A terrific first book in English by Ye Chun who writes in both Chinese and English. This book brings the reader on a journey of the inception at which she began to write poetry in English to the present where her proficiency is self-explanatory.

Travel Over Water

Ye Chun

The Bitter Oleander Press

This is Anthony Seidman's second full length collection of his poetry which continues to span his vision of America with that of the rest of the Americas.

Where Thirsts Intersect

Literature & Fiction

Anthony Seidman

Poetry

This is Alan Britt's fourth full-length collection of his poetry. This book, in particular, broadens the already huge scope of Britt's imagination, bringing the reader face-to-face with the unexpected in even more unexpected ways.

Vermilion

Alan, Britt

This is the first full-length book of Alberto Blanco's poems presented bilingually in over ten years. Eight immensely talented translators (Judith Infante, Joan Lindgren, Elise Miller, Edgardo Moctezuma, Gustavo V. Segade, Anthony Seidman, John Oliver Simon, Kathleen Snodgrass)worked in perfect unison to bring the pages of this selected text together. Those unfamiliar with Blanco's work will be delighted at his amazement with things as he writes and how much he involves you in the spirit of the place, the person or the object with which he is having a pure association.

A Cage of Transparent Words (English and Spanish Edition)

Alberto Blanco

Once you begin reading the work of Christine Boyka Kluge you can't help but feel yourself staring out the window of your imagination as you did as a child in grade school except that this time the imagination you are seeing through her language is real. So real, in fact, that you wonder how her ability to shrink herself inside the functions of natural and inanimate things can be consistently possible but it is, over and over again until you realize you've entered not only a universe of rapture and delight but also a darker one whose mystery is a delightful yearning for the unknown.

Stirring the Mirror

Christine Boyka Kluge

Poetry. "The name Kalamaras means, as everyone knows, He Who Channels the Throat Songs of the Inflamed Detectives of Southern Surreality. He has more language at his command than Peter Mark Roget, but though we recognize the words, their electrifying combinations have never been heard before. Given Kalamaras's impressively penetrating knowledge of English literature, and his pendant for Asian poetry, Tantric Buddhist texts, and 20th century contemporary international poetry in translation, the delicious eclecticism of the poems and the velocity of their outrageously wide range of reference should be no surprise. But the alarming fact is: they are as surprising as they are addictive"—Forrest Gander.

Gold Carp Jack Fruit Mirrors

Kalamaras, George

Poetry. The true weight of these poems is held in a language grown from an experience of caring for another, caring for one self and caring for someone who desires no care whatsoever. When the caregiver in these poems is still a young girl, either her poems will filter out of this hardship or nothing else will come of it but some horrified silence.

Giving Way

Fawson, Shawn

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Jennifer Rathbun. This bilingual edition of Alberto Blanco's AFTERGLOW/TRAS EL RAYO represents the first full book of his work in translation and offers the poetry reading public a glimpse into the wide ranging focus that Señor Blanco takes with his language and his perception. The impeccable translation by Jennifer Rathbun helps make the entire volume not only accessible to the reader whose Spanish was limited, but brings the Spanish language alive in an English that is very welcoming.

Afterglow/Tras el rayo

Blanco, Alberto

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. "For some thirty years, John Taylor has been diving as a critic into the torrents of modern European poetry; that is, into the different national literatures which, in addition, have accepted as their own kin some of the best American poetic voices, such as those of Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, or Wallace Stevens. John Taylor is very familiar with the rich aquatic life of these European rivers; in fact, he is one of the best-informed connoisseurs of what is going on in continental poetry, with all its lively diversity. But his critical books, which show his attentive, empathic reading of work written by others in the various hearts of European poetry—France or Germany, Italy or Serbia, Greece or Slovenia, or the more northern countries—are not the topic of this introduction. This introduction is about his own poetic prose, which relates his early childhood in the American Midwest. Yet in their stylistic techniques and symbolic depths, his writings indeed subtly reflect certain kinds of European poetics."—Veno Taufer

If Night Is Falling

TAYLOR, John

Poetry. Well, decades passed as decades do, and Duane Locke at a robust 90 years of age continues to write at an astounding rate. A few years ago he pioneered poetry on the Web and as of this introduction has published over 6,500 poems in print and on the Web. He continues to photograph blue egrets, snakes, spiders and beetles in his lusty Florida environment and knocks out the occasional dozen paintings or so whenever he gets the urge. One of Locke's first publishers, Fred Wolven, said years ago: "Duane Locke is a classic example of a writer who successfully utilizes knowledge as a noted amateur nature photographer and a Renaissance scholar in establishing his mark as a contemporary poet."

Duane Locke: The First Decade (1968-1978)

Locke, Duane

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