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

Deathdoubledactyl

Literature & Fiction

Hamann, Shannon

Poetry

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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. "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

Poetry. This handsome landmark edition of Simon Perchik's poems from 1949 to 1999 also includes a complete bibliography. Let others jockey for position. Perchik's poems are obdurant and honest and will reach those that need them most -- James Tate. He makes dense and sometimes brutal poems with all the implicit tenderness of a full man -- Paul Blackburn. Simon Perchik is widely and regularly published in many periodicals including The New Yorker, The Nation, Partisan Review, Massachusetts Review, and Southern Poetry Review. This is his seventeenth collection of poetry.

Hands Collected: The Books of Simon Perchik

Perchik, Simon

Poetry. The poems in this volume are but representatives of Gordon Massman's life-long project, now 1193 poems deep, each merely numbered in the order it was written, and which when completed will form a psychographic autobiography. This self-analytical project is thus far passionately realized and rewardingly told in this unusual collection. From 370: If I could stick my tongue through the fat portion/ of my palm, completely through so that it waggles on/ the other side, like a worm or a soft sword; there/ I would find God: an ordinary tongue, an ordinary/ hand, but an extraordinary moment -- the tongue penetrating/ the soft lips of a hand which water -- close around it/ when withdrawn. God would be there -- I am certain -- / where the flesh gave way to the wetness, where the/ little opening parted for the rooting tip, magically.

The Numbers

Massman, Gordon

Poetry. Winner of the 1999 Transcontinental Poetry Award for an outstanding first book-length collection of poetry or prose, this debut by Kansas-born poet Dana Curtis describes adventures of the body in tones both tender and macabre. (She's a swimmer and her body thrashes,/ delicate and white. Beneath the bridge,/ red with sky, how bitter she must/ taste.) Gone. (Undone) Rikki Ducornet has written, A poet of an urgent seeing, Dana Curtis articulates extremity, and this with exceptional ferocity, delicacy and power. If her book were a garden, it would be a place of black ice and live water.

The Body's Response To Famine

Curtis, Dana

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