Bloodied, but still singing, the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless addresses America. In one take, a chromapoetics that examines the “red, white and blue’s” dubious semiotics, in another, an extended ode project that conjures our emblems of Empire, the poems in atmosphere––in their configurations of apostrophe, atomization, song, dialectic, eucharism, etc.––attempt to […]
“Devon Fulford’s gulp is not a collection to be slowly sipped – it’s one to be swallowed whole, with gusto. Her punk poetry pulses with raw emotion and elegant craft, commanding your attention like a sharp snap to the spine. Each poem strikes with such visceral honesty, you’ll find yourself gulping both from the gut-level […]
“Water is wise,” Matthew Cooperman writes, and his luminous book of poems, Wonder About The, generously bears forth this wisdom. Wonder About The is a work of revelatory ecopoetic wonder, a deep and flowing meditation on the Poudre River bioregion and its manifold worlds. In its expansive, intricate layering of riparian scenes and life forms, […]
Dan Beachy-Quick writes, “There are depths within the denotative life of Greek words that English seldom allows readers in translation to access. At some basic level, I wanted to offer a translation that traced out some of those complexities into an apprehendable substance in the poems themselves—sometimes by allowing an image to unfold more fully […]
How to measure those who only know they are poets without even knowing their names? Are they confused with those who aspire to be poets but always intersperse their names in other people’s lists? Or with those who are not poets but dream of making a name for themselves? Or with those who neither know […]
Acclaimed poet and translator Dan Beachy-Quick offers this newest addition to the Seedbank series: a warm, vivid rendering of the earliest Greek intellects, inviting us to reconsider writing, and thinking, as a way of living meaningfully in the world. “We have lost our sense of thinking as the experience that keeps us in the world,” […]
Dan Beachy-Quick’s Arrows rests in the palm of the hand like a shard of ancient pottery, caressing antiquity into the present, reminding us of the impossibility of separating ourselves from outdated ways of knowing. Here, in increments, we are enchanted by the humming of bees and the vibrating strings of lyre and bow. Arrows, eros, […]
A memoir of the first 29 years of the poet’s life in 29 free verse, lyrical poems
Winner of the 2020 Iowa Poetry Prize, this collection explores how familial history echoes inside a person and the ghosts of lineage dwell in a body. Zamora is associate poetry editor for the Colorado Review.
Written during an extended period of insomnia, this collection is influenced by the Latin poet Catullus, known for his neoteric style. Steensen presents a series of eleven-line poems with eleven syllables per line; she calls the number both excessive and insufficient, like the space of an insomniac’s day.
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