most compelling and entertaining books of poetr...
Club Q
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Winner of the 15th annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, judged by Edward Hirsch. CLUB Q is a book of mid-American yearning for both exceptionalism and belonging. Beginning as a coming-out narrative, the poems track the story of a gay boy growing up in Colorado Springs, under the spectres of the U.S. military, megachurch Christianity, and chain-restaurant capitalism. As the speaker ages, he examines his complicity in his isolation and struggles to define community on his own terms. Through formal invention, high- and low-culture references, and deep wordplay, CLUB Q invites the reader to inhabit the precise imprecision of our human situation. "CLUB Q is an elegant, unsp...
My German Dictionary
Poetry. MY GERMAN DICTIONARY, which was awarded the 14th annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize by former USA Poet Laureate Charles Wright, is a guide to an idiosyncratic interior country, a map of the experience of absorbing and being absorbed by Central European language, culture, aesthetics, and history. It is a catalogue of small beloved things inflected by massive horrors. The poems are home to and haunted by Franz Marc's horses, ETA Hoffmann's tales, the Great War, Bertolt Brecht, Rosa Luxemburg, enchanted bears, Weimar Berlin, and vanished relatives, along with an entire alphabet of mishearings, mnemonics, and valentines for the German language. These are the poems of an historian wrestlin...
Articulate as Rain
Poetry. A collection that encompasses the Garden of Eden ("Something for Everything") and the end of the world ("Have It, Eat It"), ARTICULATE AS RAIN is an omnium-gatherum of tones, themes, prosodies, and poetic ploys. With characteristic comedy and surprising darkness, Stephen Kampa explores the relational aspects of our lives-love, faith, metaphysics, our civic selves-while revelling in the ranginess of the English language and in the music of its metrics. Yet for all its variety, this book reminds readers that countless raindrops can belong to the same storm. "What first impresses and finally astounds in Stephen Kampa's new collection is the unflagging richness of his invention and virtu...
Peep
Danielle Blau's PEEP invites you into a world so strange it is utterly familiar, a world from our ancient past that could also be the future--or a twisted version of the present. It is a mirror world where the husk of our culture shows starkly, and yet it is lit by joy, in the words, the verses themselves. PEEP is uncanny, primal, magical, capturing hopelessness, gridlock, our impact on the environment and those around us, questioning progress and the language we use to speak to each other, each little peep a little life desperate to not pass unnoticed. "The first impressions Danielle Blau's poems give the reader are impressions of newness and immediacy. These impressions also happen to be, ...
Mommy Daddy Evan Sage
Childhood can be a confusing time, but not to Evan and Sage. They've got the world pretty well figured out, and are happy to explain it to their perplexed parents.
Blue Rooms
Poetry. A former winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Morri Creech is one of America's finest poets. His fourth collection, BLUE ROOMS, explores the uncertain terrain between conscious perception and the objective world. This new collection includes powerful lyric sequences that examine Magritte's surreal investigations of the elusive self, Cezanne's attempts to limn the dynamic nature of reality, and Goya's unflinching depictions of cosmic and historical horrors--all while balancing rich language with an exacting formal control. "In these poems, Morri Creech, one of our finest formal poets, confronts the fundamental mystery of language-...
Perfect Hurt
A finalist for both the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and the Donald Justice Book Prize. Last Song We are nothing but the stories that we tell. We are all the people that we'll never know. We are oceans, echoed in a shell. We are the barren harvests that we sow. You'd think that I'd be sick of all these saws by now. I am. But if I had my druthers I would die to grow sick of more because we're all dying - and some faster than others. Our heaven is here, our hell is here, and love - the bleeding angel of no soul - is here. It flaps its broken wing, it hangs above our ground, it whispers in our grave's dirt ear one name that we forget before it roles, dives vanishing beneath the soil of our lives....
The Gardening Fires
A finalist for the coveted Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, The Gardening Fires is Martin's first collection of poems - a sonnet sequence set among the pines and inlets of the Mediterranean coast. Each sonnet is coupled with a fragment that simultaneously extends and deconstructs the original poem's language, theme, and music. These pairs of poems, whic
Searching for Amylu Danzer
On the afternoon of February 24th, 1965, Amylu Danzer, a twenty-year-old art student whoíd been visiting Jones Beach on Long Island, went missing. A month later, her body was swept ashore some sixteen miles away, at Far Rockaway. In this tender, courageous, artfully structured and engagingly written memoir, the writer and photographer John Rosenthal looks back on his youthful friendship with Amylu, and, drawing on multiple sources, seeks to answer some of the questions which have haunted him ever since he first learned of her death, now half a century distant. Pam Durban observes in her introduction that "one of the great pleasures of this book ... is the pleasure of traveling with the writ...
