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QuickviewAnalects by Michael Gessner
PoetrySelected from more than four decades of journal keeping, and with additional excerpts from published essays, Analects speaks to the general reader, and specifically to those who have interests in poetry and poetics. The reader will not come away without encountering helpful insights and disclosures about writing and literature in this collection. Gessner's prose has been described as “Structurally ingenious,” (Jonathan Galassi, Farrar, Straus & Giroux,” and “A great talent,” (Ray Powers, Scott & Field).$16.00 -
QuickviewARTIFICIAL LIFE by Michael Gessner
Poetry$16.00“Artificial Life is brilliantly wrought and blindingly brilliant. Gessner is second to none. Count him, along with Ashbery and Ammons, among the most stunning intellectual poets of the twentieth century—and into the twenty-first.” —John Dolis
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QuickviewNightshades by Michael Gessner
New Releases, PoetryNightshades, Michael Gessner’s new and presciently-titled collection of poems, manages to captivate the reader on its opening pages, beginning with a deadpan, impossibly earnest manifesto titled “Expectations”—followed immediately by a pair of anaphoric poems that seem almost gleeful in their savvy irreverence. All of these offer the reader a highly promising springboard into a unique poetic adventure. —Marilyn L. Taylor$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Writers’ Circle and Other Stories by Michael Gessner
FictionIn this stunning collection Michael Gessner pays full attention to the marginal and the marginalized –– whether unwashed, rejected, condemned, or simply unusual –– and brilliantly inhabits them, evoking their passions, their yearnings, and also the rare strands of hope that sustain and illuminate. —Grace Dane Mazur$16.00 -
QuickviewTransversales by Michael Gessner
PoetryThe poems in Michael Gessner’s new collection, Transversales, are formally dazzling—incisive, witty, and smart—but compassion tempers linguistic brilliance. In a series set in Paris, for instance, a visit (against advice) to the “labyrinth of tented markets,” the now-dangerous Market of Seine-Saint-Denis, is punctuated dramatically by fragmented quotations from Victor Hugo’s diary kept during the siege of Paris (1871). Quite simply, I am hooked on this book. Gessner’s poems are glory. —Cynthia Hogue$16.00
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