Following the Fratellini Family of clowns, Jeramy Dodds astonishes readers and non-readers alike. Techniques such as his patented triumph, the Grand Mal Caesura, along with other favourites, are on display inside. Dodds is a warlock of...
Poetry
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Author:Dodds, JeramySummary: - Author:Momaday, N. ScottSummary:
Influenced by his Native American heritage and its oral storytelling traditions, here are prose poems about nature, animals, warriors, and hunters, as well as meditations that explore themes of love, loss, time, and memory.
- Author:Stonehouse, CathySummary:
A long poem in six sections, Dream House takes its cue from Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space in its investigation of female embodiment, calling up such feral, liminal spaces as the pregnant body, the aging mind, snail shells,...
- Author:Bradford, DavidSummary:
An expansive, hybrid, debut collection of prose poems, self-erasures, verse, and family photo cut-ups about growing up in a racially trinary, diversely troubled family. Dream of No One but Myself is an interdisciplinary, lyrical...
- Author:Oliver, MarySummary:
Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The...
- Author:McManus, RaySummary:
Selected by Kate Daniels as the winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Driving Through the Country Before You Are Born is the first collection of poetry from Ray McManus. The speaker in these poems searches for redemption and...
- Author:McFadzean, CassidySummary:
The second poetry collection from the award-winning author of Hacker Packer. Raymond Souster Award finalist. Invoking human-animal hybrids in various stages of metamorphosis, Drolleries veers between the beasts of the forest and the...
- Author:Whitman, WaltSummary:
Walt Whitman experienced first-hand the ravages of the Civil War as a volunteer nurse in the hospitals of Washington DC. During that time, he filled notebooks with "impromptu jottings" that became the basis of two works: Drum-Taps, a...
- Author:Smith, Tracy K.Summary:
The award-winning second collection by the Poet Laureate of the United States Duende, that dark and elusive force described by Federico García Lorca, is the creative and ecstatic power an artist seeks to channel from within. It can...
- Author:Faber, AlydaSummary:
Is this life a route or a destination? Alyda Faber's assured début examines the ties that bind us to one another and to the Earth we inhabit, and asks the question, What is left of us when we are gone? In the quiet and unsettling poems...
- Author:Momaday, N. ScottSummary:
Poet N. Scott Momaday reflects on his native ground and its influence on his people. He recalls stories of his childhood passed down through generations that reveal a profound, sacred connection to the American landscape and a reverence...
- Author:Momaday, N. ScottSummary:
"Dazzling... In glittering prose, Momaday recalls stories passed down through generations, illuminating the earth as a sacrosanct place of wonder and abundance. At once a celebration and a warning, Earth Keeper is an impassioned...
- Author:Almon, BertSummary:
Winner of the 1995 Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Poetry
Bert Almon’s poems are centred in local, apparently unremarkable moments which are addressed with such a fine, ironic eye that they suddenly yield their innate comedy,...
- Author:Henry, GabeSummary:
"I'm huge on Twitter." —An ancient proverb that means Lonely in real life. —Joel Kim Booster. Vulture's Best Comedy Books of 2022. Jokes and haikus have a common goal: to pack the greatest punch in the most succinct...
- Author:Verret, AiméeSummary:
Le corps d’Isadora n’est plus. Si l’on peut survivre à un accident de la route, on n’échappe pas aux multiples deuils qui ponctuent l’existence, comme à ces nuits qu’il faut traverser, seul ou à deux. On tire une ficelle, on se tricote...
- Author:Conn, JanSummary:
Mature poems with their finger on the pulse of the dark side of the present.
Reading Edge Effects, Jan Conn’s masterful eighth collection, is a little like looking at Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of real industrial...
- Author:Corso, GregorySummary:
A collection of poems by the renowned Beat poet, Gregory Corso. Gregory Corso's collection of poems contains works of major proportions. The title poem is a tribute to Jack Kerouac, fusing a memorial to the poet's dead...
- Author:Berrouët-Oriol, RobertSummary:
Comme pour clore le triptyque inauguré avec Poème du décours, le poète nous propose aujourd’hui son Éloge de la mangrove : une ultime et toute aérienne géographie de l’intime qui parfois emprunte le chemin de la traversée de la mémoire...
- Author:Mansour, JoyceSummary:
Joyce Mansour, a Syrian Jewish exile from Egypt, was 25 years old when she published her first book in Paris in 1953. Her fierce, macabre, erotically charged works caught the eye of André Breton, who welcomed her into his Surrealist...
- Author:Emerson, Ralph WaldoSummary:
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his reputation as a poet has grown as well...
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