{"title":"Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e Poetry titles available.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"j-j-hastain-book","title":"dear secondary umbilical, by j\/j hastain","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003edear secondary umbilical,\u003c\/i\u003e by j\/j hastain, is the Second Place winner of the MadHat Press 2011 \u003ci\u003eWild and Wyrd Poetry Chapbook Contest\u003c\/i\u003e!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003ej\/j hastain\u003c\/b\u003e was manumit from the human womb by way of caesarean birth (a violent release only after extreme pressure); raised Mormon. Later, j\/j picked all of the lemons that j\/j could reach from where j\/j hid on the inside of the lemon tree as a child (learning then about decay due to placing the lemons so close together that over time they began to mold from touching). j\/j left home and Mormonism to move into the bush in Australia (with Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory). Following a slant of light (which presented itself particled as well as dense) to the Rocky Mountains, j\/j found the physical form of xir, most beloved.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIdentifiying as Trans\/ post-binary genderqueer (which is different than Transgender, though not discounting it, at all) j\/j is interested in differentiated usages with regard to the prefix \u003ci\u003eTrans\u003c\/i\u003e (not related to a previously determined model with binary derived bases). Merriam Webster defines \u003ci\u003etransoceanic\u003c\/i\u003e as “crossing or extending across the ocean” and \u003ci\u003etranslucent \u003c\/i\u003eas “transmitting and diffusing light so that objects beyond cannot be seen clearly.” Both definitions are akin to j\/j’s Trans\/ genderqueer identity. To develop and nourish compositional methods which increase empowerment in what a diminutive and polarizing world, j\/j creates spaces\/ forms inherently non-linear, inherently a-historical—spaces that have never been patriarchally controlled, which\u003ci\u003ecannot\u003c\/i\u003e be patriarchally controlled.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSinging is an embodiment site of enablement for j\/j, who, currently, torches tunes with the jazz\/ blues band\u003ci\u003ethunderhoney\u003c\/i\u003e (based in Denver, Colorado.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eC.A. Conrad, the judge of the MadHat Press 2011 \u003ci\u003eWild and Wyrd Poetry Chapbook Contest \u003c\/i\u003eand author of \u003ci\u003eDeviant Propulsion\u003c\/i\u003e, said of j\/j's work:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003e“There is no doubt j\/j hastain is making our new poetry of oracle.  Poetry I want, poetry you want, poetry very much wanted.  It’s not poetry about everything being all right.  It’s better for you than any liar’s subterfuge.  How else will we get the love?  It’s beautiful in here.  This is a book I will give to the ones I share the best parts of this world with.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003edear secondary umbilical,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e by j\/j hastain\u003cbr\u003e $7.95, paperback, 40pp\u003cbr\u003e ISBN-13:  978-0-9885490-2-9\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MadHat Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":220000966,"sku":"","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0163\/1814\/products\/dear_secondary_umbilical_cover_for_web.jpg?v=1363191812"},{"product_id":"primate-fox-by-hugh-fox","title":"Primate Fox by Hugh Fox","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"What I've finally come to is to simply live inside mystery, the inexplicable, the impossible-to-be-explained, an impossible-to-exist me living inside an impossible-to-exist universe.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e           —\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003eHugh Fox\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrimate Fox: Late Poems (2010-2011)\u003c\/i\u003e is the final collection of poems by small-press icon Hugh Fox.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHUGH BERNARD FOX JR.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003e (1932 – 2011), born in Chicago, was a writer, novelist, poet and anthropologist and one of the founders (with Ralph Ellison, Anaïs Nin, Paul Bowles, Joyce Carol Oates, Reynolds Price and others) of the Pushcart Prize for literature. He received a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and was a professor at Michigan State University in the Department of American Thought and Language from 1968 until his retirement in 1999.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003eHe received Fulbright Professsorships at the University of Hermosillo in Mexico in 1961, the Instituto Pedagogico and Universidad Catlica in Caracas from 1964 to 1966, and at the University of Santa Catarina in Brazil from 1978-1980. He met his third wife Maria Bernadete Costa in Brazil in 1978. He studied Latin American literature at the University of Buenos Aires, received an OAS grant and spent a year as an archaeologist in the Atacama Desert in Chile in 1986. He was the founder and Board of Directors member of COSMEP, the International Organization of Independent Publishers, from 1968 until its death in 1996. He was editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhost Dance: The International Quarterly of Experimental Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003e from 1968-1995. