Love, Robot
“Poetry is rightly destroyed and rebuilt in the abrasive caress of we whose claims upon the human, having constantly been denied by man, put the human to the test. It’s…
Marys Of The Sea (Second Expanded Edition)
“She is not dead, but sleeping, Jesus says in the Gospel of Luke; like the sick girl of that verse, the speakers of Joanna Valente’s sharp and urgent Marys of…
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…
To Have Been There Then: Memories Of Cuba, 1969-1983
Estar allí Entonces / To Have Been There Then: Memories of Cuba 1969-1983 “Gregory Randall has done it: written a captivating, ethically humane, and inspirational memoir of growing up in…
The Color She Gave Gravity
“‘[I]n the slow gestures / of a person adjusting / to too much light’ and with the faith of a chemist, Stephanie Heit sets fire inside her own dark and…
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…
Let It Die Hungry
Contrary to the book’s title, LET IT DIE HUNGRY is a collection of poems bursting with life. Recklessly sensual, provocative and profoundly curious, Meissner’s coming-of-age poems seek to anchor their…
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…
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…
Transitional Object
In developmental psychology, transitional objects are objects to which young children develop intense and persistent attachments in unstable situations — a tendency which some psychologists link to the processes of…
