An Absence So Great And Spontaneous It Is Evidence Of Light
“In a story of William Carlos Williams as a child, told by his mother, the poet puts the wrong shoes on the wrong feet by accident and upon realizing it,…
Singing For Nothing: Selected Nonfiction As Literary Memoir
“It turns out Wally Swist is a skilled essayist and reviewer as well as a celebrated poet and a decidedly eclectic reader. Singing for Nothing (the title alone says something…
Lo Que Les Dijo El Licantropo / What The Werewolf Told Them
“Here is the strength of poetry for the world. Is it possible this book exists? I cannot be the only one who realizes I have been waiting all my life…
Agon
“In the tragi-comic — and worse — chaos of our times — suppose our writing began to appear as letters caught in barcodes. Phrases and bits of words breaking off…
Instructions Within
Translated from the Arabic by Mona Kareem, with Mona Zaki, and Jonathan Wright; and with Ammiel Alcalay, Pierre Joris and Elæ Moss [Lynne DeSilva-Johnson] assisting/editing. Longlisted for the Best Translated…
Sharing Plastic
“‘By the fear in her face I don’t think she knows realness,’ writes blake nemec in his disarmingly original book Sharing Plastic. And what’s real here is the ‘banter’ of…
Jazzercise Is a Language
“JAZZERCISE IS A LANGUAGE is a long poem that wants to be a smiling, skinny white woman. Here are the leg warmers, head bands, sweat, chants, and two-steps of the…
En El Secadero De Almas / In The Drying Shed Of Souls
A Spanish-English Dual Language anthology featuring selections from Cuba’s “Generation Zero,” including Luis Yuseff, Isaily Pérez González, Javier Marimón Miyares, Leymen Pérez García, Marcelo Morales Cintero, Oscar Cruz, Liuvan Herrera…
Witch Like Me
Being a cataloger, as often poets are, capturing various current states, all the while being “current” as a state of one’s body, my poetry has always worked through the inner…
Híkuri (Peyote)
“Híkuri (Peyote)” is Mexican Infrarealist José Vicente Anaya’s cult-classic poem. Influenced by his participation in a series of peyote ceremonies in his native Chihuahua, Anaya charts a transformative journey inwards,…
