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"Every line resonates with a wind that crosses oceans."—Jamaal May "Zamora's work is real life turned into myth and myth made real life." — Glappitnova Javier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4,000 miles, across multiple borders, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that's been left behind. Through an unflinching gaze, plainspoken diction, and a combination of Spanish and English, Unaccompanied crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited, coyotes lead migrants astray, and «the thin white man let us drink from a hose / while pointing his shotgun.» From «Let Me Try Again»: He knew we weren't Mexican.He must've remembered his familycoming over the border, or the bordercoming over them, because he drove usto the border and told us next time, restat least five days, don't trust anyone callingthemselves coyotes, bring more tortillas, sardines,Alhambra. He knew we would try again.And again—like everyone does. Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC-Berkeley, an MFA at New York University, and is a 2016–2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Patient Zero
“I will call the voice of this poet a ‘common’ voice… a voice a poet could take into an entire lifetime of memorable writing.” —Philip Levine, Ploughshares This second collection from APR-Honickman winner Tomás Q. Morín explores love gone sideways in the lives of lovers, parents and children, humans and the divine. Patient Zero is filled with voices—of all the people, places, and things that surround a life sick with heartbreak. Doors are the wooden tongues of a house, grocery-store cashiers are gatekeepers to the infinite, and food is the all-powerful life force behind every living thing. From Patient Zero Love is a worried, old heartdisease, as Son House once put it, the very stuffblues are made of, real blues that consist of a male and female, not monkey junklike the “Okra blues” or “Pay Day blues,”though I think House would agreetwo hearts of any persuasion are enough for a real blues,if one of them is sick, that sickly green of a frogbitten in two by the neighbor’s dog, all of whichmakes me wonder about the source of our diseaseand whose teeth first tore the heart after Adamand Eve left the garden?… Tomás Q. Morín's debut poetry collection A Larger Country was the winner of the APR/Honickman Prize. He is co-editor with Mari L'Esperance of the anthology Coming Close, and translator of The Heights of Macchu Picchu by Pablo Neruda. He teaches at Texas State University and in the low residency MFA program of Vermont College of Fine Arts.
At the Great Door of Morning
• Featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered”• Featured in Ted Kooser’s nationally syndicated American Life in Poetry column • Anthologized in Good Poems, edited by Garrison Keillor• Anthologized in Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins• Founder and director of the Anderson Center• Kay Sexton Award winner from the Minnesota Book Awards• Former Poet Laureate!… (of Red Wing, Minnesota)
Run the Red Lights
• Skoog’s work has appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, and Ploughshares.• Skoog is a rare voice from the periphery of academic circles. He’s taught in both colleges and high schools, and he’s led workshops for graduate students as well as the homeless.• Skoog plays a mean banjo, and there are lots of musical references throughout the book, from the Grateful Dead and the Macarena to Alex Chilton.• Because Skoog has lived in so many places and has become active in many different artistic communities, his work has a wide geographical appeal.• Ed Skoog worked at “The World Famous Topeka Zoo” all during high school. He wanted to be a zoologist when he graduated, but by the time he left college, he was considering a career in politics after a stint as the student body president.• Also worked in the basement of the New Orleans Art Museum before Katrina and has a facility with and knowledge of the world of outsider artists.
Banana Palace
"Images that are satisfyingly clear . . . and excitingly inexplicable." —Robert Pinsky, Washington Post "Intimate and hypnotic . . . whether turning her gaze inward or outward, these poems question the moral, aesthetic, and metaphysical needs that poetry exists to fill." —Ploughshares "Levin's work is phenomenological; it details how it feels to be an embodied consciousness making its way through the world." —Boston Review In her newest collection, Dana Levin uses humor, jump-cut imagery, and popular culture references in preparation for the approaching apocalypse. Against a backdrop of Facebook, cat memes, and students searching their smartphones for a definition of the soul, Levin draws upon a culture of limited attention spans as it searches for greater spiritual meaning. The poems in Banana Palace are elliptical by design, the lines often trailing off into a white space of their own making, as if flirting with and resolving in their own isolation. It was the most glorious thing I had ever seen. Cross-section of a banana under a microscopethe caption read. I hunched around my little screensharing a fruit no one could eat. Dana Levin has published three books of poetry, Wedding Day (Copper Canyon), Sky Burial (Copper Canyon), and her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, won the APR/Honickman Award. A teacher of poetry for over twenty years, Levin splits her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Maryville University in St. Louis, where she serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence.