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003eHe wrote over fifty-four books of poetry, many volumes of short fiction and novels. Hugh's final novel was \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eReunion,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003e published by Luminis Books in summer 2011.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003eMany fine writers have taken an opportunity to praise Hugh Fox:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Hugh Fox’s poems live in two worlds—they are both now and then, they speak and are silent, they are print and voice...Only through words, that most difficult of adversaries, can one mediate ultimate problems, reveal and validate experience, and his do.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003c\/i\u003e  —\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003eRussel B. Nye, winner of the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Hugh Fox is the Paul Bunyan of American Letters, part myth, part monster, and, myself-as-subject, a magnificent non-stop storyteller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003e.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e           —\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003eBill Ryan in \u003ci\u003eThe Unborn Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eLike Charles Ives, like Herman Melville, Hugh Fox is an American original. There is no one else writing like him today.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e           —\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003eRichard Morris\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Half a century ago Hugh Fox exited a motel room, struggling under the combined weight of a “total change in the way he saw the world” plus three suitcases. That room was occupied by Charles Bukowski, and those suitcases were loaded with his works. Hugh Fox was our Chuck-Buk. He laid upon us a hundred books and a new world view. It’s up to us to see if we can run this relay race as beautifully as he did.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp lang=\"en-US\"\u003e          —Tom Bradley, author of \u003ci\u003eBomb Baby\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFission Among the Fanatics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003eFox is the sort of writer one does fall in love with, bowled over by charms you’d never guess would have worked and willingly ignoring behaviors and inclinations that in the abstract would be instant deal busters. Fox knows this and utilizes it to his full advantage. His work is an affirmation of life that deserves a lasting embrace: in other words, full tilt or nothing. Reading Hugh Fox’s work holds you as it should, as the dead do, as the living would.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e           —\u003cspan lang=\"en-US\"\u003ePatrick James Dunagan, NewPages.com\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrimate Fox: Late Poems (2010-2011)\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eby Hugh Fox\u003cbr\u003e $15, paperback, 84pp\u003cbr\u003e ISBN-13: \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e978-0-9885490-1-2\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/265405\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eOr order the e-book from Smashwords for just $4!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MadHat Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":230474360,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0163\/1814\/products\/fox_cover.jpg?v=1343951781"},{"product_id":"dogs-are-not-cats-by-terese-svoboda","title":"Dogs Are Not Cats by Terese Svoboda","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDogs Are Not Cats\u003c\/i\u003e is the new poetry chapbook by Terese Svoboda, proudly published by Madhat Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dazzling master of craft with a body of work that includes five books of poetry, six novels, a memoir, a book of translation and over a hundred published short stories, \u003cb\u003eTerese Svoboda\u003c\/b\u003e's subject is human suffering. Called \"disturbing, edgy and provocative\" by \u003ci\u003eBook Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, her work is often the surreal poetry of a nightmare yet is written with such wit, verve and passion that she can address the direst subjects. \"Terese Svoboda has such range—of subject, of emotion (from whimsical play to chillingly dead serious), that these poems take you on a wild ride, fast and dangerous, but always in control. This is a goddamn terrific book!\", writes Thomas Lux about \u003cem\u003eWeapons Grade\u003c\/em\u003e (2009). She recently wrote two novels, \u003cem\u003ePirate Talk or Mermelade \u003c\/em\u003e(Dzanc Books, 2010) and \u003cem\u003eBohemian Girl\u003c\/em\u003e (Bison Books, 2011).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2007 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize-winning memoir, \u003cem\u003eBlack Glasses Like Clark Kent\u003c\/em\u003e—about her uncle who served as a military policeman in occupied Japan carried a secret until his suicide after the revelations of Abu Ghraib—was called \"Astounding!\" by the New York Post and was selected \"Best of Asia 2008\" by the Japan Times. Her work has been chosen for the Writer's Choice column in the New York Times Book Review, an National Endowment for the Humanities grant in translation, and an O. Henry Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCannibal\u003c\/em\u003e, her first novel, won the Bobst Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association first fiction prize. Vogue called \u003cem\u003eCannibal\u003c\/em\u003e \"a woman's Heart of Darkness\" and it was also chosen as one of the ten best books of the year by Spin. Her second novel, \u003cem\u003eA Drink Called Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e, one of Voice Literary Supplement's ten best reads of the summer, was partially based on her experience living in the Cook Islands. Booklist called it \"a stunning novel, frighteningly mysterious and complex.