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Pretend the World confronts our false sense of safety in our self-created worlds. From her St. Paul kitchen to the historical shores of Lake Superior, from an airplane above Bagdad to a clothing factory in Guangdong, Kathryn Kysar pretends the glimmering and the sordid in these honest, searing poems that explore the inequities, cracks, and fissures in women's constructed lives.Kathryn Kysar is the author of Dark Lake (Loonfeather Press, 2002), a book of poetry, and is the editor of Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers (Borealis Books, 2008). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Anderson Center, and she has published poems in many anthologies and magazines, including Great River Review, Mizna, and Painted Bride Quarterly. She serves on the board of directors for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.
This collection of unconventional Zen poetry by Ken Noyle reflects the free-spirit of Zen.Here is poetry as mod as flower children and hippies; a Warhol happening or sitar music. Ken Noyle is a «personal» poet who immediately demands his reader to be with him or agin him as he ruminates on many things he thinks are important.Those things include sex and marriage and God and nature and war and the position of the individual in relation to each. Ponderous? No. Rather, outrageous, iconoclastic, irreverent in a «let's look- at-this-together-and-see-what-we make-of-it vein.» Noyle's amazing range between delicate sensitivity and outright earthiness reflects his study of Zen from which he has carried off a disarming senseof reality.To read and enjoy Ken Noyle is to learn a little more about one's self. What more can a poet hope for?
A Year of Japanese Haiku in English Verse.Harold Stewart is an Australian poet who lives in Kyoto. His first anthology of Japanese haiku was published as A Net of Fireflies. This is his second. He has also written Phoenix Wings, Orpheus, and New Phoenix WingsPraise for Chime of Windbells:"…a beautifully printed and bound book … an exquisite gift for any occasion and should also be considered for poetry collections and libraries." —Best Sellers“…attractive, visually and literarily." —Library Journal"…I value them [the haiku] more highly than any of the other notable verse translations of our period." —Geoffrey Lehmann The Bulletin, Sydney“…a luxury item for the aesthete who has everything." —Courier–Post“…recommended for schools and libraries as well as for anyone who would enjoy a stimulating change in their reading habits." —Boston Sunday Globe
Myung Mi Kim's <I>Commons </I>weighs on the most sensitive of scales the minute grains of daily life in both peace and war, registering as very few works of literature have done our common burden of being subject to history. Abstracting colonization, war, immigration, disease, and first-language loss until only sparse phrases remain, Kim takes on the anguish and displacement of those whose lives are embedded in history.<br /><br />Kim's blank spaces are loaded silences: openings through which readers enter the text and find their way. These silences reveal gaps in memory and articulate experiences that will not translate into language at all. Her words retrieve the past in much the same way the human mind does: an image sparks another image, a scent, the sound of bombs, or conversation. These silences and pauses give the poems their structure.<br /><br /><I>Commons'</I>s fragmented lyric pushes the reader to question the construction of the poem. Identity surfaces, sinks back, then rises again. On this shifting ground, Kim creates meaning through juxtaposed fragments. Her verse, with its stops and starts, its austere yet rich images, offers splinters of testimony and objection. It negotiates a constantly changing world, scavenging through scraps of experience, spaces around words, and remnants of emotion for a language that enfolds the enormity of what we cannot express.
"The Brontës had their moors, I have my marshes," Lorine Niedecker wrote of flood-prone Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where she lived most of her life. Her life by water, as she called it, could not have been further removed from the avant-garde poetry scene where she also made a home. Niedecker is one of the most important poets of her generation and an essential member of the Objectivist circle. Her work attracted high praise from her peers–Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Cid Corman, Clayton Eshleman–with whom she exchanged life-sustaining letters. Niedecker was also a major woman poet who interrogated issues of gender, domesticity, work, marriage, and sexual politics long before the modern feminist movement. Her marginal status, both geographically and as a woman, translates into a major poetry.<br /><br />Niedecker's lyric voice is one of the most subtle and sensuous of the twentieth century. Her ear is constantly alive to sounds of nature, oddities of vernacular speech, textures of vowels and consonants. Often compared to Emily Dickinson, Niedecker writes a poetry of wit and emotion, cosmopolitan experimentation and down-home American speech.<br /><br />This much-anticipated volume presents all of Niedecker's surviving poetry, plays, and creative prose in the sequence of their composition. It includes many poems previously unpublished in book form plus all of Niedecker's surviving 1930s surrealist work and her 1936-46 folk poetry, bringing to light the formative experimental phases of her early career. With an introduction that offers an account of the poet's life and notes that provide detailed textual information, this book will be the definitive reader's and scholar's edition of Niedecker's work.
This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian César Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this volume, translated by National Book Award winner Clayton Eshleman, includes the groundbreaking collections <I>The Black Heralds </I>(1918), <I>Trilce </I>(1922), <I>Human Poems </I>(1939), and <I>Spain, Take This Cup from Me </I>(1939). <br /><br />Vallejo's poetry takes the Spanish language to an unprecedented level of emotional rawness and stretches its grammatical possibilities. Striking against theology with the very rhetoric of the Christian faith, Vallejo's is a tragic vision—perhaps the only one in the canon of Spanish-language literature—in which salvation and sin are one and the same. This edition includes notes on the translation and a fascinating translation memoir that traces Eshleman's long relationship with Vallejo's poetry. An introduction and chronology provide further insights into Vallejo's life and work.
The poems in <i>Writing the Silences</i> represent more than 60 years of Richard O. Moore’s work as a poet. Selected from seven full-length manuscripts written between 1946 and 2008, these poems reflect not only Moore’s place in literary history—he is the last of his generation of the legendary group of San Francisco Renaissance poets—but also his reemergence into today’s literary world after an important career as a filmmaker and producer in public radio and television. <i>Writing the Silences</i> reflects Moore’s commitment to freedom of form, his interest in language itself, and his dedication to issues of social justice and ecology.
This landmark collection brings Ted Berrigan's published and unpublished poetry together in a single authoritative volume for the first time. Edited by the poet Alice Notley, Berrigan's second wife, and their two sons, <I>The Collected Poems </I>demonstrates the remarkable range, power, and importance of Berrigan's work.
This definitive collection showcases thirty years of work by one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth century, bringing together verse that originally appeared in eight acclaimed books of poetry ranging from <i>Hello: A Journal </i>(1978) to <i>Life & Death</i> (1998) and <i>If I were writing this</i> (2003). Robert Creeley, who was involved with the publication of this volume before his death in 2005, helped define an emerging counter-tradition to the prevailing literary establishment—the new postwar poetry originating with Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky and expanding through the lives and works of Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, and others. <i>The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005</i> will stand together with <i>The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2000</i> as essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century American poetry.