Poetry. This unique collection by Elizabeth Robinson shows her at perhaps her playful best, mingling poet with poet: two Robinsons--Elizabeth and Edwin Arlington--re-define the notion of encounter, "entering the cochlea of [each other's] ear" (to paraphrase Devin Johnston's blurb). Of course these collaborations suit poetry but they particularly suit Robinson, the newer, as blurbs from Hoa Nguyen and Keith Waldrop further underscore. In Waldrop's words, "you've come upon a good book of poems."

Inaudible Trumpeters

Literature & Fiction

Robinson, Elizabeth

Poetry

Harbor Mountain Press

Poetry. David Oliveira's new book shows his stunning narrative breadth and intelligence. Oliveira, whose mentor was Philip Levine at Cal-State Fresno, is a former poet laureate of Santa Barbara now living and teaching in Cambodia. The final poem in this collection is a long tapestry which begins "under the Mekong sky" and illustrates the gorgeous loops of journey. Christopher Buckley describes A LITTLE TRAVEL STORY this way: "poems with such a keen sense of humor...accurate in irony and political content...[t]his is work of an accomplished and gifted craftsman".

A Little Travel Story

Oliveira, David

Poetry. Rare is the author who attracts the love of two U.S. Poet Laureates but Alice B. Fogel, it's no surprise, did it--and deservedly. Alice B. Fogel's poems have been called "as intense and perfectly rendered as that of Rilke"...she has received an NEA fellowship, lives off the grid, makes recycled clothing, and has come bursting at the seams in this first publication since her lauded books from the late good-eye-for poetry, Zoland (her other books of poetry are Elemental and I Love This Dark World). BE THAT EMPTY is that cup of water before being damned, or it is the water at the edge of damnation (its subtitle, APOLOGIA FOR AIR, being the shout and fist of it). If you can handle "All for show, to win a point for their god/ they put the bomb on the bus for a ride/ each miracle...like leaves and twigs in a real windstorm" then you will be held newborn by "the story/ buoyed upon the tones...an essence/I inhale"; "I stay for every note, rippling, concentric".

Be That Empty: Apologia for Air

Fogel, Alice B.

Poetry. Art. Illustrations by Lucia Vernarelli. ADDRESS TO THE SMALLER ANIMALS is a reprint of the original collection of poems of the same name written by Robert Nichols in the 1960s and published in 1976. Robert Nichols has been a poet, writer, landscape architect, and anti-war activist for many decades. He makes no distinction between the literary and the political, as he and his wife (the late Grace Paley) were often quoted. This edition of ADDRESS TO THE SMALLER ANIMALS marks a long awaited triumph for readers, historians, and activists alike.

Address to the Smaller Animals

Nichols, Robert

Poetry. THE BAGHDAD BLUES presents documentary filmmaker/co-creator of About Baghdad, Sinan Antoon's first poems in English. Antoon studied in Baghdad and moved to the States after the Gulf War. Since then, Sinan Antoon completed his dissertation at Harvard, has taught Arabic and literature at Dartmouth and NYU, and has a novella just published by City Lights. Antoon's poems--many of them published in Banipal (London) and Across Borders, as well as anthologized--are not quite the thin trails they would appear to be. Antoon's line, although lyrical, is packed with the absence and fury which ought to make us shake a fist at the skies. If it were only the sky's fault.

The Baghdad Blues

Antoon, Sinan

Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Polli. "Ana Merino is one of the best contemporary Spanish poets, and CELL MATE is a wonderful place to start reading her. In these poems all of Ana's registers are present: the whimsical one some times, others the haunted one. Ana writes dark lullabies, fairy tales for grown ups, and she does it without losing the sense of childish wonder. How is that possible? Open the book"—Edmundo Paz-Soldan.

Cell Mate

Merino, Ana

Poetry. IF YOU LIKE DIFFICULTY presents Jan Clausen's controversial playful language and unapologetic assertions as a tour de force as "Shakespearean as it is June Jordean." IF YOU LIKE DIFFICULTY treads its heavy feet across the plains of what some have left blithely contented. In a variety of speech (bridged bite of lyric or agile bounding narrative phrases--all composed of wit and bright shards of anger and loving, Clausen's poems will not surrender to the inept. Jan Clausen is also the author of the memoir Apples and Oranges (Houghton Mifflin).

If You ike Difficulty: Poems

Clausen, Jan

Poetry. "It has been a long wait for William Cirocco's first full-length book of poems, but well worth it. The slow maturation and building of a body of work here results in a varied yet coherent and finely realised poetry. Cirocco clearly cares nothing for literary fashion, just as he has cared nothing for a premature appearance of achievement, and it shows in the highly singular, intelligent and moving poems we now have before us"--David Miller.

Aerolith: Poems

Cirocco, William

Poetry. In these poems, celestial transparency is abandoned for the quieter glow of unruly paradox; as Miller writes, "Anterior dark/makes its claim upon light." Yet this poetry is anything but bleak. For the SHOP OF NOTHING culls the radiance of poetry as witness, as alchemical window ("This ghostliness may, in fact, be the very/stuff of form"). Miller's poetry locates the site precisely between gaze and image, effecting a mode of recognition that somehow conjoins love with love, presence with absence, ghost with flesh.

In the Shop of Nothing: New and Selected Poems

Miller,David

Poetry. "In this collection of poetry, MAPPING THE FOURTH DIMENSION, Laura Davies Foley meditates upon the death of a significant love with poems that are dreamy and ecstatic. Fused with the terrible knowledge that comes only with direct experience she writes: 'I knew then what Dido must have known at her fiery end.' Using direct plain language she invites the reader into her world of loss, which is simultaneously, a world suffused with hope"--Jackson Wheeler, Founder of The Ventura Poetry Festival.

Mapping the Fourth Dimension

Foley, Laura Davies

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