\" The New York Times called \u003cem\u003eTrailer Girl and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, \"a book of genuine grace and beauty.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe has taught at Davidson, Bennington, William and Mary, Williams College, San Francisco State, the New School, University of Miami, University of Hawaii, Columbia's School of the Arts graduate program, and Sarah Lawrence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition, Svoboda acted as producer for the Columbia Translation Series and the Voices and Visions series. She has produced poetry videos and documentaries that have aired on PBS, internationally, and have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art and the Getty. She curated \"Between Word and Image\" for the Museum of Modern Art. Her libretto for WET, a chamber opera for Death and five voices, premiered at Disney's RedCat performance space in L.A. in 2005. Winner of a PEN\/Columbia Fellowship, she spent a year in the south Sudan with the Nuer, translating and filming which led her to co-found the NY Anthropological Film Center, later the Margaret Mead Film Festival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe also writes proposals for innovative applications of new technology and lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.\u003c\/p\u003e\nMany great writers and journalists have praised Svoboda's work:\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Language at the edge of utterance, utterly original.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e          —Eleanor Wilner\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e“A fabulous fabulist.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e          —Publisher's Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e“For readers who prefer the chill of a dry martini.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e          —Library Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e“There are writers you would be tempted to read regardless of the setting or the period or the plot or even the genre...Terese Svoboda is one of those writers.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e          —Bloomsbury Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eDogs Are Not Cats\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e by Terese Svoboda\u003cbr\u003e $7.95, paperback, 32pp\u003cbr\u003e ISBN-13:  978-0-9885490-3-6\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MadHat Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":286419868,"sku":"","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0163\/1814\/products\/DogsCats_McMullen_for_web.jpg?v=1363193401"},{"product_id":"dear-robert-by-lysette-simmons","title":"DEAR ROBERT by Lysette Simmons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDEAR ROBERT\u003c\/em\u003e is the winner of \u003cem\u003eMad Hatters' Review\u003c\/em\u003e 2011 Wild and Wyrd Poetry Chapbook Contest, judged by C.A. Conrad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLysette Simmons\u003c\/strong\u003e is from California, where she studied Creative Writing and Music History at UCLA. She has studied with Ben Lerner, Anselm Berrigan and Marjorie Welish at Brooklyn College, where she recently earned her MFA in poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eC.A. Conrad, the judge of the MadHat Press 2011 \u003ci\u003eWild and Wyrd Poetry Chapbook Contest \u003c\/i\u003eand author of \u003ci\u003eDeviant Propulsion\u003c\/i\u003e, described \u003cem\u003eDEAR ROBERT\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eDEAR ROBERT\u003cem\u003e stole my heart!! Lysette Simmons is one of my new favorite poets, and I can't wait to see what she writes for us next!! Carol Novack died before the release of this book, sadly, so we hold these poems up in her memory of generosity!!”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd Brian Kim Stefans, author of \u003cem\u003eFashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBefore Starting Over: Selected Writings and Interviews 1994-2005\u003c\/em\u003e said:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eDEAR ROBERT\u003cem\u003e combines sonic invention and metafictional whimsy with the wit of a stand-up. ‘But with well trimmed \/ hair, so much \/ inaction, how could you always \/ rattle my shoulders?’ Teetering within a welter of voices—at one point flirtatious, the next melancholic, the next blandly epistolary or convulsively Surreal—the poems tell a story best described as addresses to the Unknown, appeals for certainty from a damsel haplessly ‘in flux.’ These are no ordinary ‘all-over’ collage poems in the line of Ashbery or Berrigan but a full-blown experience in a spectral, stochastic poetics reflecting a singular intelligence.