When David Wagoner's last collection, Through the Forest: New and Selected Poems, was published, Harold Bloom noted that Wagoner's ''study of American nostalgias is as eloquent and moving as that of James Wright, and like Wright's poetry carries on some of the deepest currents in American verse.'' The same could be said of Walt Whitman Bathing, in ......
"What interests me in poetry is the interplay of language, the page, and silence. Heaven falls out of words because possibility is in the page, another kind of heaven; I wonder if that's the only heaven we are given to know in life." -- Edward Dickinson (Ted) Blodgett E.D. Blodgett's final volume of poems, Walking Into God, is the culmination of ......
Drawn from Agnes Agboton's two Spanish collections in a single volume for the first time ever, Voice of the Two Shores was originally written in Gun, a language of Benin, the musicality of which is faithfully reproduced through the net of two translations. Many of the poems are rooted in Benin, while others confront the absence of the living ......
Jim Barnes's familiarity with the European poetic traditions has been deepened through long periods spent in France, Germany, and Italy, and through his translations of European poetry. In Visiting Picasso he repays Europe for its gifts to him in a series of poems that evoke the lush poetic history that ties European culture together, sometimes ......
In the pivotal poem 'Marking Time,' which appears almost exactly halfway through Peter Filkinss fourth collection of poetry, the speaker reflects on the death of a sibling and how time is marked by our memories. These memories, these momentswhether spent contemplating a painting by Vermeer or the simple toss of a bean bagultimately shape who we ......
A wonderful little book of nonsense - light-hearted with a real feel-good factor!In these somewhat troubled times Make time to relax, enjoy some rhymes We'll take you on a trip or eight And help you to appreciate The joys & delights of town & city Even those which are pretty Average. We've not neglected the local village We haven't travelled to ......
The Answerth family’s mansion seems to deserve its nickname of Venom House – perhaps because of its forbidding setting, an island in the centre of a man-made lake, its treacherous waters studded by the skeletons of long-dead trees.
Concerned with physical experience, pain, and disability, Veil and Burn illuminates an intense desire to feel through the Other, embrace it, become it, and in the transformation, to understand the suffering body. In poems about animals, artifacts, and monsters, Lambeth displays a fascination for all bodies while exploring their pain, common fate, ......
For decades, Michael S. Harper has written poetry that speaks with many voices. His work teems with poetry configured as awe, poetry as courtship, and poetry as elegy and homage. Infused with tales and riddles, sass and satire and surprise, Harper's poetry takes the form of psalms, jazz experiments, soft serenades, and radical provocations. In Use ......