Everything We Always Knew Was True
"James Galvin has a voice and a world, perhaps the two most difficult things to achieve in poetry."—The Nation "Bleak and unsentimental but blessedly free of self-indulgence, these poems give the feeling of being absolutely essential."—Library Journal "Galvin [has] the virtues of precise observation and original language . . . a rigor of mind and firmness of phrasing which make [each] poem an architectural pleasure."—Harvard Review In his first collection in seven years, James Galvin expands upon his signature spare and gnomic lyric as he engages restrained astonishment, desire, and loss in a confessional voice. Whether considering masterpieces of painting or describing the austere landscape of his native Wyoming ranchlands, Galvin turns to highly imagistic yet intimate narratives to rain down compassion within isolation. From «On the Sadness of Wedding Dresses»: On starless, windless nights like thisI imagineI can hear the wedding dressesWeeping in their closets,Luminescent with hopeless longing,Like hollow angels.They know they will never be worn again.Who wants them now,After their one heroic day in the limelight?Yet they glow with desireIn the darkness of closets. James Galvin passionately depicts the rural American West and the interactions between humans and nature in his best-selling memoir The Meadow and his novel Fencing the Sky. Galvin is also the author of several volumes of poetry and teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He divides his time between Iowa and Wyoming.
One Man's Dark
• Pulitzer Prize in poetry finalist• Yale Younger Poets Award winner for his first book, selected by W.S. Merwin• Guggenheim Fellow• Southern regional appeal• Extensive past media coverage, including New York Times Book Review and NPR's «All Things Considered»
Imaginary Vessels
• Last book of poetry, Animal Eye,” named one of the top 5 poetry books of 2012 by Publishers Weekly• Interested in multi-media essays and poems with strongly historical influences• Book is illustrated with incredible Andrea Modica photographs of skulls unearthed at the Colorado Mental Health Institute• Seattle area local and current resident of Salt Lake City• Mental illness and constructions of American femininity are heavily present in this work• Rekdal is on the faculty of Kundiman, an organization dedicated to the creation and cultivation of Asian American literature
Eventually One Dreams the Real Thing
A starred review in Library Journal says this about Eventually One Dreams the Real Thing: “Only a poet as accomplished as Boruch could make such beautiful verse while leading us through the everyday, of life’s subtle, steady shiftings (‘the bird’s hunger, seeking shape’). If the opening image of a pool filled with cruelly dredged up roses bespeaks quiet assent (‘I stood before them the way an animal/ accepts sun’), the next poem turns immediately to progress (and hence progression) as a modern invention beyond the heaven-and-hell alternatives; finally, the poet concedes, ‘I lose track of my transitions.’ In fact, transition defines us. Here, a static painting gives way to ‘between and among,’ a simple typeface never yields a perfect copy, and even in a medieval score, two exquisite quavers are connected by a slur. Highly recommended.” "Marianne Boruch's work has the wonderful, commanding power of true attention: She sees and considers with intensity."—The Washington Post"Boruch refuses to see more than there is in things—but her patience, her willingness to wait for the film of familiarity to slip, allows her to see what is there with a jeweler's sense of facet and flaw."—PoetryIn her tenth volume of poetry, Marianne Boruch displays a historical omnipresence, as she converses with Dickinson, envisions Turner painting, and empathizes with Arthur Conan Doyle. She looks unabashedly at the brutality of recent history, from drone warfare to the disaster in New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina. Poems that turn her gaze towards childhood, nature, animals, and her own poetics are patches of light in the collection's chiaroscuro. From «Before and Every After»:Eventually one dreams the real thing.The cave as it was, what we paid to straddlea skinny box-turned-seat down the middle, narrow boatmade special for the state park, the wet, the trickypassing into rock and underground river.A single row of strangers faced front, each of usbehind another closeas dominoes to fall or we were angels lined uppolitely, pre-flight…Marianne Boruch is the author of ten collections of poetry. She is the 2013 recipient of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and has taught at Purdue University since the inception of their MFA program. She lives in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Alamo Theory
Very tuned into popular culture Josh Bell teaches poetry writing workshops at Harvard Josh Bell's first book was named one of Flavorwire's 50 Essential Books of Poetry.