" The Black Interior, a critical look at some of black America's
most influential cultural voices, may be another such
masterpiece....Best known for her poetry, it may be that poet's
lyricism and eye for nuance that makes this new work so compelling." —SAVOY
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"Spellbound within wax edifices beneath a honey rain, Flynn succinctly
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buzzing, bittersweet world of avid appetites and aggressions. longing,
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“Reading this clear-eyed, sorrowing, searching poem of witness, I feel gooseflesh, and I weep, for fear and for the truth of our U.S. racism, which goes on and goes on. I admire everything Martha Collins has written, and I feel she was born to write this book. I want to quietly thank her, and to quietly thank those to whose memory she dedicates this great work.”—Jean Valentine
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"These poems surprise beauty at every turn and capture truth at is familiar New
England slant." —The New York Times Book Review
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"Scholar and writer Gerald Early has compiled an anthology of personal
essays from a wide-ranging group of fiction writers, poets and
academics about their own encounters with sports. The result is a rich
collection on topics as far-flung as rodeo riding, playing tennis in a
tornado and pool hustling." —Chicago Tribune
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"This is a smart, daring first book of poems. Driven by Smith's raging
desire of imagination, many of these often quiet poems describe
something that's not there with deft grammar reaching toward
possibility." —Listed as one of eight best poetry books in Black Issues Book Review
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In Joseph Campana's debut collection, starring Audrey Hepburn, icons of
public consumption speak in the language of private devotion.
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A new kaleidoscope of poems by Albert Goldbarth, two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
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"This is a truly incredible novel about the scars of war that are left
on the hearts of a family living in exile. . . . A stunning, insightful
book that examines the tragedy of Lebanon—a window on the even greater
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"In nine brilliant essays, Baxter displays his characteristic wit and
intelligence as he muses about the influences of culture and politics
on the art of storytelling." —Ploughshares
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"Beautifully written essays that deftly explore the act of
memoir-making and the art of storytelling. Ranging from tales of trauma
and loss to quotidian and even banal events, they probe the tension
between memory and forgetting and the mysteries of how we do each." —Library Journal
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"No poet will read this book without learning something new about the
nuances of the craft, and no critic will read it without realizing the
need for such liveliness." —Library Journal
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"Can Poetry Matter? is an important book, and anyone who professes to
care about the state of American poetry will have to take it into
account." —World Literature Today
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"An avalanche of sexual tension propels these narratives. The title novella...is
a miniature masterpiece." —The New York Times Book Review
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" Central Square confirms again that George Packer is one of the
great young talents of American fiction. This beautifully wrought
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renewal, makes high art—and compelling drama—from the follies and
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Intense and unconventional, Characters on the Loose reaffirms the New York Times Book Review's
claim that Janet Kauffman makes "ordinary events blossom with images
that seduce the reader to mysterious destinations off the common path."
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"Linda Gregg brings us back to poetry. She is original and mysterious, one of
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“Farah, the most important African novelist to emerge in the past twenty-five years, is also one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction.” —The New York Times Book Review
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"Like Powell's other books, this is startling, but this is startling in
a new way, toward its close sounding more like Richard Crashaw—with
its rich and elaborate religious imagery, its saintly foods and
fabrics—than a casual modern poet." —Thom Gunn
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"Readers of Carl Phillips's poetry will have some preparation for the
pleasures and insights of this volume, particularly its subtlety,
originality, and historical range. Yet Coin of the Realm will also be
admired as a prose work that stands alone. Incisive essays on George
Herbert, the Psalms, the place of race and identity in habits of
perception and reading, and the author's growth as a writer are unified
by central questions of beauty and ethics that will be of interest to
anyone who cares about literature." —Susan Stewart
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NOW IN PAPERBACK: All of beloved poet Jane Kenyon's published poems gathered together in one definitive collection
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Lynda Hull’s Collected Poems brings together her three collections—long unavailable—with a new introduction by Yusef Komunyakaa, and allows, for the first time, the full scale of her achievement to be seen. Edited with Hull’s husband, David Wojahn, this book contains all the poems Hull published in her lifetime, before her untimely death in 1994.
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FORTHCOMING JUNE 2008
The visceral new work by Katie Ford, whose poems “possess the veiled brilliance of stained glass windows seen at night.” ( New York Times Book Review)
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The only definitive volume of Rilke’s French poetry.
"These are poems of meticulous insight and feeling." —Chicago Sun Times
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“The McIlvoyian insight and charm return, full force.” —Kirkus
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“With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age—are so beautifully revealed here, a trenchant reminder that our pasts are alive inside of us. There are psychologists who can write, and writers who can psychologize, but rarely have the two met on the page with such moving, profound results.”
—Dani Shapiro
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"Jane Kenyon is our Akhmatova. She will be read and remembered here as
Akhmatova is read and remembered over there. For this we give no thanks
becaue the gift is beyond thanks. But how deply we are
indebted!" —Hayden Carruth
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"Out so much farther than our present pieties, attentive to no social
or sentimental voice, only passion's (so often ruinous, defiant of
upshot), it is not in every case, every poem, that Carl Phillips
triumphs over my timidity. As with Sappho and Pasolini, though, traces
of the winged god are everywhere unmistakable, even when this new poet
has kicked them over: it is a sacred entail his harsh graces make. I
for one am an awed (if lacerated) heir." —Richard Howard
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"[Drew's] criticism is sharp-edged, to the point, and nearly
inarguable....A solid, well-argued, and sometimes radical plea for a
better-built environment." —Kirkus Reviews
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"In these insightful essays, even the writing itself is cinematic, as
Sprengnether's memories and quick film summaries meld into one another,
making it seem as if the author hasn't just seen many movies, but has
actually lived one." —Publishers Weekly
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