<p>Poetry. Asian- American Studies. DREDGING FOR ATLANTIS, this new collection from prolific poet Eilieen Tabios, introduces her translation of the painterly technique of scumbling, painting light colors over dark colors to create an opalescent effect, creating poems from other poets' words. Tabios publications include fourteen poetry collections. Her books REPRODUCTIONS OF THE EMPTY FLAGPOLE, I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED, MENAGE A TROIS WITH THE 21ST CENTURY, and THE SECRET LIVES OF PUNCTUATION, VOL 1, are all available from SPD.</p>

DREDGING FOR ATLANTIS

Literature & Fiction

Tabios, Eileen

Poetry

Otoliths

Want to know Marilyn Monroe s measurements? Or the first movie Jonathan Williams saw? Alex Gildzen provides answers in this unique book about film. His long love affair with cinema is reflected in a collection which brings together some of Gildzen s recent poems, photographs of him with Hollywood legends such as Sylvia Sidney and Samuel Fuller, prose dating back to 1985 and a year from his important autobiography in progress Alex in Movieland.

It's All A Movie

Alex Gildzen

<p>Not all vampirism transpires on a grassy hill deep in the Carpathians. We may all, in fact, be vampires: blood-crazed, hungry, equipped with sharp teeth for a life-and-death struggle. The struggle is for love, in all of its myriad manifestations: physical, emotional, spiritual. In When You BitÉ, Adam Fieled has crafted what may be the first post-avant sonnet cycle. It concerns these themes; how we feed on each other, consume each othersÕ vital resources, prey upon weaknesses to get those first teeth-marks in. In these sonnets, we see a sensibility equal parts Barrett Watten and Sir Philip Sidney; the post-avant impulse towards openness meeting a Renaissance-like ideal of courtly love, phenomenological inquiry, and good old-fashioned heartache. The goal, perpetually renewed in the text, is always the same: to make the reader complicit in attacks on frigidity and an embrace of the artfully carnal.</p>

When You Bit...

Adam Fieled

Charles Freeland employs narrative sequence as a mode of aspiring to innocence. Each of these deceptively direct prose pieces, "embracing that infinity," is replete with power to endure what finally endows the conscious mind with revelations disguised as moments. Freelands wry humor, charged observations, sonorous lines ("Eulalie stands thigh deep in the river"), remind us of our privilege "just to catch the echo of it, the way children sometimes catch crayfish on the end of a sharpened stick." One final word for Freeland: "Encore!" - Sheila E. MurphyFreeland's collection takes us on a journey with unexpected directions and deviations.  Full of satire and the understated, the poetry of Through the Funeral Mountains on a Burro is masterful. - William Allegrezza

Through the Funeral Mountains on a Burro

Charles Freeland

Genji Monogatari

Mark-Young