Viability
Vap layers and links words and contexts, highlighting how we are ultimately bound by the language we use to communicate our experience.
Solar Maximum
Reading these poems is to be gripped by the uncanny: they’re strange and familiar.
Certain Magical Acts
Enchanted and incantatory, the poems of Certain Magical Acts resist convention and protocol, as Notley’s poems are wont to do, and they allow both poet and reader to not only create a new world but to occupy it together . . .
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.