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In Slender Human Weight, Sue Chenette explores a world both familiar and mysterious. She...
With visual imagery that matches the vivid subject matter of her island home, Nancy Anne...
Alberto Nessi's … strength as a poet rests with his own distinctive and daring language...
Weaving together complex layers of personal and political history, this collection of poems traces a...
This is a translation of a selection of Marie Uguay's poems from the three books...
In The Fat Man Arpeggios, Pellegrino D'Acierno presents a ludic portrait of the Fat Man...
The Directory of the Vulnerable is a book in 43 cantos about vulnerable human beings whose feelings and experiences are watched and recorded. By showing the actions and reactions of a credible cross-section of contemporary society, Alborghetti seeks not universality but to stand in the shoes of his subjects.
"Canto 43:
Every so often they saw him passing through the village / and they saw the normality that remains after the tragedy / an inexplicable mystery to be treated with caution / as if to convince themselves that sort of thing can't happen to people like us ..."
