Joseph Donahue | Terra Lucida | Talisman House | 2009
Donahue’s long running and much awaited serial poem is now gathered in one place. Extraordinary in its richness of thought, perception, imagination…
Jacqueline Risset, trans. Jennifer Moxley | Sleep’s Powers | Ugly Duckling Presse | 2008
This was one of the most engaging books I have read in a long time. In this book of short essays poet and translator Jacqueline Risset asks us to go beyond dream, which is image and narrative, into sleep, which is a different form of thought altogether.
Andrew Zawacki | Petals of Zero, Petals of One | Talisman House| 2008
This philosophically engaging poet follows out both the logic of the arrow and the logic of the arrow’s shadow in this arresting book.
Nathanael (Nathalie Stephens) | Absence Where As: (Claude Cahun And The Unopened Book) | Nightboat Books | 2009
A philosophical prose that suggests the possibility of an autonomous art…
Anne Waldman | Manatee/Humanity | Penguin | 2009
Surely as poets we must strive to speak not only to humanity but to animality and divinity too. Anne Waldman does so…
Brian Henry | The Stripping Point | Counterpath Press | 2007
Brian Henry contributes mightily to a poetics of citationality.
Stacy Szymaszek | Hyperglossia | Litmus Books | 2009
Elizabeth Robinson says it best: “part dissonance, part song.” The fragmented can also bespeak the possibility of continuing.
Rene Char, trans. Gustaf Sobin | The Brittle Age and Returning Upland | Counterpoint Press | 2009
Great to have this translation of the great French poet by the recently passed away great American poet finally in print…
Danill Kharms, trans. Matvei Yankelevich | Today I Wrote Nothing | Overlook | 2007
Matvei Yankelevich has done an extraordinary thing in resucitating in English translation this nearly forgotten Russian absurdist (“Oberiu”) poet (1904-1942).
Barbara Guest | Complete Poems | Wesleyan University Press | 2008
All of Guests’s poems in one big edition…
Caty Sporleder | Flay: a book of mu | Blazevox | 2009
A new writer to watch…
More Leonard Schwartz here.
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Joseph Donahue | Terra Lucida | Talisman House | 2009
Donahue’s long running and much awaited serial poem is now gathered in one place. Extraordinary in its richness of thought, perception, imagination…
Jacqueline Risset, trans. Jennifer Moxley | Sleep’s Powers | Ugly Duckling Presse | 2008
This was one of the most engaging books I have read in a long time. In this book of short essays poet and translator Jacqueline Risset asks us to go beyond dream, which is image and narrative, into sleep, which is a different form of thought altogether.
Andrew Zawacki | Petals of Zero, Petals of One | Talisman House| 2008
This philosophically engaging poet follows out both the logic of the arrow and the logic of the arrow’s shadow in this arresting book.
Nathanael (Nathalie Stephens) | Absence Where As: (Claude Cahun And The Unopened Book) | Nightboat Books | 2009
A philosophical prose that suggests the possibility of an autonomous art…
Anne Waldman | Manatee/Humanity | Penguin | 2009
Surely as poets we must strive to speak not only to humanity but to animality and divinity too. Anne Waldman does so…
Brian Henry | The Stripping Point | Counterpath Press | 2007
Brian Henry contributes mightily to a poetics of citationality.
Stacy Szymaszek | Hyperglossia | Litmus Books | 2009
Elizabeth Robinson says it best: “part dissonance, part song.” The fragmented can also bespeak the possibility of continuing.
Rene Char, trans. Gustaf Sobin | The Brittle Age and Returning Upland | Counterpoint Press | 2009
Great to have this translation of the great French poet by the recently passed away great American poet finally in print…
Danill Kharms, trans. Matvei Yankelevich | Today I Wrote Nothing | Overlook | 2007
Matvei Yankelevich has done an extraordinary thing in resucitating in English translation this nearly forgotten Russian absurdist (“Oberiu”) poet (1904-1942).
Barbara Guest | Complete Poems | Wesleyan University Press | 2008
All of Guests’s poems in one big edition…
Caty Sporleder | Flay: a book of mu | Blazevox | 2009
A new writer to watch…
More Leonard Schwartz here.
Written by Steve Evans
September 8, 2009 at 11:02 am
Posted in Attention Span 2009, Commented List
Tagged with Andrew Zawacki, Anne Waldman, Barbara Guest, Brian Henry, Caty Sporleder, Danill Kharms, Gustaf Sobin, Jacqueline Risset, Jennifer Moxley, Joseph Donahue, Matvei Yankelevich, Nathalie Stephens, Rene Char, Stacy Szymaszek