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,...
Poetry
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Author:Stonehouse, CathySummary: - 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: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: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: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: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: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: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:Dickinson, EmilySummary:
Includes 75 poems as well as commentary and readings from some of Emily's letters and notes.
- Author:Parker, JeffSummary:
Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion is a collection of found poems composed of the words of professional athletes. The content of post-game interviews and sports chatter is so often meaningless, if not insufferable, and yet there are athletes...
- Author:Talvet, Jüri, Tix, H LSummary:
From one of Estonia's finest poets and literary figures, this new collection showcases the poetry of Jüri Talvet and represents the classic voice that has propelled him to the upper echelon of the medium. Providing insight into Talvet's...
- Author:Bök, ChristianSummary:
Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize (2002) The word ‘eunoia,’ which literally means ‘beautiful thinking,’ is the shortest word in English that contains all five vowels. Directly inspired by the Oulipo (l’Ouvroir de Littérature...
- Author:Timmins, LeslieSummary:
The capacity of the rediscovered world to signal and illuminate, restore and repair, fuels the poems in Every Shameless Ray. In Every Shameless Ray, it's more often possible to find one's way when headed somewhere else....
- Author:Moore, JessicaSummary:
Poems about being stranded in a truth that shows no mercy, speaking from the last place you'd ever choose to go.
- Author:Placido, Sonia DiSummary:
Exaltation in Cadmium Red splatters and brushes in poems, both as a toxic, poisonous, metallic mix, and a rich, vibrant, powerful oil colour. Shades of cadmium red have persisted throughout history as the most exuberant in the oil-paint...
- Author:Violy, ChristianSummary:
Exaucée est la voix d’une grande force qui fait écho au recueil précédent. L’auteur y propose une émotion dure, mais prenante. Sa poésie se veut sans détour et s’entend dans une sorte de modernité où le désir côtoie l’...
- Author:Perissinotto, CristinaSummary:
Exhale, Exhale explores the many facets of love, including nostalgia, separation, and newly-found happiness. These terse poems describe various passages of a love story unravelling between two continents, from the lonesome nights of a...
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