Heliopause
The poems in Heliopause are nimble, intelligent, playful, and bold; there is wildness and surprise in the journey of each poem.
Evening Oracle
The poems of Evening Oracle began in ritual, as a taking down of the messages of nightfall. When brought together and combined with the voices of trusted others, they become a book whose reading itself is a ritual creation of space, of a threshold between.
Seam
Faizullah goes beyond the self to write about and translate tragedy, as well as explore the right of a poet to speak on tragedy. In this case, the 1971 Bangladesh war as told through the testimonies of women survivors, as well as the poet’s own family history.
Post-
Miller’s task is to remove the fixed barrier that has separated public from private and past from present while exploring the topics of debt, violence, and family.
Live from the Scene
It’s not so bad once you get used to it—
August’s algal bloom on the farm’s
manure lagoon
Japan
photo by Jeff Clover Dear Japan, Dear Ambient Author, Dear Oh, Dear Trans- figuration Boy, Dear Chemical Girl, Dear Fiber of My Fire, Dear Big Red Scarf, Dear Halloween Buoy, Desire and lists. The idea of me—that hash-marked outline that universally precedes me by mere moments—writes this to you. I trust it to say everything […]
Instructive Fable for the Daughter I Don’t Have
Walk into the woods and keep walking.
Landscapes on a Train
Swensen’s poems, arranged on the page in windowlike, prose-shaped blocks, do what the best poems do: they carve holes in what would otherwise be opaque walls, mediating for her readers a view into spaces we would otherwise never see.
Illocality
Massey’s taut minimalism converts the things peopling these landscapes—trees, fog, parking lots, the feral subject matter one might expect to locate in a volume of status-quo ecology—into an investigation of emotional and philosophical import that tends more toward universality than locality.
Look
On the cover of Look is a copy of the first photograph ever taken, which charges the book with similar visual implications to tread carefully.