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-bogus=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eDEAR ROBERT,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nby Lysette Simmons\u003cbr\u003e\n$7.95, paperback, 38pp\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN-13:  978-0-9885490-5-0\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MadHat Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":348123343,"sku":"","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0163\/1814\/products\/dear_robert_front_cover_only.jpg?v=1376784494"},{"product_id":"the-complete-absence-of-twilight-by-howie-good","title":"The Complete Absence of Twilight by Howie Good","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Complete Absence of Twilight\u003c\/em\u003e is the latest book from esteemed poet Howie Good!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHowie Good\u003c\/strong\u003e, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of more than two dozen chapbooks and several full-length poetry collections. His poetry has been honored with nomination for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of Net anthology multiple times. He co-edits White Knuckle Press with Dale Wisely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Howard Good's poems are like the journal entries of the last sane man resigned to his nation's steady descent into madness.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Widely published both in print and on Internet-based journals, Good is increasingly influential and admired. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eThe Complete Absence of Twilight\u003cem\u003e includes his signature themes, his ability to depict both the horror and the beauty in life. We see a variety of forms, most notably the prose poetry he has explored in recent years. Here, also, is his characteristically uncanny imagination. 'Siddhartha went searching,' he writes, 'for a way toward the vast, tiny snow that pats my hair in the parking lot of Mama’s Donuts \u0026amp; More.'\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e —Dale Wisely,\u003cem\u003e White Knuckle Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Electricity crackles on every page of this bold collection.  Sometimes there’s danger as well, and in the end it’s a thrilling ride that moves at warp speed, leaving the reader both exhilarated and enthralled.  Good has a voice that is uniquely his, with writing is at times as mysterious as it is delicious.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e—Len Kuntz, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Dark Sunshine \u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Howie Good is the master of the semi-lit journeys into the unknown. 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Kates, Kerry Keys, Fyodor Manin, Richard McKane, Jamie Olson, Peter Oram, Eugene Serebryany, Alla Steinberg, and Josephine von Zitzewitz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe know you'll enjoy this fabulous anthology, and hope you check out our partner in its creation, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.stosvet.net\/\"\u003eStoSvet Press\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCardinal Points Journal vol.4\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eedited by Irina Mashinksi\u003cbr\u003e$19.95, paperback, 288pp\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13:  978-1-941196-09-0\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MadHat Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":969122748,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0163\/1814\/products\/vol_4_front_cover_draft_2.jpg?v=1412613326"},{"product_id":"ah-wind-by-carolyn-stoloff","title":"Ah Wind by Carolyn Stoloff","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAh Wind: Uncollected Poems, Young and Old\u003c\/em\u003e is an exploration of the poetry of that grand maestra of verse, Carolyn Stoloff.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for work by Carolyn Stoloff\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOf\u003cem\u003e Stepping Out\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe way Stoloff writes imagines life the way she wants it to be, while walking the plank of a very real world—every step imagined, every step real.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e —\u003cem\u003eWashington Independent Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"These are powerful poems and disturbing at the same time. 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Everywhere there is a concern for the present and the past...And the spool itself becomes a metaphor for that union.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: right;\"\u003e—Karla Hammong in \u003cem\u003eRag Mag\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eOf\u003cem\u003e A Spool of Blue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e\"There is an excitement, a liveliness, in the world of Stoloff's poetry...There is verve in her poetry reminiscent of the verve in good O'Hara poems and those jazzy paintings of Piet Mondrian, such as 'Broadway Boogie-Woogie'.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: right;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: right;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: right;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eOf\u003cem\u003e In the Red Meadow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eIn the Red Meadow\u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e is a delightful long sequence, full of dream and passion. The language is stretched for its limits, and the surreal vision is comforting.