Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. Art. "This is a masterpiece of female/feminist empathy and genius. Art and nature, violence and literature, the impact of one's own life and the lives one seeks to feed us, to help us make a sort of sense of it all--THE LEFTOVERS is alive with fierce intelligence and deep emotion. It's a whole new kind of book, a brainy swirl of everything most sublime and most terrible about the world we inhabit."--Michelle Tea "Shaelyn Smith's THE LEFTOVERS extends the table of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party: it pronounces more of the names that should be pronounced; it draws in a wider range of practicing artists; it expands and complicates the context through which we read Chicago's feminist and recuperative gesture. But, most exciting of all, the book writes itself and the subject of its study into an ecological system, where many different voices rise out history, rise out of the contemporary moment, and put time and thought into a sustained rhythm. Through its unfolding THE LEFTOVERS learns how to care for each level in this living environment and leaves the reader with a feeling that she's learned something and planted something simultaneously."--Renee Gladman "In prose both journalistically obsessive and poetically seductive, Smith inscribes our invitation to the banquet of feminist art. What better to slow-look in this moment than an installation dedicated to expanding our understanding of what women have brought to the table. Reading Smith is like watching a skilled collagist reassemble the female body from disparate crime scene photos and defiant snapshots. I feel reanimated. THE LEFTOVERS is thrilling and necessary work."--Karyna McGlynn

The Leftovers

Smith, Shaelyn

Arts & Photography

Cleveland State University Poetry Center

Work Lights: Thirty-Two Prose Poems

Young,David

Poetry. California Interest. Women's Studies. Art. Film. Written from inside its own formal conundrum, SUN CYCLE deals with representation, value, power, gender and the aesthetic. Influenced by 80's film theory updated for 24-hour access screen time, it is obsessed with images and is named for the star that makes vision possible. These poems shift deftly from treatise to entreaty, casting form and finance as corollary particulates in the air surrounding art-making. Selcer's work creates a complicated critique of appearance and visuality, claiming: "You are carefully surviving what needs to be destroyed. I need you to language otherwise." "Dear Anne Lesley Selcer, hello from, 'This book looks like reversal. / This book has a beauty that's ruined when it's read.' The misery of dying each day, and each day better seeing through the hallucination of our imagined banquet, your poems do not comfort, better then that they galvanize and embolden. The acceptance of and anger for what we think we know. Thank you. My life differs from before your book because of your book. 'I arise from this accelerated archaeology to spit in knowing's eye.' In the stack of poetry books I keep with me, the ones that I need to remind me to make the conditions of this world tolerable in order to fully transfigure, your book is at the top. It is poets like you who make not being able to do it all alone okay."--CAConrad

Sun Cycle

Selcer, Anne Lesley

Beach glass (Cleveland poets series)

Gabel, John

Collection of poems by Veronica Patterson. A fine softcover copy. Light spine fading. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked pages. NOT ex-library. 91pgs. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Poetry; ISBN: 0914946625. ISBN/EAN: 9780914946625. Inventory No: 015766.

How to Make a Terrarium (Cleveland State University Poetry Series)

Patterson, Veronica

The Night Parents

Michael S. Allen

Lavish, passionate, heretical, the poems in Frankie Paino's debut collection The Rapture of Matter read like illuminated leaves in a postmodern book of hours. These fearless poems go where they must wih a visionary fervor, guiding the reader through the darkest passages of experience and reminding us of the best, most redemptive qualities of the human spirit. --Lynda Hull

Rapture of Matter (Cleveland Poets Series No. 47) (Cleveland Poets Series No. 47)

Literature & Fiction

Frankie Paino

Poetry

Jared Carter's second collection of poems, winner of the 1995 Poet's Prize.

After the Rain (Cleveland State University Poetry Series: XXXVII) (Cleveland State University Poetry Series Xxxvii) (Cleveland State University Poetry ... State University Poetry Series Xxxvii)

Jared Carter

Poetry. African American Studies. "From the 'sweet scat' and 'jump rope hymns' of wonder and wistfulness to the transformational, lithe, sexually charged energy of jazz, HURDY-GURDY earnestly explores the differences between what we want, what we get, and what we must be willing to pursue at any cost. This is an exciting book—at once fluid, shapely, and steady as stone—whose tensions lead us to an authentic meditative wholeness."—Mark Cox "This is not a poetry of the highfalutin violin nor the somber cello, but a melody you heard somewhere that followed you home. Elegant and silly, irreverent, fun and funny, Tim Seibles' poetry celebrates the spirit's little moments of holy joy."—Sandra Cisneros

Hurdy-Gurdy (Cleveland State University Poetry Series: XXXVIII)

Seibles, Tim

Poetry. If you—your charismatic, beautifully erotic self—had died young, your ghost would count itself fortunate to have lived, loved, and flamed-out in the company of the wildly imaginative author of VOW. But it's not just ghosts who find themselves envisioned, en-fabled, sometimes horrifically, in these poems: An ex-husband, ex-lovers, and dear friends also populate these questioning, often darkly humorous lyrics. Like them, the future unsettles you because you have taken vows, too, and broken them. Take heart, you hold in your hands the poetic manual for how to proceed.

Vow (Cleveland State University Poetry Center: New Poetry)

Hazelton, Rebecca

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