Kim Rosenfield’s Trama is her first book since the award-winning Good Morning—Midnight— of 2001. Trama is...
Stacy Doris writes that her extraordinary book is very conservative. Who's she kidding? And why? Is it because her themes are love and poetic...
"Mam I shrieked there is not any problem." Shriek, slink, creep, thud: in Ogress Oblige, the "I" Lusk's verbs...
Kevin Killian, Long Island, meets Eileen Myles, Tim Dlugos 1979, San Francisco 1980, writing through cloud of sex, drugs, strong...
Microclimates is vast. Powered by an allegorizied critique of the saturated suburban self, it lacks the usual restraints. Its...
A rehearsal in time for the dead ones as landscape (handbook) her book can't know how to tell you then turns and does a gloss on the Castle of O?...
Did someone say "The Runes of Western Civilization"? All the great heresies are here: poignant rhymes, literate feints...
Caroline Bergvall is a poet based in England. She has had texts published in a range of magazines and anthologies in the UK and North...
Beyond the Safety of Dreams is a book of revelations about alienation and abjection, a disturbing account of one man's struggle to ...
"The real deal, Steven Farmer’s poetry has been read and listened to closely with delight by other California poets for...
He sees more than I. The Language experiments of Finnegans Wake and All that Fall have led Dan Farrell's stripped-down model of...
"I like the blend of her poems . . . slightly scientific, slightly O'Hara. If poems can be said to be leafy, these are it. I...
"Peter Inman has written in at.least. a painstakingly meticulous book that is both clinically cold and unerringly humane. It...
Sarah Anne Cox has written a startlingly fine book, prompted from the investigating intelligence of a philosopher-poet unswerved by...
Daniel Davidson (1952-1996) came to writing late, emerging from punk music in the late 1980s as a poet of singular talent and...
Arriving by vessels that landed at Vera Cruz in the sixteenth-century, conquistadors proffered mirrors to natives of Mexico in...
In this lively, entertaining collection of essays, Dodie Bellamy has written not only a helpful pedagogical tool, but an epic...
Norma Cole's multimedia CD-ROM, Scout, might be a memoir without the même or the map of a place in memory not yet come to. "The...
Ideological intention meets ideological surprise in To Leveling Swerve, Rodrigo Toscano's fourth book of poetry. While ...
Rumored Place, Rob Halpern’s first book, combines a near confessional narrative of physical passion with the...
Hung Q. Tu’s poems push the mind into a nest of steel rods all hitting the surface of an unknown shape at the same moment:...
The Activist begins in the middle of a revolution. There is a protesting group of commuters with a missing leader. There is a bridge...
Each of these poems attends the "dimension in a street" and the variation found there, below the "billboard's traffic ...
Geoffrey Dyer’s Dirty Halo comes with intimately toned dreamscapes that demand, via no b.s. exuberance, that my...
Tyrone Williams’ intensely moving first book bridges more gaps than many words (and careers) thrice as long: quiet humor to...
How can a placebo heal? Maybe the way a poem does--by some power of mind. And indeed, a sugar pill, empirically ineffectual (as...
"The concatenated series of poems in Judith Goldman's L.B. chart the narratives formed by texts of uniform density hanging freely from two...
