"I'll tell you everything I know. Though there might not be much to tell," confesses the speaker in Strange Hymn by Carlene Kucharczyk, in a meticulously crafted lyrical journey exploring morality and humanity. The poems here grapple with understanding physical loss: "I wanted / to know once and definitively our animal bodies / were not all we ......
"We breathe, and then / vanish," proclaims a speaker in Once When Green, a new collection by accomplished poet Mark Irwin. While deeply personal, the book engages the earth, "gulls, / gray, quarreling air, their ha-ha-ha-ing at our trace / of garbage and carbon," and addresses mortality as well as the consequences of global warming-how it impacts ......
Weaving diverse cultures, vast landscapes, and ecological concerns, crossing beauty with danger, these poems are an invitation to the realm of possibility and enchantment. A flamenco dancer seduces his audience in Spain, and lovers travel through Istanbul. Writers live in exile while a menu for a dictator endangers the earth. The full moon shines ......
6 Lineage Poems is a debut poetry collection rooted in the body and the world. Half the collection is lush and evocative, lingering in both sensuality and sentimentality. The other half sits in stillness and calm. There are poems that embody old lovers while looking forward to new ones, and there are poems that sit back to observe a lake, garden, ......
In tackling music, art, television, family, and environmental & health crises, To Pay for Our Next Breath confronts the human need to make sense of love and disaster by processing them through the work of others, with art helping push people through difficult times. Through analyzing the place of art in our lives, Alfonso Zapata examines the ......
The Pulse of Contemporary Turkish offers a unique glimpse into the vibrant world of Turkish poetry, featuring 170 poems by more than 60 poets, most of whom are still active today. From neo-lyrical verses to avant-garde experiments, this anthology reflects the rich tapestry of voices emerging from Turkey's literary scene. With a balanced ......
Stacey Waite's newest collection of poems interrogates gender, sexuality, and parenthood. From a genderqueer perspective, the poems set their unflinching gaze on the habits and impacts of masculinity. Poignant, angry, heartfelt, and at times funny, this collection asks us, again and again: What kind of world do we make with gender?
In this brilliantly rendered collection-the author's fourth-Morales explores love and grief after the death of his father, weaving his father's personality, his childhood in Puerto Rico, and his service in the US military with dreamscapes and explorations of life after death and how our loved ones continue to live on in our memories and actions.
Set in rural Michigan, tether & lung embraces a level of honest sensuality and vulnerability as a heterosexual woman grapples with the needs of her own body while her closeted homosexual husband seeks solace in the animals he loves-his horses-directing the othering he feels within himself towards his wife and children. These poems probe the nature ......
