From rough optimism to sharp criticism, fifty American poets present new work dissecting the current political climate in America. Wide-ranging writers bring their bold voices to this collection, including Eileen Myles, Matthew Rohrer, Rebecca Wolff, Terrance Hayes, Joe Wenderoth, and Tao Lin. "Walking by Hope Street""Look at the landscape, " "A ...
Beckman's new poems come to us directly and intimately. Compulsively readable, full of fear and persistence, they resonate with the wildness and generosity of Ginsberg, Whitman, and Ted Berrigan, turning the everyday into an encompassing, harrowing, humorous, necessary vision. Beckman is, as "Publishers Weekly" notes, "the real thing." Joshua ...
"His voice finds shape within every fragment. It is a voice that is at once forlorn and passionate and preoccupied with beauty. . . . Joshua Beckman's poetry wears its heart on its sleeve."-"Slope" "Through repetition, rhythm, and a pervasively taut but accessible voice, Beckman sweeps us through his poems."-"Rain Taxi" One of poetry's genuinely ...
The avant-garde Verse Press presents this third book by Beckman, previous winner of the APR/Honnickman Award. With a New York School sensibility, Beckman's casual tone and angry litanies express urban disillusionment.
Although the Austrian poet Georg Trakl died over a century ago, the mesmerizing imagery and haunting visions of his highly sensitive and morbidly introspective poetry are as powerful today as they were when he poured forth his extraordinary and unclassifiable volume of work. A source of inspiration for artists, musicians and writers throughout the ...
This title presents an annual journal devoted to fairy tales, contemporary and historical.Each issue of "Fairy Tale Review" contains poetry, fiction, and essays that either address the abiding influence of fairy tales on contemporary literature and culture, or are themselves contemporary fairy tales in prose or verse. It is, according to editor ...
This collection by two young poets brings together their collaborations, in which one poet supplies the first word, the other supplies the next, alternating in contribution, to craft each poem.
Poker is Tomaz Salamun's first book of poetry, originally published in 1966 in Slovenia. This edition, vibrantly translated by award-winning poet Joshua Beckman in collaboration with the author, makes Poker available in its entirety in English. As a young poet Salamun edited Perspektive, a progressive cultural and political journal. Communist ...
Award-winning poet Joshua Beckman returns with 150 extraordinary short lyrics which build a kind of meta-narrative throughout this haunting and powerful book. This new collection showcases Beckman's ability, even within the confines of a few brief lines, to suggest and sustain emotions, landscapes, humor and desire.
After their Fall 2002 whirlwind tour supporting their book of collaborative poems, "Nice Hat. Thanks, "these acclaimed poets return with a collection of the finest new poems created live as they rambled high and low. Covering such topics as hillbillies, baseball, capitalism, paradise, fruit, spy satellites, and more, the CD is an uproarious and ...
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