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: right;\"\u003e—Louis McKee in \u003cem\u003eMenu\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: right;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: right;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarolyn Stoloff\u003c\/strong\u003e (1927 - 2015) was the author of \u003cem\u003eReaching for Honey\u003c\/em\u003e (Red Hen Press), \u003cem\u003eYou Came to Meet Someone Else\u003c\/em\u003e (Asylum Arts), \u003cem\u003eA Spool of Blue: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (Scarecrow Press), \u003cem\u003eDying to Survive\u003c\/em\u003e (Doubleday \u0026amp; Co.), \u003cem\u003eSwiftly Now\u003c\/em\u003e (Ohio University Press) and \u003cem\u003eStepping Out\u003c\/em\u003e (Unicorn Press), as well as two chapbooks, \u003cem\u003eLighter Than Night Verse\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIn The Red Meadow. \u003c\/em\u003eHer poems appeared in such magazines as the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker, The Nation, Cincinnati Review, Hotel Amerika, The Bitter Oleander\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBomb\u003c\/em\u003e, and in many anthologies including \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker Book of Poems, New Directions 53, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Rising Tides, A Year in Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. 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One is indifference and the other is regret.”  “Another curtain parts, slowly revealing a curtain.”  Out of the strangeness of Sauermann’s language, even from these random haunting lines I have quoted, meaning does coalesce.  I cannot say I understand how he makes it happen, but he does, and it is deeply affecting and often moving.  Sauermann works in the prose poem, a form that easily takes shape in French but seldom seems to within the stresses of English.  Yet in Bernd Sauermann’s poignant voice, I hear the music and poetry I never seem to hear from other prose poets.  But perhaps it is because, as he says, he “play[s] the cast iron flutes of the mythic.”  That, I think, is the unique, unfamiliar, yet beautiful sound I have always heard in his work.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e —The Foreword to \u003cem\u003eSeven Notes of a Dead Man's Song\u003c\/em\u003e by John Wood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e'\u003cem\u003eIn the lyric fields Bernd Sauermann has planted, flowers 'bloom like theorems in straight boy\/girl boy\/girl lines,' cross-pollinated by the rhetorics of the mechanic and meteorologist, of criminology and cowboy films.  A number of these pieces ring with 'the cast iron flutes of the mythic,' not unlike the Merwin of \u003c\/em\u003eThe Miner’s Pale Children\u003cem\u003e.  There is some of Stein’s laconic obsessiveness and echoes of Edson, too, as language waits out the light 'at the corner of triste and giddy.'  Dominating this volume’s second half is the Diesel Generator—equal parts Muse and Id and evil twin, a kind of metapoetic Frankenstein as imagined by Daniil Kharms.  If language is a snake that swallows its own twisting tail, let the Diesel Generator be the rattle in the chest of the man who watches.\u003c\/em\u003e  Seven Notes of a Dead Man’s Song \u003cem\u003eis a rich and rigorous collection, its absurdities elevated by a lyric intensity that rewards repeated reading.  For once the tender buttons loosen and these sentences shed their skins, bold patterns are revealed, rendered not just with painterly precision but with real human longing—profound and plenty sharp enough to break your heart like an ashtray.\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eBrett Eugene Ralph, author of \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eBlack Sabbatical\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Bernd Sauermann’s poetry collection begins with an epigraph from MacKnight Black’s \u003c\/em\u003eMachinery\u003cem\u003e, which asks: 'Is death so strong a word now\/That over the earth life shall not be worshipped\/in the clarity of steel?' With the clarity of steel, in \u003c\/em\u003eSeven Notes of a Dead Man’s Song\u003cem\u003e, Sauermann forges the sensory with forms both mechanical and human. Images '[rain] on us like whispered yes’s.'—'a midday sun smolders,' 'an eyelash' lurks from 'a dimly lit stairwell,' glass shatters; we witness a 'sense of wonder at the smell of wood smoke,' and a wave rolls 'like the turn of a slender hip.' Aural, tactile, olfactory, visual, and kinesthetic expressions pulse through this meditation on proximity and distance, allowing us to consider language’s ability—and inability—to connect us. Domestic scenes vibrate with constellations. Intimacy is embodied in the smell of ink. Portents provide an intense feeling of presence—a space in which we view all manner of limitations: of language, of the body, of this life. As binaries are blurred in this book between the mechanical or rational, Sauermann creates a logic and legibility of the senses. 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The Latin Quarter is a stunning earthly festival where fairies and imps flirt in the forest, where sea and sky meld in ceremony with radiant souls. Love and death, longing for a loved one too soon departed, transcendence, recurring themes in her work, saturate Flavia’s poetry. May the reader fall in love with this collection in which the poet gives herself wholly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Denis Emorine,\u003c\/em\u003e Francopolis.net\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: right;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFlavia Cosma\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning Romanian-born Canadian poet, author and translator. She has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest. Later she studied Drama at the Community School of Arts—Bucharest, Romania. 