The look of love . . . through an analytic lens Long treated with skepticism in literary and cultural studies, love - as a subject of serious scholarly inquiry - is now attracting intense interest and renewed attention. Love, Etc. centers on two key themes: representations of love in literature and culture and love as a relationship to ......
The look of love . . . through an analytic lens Long treated with skepticism in literary and cultural studies, love - as a subject of serious scholarly inquiry - is now attracting intense interest and renewed attention. Love, Etc. centers on two key themes: representations of love in literature and culture and love as a relationship to ......
Metaphor and Metonymy, Meaning and Mystery, Magic and Morality
Three Talks is the first prose collection by the award-winning poet and educator Brenda Hillman. These short essays on six M's of the art of poetry make the form accessible in a novel way, exploring words that might appear incompatible but become dancing partners in Hillman's artistic vision: metaphor and metonymy; meaning and mystery; magic and ......
In Two Signatures, Sara Ellen Fowler initiates her readers into a synesthetic contract of close attention and deep feeling. From the wood floor of an art museum buckling with Lake Michigan moisture, to the mud-packed hooves of the horse of childhood, to an art student's spit on a pane of mirrored glass, the poems' images string together a necklace ......
Mother Water Ash, a wrenching new collection of poems by Nicole Cooley, explores the personal grief of a mother's sudden death alongside the environmental crises of the storms, fires, and floods that now dominate our world. Examining the landscapes of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, these poems ponder what it means to mourn in the face of ......
Powerful love between a grandmother and a granddaughter animates the voices in this poignant series of inner monologues set against the backdrop of global climate crisis and the COVID pandemic. Margaret Gibson's Draw Me without Boundaries lays bare the integrity and depth of inquiry it takes to make life and death choices in a broken world. This ......
Dan Albergotti's Candy is a book steeped in sound and silence. Sound in the form of song, of chaotic cacophony, and of the drone (sometimes natural, sometimes manufactured) that creates the ambient soundtrack of history and the seemingly apocalyptic present. Silence in the sense both of the void's innate quietude and of the failure to speak of ......
Geology is the star attraction in many national parks, but Arches National Park reveals erosional wonders like no other place on earth. There's something thrilling and slightly unsettling about a massive rock with a hole in its middle or a ribbon of stone flung like a spider's thread from one rock face to another. And there's nothing quite like a ......
Ghosts of Glencoe is a riveting multi-generational adventure of self-discovery. The novel spans a mere four months, set at a unique junior boarding school, and played out in the rugged Adirondack mountains of New York. This is a hero's journey for two flawed protagonists, one fifteen, the other sixty-three. Both struggle to be accountable to ......
