Steve Fellner: The Weary World Rejoices
“Steve Fellner takes us into the hidden places in this beautiful and frightening collection. Here is testimony to the brave and shameful impulses of the human heart, composed in language that is both familiar and completely original.... You will not forget these poems.” —Laura Kasischke |
Paolo Javier: The Feeling Is Actual
“Javier hits the big notes: sex, romance, even aging and regret. The poetry often comes in the form of prose ... and of visual poetry in which comics collide with sly wit. All this with the multi-cultural vantage we expect from the poet, which comes to the fore in later sections, abetted by found images and typography. 'if im like a piece of bok choy / then you are probably / a piece of broccoli… /its just the communication thing.' Listen to this book, watch it, lap it up.” —Vincent Katz |
Mary Mackey: Sugar Zone
"Mary Mackey takes you on a fascinating journey to the interior, somewhere between Saint Theresa’s Inner Castle and the thicket of Eros—but also a place of desperate actuality, even if it is 'on the other side of the world.' Mackey joins other visionary poets of dépaysement —Henri Michaux in Asia, John Ash in Anatolia, Sharon Doubiago in Peru, Lorca in Manhattan. But Mackey really seems to recover a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted by fado, forro, and death . . . SUGAR ZONE authoritatively creates a language and a culture; but the lines are tense with the vulnerability of lovers, strangers, and travelers with no ticket home." —Dennis Nurkse |
Stephen Paul Miller: There Is Only One God and You're Not It
“Stephen Paul Miller has written the most swingin’, rockin’, jazzy history of Judaism, Jews, and our favorite one and only God there is, that you will ever read. In verse. And if you read it you will have to think about it. While tapping your foot. And is it unbelievably funny to see this maniac of a poet wrestling with a disembodied spirit aided by Plato and Irving Berlin? That too. With Hitchcock and John Cage wagging the dog? Enter this book, you enter Indie Poetry.”—Alicia Ostriker |
Winner of the 2010 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize
“The brilliant serial prose poems of Eminent Domain frame a troubled scintillating world between animate/ in-animate realities, bleak and transcendent at the same time.... This is a new Wasteland. Welcome an original consciousness from the belly of the beast.”—Anne Waldman |
"Fresh, marvelously exuberant lyric wildness, picking up a bit on the sprung prosody of Ceravolo’s Fits of Dawn and perhaps also from Coolidge’s Sound as Thought. Of special interest: a set of “Yinglish” poems that bring the syntax of the Yiddish into the American lyric." – Charles Bernstein |
