Poetry. In Residence presents us with writing in a new idiom. We have a sense of being present at the moment when a representative of fresh thinking about writing enters poetry. Beth Anderson employs a simultaneity in the line, where everything happens at once and without displacement, with a continuing poetic summation ingenious and personal. Anderson locates her sensibility within an unusual placement of distance and intimacy. --Barbara Guest.

In Residence

Literature & Fiction

Anderson, Beth

Poetry

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Arkansas

Poetry. Jim Behrle is a homonym for Dinty Moore, a territory sound in Boston to the core. That passing local of time and times whose places in mind serve as pillar and post-it. Just watch. Fresh hash marks for the urban georgic and the crisp apple in apprehending. Jim Behrle goes to people, places, and things like an aphrodisiac to a hanged man, conflating ego with object in 'the hour we give back to the sun'--Michael Gizzi.

City Point

Behrle, Jim

Poetry. The poems in AUGUST LETTER TO MY WIFE AND DAUGHTERS relate to a visit to China in August of 2000. They are simply told in a hypnotic nine-line form: In brush set, jade earrings and bracelet for Molly./ Silk vests for the girls, kids drums, treasure box,rubber/ ball that lights up when it bounces, silk wall hanging ... Joseph Torra's GAS STATION and KEEP WATCHING THE SKY (Zoland) are both available from SPD. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. Saddlestapled chapbook.

August Letter To My Wife and Daughters

Torra, Joseph

Poetry. "You emplane for Ireland, back./ I drive six hours through morning/ Vermont fog into BQE stop and/ go to Brooklyn home of Marni/ and Arden and quickly go/ forth to the MET where/ Chardin's wild strawberries --/ tiny, the devil to pick,/ good to look at good/ to eat good to paint/ good to look at when painted - moist pyramid close to / collapse into jeweled mush." BACK AND FORTH is new work from William Corbett, well-known poet, Boston institution and editor of Pressed Wafer. His ALL PROSE, selected essays and reviews, is due out from Zoland this fall. Saddlestapled chapbook.

Back and Forth

Corbett, William

Poetry. "I drink my fill.// The clouds grip their purple,/ the mountains let go their thunder.// I sit and drink my fill.// How much I long to see/ through the man/ who sees through the moment.// I sit"-"Homage to Ryokan." Seido (Ray Ronci) is a monk of the Rinzai Zen sect and the director of Hokoku-An Zen Center in Columbia, Missouri. He has won an AWP "Intro" Award, an Academy of American Poets Award and the John H. Vreeland Award for Literary Composition. Saddlestapled chapbook.

The World of Difference

Ronci, Seido Ray

Poetry. Del Ray Cross currently lives in San Francisco, and is the editor of Shampoo, an online poetry magazine. "somebody's welding/a bus to the/black sky//I'd crumble too/if I/were that sky//somebody's building/a skyscraper/disco//bang bang/bang//a cigarette/a sneeze at 7:10//listen to how/the world shakes" (from "the bus poems").

Cinema Yosemite

Cross, Del Ray

Poetry. Published to coincide with the poets' reading at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in February 2002, the back-to-back chapbook presents exciting work from two remarkable young poets. Fred Moten's poems spark with flavor, fierce downward twists of vibe and jive. His pieces unite personal and the projective into a unique, irresistible lilt that packs quiet punch. Jim Behrle's repetition and scattered imagery creates chain reactions on the page. Boston looms large as backdrop and inheritance, and in Behrle's poems connections are made from sliced-up language and dropped-off metaphor.Together in this chapbook, these poets claim their own space and their work is amplified by the presence of the other.

Poems (Behrle/Moten)

Moten, Fred

Poetry. "IN A GLASS BOX is a title that might suggest poems framed, contained, andfragile. But the way they follow vowels relentlessly to revelations groundedin the five senses is so robust, no reader will mistake them for dream poemsor shadowboxes or, as is *au courant* in female experimental poetry, a wishfulfillment of poetess as princess with unicorns and tapestries. This bookis the opposite of pretty: it is sublime and fiery"--Ange Mlinko.Brenda Iijima grew up on the foot of the highest mountain in Massachusetts located in the former mill town of North Adams. From there, she went on to travel in 29 countries, living for more than six years abroad. Now she lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her books of poetry include Epitome and Person (a) (Portable Press). She is also a photographer and painter.

In a Glass Box

Iijima, Brenda

Poetry. Criticism. This new collection of writings from Gerrit Lansing combines poems, essays, reviews and "gists." Included are many pieces fugitive and out of print: the secretly influential "Burden of Set" editorials, previously uncollected poems, a generous choice of work from the three editions of Heavenly Tree, and more. Gerrit Lansing was born in Albany, New York, in 1928, and grew up in Northern Ohio.

A February Sheaf

Lansing, Gerrit

History & Criticism

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