Poetry. DEATHDOUBLEDACTYL is the first full-length collection of Shannon Hamann's poems.

Deathdoubledactyl

Literature & Fiction

Hamann, Shannon

Poetry

Pavement Saw Press

Poetry. Winner of the Transcontinental Poetry Award for an outstanding first book-length collection of poetry or prose. "Uncontainable Noise is wildly alive: a collage that is part shoot-out at the poetry corral, part love story, a collection that overmodulates fearlessly into new domains of tone. Steve Davenport has created a new world that is ribald, violent, reverent, and thoroughly word-drunk. . . . Davenport's playful, linguistically rich poems -- sonnets, yodels, yawps, howls, cool parables, badass laments -- are inventive, surprising. Anyone who loves language and imagination will revel in this exuberant, truly uncontainable, first book." (Alice Fulton) "The energetic poems of Uncontainable Noise ride and drink and sex across three different relationships, moving, in the course of the book, from pain to happiness with an obsessive, iterative drive suggestive of the pleasures and burdens of love. The language here remembers itself, sends roots forward into other poems, words and lines recur and loop, as you would expect in any fundamental working-through." (Bob Hicok)

Uncontainable Noise

Davenport, Steve

Poetry. Poems of daily diligence, attenuated to the rhythms of rural life, meet with poems of Buddhist inspired meditations on how these rhythms fit into larger life patterns in Maj Ragain's latest collection, A HUNGRY GHOST SURRENDERS HIS TACKLEBOX. In his hands poetry becomes that dirt road winding back home, corn tassel, fencerows, the last light fading in the top branches of a century oak, bridging solitude and community, a way to offer one's longings to the world. "Pay the bill for the water/ in which you boil the rice. The rice sustains the body./ The water—from A HUNGRY GHOST SURRENDERS HIS TACKLEBOX.

Hungry Ghost Surrenders His Tackle Box

Ragain, Maj

History & Criticism

Poetry. "CHAC POSTIBULARIO ist ein ootwageous cuncocktioun ov linguadge in un estado ov tootal disschewelmento y abandonmento...Loines sech az 'suerte de hermicranio, indeed, suckers bloom phaster in pfister hose' cunvince der reeder that die zwei Autoren ov dis ouvrage desurf to be hired to rekord saym, in its entoiredad, for der Nashunal Pubick Raydio, to be broadkasted in small porshuns...Durn on, dune in, dip in und oot...Nut rekommendiert fuer reeders undah or ovah (fyll in blank)" - Anselm Hollo.

Chac Prostibulario

Argüelles, Iván

Poetry. Flarf. Rodney Koeneke was born in Omaha in 1968 and grew up in Tucson and Los Angeles, and has lived in or about San Francisco since 1986. His book of history, Empires of the Mind, which tells the story of the British literary critic I.A. Richards, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press. ROUGE STATE is his first full-length poetry collection. "In ROUGE STATE, Rodney Koeneke puts the blush back on the demotic. His idiomatic montage is a careening screed dictated from a state of alert, all puns intended to turn the hose back on a culture run literally amuck, and whose marquee reads: Raw, Red, Rouge, Incarnadine. Welcome to these states!"-- Michael Gizzi.

Rouge State

Koeneke, Rodney

United States

Poetry. "When you wash it, you have to touch it like a cake you test for doneness. Any harder than that and the night is ruined. You have to comb it by whispering the word "comb" over her head or she'll clock you and you'll spend the next hour talking her out of her room. Alyce's hair is something you can't get too near. She wears it like scuba gear, like a space suit"--from "Alyce's Hair." Julie Otten's work has appeared in Atom Mind, Poetry Motel, Longshot--her first full length book, The Courtship of Jim Jones, is now out from Pudding House.

Milk Chip Monday

Otten, Julie

Poetry. "Written in a luxurious squared sonnet form... this book of poems by Sheila E. Murphy gives insight into her versatility within a boundary while not obscuring her intent and content for form's sake. A wonderful book, I do hope you have a chance to appreciate a copy"--David Baratier. "INCESSANT SEEDS can be viewed as both the yield and record of a processthat involves working in units comprised of 14-syllable lines and 14 lines. Such a rule-based flow has the capacity of allowing a wide range of subject areas, perspectives, concerns, and swatches of language equivalent to musical phrases"--from the author's introduction.

Incessant Seeds

Murphy, Sheila E.

Poetry. Christopher Arigo's poems have appeared in various journals including Phoebe, Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review, Fine Madness, Whiskey Island Magazine, Dine, and Pleiades. His first book-length collection of poetry, LIT INTERIM, was the winner of the 2001-2002 Transcontinental Poetry Award. His poetry is described as "A dense new apocalypse of vivid, relentless images. rich and somehow hopeful. Inventing enthnographies, drawing on Da Vinci's flying machines, and generally re-mixing history, these poems draw from diverse sources to depict a world in dissolution, but gorgeously so" - Cole Swensen.

Lit Interim

Christopher Arigo

Poetry. "MORTAL, EVERLASTING offers poems which are measured, patient, musical, witty, serious, formal in feeling, and totally human. These poems create enchanted spaces rich in memory and imagination-all we have to draw our surest knowledge from"-Howard McCord. "The poems of Jeffrey Levine honor language in ways few poets can.Reading Jeffrey Levine's poems, I am reminded that the moment poetry takes over our lives is the instant we know there is no going back"-Ray Gonzales.

Mortal, Everlasting

Levine, Jeffrey

Poetry. African American Studies. "The domain of poet Will Alexander's nervy curiosity ranges from the icy Himalayas, to African savannahs, from physics, astronomy, and music, to alchemy, philosophy, and painting. Orishas, angels and ghosts all sing to this poet, instructing him in their art of verbal flight. This is a poet whose lexicon, a 'glossary of vertigo,' might be culled from the complete holdings of a reconstituted Alexandrian library endowed for the next millenium"—Harryette Mullen.

Above the Human Nerve Domain

Will, Alexander

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