Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781888889369
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
A yearly anthology of fiction, essays and poetry from the small presses chosen by writers.
The Pushcart Prize
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781888889369
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
A yearly anthology of fiction, essays and poetry from the small presses chosen by writers.
Darling Vulgarity
Author: Michael WatersPublisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 1938160738
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
With both ardor and sensuality, Darling Vulgarity challenges us to embrace humanity’s imperfections while urging us toward new spiritual realities. And then, sometimes, the poems are just plain sexy. Or, as Nat Hardy wrote, “Waters’ meditative and confessional forays into the sexual sublime are both disturbing and artfully passionate.” Darling Vulgarity also includes poems based on Waters’ true literary experiences with such notables as Raymond Carver, Allen Ginsberg, and Robert Lowell.
Wind in a Box
Author: Terrance HayesPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440626987
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The third collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018 Terrance Hayes is an elegant and adventurous writer with disarming humor, grace, tenderness, and brilliant turns of phrase. He is very much interested in what it means to be an artist and a black man. In his first collection, Muscular Music, he took the reader through a living library of cultural icons, from Shaft and Fat Albert to John Coltrane and Miles Davis. His second collection, Hip Logic, continued these explorations of popular culture, fatherhood, cultural heritage, and loss. Wind in a Box, Hayes’s resonant new collection, continues his interest in how traditions (of poetry and culture alike) can be simultaneously upended and embraced. The struggle for freedom (the wind) within containment (the box) is the unifying motif as Hayes explores how identity is shaped by race, heritage, and spirituality. This new book displays not only what the Los Angeles Times calls the range of a "bold virtuoso," but also the imaginative fervor of a poet in love with poetry.
The New Criterion
Author: Wedding Day
Author: Dana LevinPublisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556592191
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
An exhilarating and distinctive talent, Dana Levin is one of American poetry's rising stars.
The Corpse Flower
Author: Bruce BeasleyPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295806788
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Corpse Flower brings works from Bruce Beasley's first four award-winning collections together with twenty-five new poems, organizing them around the metaphor that gives the book its title: an enormous tropical bloom that reeks like carrion, and around whose three-day florescence "dung beetles & flies & sweat bees swarm / . . . pollen gummed all over / their furred feet." The corpse flower serves as a figure for Beasley's coming to terms with birth and death, fecundity and decay, the illusion of death, and the flourishing of the rare and beautiful out of the materials of the decayed. The Corpse Flower traces a spiritual pilgrimage, weaving autobiography into a larger meditation on the materials of language and of the life of the spirit. Beasley's is a deeply physical spirituality - as he writes in one poem, "the soul's / impossible to tell / from the objects of its appetite." Throughout these poems, family mythology, as well as religious and mythic narrative and iconography, become occasions for extraordinary meditations on the physicality of birth and death, beginnings and endings. This substantial selection of Bruce Beasley's work, written over a twenty year period, offers the opportunity to experience, page by page, a poet's evolution, and to follow a unique, creative mind as it reaches, through interrogations of faith, science, and art, toward some form of resolution - a resolution increasingly represented by the beauties of language itself. On Summer Mystagogia "These brilliant poems, often both mythic and demotic, powerfully initiate the reader into a world at once marred and yet suffused by the signs and wonders of an 'irresistible grace.' . . . A wonderfully resilient and hard-won poetry of witness." -Boston Review
Epoch
Author: Passwords Primeval
Author: Tony LeuzziPublisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 1934414964
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
Passwords Primeval sets aside the artificial boundaries of poetry "schools" and "movements" to cut to the art of the matter. Tony Leuzzi's astounding knowledge of poetry draws new insights from such luminaries as Billy Collins, Gerald Stern, Jane Hirshfield, Patricia Smith, and Martín Espada. These new interviews provide insights into the poets and their poems without losing any of their mystery. Whether you're looking for deeper understanding of your favorite poets or simply interested in the lives of contemporary artists, Passwords Primeval reveals the interconnectedness of these masters whose voices echo each other from opposite ends of the same canyon.
The Girl with Bees in Her Hair
Author: Eleanor WilnerPublisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556592035
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
"Eleanor Wilner's sudden flights of lyricism are disarming and dazzling."--The New York Times
International Who's Who in Poetry 2004
Author: Europa PublicationsPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781857431780
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.