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Taylor at once meditates on and observes Alpine landscapes, wind, clearings or edges of woods, an alluring hinterland, a “soothing” saxifrage, remains of a fire, not to mention those portholes through which he watches islands going by and, at the same time, wonders about decisive journeys that we all must take. All this poetry originally stems from the American writer’s collaborative projects in different formats—\u003cem\u003elivres d’artistes, livres uniques,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003elivres pauvres\u003c\/em\u003e—with the French artist Caroline François-Rubino (\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.caroline-francois-rubino.com\/\" title=\"Caroline Francois-Rubino website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003ecaroline-francois-rubino.com\u003c\/a\u003e). She has stated that she “paints what she cannot photograph.” Similarly, Taylor writes, as it were, at various intersections of inner and outer worlds. Often the boundaries blend. He records these “apperceptions,” these privileged moments of awareness in which one becomes intensely and enigmatically conscious of one’s own processes of thinking, feeling, or looking. What meaning can be glimpsed in such intricate sensations? In what ways do they suggest what “aliveness” might more deeply be, or imply? In spare, subtly haunting language that brings out the semantic resonance of certain key words, Taylor seeks what emerges “\u003cem\u003ebehind the present \/ beyond \/ inside.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—Jeremy Alden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Taylor\u003c\/strong\u003e, born in 1952, is an American writer, critic, and translator who has lived in France since 1977. His most recent books of poetry and short prose are \u003cem\u003eThe Apocalypse Tapestries\u003c\/em\u003e (Xenos Books), \u003cem\u003eIf Night is Falling\u003c\/em\u003e (Bitter Oleander Press), and \u003cem\u003eThe Dark Brightness\u003c\/em\u003e (Xenos Books). As a translator, he has won grants and prizes from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sonia Raiziss Charitable Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets. In 2015, his translation of José-Flore Tappy’s poetry (\u003cem\u003eSheds,\u003c\/em\u003e Bitter Oleander Press) was a finalist for the National Translation Award of the American Literary Translators Association. His recent translations include books by Philippe Jaccottet, Pierre-Albert Jourdan, Pierre Chappuis, Catherine Colomb, Georges Perros, Alfredo de Palchi, and Lorenzo Calogero. His critical essays on European poetry in general and French literature in particular have been published in five volumes at Transaction Publishers, the latest of which is \u003cem\u003eA Little Tour through European Poetry.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/johntaylor-author.com\/\" title=\"john taylor website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003ejohntaylor-author.com \u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrassy Stairways\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e by John Taylor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e $21.95, paperback, 124 pp\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e ISBN-13:  978-1-941196-51-9\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MadHat Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40433634120,"sku":"","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0163\/1814\/products\/GrassyStairways.jpg?v=1499788839"},{"product_id":"floating-tales-by-jeff-friedman","title":"Floating Tales by Jeff Friedman","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFloating Tales\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eThese are poems of sheer imagination and beauty. Once I started reading them, I couldn’t stop. Like Russell Edson before him, Jeff Friedman is a fantastic fabulist who draws his readers into a parallel universe where the lines between fantasy and logic disappear, and wonder begins. At once entertaining and wise, witty and insightful, Friedman is one of the finest prose poets writing today.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e—Nin Andrews\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFloating Tales\u003c\/em\u003e Jeff Friedman presides over a strange marriage between the mundane and the surreal—the oneiric logic of an Edson prose poem happily banging its head against the domesticity of the Baudelairean Bly prose poem. That is, to say, these prose poems are highly original. Edson once said that a prose poem, no matter how surrealistic or nutty, should “think well.” What better description for the gems in this collection. I’m not sure what took Friedman so long to find his way to the prose poem, but those of us who write them are glad he finally made the journey.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e—Peter Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eLate genius of the form Russell Edson stated that prose poetry can create “a beautiful new animal.” Jeff Friedman’s \u003cem\u003eFloating Tales\u003c\/em\u003e earn that honorific description. These compact, surreal, enlivening tales strip experience down to its most fertile mysteries. In the worlds created here, paradox, the unseen, the uncontrollable, nothingness, unsatisfiable hungers, the absurd, suspended threat, constant transformation and mutation, and power reversals reign supreme. A tongue bullies its owner. A woman teaches a parrot to fly. Puppets revolt. Lot’s wife turns into a pillar of salt and is strapped to the roof of her fleeing family’s Subaru. The ancient, the contemporary and the cartoonish cross pollinate in amazing ways. With restless inventiveness, these tales provide the opposite of closure: they burst open, bloom outward, revealing multiple new ways of relating to so-called reality.