Receipt
These poems are spring-loaded: by turns quirky, tough, and always clear-sighted.
The Primitive Observatory
Brutal seasons, natural disasters, plagues, class conflicts, and wars torment isolated survivors. What will come after all this destruction, symbolized by the front cover’s depiction of a collapsing tower?
To Think of Her Writing Awash in Light
To Think of Her Writing Awash in Light then is partly a quest to find poetry in the blank pages of women’s biographies.
Exit Theater
Winner of the 2016 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by Tyrone Williams Selected by Tyrone Williams for the 2016 Colorado Prize for Poetry, Exit Theater casts classical elegy, with dazzling formal innovation, into a staggering work of contemporary, political polyphony. Through monologues, performance scripts, and poems of exquisite prosody, Mike Lala examines the human figure—as […]
Coherer
Alicia Cohen’s stunning third book of poetry explores the possibilities of writing as an act of creative reading.
The Performance of Becoming Human
Borzutzky’s poetic vision is vertiginous, a mash-up of images and phrases reflecting the absurdity of a world in which everything is on fire…
Selected Poems
This is a poetics of careful deliberation, aware that language is a container that experience will contort itself to fill.
Four Weathercocks
If a work of art can be considered a solar system, it’s then governed by a balance between centripetal and centrifugal forces.
Her Faithfulness
Liz Waldner’s masterful new collection of poems, Her Faithfulness, explores the possibilities of a feminist theology, one that embraces both the physical body and the intangible wilds of the imagination.
Literature for Nonhumans
Gabriel Gudding appeals to humans’ intellectual, artistic, and political selves by braiding fact, lyricism, and manifesto into a force magnetic and powerful as the undercurrent of a river.