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At the core of the dry and purposeful language of Library Science and the Rules...
A collection of poems, concrete poems and illustrations, The Examined Life unearths the lyricism buried...
This collection of poems is imbued with a poetic voice of groundlessness, detailing the winding,...
This is Dacia Maraini's third book of poetry, a translation of her Italian collection Mangiami pure.
A letter of apology to Vincent Van Gogh, a flat-footed dialogue with Bernini's Pope Gregory,...
Like the narrator of Raymond Carver's poem “Shiftless,” Janet Fraser likes to sit in a chair for hours, perhaps with a cola. She'd like a stranger to say: “Don't I know you?” In Shiftless Fraser fearlessly explores the essence of her own life, some of her ancestors' lives, and the lives of other ordinary people who have often faced extraordinary challenges.
"Carmen dreams of pineapples, / fills herself with fire. / A dragon's flames on the sub- / Arctic acreage. / Covers carious rock / with red silk, lime chiffon. / Recalls /
that first mustard crocus."