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e—Amy Gerstler\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eReview in \u003cem\u003ePoetry International:\u003c\/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/poetryinternationalonline.com\/book-review-floating-tales-by-jeff-friedman\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"poetry international review\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003epoetryinternationalonline.com\/book-review-floating-tales-by-jeff-friedman\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 60px;\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/b\u003e 114 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Madhat, Inc. \/ Plume Editions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 978-1-941196-46-5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e Product Dimensions: \u003c\/b\u003e 6 x 0.2 x 9 inches\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eShipping Weight:\u003c\/b\u003e 6 ounces\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MadHat Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41869832264,"sku":"","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0163\/1814\/products\/FloatingTales.jpg?v=1501122520"},{"product_id":"on-mother-and-fatherland-by-bozena-keff","title":"On Mother and Fatherland by Bożena Keff","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e[W]e may regard this as the Polish version of Art Spiegelman’s \u003cem\u003eMaus\u003c\/em\u003e—in its form, an excellent and utterly unexpected version. Such a comparison is not about imitation, nor about formal similarity, but about something essential for both authors: the child-artist’s struggle with the historical experience represented by the parent. A struggle for one’s own identity, for the right to one’s own life, for a way out of the mausoleum of the Holocaust. A struggle played out in the arena of art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—Przemysław Czapliński\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBożena Keff\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1948 in Warsaw, where she currently resides. A lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Warsaw, she is also a research associate of the Jewish Historical Institute. In addition to three previous books of poetry, she is the author, most recently, of \u003cem\u003eAnti-Semitism: An Unfinished History\u003c\/em\u003e (2013) and (as Bożena Umińska) \u003cem\u003eFigure with Shadow: Portraits of Jewish Women in Polish Literature\u003c\/em\u003e (2001). She contributes regularly to Poland’s leading magazines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Translators\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlissa Valles is the author of the poetry books \u003cem\u003eOrphan Fire\u003c\/em\u003e (2008) and \u003cem\u003eAnastylosis,\u003c\/em\u003e a book-length poem published in a thermal paper edition for an exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London in 2014; she edited and co-translated Zbigniew Herbert’s \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2007) and \u003cem\u003eCollected Prose\u003c\/em\u003e (2010). Her translation of Ryszard Krynicki’s \u003cem\u003eOur Life Grows\u003c\/em\u003e will appear at NYRB Poets in 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Paloff is the author of the poetry collections \u003cem\u003eAnd His Orchestra\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Politics,\u003c\/em\u003e and of a critical volume, \u003cem\u003eLost in the Shadow of the Word (Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe).\u003c\/em\u003e His translations include, most recently, Richard Weiner’s \u003cem\u003eThe Game for Real.\u003c\/em\u003e He teaches at the University of Michigan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Mother and Fatherland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e by Bożena Keff\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003etranslated by Benjamin Paloff and Alissa Valles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e $19.95, paperback, 98 pp\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e ISBN-13: 978-1-941196-52-6\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MadHat Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44883118088,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0163\/1814\/products\/MotherFatherland.jpg?v=1503961080"},{"product_id":"pierced-by-night-colored-threads-by-dean-kostos","title":"Pierced by Night-Colored Threads by Dean Kostos","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePierced by Night-Colored Threads\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond,serif;\" face=\"Garamond, serif\"\u003eDean Kostos writes the poetry of ‘life’s mathematical string—untying, uniting me.’ That spooling and unspooling of the various threads of our lives, our DNA code binding us and unhinging us all at once is the fabric of this wonderful book. Kostos writes of the burning sky and us, examining our potential for flight, pen in hand.