Talented newcomer Jonathan Ball's Clockfire is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce - plays in which, for example, the director burns out the sun, actors murder their audience, and the laws of physics are flagrantly violated.
Alternating between the loveable irrascibility and self-mocking humor reminiscent of the poet Cold Mountain (Han Shan), Budbill's poems view the modern world from the viewpoint of a New England hermit-scholar.
Talented newcomer Jonathan Ball's Clockfire is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce - plays in which, for example, the director burns out the sun, actors murder their audience, and the laws of physics are flagrantly violated.
With cameos by jackalopes, Glenn Gould, homemade spaceships, and Carl Linnaeus, these poems are remarkable for their technical agility and their restless inventiveness.
Nous déposons de grands oiseaux majestueux aux abords du large, dans l’espoir qu’ils reviennent chanter dans nos cœurs désertiques et oublieux…
Gilles de Obaldia nous mène par la main dans la tragédie sereine d’une île bretonne où les dieux semblent apaisés et nous feraient presque croire qu’ils pratiquent maintenant la vertu.
Discover How Hafiz's Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own Hafiz is known throughout the world as Persia's greatest poet, with sales of his poems in Iran today only surpassed by those of the Qur'an itself.
Perishables opens with a sister sitting calmly on a burning chair then moves out of the childhood home that seems so fragile that it might split along the equator like a rotten piece of stone fruit.
When Zen master Ikkyu Sojun (1394-1481) was appointed headmaster of the great temple at Kyoto, he lasted nine days before denouncing the rampant hypocrisy he saw among the monks there.
Hotel Fantastique was built in the early part of an unknown century in a part of a city that was on the edge of a town that was on the outskirts of every dream that was ever dreamt or would ever be dreamed to provide asylum and sanctuary for fugitives from the Killing Fields and the Land of the Screaming Leaves.
Aviya Kushner's debut poetry collection, Wolf Lamb Bomb, revives and reimagines the Book of Isaiah in an intimate conversation between woman and prophet.
