Poetry. "THE THREE EINSTEINS is the funniest book of poetry you may ever read. In it, Galvin proves she's Seattle's bright and ambling consciousness corporeal. She stands on top of its roofs and accidentally symbolizes things she doesn't understand. She eats the food its people leave behind on the streets. She makes poetry of its sex and violence, its glittering and dank districts. Not since Theodore Roethke has that city had so obvious a laureate."—Rich Smith

The Three Einsteins

Literature & Fiction

Galvin, Sarah

Poetry

Poor Claudia

Poetry. BOYFRIEND MOUNTAIN is the second collaboration between Kelly Schirmann and Tyler Brewington after their chapbook, Nature Machine (Poor Claudia, 2014). "Reading Tyler Brewington &amp; Kelly Schirmann's split-book BOYFRIEND MOUNTAIN is like the best sleepover ever, that late-night freakout time when the real gets giddy &amp; Truth-or-Dare demands only truth, more truth &amp; forever truth. The two individually written halves of the book use the same title, BOYFRIEND MOUNTAIN, &amp; as Brewington collects moments of attention &amp; knotting &amp; scattering into a disjunctive &amp; projective wisdom, Schirmann deals &amp; redeals the cards of her experiences, not to compete but to show how each hand can be tragic &amp; beautiful. Both poets work in a confessionalism that owes as much to Adrienne Rich &amp; O'Hara as it does to Catullus &amp; entwined within one spine these two demonstrate the permeability of our experiences &amp; relationships, how we climb &amp; fall off these cliffs of love &amp; fear &amp; bodies &amp; joy."—Mathias Svalina

Boyfriend Mountain

Schirmann, Kelly

BREWINGTON, TYLER

Poetry. Nonfiction. Travel Writing. "Danniel's written a travel book that doesn't move in a way. Danniel is—his poetness, his despair, his glory, all while moving around futilely in America, in the absence of labor and landscape, within the spaciousness of writing and time. How is this book so readable when nothing and everything happens? Because his C'EST LA GUERRE counts."—Eileen Myles "Danniel Schoonebeek is a marvelous poet, whose journeying inscriptions have the intimacy of a diary and the monumentality of an epic. Each sentence is hewn, carved, constructed—yet also idiomatically sinuous and surprising at every turn. He truly believes in poetry, not as a cause, or as a source of happiness, but as a navigational system, a method of breathing. The heart that beats in C'EST LA GUERRE could save the world."—Wayne Koestenbaum

C'est la guerre

Schoonebeek, Danniel

Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Kit Schluter. Jaime Saenz was born in 1921 in La Paz, Bolivia, the city where he was to spend his days until his passing in 1986. Poète maudit in letters and life, Saenz was rumored to have stolen a limb from a corpse at the university morgue, and to have brought a panther home to his wife on their wedding day. He lived nocturnally, excoriating the false divisions of body and language, debauchery and exaltation, and life and death in his many novels, plays, and poems. It was around his now notorious, magical Krupp Workshops that a whole generation of young La Pazian poets burgeoned, and his body of work was the first Bolivian, and among the first Latin American, to openly explore the bisexual experience. Kit Schluter's translation of THE COLD, presented here bilingually and introduced by Forrest Gander, brings this long- awaited poem from 1967 into English for the first time, and is followed by the translator's reflections on translation, cheating death with language, and Jaime Saenz himself.

The Cold

Saenz,Jaime

Poetry. Following her genre-bending novella BURIAL, Claire Donato's first full-length collection of poems THE SECOND BODY meditates on love, language, animals, science, and death. An independent digital arts curator at Babycastles Gallery in Manhattan and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Architecture Writing and BFA Writing programs at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, Claire is both the author and the titular second body of the text, in which she appears as a character and female subject alienated by doom, greenhouse gases, Gchat, and sex. As Donato writes in "Corpse Pose," "There are ways in which to see inside a person's body using text." THE SECOND BODY is the fractured self that emerges into a 21st century landscape of terrorism and hyperreality, exported via corporate networks to the cloud. "What is THE SECOND BODY? Alice in the pit of despair, humming pop songs and practicing inversions. The ocean, sex, void, women. Dead chickens. 'Doves at the edge of the lake / Falling across the age of the computer.' A bomb going off on the patriarchy. Gloom and glee, bones and teeth: this is how Claire Donato is trying to describe the world to you."—Kate Durbin "When a speaker in Claire Donato's poem 'Grief Interlude' says, 'I care in different meanings, none of / Which are paraphrasable,' we're getting to the root of these poems, which will try everything to articulate the broken and reverent heart that made them. These poems are thick with music and formally rangy and sort of amazing for the things they actually did to me, among which: hurt; puzzle; astonish; delight. Which is to say—they moved me. They move me. Hard to paraphrase that too."—Ross Gay "Generous, violent, open, and dark, THE SECOND BODY continuously lays clear a self-other, and that self- other continuously extends into the universe. As a person, and a reader, I feel very thankful for that, to be in that kind of space, in that kind of literature."—Amina Cain "Claire Donato is a rare and beguiling voice. I am tempted to call her a sincere trickster—the love-child of Joseph Cornell and Carrie Brownstein, perhaps. There is great rigor beneath her verse, and her themes—the body in pain, supplementarity, simulacra, sexuality as textuality, the flexible borders of species-being—are striking in the precision of their arrangements, and the delicacy of their assembly, suspended between the suggestive and the vivid. 'There are ways in which to see inside a person's body using text,' she writes, and her second body—an uncanny, rewarding companion—is well worth listening to."—Dominic Pettman, author of Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age "Claire Donato's THE SECOND BODY answers and deepens the anxiety that I can't stop feeling and that poetry like hers can't stop making us feel. 'I Will Not Die Here,' 'The Pleasure of Tearing Down the Forest,' 'Off to the Nervous Museum'—titles that unnerve you, set over writing that remains unnerving and yet is remarkably studied, political, socially engaged—particularly with the making and remaking of the female subject, necessarily and unashamedly sexualized, but in edgy, productively discordant registers."—John Cayley

The Second Body

Donato, Claire