Poetry. Deborah Poe's ELEMENTS lyrically enacts structures and histories of 36 elements. Poe's experimental tactics bring "Phosphorus (P)" and "Calcium (C)" alive with the rigor of a scholar and the precision of a musician. Her visual play is as captivating as the politics of extraction she examines. We meet newborns, labor leaders, lovers and scientists. Poe satisfies our need for story, for discovery, for protest. We also encounter linguistic spaces which thwart narrative expectations: information is presented fragmentarily, out of order or elided completely. Through poems such as "Potassium (K)," "Titanium (Ti)," and "Ununtrium (Uut)," the language of science collides with the language of art, and we watch a literary "between space" emerge: "earthquake syntax of / language and the mind" merge in "thought-flock constellations." We experience hypnosis in the nerve net // hybridization / a closer experience / with the geological body. A continual catalyst between worlds, Poe's poems push beyond the materials and materiality that initiate them.

Elements (Meander Scar)

Literature & Fiction

Poe, Deborah

Poetry

Stockport Flats

Poetry. If what you relish about thought is its heft, velocity, its unpredictability, then Fred Muratori's THE SPECTRA will transport you. Visceral particulars—Batman, buzzsaws, wax-lustered cars, beef, and, yes, even Roy Orbison—propel readers beyond finitude in blunt cascades of 15 lines. Enjambments facilitate speed, precariousness, volatility while asking: "What if everything we think, from first synaptic spark to the last, is one thought, continuously digressive?" Parsed out in 13 syllables per line, life besieges readers as Muratori charts the source of the unsayable. Locomotion and elocution bring us to life's brim, to the subliminal spectra therein. One could cite Kant, Leibnitz and Wittgenstein to explain how Muratori twists conventional notions of meaning formation. The poet himself tips his hat to Wallace Stevens and others who fall into consciousness—Dupin, Bronk, Dahlberg, and Zukofsky. THE SPECTRA's thoughts-about-thought clang and balk, surprising us all.

The Spectra (Meander Scar)

Muratori, Fred

<p>Poetry. Photography. African American Studies. Native American Studies. Poets and photographers reflect on the real costs of deindustrialization—community life, personal identity, cultural traditions, and the natural world—in manufacturing cities and their rural counterparts in Michigan, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin. Battered by unprecedented joblessness, poverty, and depopulation, these communities are often seen as ghost towns, phantoms of a former glory, but in doing so we fail to acknowledge the people who fare the downturns and form the core of America's urban and rural cultures. This intimate collection culls inspiration from individual and collective experience, found text, and oral history as it speaks to the humanity surviving amid so-called ruin. AMERICAN GHOST asks: How will we sustain each other? The collection includes poems and photographs by b: william bearhart, Suzette Bishop, Anne Gorrick, Randall Horton, Denise Miller, Ruby Murray, Kate Schapira, Lillien Waller, Valaurian Waller, and Deborah Woodard.</p>

American Ghost: Poets on Life After Industry (Witness Post)

Poetry. Matthew Klane's daily meditations on being and the body politic evolve from Plato's "divided line" into a rotating T-square that boomerangs beyond Darwin, beats around Bush then heads back to Whitman. These experiments ponder geopolitics and the U.S. electorate. In a grand bow to Whitman, Klane's first section, Specimen Days, borrows edicts and shapes them into spatial sonnets. In re Republic, poems bifurcate into two columns. In a bipartisan act, readers begin reading vertically and horizontally as Klane indicts pitfalls of political process and delights in human resilience. Haiku arranged in quadrants form World Series, the third section. Here, sound and visual play lead readers diagonally across the page. Can this country redefine itself again? By the final section, Explore Tomorrow Today(TM), a rotating t-axis reorients how meaning is structured with each turn of the page. This is the premier collection in Stockport Flats' Meander Scar Series of experimental poetry. Stockport Flats is an imprint of Ander Mose Studios.

B____ Meditations {1-52} (Meander Scar)

Klane, Matthew

Building Codes

Gironda, Belle

Poetry. HOW WE SAVED THE CITY examines gentrification, ghosts, and concurrent and successive cities in Kate Schapira's chosen home of Providence, RI. Through a range of formal strategies and imagined dialogues, these poems raise urgent and timely questions: who decides what a city and its people need? Who has power, in various forms, to make real their versions of the city and themselves? Racketeers, artists, criminals, activists, profiteers and lovers cross and recross, build and rebuild the contested terrain of property, gender, habitation and change.

