Poetry. "With SELAH Joshua Corey joins a generation of exciting first-book poets who apply the fundamental poetic gift of the ear, in new ways. Sheer richness of language, and in the best poems cadences layered like those of Wallace Stevens, guide the reader through Corey's extravagant, playful, fantastical, and profuse otherworld" - Robert Pinsky. "He has gone so far into disillusion and aporia that he seems about to emerge out the other side, as through one of those suddenly wavering, watery space- and time-walls in a science-fiction film. What if it is as he says: 'my mouth is full of his breath. / His tongue is in my mouth, and his name / is every body I see'? Selah: lift up! He keeps you hooked; he keeps you tantalized" - Cal Bedient.

Selah

Literature & Fiction

Corey, Joshua

Poetry

Barrow Street Press

Poetry. HIATUS explores the fascinating, frustrating, often tragic, and sometimes comic "gap" between words and world, human being and human being, and the human species and its cosmic setting. At times writing "between the lines" of older traditions, at others opening new spaces for writing to inhabit, Reilly has created a book that is both playful and scholarly. Leslie Scalapino describes HIATUS as "a social comedy by lines delineating contrasting roles interior and exterior." Elaine Equi applauds its "intentionally wayward and witty poems." Rachel Blau DuPlessis calls it "a way of working through life's multiplicities in inventive, particular and discerning language." HIATUS was a semi-finalist for the Walt Whitman Award and a finalist for the National Poetry Series.

Hiatus

Reilly, Evelyn

...Lois Hirshkowitz guarantees us a remarkable radius of pleasure in these quirky, dream-like poems about the circumference of a life, and how to calculate it...this is a full-bodied abstraction with a sensuous apprehension of the world. Hirshkowitz's poems are mature work in peak flower, radiant on the landscape of contemporary American letters--Molly Peacock. Lois Hirshkowitz is a founding editor and trustee of Barrow Street. She has published three books of poetry: Nurture & Torture, Marking Her Questions, and Pan's Daughters.

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Hirshkowitz, Lois

Poetry. Christine Scanlon's A HAT ON THE BED is a book of dazzling shifts, a "kaleidoscopic" work in which, says Elaine Equi, "spirits of the past and present speak to each other and to us, and in so doing assume new combinations with every reading. This is an exciting and impressive poetic debut." Kathleen Ossip notes the book's range: "The poet's keen mind lights on...theology, (auto)biography, science, Danny Kaye, grilled cheese sandwiches." The "poetry is sometimes impish, even jaunty, sometimes puzzling, always seductive and very smart," says David Lehman, who appreciates the poems' "strange if not wondrous changes and clarifications"--"a mysterious and exhilarating first book." A Hat on the Bed is the winner of the Barrow Street Press Book Prize, 2003.

A Hat on the Bed

Scanlon, Christine

Poetry. Sally Ball's first collection of poems is something of conversations and relationships-the connections and differences between personal life and the natural world, the Zen-like attention to suffering and knowledge. This is a work of intellectual and artistic inquiry, peeling away the delusion that something can explain our mortality and our existence. A work of scientific theory and probing questions that leave us with only one real explanation: luck.

Annus Mirabilis

Ball, Sally

Poetry. Stan Sanvel Rubin lives in Port Townsend on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington. He has published two previous full-length collections, Midnight and Five Colors, and his poetry has appeared in such magazines as the Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Chelsea, and Beloit Poetry Journal, among many others. He is the founding director of the Rainier Writing Workshop low-residency MFA Program at Pacific Lutheran University. "'The man who shoots/at another man has forgotten/what the student who sits all day/is trying to remember.' Will someone please place this book on the steps of the White House? The poems of Stan Sanvel Rubin move with unobtrusive delicacy and deep grace through the mysteries of time and being. He's a wise guide, rich with luminous beckonings, unflinching in the face of complexity. One feels more peaceful, reading these fine, compelling poems"-Naomi Shihab Nye.

Hidden Sequel

Rubin, Stan Sanvel

Poetry. Ely Shipley's first book of poems, BOY WITH FLOWERS, won the 2007 Barrow Street Press book prize judged by Carl Phillips, the 2009 Thom Gunn Award, and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He also won the Utah Writer's Award in Poetry from the Western Humanities Review judged by Edward Hirsch and the Virginia Faulkner Award from Prairie Schooner. He was a finalist for the Academy of American Poets' Levis prize judged by Susan Howe in 2007 and for the James Hearst Award from the North American Review judged by Li-Young Lee in 2003. His writing appears in the Western Humanities Review, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, Florida Review, Phoebe, Greensboro Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Hayden's Ferry Review, Diagram, Barrow Street, Third Coast, GulfCoast, LTTR and Bloom. He holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah. He taught for many years at Baruch College, CUNY and currently teaches at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA.

Boy with Flowers

Shipley, Ely

Poetry. "With range, craft, and a dreadful curiosity about how human beings work, Richard Hoffman gives us GOLD STAR ROAD. Gold Star-an apt title for this collection, my hands-down favorite for the Barrow Street Prize 2006. Hoffman's poems tap into moments when civilization dissolves, not superficially, but at its emotional roots. Simply reading this book becomes an engaged, passionate experience. Time and again through the poet's weary irony comes the bite of life." -Molly Peacock. Richard Hoffman is the author of Half the House: A Memoir, and the poetry collection WITHOUT PARADISE. He is a Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College, and on faculty at the Stonecoast MFA Program, University of Southern Maine.

Gold Star Road

Hoffman, Richard

Poetry. "With range, craft, and a dreadful curiosity about how human beings work, Richard Hoffman gives us GOLD STAR ROAD. Gold Star-an apt title for this collection, my hands-down favorite for the Barrow Street Prize 2006. Hoffman's poems tap into moments when civilization dissolves, not superficially, but at its emotional roots. Simply reading this book becomes an engaged, passionate experience. Time and again through the poet's weary irony comes the bite of life." -Molly Peacock. Richard Hoffman is the author of Half the House: A Memoir, and the poetry collection WITHOUT PARADISE. He is a Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College, and on faculty at the Stonecoast MFA Program, University of Southern Maine.

Poetry. Winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize selected by Phillis Levin, BLACK LEAPT IN is a collection of poems about Forhan's childhood in Seattle and his father, who committed suicide in 1973. In it he writes of family vacations, of secretly observing his father watching TV late into the night, of how his father "conceived of us, dealt us like cards to our mother" and of how his perceptions changed when his father died. "In this stunning new book, BLACK LEAPT IN, Chris Forhan makes narrative probe and sing the haunted, haunting landscapes of childhood and adolescence. Forhan unfolds his inventory of losses and joys with an unerring ear and an eloquence bordering on the visionary"--Gregory Orr.

Black Leapt In

Forhan, Chris

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Selah

Hiatus

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A Hat on the Bed

Annus Mirabilis

Hidden Sequel

Boy with Flowers

Gold Star Road

Gold Star Road

Black Leapt In