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Brecht brings decades of cultural observation to NYC's streets, missing neither harshness nor beauty, in a language bursting with the specific, punctuated by the lyric-a night city of desolation and...

Known for his smart, lively baseball writing, his acclaimed biography of the rock music legend Chrissie Hynde, and his erudite literary essays, Adam Sobsey returns with a powerful, passionate, deeply...

INSTRUCTIONS: READ FIRSTFOR YOUR NEW MOSAIC, YOU WILL NEED FOUR (IV) PAINTINGS (NOT INCLUDED) FOR CUTTING UP. E.G. A PORTRAIT OF A CHILD; A SCENE FROM OVID; CHARIOT RACE ACTION; A SMOKING VOLCANO...

Jiwon Choi doesn't hold back when it comes to the outer life we all deal with, or the inner life with its particular wrenchings and beauties. Her tough-minded, original poems-and her wonderful eye...

Amelia has the ability to levitate. During her wanderings through dream galleries, costumed performances, and future libraries she meets Clara (an elusive photographer), Sebastion (part human, part...

Joseph Brodsky wrote about Derieva's poetry: "The real authors here are poetry and freedom themselves."Tomas Venclova (Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at Yale University. Contributor to...

The hard line of horizon draws the eye, always forward, writes Jory Mickelson as they guide us in this richly-drawn pastoral of the American West. Like Whitman, Mickelson celebrates the natural world...

An ?åsthetic of StoneAuthor: Lauri RobertsonPublisher: Spuyten DuyvilPublication Date: Jun 01, 2020Number of Pages: 86 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952419077ISBN-13: 9781952419072

Joe Elliot's new book, An Everything, is a celebration of the ordinary and the daily. Joe's the New York poet, the teacher, father, entertaining, insulting and every so often tossing a student's hand...

A young Danish associate professor travels to the United States to teach at a Texas University. He is to teach Danish at its Germanic institute, where most of the work is otherwise about German and...

it might be seen as bread and water poetry; the best bread, straight from the oven, and excellent water, straight from a cool, clear mountain stream. Add to this his virtues as a translator (and he's...

Bird on the Wing: Travels of the Self contains fifteen stories of exotic characters in exotic situations. They are presented in a style woven from both reality and the surreal. These stories seek to...

There is no specificity as to time and place, but a sense of menace and inevitable doom permeates the language, unnerving the reader even as she or he is riveted to numerous startling images...Then a...

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Poetry History & Criticism. "An increasingly articulate record of 'those happy few' who were its persons in the closing years of the college. The poet and rector Charles...

Rob Cook can be as unerring as a dream in fitting an image to the mood he wants to convey. His subconscious seems to be guiding him, but he is taking us through the real world and not a construct of...

For many years I have admired the restless and generously spirited poems of Andrew Kaufman. He really does go to both sides of the Niger--both literally and metaphorically. This is not only a...

This book puts on the table the work of the poet (and of the creator in general) in a convulsed world, in a time where indifference is not an option. Civil Poems explores Mexico's current affairs...

In Civil Twilight, Simon Fruelund takes as his subject nothing less than the nature of how we live together. The unnamed residents in this remote Copenhagen suburb pass each other in the street,...

How refreshing to come across a book like Katherine Hastings' marvelous Cloud Fire, rich and verdant in formal experiment and range. Mixing lyrics, narratives, curses, blessings, spells, and...

The first book devoted to the work of the Objectivist Poets: Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, Lorine Niedecker. Though not a historical study, Heller explores the...

Michael Salcman is a true polymath: retired brain surgeon, art scholar and critic, salt water sailor and sports fan, and above all a poet of rare distinction. His most recent collection, Crossing the...

Dear Marshall, Language Is Our Only WildernessAuthor: Heather SweeneyPublisher: Spuyten DuyvilPublication Date: Jun 22, 2020Number of Pages: 84 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Maybe we're at an end, hearing a song fading out before a related but unexpected song begins. In retrospect, maybe a reckoning of some kind was inevitable all along. Eventually, when and if we must...

My brother David and I were born to a Jewish family in Atlanta in the 1940s. Who knows why a thing roots in memory, but my early consciousness was formed by corners of wool blankets sucked until the...

With transcriptions based on notes and oral teaching from guests such as Jane Augustine, Joanne Kyger, Michael Heller, Bernadette Mayer, and Erica Hunt as well as others from summer sessions, we...

Female Body Retold by Giorgia Pavlidou is an anchor-imperfect, yes, but there nonetheless-thrown into the chaos we live in. It doesn't matter if that chaos comes from identity politics and the...

The first book of poems I assembled in 1980, Fresh Window was written in the late 1970's in my East Village apartment. My friend, Gerard Malanga, selected, arranged, and edited the poems in this book...

A complex story of contradiction, disillusion and love, George's Daughter is a memoir/essay about a daughter's attempt to live in accordance with her own values, in spite of conflicts with her...

Patrick Pritchett's Gnostic Frequencies boldly and brilliantly takes up the Romantic quest to make an infinite Book. Just as Pritchett's previous volume Burn offered a visionary revision of the Joan...

Meet Janelle, a girl with flame-red hair and singing chops who rides an old Schwinn, lives in a ramshackle house with a mosquito problem and takes up with the crocodile brawler, Stevie-J and his...