How We Saved the City

Schapira, Kate

<p>Poetry. Art. Doorframes and daily "cutting into" breathlessness are the architecture of Katie Yates's POEM FOR THE HOUSE. Lyric transport happens. Yates offers mustard balm, a humid room, her hand hesitating longer-than-necessary. These portals open and open then open again. Into what exactly? Human hearts. Unlawful lakes. Rest. Motion is choreographed with mental acuity and earnest generosity. This is a book to read to still oneself. This is a book to read to propel oneself. Yates offers a forgiving dock on which to anchor or launch. With tempered insistence, this poetry binds a child to her parents, a lover to another, danger to song. What accrues is an expansiveness that exceeds any room—a presence. A conference of birds. Hum along.</p>

poem for the house

Yates, Katie

Poetry. In BORROWED TALES, personae congregate to live out their lives: Hamlet and Ophelia join the McGuffey Reader's droll schoolchildren to stand beside Junius, a deaf-mute black man from the early 1900s. When they entwine with Vince, a truculent middleschooler in south L.A, and Elaine, a returned Peace Corps Volunteer weighing in from Azerbaijan, their pasts seed a tangible present. Their lives, intractably immersed in history, release chance possibilties buried in every tale. Poems burst forth like entangled weeds in a camellia bush."Deborah Woodard's BORROWED TALES are novelistic, negotiating numerous twists and turns that are inventive and believable, playful and magical, but always rueful. Every tale here is earned. Poetry and prose converge, unearthing a voice at work that challenges the reader. BORROWED TALES is unique, personal, and luminous."—Yusef Komunyakaa

Borrowed Tales (Confluence)

Woodard, Deborah

Poetry. THE MONARCHS is a conversation. Pastoral field notes picnic with the voiceovers and subtitles of films and other forms to transform "the wet paper of the sky" into a techno-naturescape. Visual and aural, these textual sculptures transport readers from monarch groves to Mars. Any earthling's ear reenters the world anew after this read. Noel pollinates primary sources to produce a hybrid: medicinal, personal and pleasurable, these poems are lyric documentaries of an imagined reality. Welcome. Here, kings are unseated, and there is no apocalypse. "Loose little fists of apples and the moon" and "a perfume of opera" remain."Melanie Noel has managed a remix of natural history in which an acute attention to the details of the world brings us up close, but at a marvelously odd angle. Things we know well remain familiar, yet take on new twists and, above all, new relationships—cashmere dawn and aviary eyelet—her stunning phraseology and vibrant vision put things together in novel, awakening ways. Tender and bitingly exact, this work is among the most exciting of our time."—Cole Swensen

The Monarchs (Meander Scar)

Noel, Melanie

Poetry. A quantum autobiography of "I," DECOHERENCE tracks the unfolding, loss, and reconstitution of self, knowledge and object, and permeates the boundary—the artifice—between I and world. Using quantum physics, thermodynamics, and symbolic logic, Kremer wrenches us into the process of becoming. These pages are a visual analogue of the equation of being and "the continuous whiting-out / of not-being." From broken symmetry and the Federation of Black Cowboys to the Sphinx and the freewheel, from our fears of losing an iPhone to humanity's reduction "to 1,000 breeding pairs," Kremer's metaphors are as variegated as are her multiverses. DECOHERENCE speaks to the alienation of the 21st century soul and to the possibility of that soul's reengagement. An incessant physical, geological, magnetic, astronomical, mathematical, and computational diction reminds us that we, and our known worlds, constantly decohere."DECOHERENCE is one of those marvelous books that feels both familiar and like nothing I've ever read before. Classic couplets and incantatory repetitions share the page with abstract images and graphic symbols. Syntax is subverted and mathematical functions are applied to language. Naturalist descriptions of farmland and seascapes contrast with references to mini-malls, satellite dishes and Macbook Pros. The combined effect is grounding, unexpected, delightful, nostalgic, funny, immediate, and at times deeply lonely. DECOHERENCE embodies the experience of reading poetry in the 21st century."&38212;Miranda McLeod

Decoherence (Meander Scar)

Kremer, Belinda

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