Poetry. Keith Waldrop's new book continues and deepens the examination of meaning, connotation, denotation, and meaninglessness implicit in his work. Many titles by this major poet, translator, and editor continue to be available from SPD: ANALOGIES OF ESCAPE, LOCALITY PRINCIPLE, THE EIGHTH DAY, and others. Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop edit Burning Deck in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Literature & Fiction

Waldrop, Keith

Poetry

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Poetry. "Anderson has built THE HABITABLE WORLD slowly and with a steely calm. She is fearless and will not be hurried. Her poetry, like our world, embodies time. Reader, if you enter these poems, you will live inside them and they will live in you" - William Corbett. "With their gorgeous locutions and turns, their heady breath, Beth Anderson's poems haunt, inhabit, and conjure the world we carry and contemplate in our daily passage through landscape and language. This delicate world so disclosed is here made luminous in stunning detail" - Peter Gizzi.

The Habitable World

Anderson, Beth

Poetry. Craig Watson's collections of poetry include FREE WILL (Roof, 2000), REASON (Zasterle, 2000) and PICTURE OF THE PICTURE OF THE IAMGE IN THE GLASS (O Press, 1992). He lives Conanicut Island, at the mouth of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. "Craig Watson's engaged lyric continues to discover "more songs in the gaps" of the system; as he traces the antinomies, his long poems build toward an almost orchestral scale and ordonnance. Fiercely and deliberately, Watson redesigns the echoes inside such hollow abstractions as Reason and Free Will, and so allows us to hear, even with "Ears Knotted Into the Wall," the real music of thought"--Andrew Joron.

True News

Watson, Craig

Poetry. "In the ribbons the light makes between night and the window. Objects offer only their parts, only an angle of their face. A cactus seen from a bedroom appears dense as an animal, a hot black being crouched outside on the gravel. The scent of another girl's dresses and her lace church gloves on the white formica dresser strangely suburban in the this adobe house, in this teeming Sonoran desert"--from Saline. "Again and again, a mindful image is cut out of the background of the world and then placed over another context, while the hollow shape left in the background is filled in by an image from a new context... In this regard, thoughts steals back and forth between objects and words, revealing a world of firefly details that comes close to descriptive hallucination"--Charles Borkhuis.

Saline

Lyons, Kimberly

Poetry. A READING 18-20 continues Beverly Dahlen's remarkable serial poem and its ever-shifting reading of the world, other texts, other people. At times like a diary in fragments, the work herein shifts between serious philosophical engagement and thoroughly contemporary lyric, with shards of autobiography and personal reflection thrown in to create a polyvalent text that touches many tonal registers. "In a world where the lunatic fringe becomes the entire cloth, language becomes an incoherent agent of the State. But A READING 18-20 makes something legible that exceeds that agent's grasp, something words didn't make, something really here, with us, under the erasure of the world that is our world. This installment of Beverly Dahlen's great long poem continues her ongoing work of deciphering the sacrifice we've made of our lives to a world undone by the need for belief in the coherence of system"-Rob Halpern. "There's a sphinx-like allure to the work of Beverly Dahlen, she intuits so much we haven't yet fathomed. Reading to write, writing through reading, her syncretic epistemology takes on mother, father, erasure, identity, philosophy, philology, history, war, the 'local' in parallel readings/queries of Engels, Derrida, Kristeva, Watten, Spicer, others.These three very different sections of A READING 18-20 are long overdue in book form, and will be in the hands of all my students soon. This book is a survival, a summons. Brava, Beverly, brava!"-Anne Waldman.

A Reading 18-20

Dahlen, Beverly

Poetry. SOUVENIR DE CONSTANTINOPLE, Donna Stonecipher's second book, is "a seductively paced travelogue--both exotic and erotic--where traveler is lover and tourist, materialist and pilgrim, voyeur and poseur and where the self is bartered in exchange for a glimpse of otherness...[T]he impossible quest for self and other was never so luxurious--the letter home never more admirably adressed"-Martin Corless-Smith. Stonecipher is the author of The Reservoir, which won the 2002 University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series Competition.

SOUVENIR DE CONSTANTINOPLE

Stonecipher, Donna

Poetry. Modeling the courage of the witness as a compelling poetic subjectivity, COMMUTER attempts to encourage response by negotiating notions of the self. Juliana Spahr calls COMMUTER "a painfully beautiful and transformatively aestheticized book."

Commuter

Belflower, James

Poetry. AN INSTANCE is the first in an occasional series from Instance Press collecting new chapbooks from multiple authors in a single volume. AN INSTANCE contains "Hotel Lazuli" by Ange Mlinko, "Which Is Exhibited" by Jesse Seldess, and "St. Ursula's Silence" by Barbara Claire Freeman.

An Instance: Three Chapbooks

Mlinko, Ange

Freeman, Barbara Claire

Seldess, Jesse

Poetry. ANOTHER INSTANCE: THREE CHAPBOOKS is the second in an occasional series from Instance Press, collecting new chapbooks from multiple authors into a single volume. ANOTHER INSTANCE contains work by Jack Collom, Camille Guthrie, and Mark McMorris.

Another Instance: Three Chapbooks

Guthrie, Camille

Collom, Jack

McMorris, Mark

Poetry. Robert Kelly says of Kimberly Lyon's work, "She's one of the rare poets whom you somehow trust, trust that their next move will be even more interesting.... Urbane, witty, thingly, her world is in the grip of language."

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