In Call It Mist, M. L. Brown practices a kind of lyric distillation, purifying and condensing meaning into a sumptuous sparseness, an almost crystalline austerity. It's matter that gives a word weight, and in her brilliant lines each word is heavy with import, with resonance. She traces a subtle narrative of coming of age, coupling, winter, hunger and distance in these passionate and beveled poems.--Marsha de la O

Call It Mist

Literature & Fiction

Brown, M. L.

Poetry

Three Mile Harbor Press

Poetry. Old loves--especially music and art--once again kindle a poetry of beguiling eloquence and erudition for Jordan Smith and highlights of this collection include two memorable suites of poems: "Eight Hats," based on paintings by Walter Hatke, and "Sketches for a Novel," drawing on paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland. The pull of the past is strong for Smith and these poems are replete with references to touchstones of other eras--straw boaters, Wobblies, R.D. Laing, old time hymns, Monopoly games...but nostalgia is leavened by a new political urgency, the ecstasies and explicatives of today.

Little Black Train

Smith, Jordan

Shakespeare's women take the spotlight in Elizabeth Sylvia's haunting poetry, unleashing their grief, rage and power. NONE BUT WITCHES: POEMS ON SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN is a stunning debut collection by Elizabeth Sylvia, winner of the 5th annual Three Mile Harbor Poetry Prize. Although Sylvia started off accepting the truism that Shakespeare was remarkable for the depth of his female characters, she found herself surmising that the women had a lot more to say than they were given. Sometimes sympathetic, frequently enraged, Sylvia began writing to them, for them, as them, the poems ultimately going into this richly textured collection that looks at the plays themselves, at the poet's own life as a woman, and at women's continuing efforts to take the stage in the contemporary world. "Shakespeare rarely passes the Bechdel test, but in Elizabeth Sylvia's brilliant debut, the women get the last word --sometimes a laugh, sometimes a guttural scream as they insist they are more than a 'pair of tits attached to broken, / a hurt circuit flipped again and again.'"--Josephine Yu, author of Prayer Book For The Anxious "You don't need to have studied the Bard to recognize these women captured in Sylvia's lush monologues and portraits --mothers mourning their children, queens striving for power, girls disguising their bodies. In the opening poem, we read, 'All / they do is orbit, casting here and there / reflected light, and when they light / the path, it is a man's path they light.' And yet in NONE BUT WITCHES, Sylvia gives these women their own path, one richly illuminated with metaphor and wit."--Julie Danho, author of Those Who Keep Arriving "NONE BUT WITCHES is an extraordinarily unique, imaginative and important first book that speaks a truth that needs to be heard."--Cindy Veach, author of Her Kind "Sylvia writes that 'An understudy earns her keep by learning / all the lines.' And like the women whose stories she inhabits, Sylvia is an accomplished understudy, slipping in and out of character and form with ease. These poems are wise and wondering and irrepressible, 'roaring that we are all more than would be made of us.'"--Meghan Dunn, author of Curriculum "In providing a humanizing critique of the Bard's lasting gift, Elizabeth Sylvia makes her own shining work of art."--David Baker, author of Whole Fail Poetry. Women's Studies. Poetics.

None But Witches: Poems on Shakespeare’s Women

Sylvia, Elizabeth

Poetry. Environmental Studies. Pamela Hughes' MEADOWLAND TAKE MY HAND is both an elegy for the continued loss of the land and an exploration of the toxic and playful. Along the track of this eco-adventure, from mountainous landfills and industrial wastelands to the low key beauty of mudflats, the swaying green give of the wetlands along a backdrop of Manhattan's fixed silver horizon, readers will discover the "order of the odor" and "the dank inside of adventure." Narrative and lyric poetry mark the way through the Meadowlands, where loss and hope abide.

Meadowland Take My Hand

Hughes, Pamela

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Call It Mist

Little Black Train

None But Witches: Poems on Shakespeare’s Women

Meadowland Take My Hand