God's One Hundred Promises

Lee, Karen An-Hwei

Religion & Spirituality

Swan Scythe Press

Poetry. HOW TO BE THIS MAN collects men's evocations and invocations of maleness and boyhood. While each man sounds like himself, the poets also speak with one voice, affirming the self-portraits we leave of ourselves and the community we join in. Poets include Clarence Major, Marvin Bell, Jack Marshall, Walter Pavlich, John Olivares Espinoza, Alejandro Escude, Francisco Aragon, and Eric Gudas.

How To Be This Man

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

The poetry of Emmy Perez celebrates and grieves borders, the division between poverty and sustenance. Perez's precise and soulful language erases boundaries...Two languages are barely enough to name her world--Mary Jane Nealon. "In SOLSTICE Emmy Perez looks deeply at shards of the physical world, its sensual body, its cycles...Perez follows the personal and cultural connections and beckons us to take part in her discoveries"--Molly Bendall. Emmy Perez received an MFA from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, New York Quarterly, and Crab Orchard Review.

Solstice

Pérez, Emmy

Robinson, VirginiaCarrierPoetry. In this, her first collection of poetry, "Virginia Robinson is a carrier herself, a woman left behind in wartime to bear the burden of fearing for those she loves, of remembering the lost days of peace before her friends were deployed on those other carriers, Navy ships"-Joan Swift. "This book tells a story that rarely shows up in American poetry. It does so with perfect dramatic pacing, just the right mix of tenderness and detachment, and inventive language"-Alan Williamson.

Carrier

Robinson, Virginia

Poetry

Poetry. James DenBoer has selected 35 poems to include in his collection entitled STONEWORK. "James DenBoer is the awake one, and vulnerable to his awakeness. In this physical world he has ties to the comic and to the suffering. He pays tribute, he asks for counsel, and a great spirit is born and sustained. STONEWORK exhibits the bonding of difficult material to lucid expression. What an artistic fulfillment!" -Sandra McPherson.

Stonework: Selected Poems

Denboer, James

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. These multilingual poems, by a highly honored Chicano poet and children's author, celebrate our unity as human beings and announce the coming of the New Sun--which the Maya believe arrives in 2012--and Alarcon identifies as the era of the "Flower Sun" when the World's biggest concerns would be "the colors / and the scents / of flowers // sprouting / from nowhere / everywhere...."

Ce Uno One: Poemas para el Nuevo Sol/Poems for the New Sun

Alarcón, Francisco X.

Poetry. Asian American Studies. Southeast Asia Studies. The second book published by a Hmong poet by Swan Scythe Press, THE DEAD I KNOW: INCANTATION FOR REBIRTH is winner of the Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Contest 2010. Burlee Vang's poetry is a powerful testament to the human spirit in a time of harshness--in times of war and struggle. "That's what the reader is in for, in this undertow of a book. Burlee Vang is part of everything and everybody he writes about, from growling stomachs to the tiger's roar. This is a persuasive debut"--Sandra McPherson.

The Dead I Know: Incantation for Rebirth

Vang, Burlee

United States

Poetry. Edited by Robert Pesich with associate editors James DenBoer and John Espinoza. In this sensual and deeply informed collection, J. Bruce Fuller gives us two floods in the lower Mississippi River, almost a century apart. Describing the 1927 flood, the poems speak of men who stand on the levee to report the water's rise. Some are forced to knit arms and legs, a kind of human dam, and are washed away. In 2005, the levees are strong, and people 'in the shadow of the levee' feel smug and safe. They see meteorologists on CNN, and they watch the floodwater and destruction follow Katrina. Beyond those differences, the poems make clear, in concrete language, that there was the same betrayal, superstition, family ties, same indiscriminate death, wealth and its small protections, poverty and its vulnerability. These poems do not elegize life on the river a century ago as a time that will never return, or evoke New Orleans as it used to be before the storm. These poems know, as the river knows, that time is not linear, it is cyclical. The river will be there when our brief stories are gone. The flood can come again, when it will. As one of the men on the levee says, and repeats like a line in a blues song: 'What water will come, will come.' Ava Leavell Haymon

Flood

Fuller, J Bruce

Poetry. "Like A.R. Ammon's "Corson's Inlet," David Oates in THE HERON PLACE makes a walk in a wild place into an excursion into nature and mind, drawing a stunning sense of landscapes inner and outer, the wounds and failures and beauties that attend both realms. With brilliant turns and keen attention, he renders the heron place into a reverie. How are we to live with the history of anguish that lies in the land beneath our feet and in our own failures of love? We are to walk and see and say again a story strong enough to hold both love and failure, the saying itself an act of reconciliation. This sequence is a marvel to read."—Alison Hawthorne Deming

The Heron Place

Oates, David

Poetry. "A chapbook that weaves the strands of history with the complicated life in the now, these are poems that celebrate the many selves we contain within the body. Lush poems of lineage and what is passed down, along with poems of the heart's incessant needing, this is a poetry made of wonder and acceptance. Here are poems of magic and sheer will." —Ada Limón

Mata Hari Blows a Kiss

Abraham, Lisa Dominguez

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