Shearsman Books

"Patricia Farrell's latest collection engages in an extended thought experiment to test the philosophical veracity of language. Needless to say, language is found wanting, yet in these extraordinary...

Author: Linda BlackPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: May 21, 2021Number of Pages: 104 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617453ISBN-13: 9781848617452

There Will Be SingingAuthor: Aidan SemmensPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Jul 31, 2020Number of Pages: 84 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617208ISBN-13: 9781848617209

Author: Peter HuchelPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: October 04, 2019Number of Pages: 130 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848616600ISBN-13: 9781848616608

On Light Sources and Landing Rights: "Decidedly prolific bite-sized, brief, crisply restrained and profoundly philosophical." The Chicago Review"I was moved, deeply moved by David Jaffin's...

David Jaffin may be the world's busiest poet, and this is his first collection for 2024.Author: David JaffinPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: May 10, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

Threads of Iron is Duncan's lost debut volume: not because it was never published, but because it never appeared as intended. Instead, the original was split into two and was published in two parts...

Author: VICENTE. ARP HUIDOBRO (HANS.), Hans ArpPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Jun 19, 2020Number of Pages: 102 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1848617240ISBN-13:...

Landscape, textiles, plant-forms, the mysterious taxonomies of perfume are here themes for poetry that works the edge between lyric consonance and radical disjuncture. Three Reds is Anna Reckin's...

Almost without exception the prose of Andrew Crozier, reviews and articles centred upon the close reading of poetry including fearless debate about the importance of some figures who have either been...

In these poems Carmen Bugan reflects on the impact of the virus through the prism of personal family moments and local experience.Author: Carmen. BuganPublisher: Shearsman BooksPublication Date: Apr...

In this collection, her second volume from Shearsman, Anne Blonstein continues to explore the possibilities of novel poetic forms. These poems have been compared to gemstones, changing "in sense and...

This is Nancy Gaffield's libretto, based on her 2011 poetry collection of the same name, for Nicola LeFanu's chamber opera (2014). In 1832 the young Hiroshige sets out on Japan's great Eastern Sea...

Jos? Kozer was born in 1940 in Havana, Cuba, of Jewish parents who had emigrated from Poland and Czechoslovakia. He left his native land in 1960, lived in New York until 1997, when he retired as full...

Jos? Kozer was born in 1940 in Havana, Cuba, of Jewish parents who had emigrated from Poland and Czechoslovakia. He left his native land in 1960, lived in New York until 1997, when he retired as full...

Tomorrowland is a book-length poem of bodily transit and colonial forgetting. Its names and events perpetually arrive in a new world, whose versions here combine promised lands and historical suicide...

A second collection, and first from Shearsman, by this Brooklyn-based poet, artist and small-press publisher. While Torchwood documents the loss of a religion and at times, the loss of language, it...

1557 saw the publication of this ground-breaking volume: the first printed anthology of contemporary poetry in English. The book is built on a foundation of two recently-deceased aristocratic poets,...

Track is a book-length poem, originally released in the USA in 3 volumes by Spuyten Divil. Praise for the work includes -"Norman Finkelstein's Track undertakes a voyage beset by recombinatory duress...

The bass guitar creates patterns that make music into a visceral experience-they are what infect the body. The poems in Translation, the bass accompaniment - Selected Poems are in dialog with other...

In this volume we present all of Wevill's versions of Pessoa, Lacerda, Baudelaire, San Juan de la Cruz and Pindar, hitherto only published in the USAS and Canada.Author: David WevillPublisher:...

Larkin's poems lure the reader to attend to the incarnational alterity of trees. Through saturated language, the reader encounters trees' vertical customs and feral horizons, as they engage with the...

Hagit Grossman's poetry hovers through the city streets like a floating camera, observing the outcasts and scanning them in wavelengths that are usually beyond the range of our perception. But in...

"Reading Andr? Bagoo is an experience like none other. He is a true Caribbean poet - the reader is lapped in gorgeous, disturbing words; immersed in a nurturing, disintegrative sea. He is also, and...

Trigons derives its title from an obscure Roman ball game mentioned by Petronius in Satyricon. The word also has meanings in the fields of music, astrology, gemology, architecture, poetics, and comic...

One might be looking at a game of consequences with serially switched pronouns ... or a stranger-than-life biography where missed moves and alternatives compete with the actualit? for attention...

In Tristia, Carmen Bugan tests the lyric against loss once again, as everything collapses around her, but this time much closer to home. These are poems about forging a stronger self in the fires of...

"Thurston's poems always danced, as the early writings here demonstrate, in line and spacing, long before dance as a practice became his poetic focus and his ethical metaphor for other modes of...

The Croatian poet Augustin (Tin) Ujevic (1891-1955) is one of the finest Southern Slav lyric poets and one of the great poets of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. While Tin Ujevic's...

Twice Under the Sun is a cross-section of Russian poet Anna Glazova's lyrical texts from the last seven years. The translations have been completed by Anna Khasin in collaboration with the author,...