This book of poems was conceived out of obedience to the still small voice of Holy Spirit and my desire for a platform that can go where I cannot go for the glory of God and the good of the reader.
During my last year of high school and the following year in Las Vegas, I discovered the counter culture there, which was made up of all the musicians, dancers, actors and stage people who worked in the major hotels.
En esta edición se presenta una compilación esencial para trazar la poética de Ricardo Castillo, poeta jalisciense que se destaca por su irreverente inquietud experimental, su curiosidad por la experiencia que inevitablemente decanta en la formulación de la poesía.
This new poetry collection from Scottish poet Kenneth Steven captures small moments of revelation or epiphanies, which come unexpectedly as gifts amid the ordinary.
Erica Hunt writes at the intersection of poetry and emancipatory politics-racial and gender justice, feminist ethics, and participatory democracy-showing us that altering our reading strategies frames our experiences.
In Emporium, Aditi Machado investigates transnationalism and translation in poems that follow a merchant woman as she travels a twenty-first century "e;silk route.
A collection of epistolary poems that exorcises and explores the material violence and generational trauma of colonization and systemic racism stored within queer Latinx memory.
In her trademark lusciously erotic writing, Judy Grahn illuminates eight dramatic stories exploring the Mesopotamian goddess Inanna's power and relevance for contemporary queer feminist audiences.
FINALIST FOR THE 2019 HURSTON/WRIGHT AWARDAn urgent and vital debut collection of poems that mixes ekphrasis with reportage to draw a new narrative of our present-day migration crisesCrosslight for Youngbird explores the slipperiness of borders, as well as borders tentacles: mother tongue, language and mastery, citizenship and nationality, migration and flight.
In her original author's note to the 1999 edition, Akilah Oliver writes,"e;What I am trying to do in these poems is investigate the non-linear synapses between desire, memory, blackness (as both a personal identity and a non-essentialist historical notion), sexuality and language.
Vibratory Milieu weaves together eight years of writing and the author's daily practice of collection to build a glistening web of perception and interconnection, including bits and pieces from a myriad of sources: current events, news briefs, facebook & twitter quips, the movie "e;Carrie,"e; Buddhist texts, and feminist theory.
All the Rage addresses everyday pleasure as well as the persistent condition of racism in the USA-a time marked both by recurring police violence and intense artistic creativity.
Home to fifty-eight author-selected poems and accompanying essays, Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That Matter Most is a far-reaching, essential touchstone for the art of poetry in the United States today.
Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life continues leading American poet Dawn Lundy Martin's investigation into what is produced in the interstices between the body, experience, and language, and how alternative narratives can yield some other knowledge about what it means to be black & queer in contemporary America.
Sonically vibrant, polyphonic, typographic experimentation gleefully strategizes resistance and life under white supremacist capitalism in Kamden Hilliard's debut collection of poems, MissSettl.
The first major literary anthology for queer poets of color in the United StatesIn 2014, Christopher Soto and Lambda Literary Foundation founded the online journal Nepantla, with the mission to nurture, celebrate, and preserve diversity within the queer poetry community, including contributions as diverse in style and form, as the experiences of QPOC in the United States.
Divya Victor documents how immigrants and Americans navigate the liminal sites of everyday living: lawns, curbs, and sidewalks, undergirded by violence but also constantly repaved with new possibilities of belonging.
Ce livre d’Elizabeth Caron, le premier essai littéraire entièrement consacré à un seul auteur ou à une seule autrice autochtone du Québec, permet de mettre en lumière la dimension intimiste et personnelle, ainsi que la puissante portée décoloniale de la poésie de l’autrice ilnue Marie-Andrée Gill, l’une des voix les plus complexes parmi les littératures des Premières Nations en langue française.
Through the recurrence of memory, myth, and grief, / Return captures the elusory language of sorrow and solitude that binds Taiwanese diasporic experience.
2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRYThe poems inThe Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Voidread like dispatches from the dream world, withJackieWang acting as our trusted comrade reportingacross time and space.
Sonically vivid, as empire and climate fall into catastrophe, these poems open portals where the living and the dead find one another in new communication.
From a boys first acquaintance with nature and the meaning of time to witnessing climate change and desolating wars, Theodore Haddins poems in The Pendulum Moves Off celebrate the lives of humans and Earths other animal inhabitants with longing, exuberance, and awakening.
On Autumn Lakecollects four decades of prose (1976-2020) by renowned poet and beloved cult figure Douglas Crase, with an emphasis on idiosyncratic essays about quintessentially American poets and the enduring transcendentalist tradition.
In Green-Wood, the author wanders Brooklyn's famous nineteenth-century cemetery, where the burial ground becomes a portal through which she can explore her own trauma after September 11, and uncover the historical and national traumas leading up to that event.
