poetry titles (alphabetical by author)
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Pyre
MAUREEN ALSOP Poems. These “feral elegies,” spacious, experimental and abstract, spark and inflame language. They splinter, oxygenate. Alsop’s kindling: voices, mineral in absence. The poems delve into collaborations invented in life and life beyond... details |
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God in Her Ruffled Dress
LISA B (LISA BERNSTEIN) Poems. God in Her Ruffled Dress explores the human/divine interface —illness and wellness, body and spirit, the temporal and the eternal —in inventive, thoughtful, musical poems. |
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It Looks Worse Than I Am
LAURIE BLAUNER Poems. Laurie Blauner’s It Looks Worse Than I Am is marked by deft and fearless language, shifting tonalities, and discomforting surrealism. |
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Bling & Fringe (The L.A. Poems)
MOLLY BENDALL & GAIL WRONSKY Poems. In these intensely female, lively luscious songs it's Colette meets Beyonce meets Lil Mama meets Cixous and in comes Kristeva meets Molly Bendall meets... Details |
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No, Don't
ELENA KARINA BYRNE Poems. Elena Karina Byrne’s new chapbook, NO, DON’T, offers a restless portrait of identity that reflects the shifting terrains of desire and gender, of personal loss and punishing empowerment, and of political and cultural abuse. Details |
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One of Those Russian Novels
KEVIN CANTWELL Poems. The phrase Russian novel suggests thickness, density, and richness. All those terms apply to Cantwell's poetry or, more precisely, to the life in the poems. These are active... Details |
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Time Crunch
CATHY COLMAN Poems. "The textured and lyrically lush narratives in Time Crunch— deftly honed poems that titillate and resound long after their last lines—firmly establish Cathy Colman as a fierce and formidable voice destined to be a stalwart voice in the contemporary canon." —Patricia Smith, author of Incendiary Art |
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Other Countries
RAMÓN GARCÍA Poems. In Other Countries, Rámon García forges a chronicle of another prodigal son. With vivid language he leads us from California?s Central Valley, where "The Mexicans work... Details |
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us clumsy gods
ASH GOOD
Poems. In a universe simultaneously unravelling and knotting itself,
what does it take to thrive as both messy humans and awake beings
at the same time?
ASH GOOD
Poems. In a universe simultaneously unravelling and knotting itself,
what does it take to thrive as both messy humans and awake beings
at the same time?
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One Strange Country
STELLA HAYES Poems. In her debut poetry collection, Russian-American poet Stella Hayes, replaces one strange country with another she calls home, mapping an origin story of identity, exile and loss. In stark and sharp language, Hayes conveys poems of witness, longing and love. Details... |
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Whole Night Through
L.I. HENLEY Poems. “The narrative these characters unfold is an American ballad of careworn beauty, of love broken down by hardship and betrayal...I admire these jagged and earthy details and the speakers’ abrupt statements of pain and desire.” —Joseph Millar |
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Lizard Dream
KAREN KEVORKIAN Poems. Karen Kevorkian's most powerful poems—"An Interruption," "A Fall That Occurred in Recent History," and "Five O'Clock," among others—are intricate, dense, and resonant... Details |
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Interrupted by the Sea
PAUL LIEBER Here, land and sea merge, past and present, body and what he might call the soul if this poet’s language weren’t so sharp, his take on the world so clear-eyed and direct...Details |
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Nightfall Marginalia
SARAH MACLAY This book of nocturnes and ekphrastics—twilit, autumnal, narrowly perched between elegy, eros, prayer and grimoire—abandons diurnal constraint to embrace a poetry of dream. |
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The "She" Series: A Venice Correspondence
HOLADAY MASON & SARAH MACLAY This collaboration is a unique exploration of the mysterious feminine aspects of human experience, “...revealing a multifaceted universe—almost painfully private—where “She” appears as a dream-like composite of sexuality, longing, awareness and courage.” — Mariano Zaro |
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The Headwaters of Nirvana
BILL MOHR While Mohr has vigorously championed his fellow poets since the early 1970s as an editor, publisher, critic, and literary historian, The Headwaters of Nirvana surpasses his other notweorthy achievements. Mohr now stands poised to claim an enduring place among the handful of American poets whose work will continue to be acknowledged on an international level. |
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Mirage Industries
CAROLIE PARKER Carolie Parker's poems are suggested by the social landscape of Los Angeles, a fairly reckless experiment in rearranging the natural world to serve human needs. Whether breathing fire or air, the poems issue from this freewheeling approach to building place, combining random methods of composition with more formal structures. |
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A Plea for Secular Gods
BRYAN D. PRICE Poems about families who do not talk anymore and strange man-hoods shared across generations, about memories of catastrophic failures, and the disappointment that entails being human. |
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Perfecta
PATTY SEYBURN Poems. "In Perfecta, Patty Seyburn continues her one-of-a-kind witchery, casting spells that bind the humorous to the philosophical in ways that look headlong at the living world and make use of every inch of it." - Jericho Brown |
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Sex Libris
JUDITH TAYLOR Poems. Los Angeles based poet Judith Taylor is full of surprises in her third book of poems, Sex Libris. These intelligent, hyper-alert, witty poems, many of them written in a five-line form Judith Taylor has made her own, playfully mix tones and levels of language into a fresh and lively brew... Details |
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Start With A Small Guitar
LYNNE THOMPSON Poems. Start With A Small Guitar is a collection of poems that celebrate and suspect, extol and mourn, despise and pray for love, in all its terrible, bewitching iterations... Details |
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That Blue Trickster Time
AMY UYEMATSU While addressing serious social and political issues, Uyematsu’s poems are also rooted in a deep reverence for nature and a spiritual growth that comes with aging... Details |
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Only So Much
JAN WESLEY Poems. Memories of a woman seeking change and forgiveness. The narrator and characters who speak for her unravel adventures and consequences over the course of decades. |
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So Quick Bright Things
GAIL WRONSKY BILINGUAL, SPANISH TRANS. ALICIA PARTNOY Poems. In Spanish translations that have the verve and intelligence of the original, Alicia Partnoy deftly conveys Wronsky's brilliant riff on masks and mutability, on doubles... Details |
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Imperfect Pastorals
GAIL WRONSKY 'If there were justice, even poetic justice—and these poems warn us continually of the foolishness of that hope--Imperfect Pastorals would be received for what it is: the finest collection of one of our most gifted and exhilarating poets." —Daniel Tiffany, author of Privado and The Dandelion Clock |
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Tomorrow You'll Be One of Us
WRONSKY, ROSENTHAL, GRONK Tomorrow You’ll Be One of Us is a humorous tribute to sci fi movies from the 1950s and early 60s. It is a book of poetry and an art book, with over 70 full-color drawings/paintings by Gronk... Details |
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Decoding Sparrows
MARIANO ZARO Poems. "In Decoding Sparrows, Mariano Zaro renders coming of age and hunger in spare and luminous language, an almost crystalline austerity— each word resonant, each word steadfast. Zaro illuminates, he limns his poems in longing." —Marsha de la O, author of Every Ravening Thing |
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