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A letter of apology to Vincent Van Gogh, a flat-footed dialogue with Bernini's Pope Gregory,...
Death and its many mysteries are explored in these autobiographical poems about the passing of...
At the age of eighteen, Raymond Filip wrote 'I am a citizen of the world...
Epic in scope, lyrical in its celebration of nature, frequently uncompromising in its portrayal of...
In this new book, And Light Remains, Isabella Colalillo-Katz mobilizes a poignant poesis to probe...
These poems are a breath of fresh air -- luminous, feisty, heart-breaking, and fiercely honest....
Mary Melfi's poetry is, despite its use of tough, surprising, visual comparisons, very direct. Her words strike like a hammer on a nail. The images arise from our highly technological world. Melfi does not care for lace gloves, Persian carpets, or the panoramas of Northern intangible greenery. Whatever lifts man and woman to the brightness of their union finds warmth in her heart. Whatever makes man and woman rot from the inside is crushed by Melfi's pitiless cynicism. A collection of poems that reads like a play.
"Hope is a woman with a gold watch chain,/ swinging it right and left, left and right .../ ordering everything to be under her control and to be dazzled by it."
