The rapid-fire rhythms in Veronica Patterson's &amp; it had rained, charged with the lyricism of poetry and the ruminative strides of prose paragraphs, enlarge the reader's awareness of the world: bird, wings, rain, water.

& it had rained

Literature & Fiction

Patterson, Veronica

Poetry

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The spare, powerful poems in Brightness Falls celebrate "this"--the unexpected turns, joys, regrets, and ordinary imperfections of our days. These, the poems caution, are the days we must not squander: "know this: it will/ not last."

Brightness Falls

Steinbaum, Ellen

The poems in Gina Ferrara's AMBER PORCH LIGHT Light occupy equal spheres of beauty and danger. Each holds its share of compressed energy, woven with images and lyricism, examining both the ordinary and the extraordinary, revealing what is possible when luminosity arrives in bursts.

Amber Porch Light

Ferrara, Gina

The edgy poems of Mary-Sherman Willis' Graffiti Calculus engage the daily calculus of the urban scene with deep intelligence and grace.

Graffiti Calculus

Willis, Mary-Sherman

Travelled in the mind, and travelled in the world, John Gery’s Have at You Now! is a collection of wide range, deep sympathy, and elegant craft.

Have at You Now!

Gery, John

A duet that spans the years, Christian Anton Gerard's WILMOT HERE, COLLECT FOR STELLA brings all the joyous, bitter, and mundane moments of a lifetime spent together.

Wilmot Here, Collect for Stella

Gerard, Christian Anton

In Interstate, Greg Weiss embarks on a journey in search of wisdom, of peace, that eludes his grasp: "screaming on a road to somewhere/like a trace of a possibility of a possibility."

Interstate

Weiss, Greg

In the tradition of Walter Abish's Alphabetical Africa, Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style, and Felix Feneon's Novels in Three Lines, Thirty-One Octets is an intricate exploration of a created literary form. Inventive and spontaneous in their language, the Octets are also compellingly human in the way they map our journey through the world, with all its confusions and spontaneous epiphanies.

Thirty-One Octets

Wingate, Steven

The 19th century French critic Laszlo Ferrante-Teicher, in his seminal work Le Système de Mystère, wrote, "Qu'est-ce que la poésie ? Il est l'odeur de la magie. Il est le arachnéenne entre tromperie et une mode de la réalité." ("What is poetry? The whiff of magic. The gossamer between deception and a fashion of reality.") ... These poems attempt that ideal.

The Mystery of Systems

Rosenstock, Carl

Laura Foley’s "WTF" refers to her father’s initials and, slyly, to the abbreviated colloquial exclamation, in a pun that laughs and cuts, in this reckoning with a fraught father-daughter relationship. These spare poems communicate more like snapshots than narrative lyrics, beginning with sympathy and gratitude, moving through disappointment, anger and resentment, without ever losing compassion, as Foley examines her father’s formative WWII experiences and, consequently, how he shaped her experience and character, ending with a positive recognition of her father in herself. 
"I liked 'The Long View' (in the collection 'WTF') for its abundance of precise and effective details: an exact location, many poignant indicators of the subject's confined and increasingly lonely life. The tone is restrained (no pleading for sympathy) but the lines move urgently, and the pity grows with them. Many years and much sadness in the spacious apartment are made palpable in the confines of verse."-David Constantine 
"Laura Foley's poetry is almost unprecedentedly direct, simple, devastatingly clear… So convincing about experience."-David Ferry 
"Laura Foley, a master of memory as poem, brings us a portrait of tragedy, loss and longing. For those of us whose fathers were strangers, Foley's 'WTF' provides a perfect commiseration through the 'survivor's eyes' in her beautifully understated language."-John O'Connor

WTF: Poems

Foley, Laura

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