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QuickviewRobert Creeley on the Poet’s Work in conversation with & photographs by Bruce Jackson
Critical Thinking, Poetry, SuperstarsThis is an edited transcript of a conversation about the work poets do that Robert Creeley and Bruce Jackson held in Robert Creeley’s home—a converted firehouse in Buffalo’s Black Rock district— the morning of September 6, 2001.$16.00 -
QuickviewROMANCE WITH SMALL-TIME CROOKS by Alexis Ivy
PoetryAlexis Ivy's jagged, hoarse, and beautiful poems recount a journey through a hell that looks a lot like honky-tonk America: the drugs, the booze, the sex— and the promise of transcendence everywhere just out of reach. There is nothing small-time about Romance With Small-Time Crooks. It is an extraordinary book. —Richard Hoffman$16.00 -
QuickviewRude Girl by John Sakkis
PoetryIn Rude Girl, light "scrime[s]," a girl secretly "places a button under her tongue," and a tide is a "pseudonym" both for not speaking (right then) and for what comes after: the start of seeing "the things [in front of]" (my brackets), which in fact "were always [in front of]." There's an attention too, in John Sakkis's beautiful book, to the "frequency and occurence" with which these things happened. Are happening. Like "years or color." Loved these poems. Hope you will too. Bhanu Kapil$16.00 -
QuickviewRuin by Luke McMullan
Poetry‘The Ruin’ is the remaining fragment of an eighth-century Anglo-Saxon poem that describes the collapsed arches and rubble-strewn site of the old Roman baths at the city of Bath. Here Luke McMullan offers a translation in two strands that cross—poem and gloss—with the generous gift also of a scaffolding: word-tables that reveal for a reader the possible constellations of meanings of the poem’s key words, situating this gorgeous text within the history of its previous translation. —Lisa Robertson$16.00 -
QuickviewRunes by Tracy Thomas
PoetryTracy Thomas' poetry takes us to places we've never been even as we feel we've been there before. Sometimes mystical, sometimes comical, sometimes frightening and always overwhelming. His juxtapositions are dizzying, he creates language you can dance to. —Jack Evans$16.00 -
QuickviewRunoff by Clay Matthews
PoetryIt’s a major book from a writer who’s already shown himself to be one of our best and most unconventional narrative-lyric poets. Your head will spin, your eyes will bulge, you’ll think you could’ve done it, but you didn’t (and you couldn’t)! Put on your goggles and armor; you’re in for a crushing, bewildering, and beautiful ride. — Matt Hart$16.00 -
QuickviewSaccade Patterns by Deborah Meadows
PoetrySaccade Patterns explores vision, the erotic gaze, and social discernment. The book opens with a shuffled text that dismantles melodrama by inscribing primate capacity for abstract thought. There’s even a list of possible names for a pet cricket that follows a mathematic iteration. The poems seem to ask how an ekphrastic poem based on the story of Tristan und Isolde illumines the oldest gaze of love and eros. “Highways out to desert proving grounds” lead to technologically-enhanced vision, failures in our “dynastic speed-up.”$16.00 -
QuickviewSailing This Nameless Ship by Justin Evans
PoetrySoundly lyrical yet subtly narrative, these poems find a grounded energy in a bittersweet longing for home that is belied by a thrilling apprehension of what’s to come. — Jeff Newberry$16.00 -
QuickviewSALVAGE by Michael Basinski
PoetrySO, he tried and it was endless in his head labyrinth and he tried and tried: When asked about SALVAGE Basinski pondered and battled with his selves. He didn’t know. He was afraid. His impulses were everywhere. The veil of art, which would unveil nothing! The silly, try too hard, musings of an aging being! Alien communication, confrontation, and arrogance and some rampant need and want.$16.00 -
QuickviewSamsara Congeries by mIEKAL aND
PoetryImpossible to characterize in a few sweeping phrases, Samsara Congeries, an epic in many pieces, channels land-ancestors, land-heirs, langue-ancestors, langue-heirs, all the detritus of material and linguistic (t)ex(t)(ins)istence that insists on itself in cycles of embodied living. —Maria Damon$22.00 -
QuickviewSay It Into My Mouth by H. L. Hix
New Releases, PoetryWhat makes H. L. Hix’s book unique is that its set of very personal, indeed autobiographical poems turn out, paradoxically enough, to be composed almost entirely of quoted text. How does a poet perform this feat? ... Every aphorism or question provokes a further question or response, often familiar on its own, but transformed by its context. The resulting lyric conceptualism or conceptualist lyric — take your pick! — is as thought-provoking as it original and charming. — Marjorie Perloff$18.00 -
QuickviewScorched Altar: Selected Poems & Stories 2007-2014 by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryIt is in the very restlessness of her metaphors that Kristina Darling documents a tangible faith. Such restlessness is trustworthy and always, throughout Scorched Altar, both vital and in plain view. Here are truthful experiments. Here is a new tradition, alive in bright air. —Donald Revell$18.00
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