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"western\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;\"\u003e—\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond,serif;\" face=\"Garamond, serif\"\u003eKate Gale, Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond,serif;\" face=\"Garamond, serif\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Goldilocks Zone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond,serif;\" face=\"Garamond, serif\"\u003e, winner of the Red Mountain Press Editor’s Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;\"\u003e\u003ca name=\"_GoBack\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond,serif;\" face=\"Garamond, serif\"\u003eDean Kostos is a poet for whom a formal imagistic stance offers harsh truths and some solace. In conversation with Emily Dickinson, Neruda, his neighbors, western civilization, he holds his own. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond,serif;\" face=\"Garamond, serif\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePierced by Night-Colored Threads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond,serif;\" face=\"Garamond, serif\"\u003e continues this intense and complicated investigation of how the West in its beauty and brutality continues to shape our destiny. He makes each of us look again at those we admire or the ideas we question. And with phrases like ‘Mystic \/ opulence exceeds,’ we see a poet who claims justice and awe. It is an amazing achievement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"western\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;\"\u003e—\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond,serif;\" face=\"Garamond, serif\"\u003ePatricia Spears Jones, Author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond,serif;\" face=\"Garamond, serif\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond,serif;\" face=\"Garamond, serif\"\u003eLike the exiled poet Neruda, on whom he bestows the title ‘ambassador of questions without answers,’ who ‘found residence in language,’ Kostos, too, is omnilegent, an  intersectionalist of the first order: he’s read a lot and is endlessly curious, his astonishing range of interests manifest in a glance at just a few of the poems’ epigraphs: after Devil Dog, oil on canvas by Melinda Hackett; From the early life of Milton H. Erickson, M.D., the father of modern hypnotherapy, who pioneered the technique of Indirect Suggestion; after Vermeer (and Donatello, among others); A great deal of beauty is rapture—Keith Haring; Every photograph is a certificate of presence—Roland Barthes. Even more astonishing is the depth of his inquiries, and his mastery of the poetical forms that express them, their beauty: ‘Questions without answers,’ yes, and there’s the pleasure. It’s as if, in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond,serif;\" face=\"Garamond, serif\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePierced by Night-Colored Threads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond,serif;\" face=\"Garamond, serif\"\u003e, one has found somehow in one’s possession a (wildly smart) detective’s notebook full of mysterious descriptions, hypotheses about a crime not quite discernible, that form and inform poems that intrigue and delight, page after page. Poems one reads and feels one’s head brimming with allusions, ears perking, ensorcelled.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"western\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;\"\u003e—\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond,serif;\" face=\"Garamond, serif\"\u003eDaniel Lawless, founder and editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond,serif;\" face=\"Garamond, serif\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlume Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"western\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond,serif;\" face=\"Garamond, serif\"\u003eI deeply appreciate the construction of this collection, its intricate and colorful threading, as it is brilliantly named. The poems themselves intertwine and play off each other in an accomplished way, intertextual, informed. The play of future, present, and past evokes a braid of richness in these poems that I admire, and I am always impressed by this author’s depth of vocabulary. Truly, as his own poem ‘In Translation’ illuminates, ‘Translators inhale breath from line breaks, \/ articulate gaps \u0026amp; \/ conjure words from a face pressed into absence. \/\/ Writers transcribe \/ the eye color of one \/ never seen again.’ To me, this is the essential art of any writer. If you like books of poetry whose sum is far greater than its component parts, you’ll want this book. I remain grateful for the art of Dean Kostos, the literary home he weaves together, and welcome this new collection.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"western\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;\"\u003e—\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond,serif;\" face=\"Garamond, serif\"\u003eNicholas Samaras, Yale Series of Younger Poets Award winner, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond,serif;\" face=\"Garamond, serif\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Psalm, World Psalm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"western\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"western\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Garamond,serif;\" face=\"Garamond, serif\"\u003eReview at the \u003ci\u003eJournal for Poetics Research:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/poeticsresearch.com\/article\/larissa-shmailo-reviews-dean-kostos\/\"\u003ehttp:\/\/poeticsresearch.com\/article\/larissa-shmailo-reviews-dean-kostos\/\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 60px;\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/b\u003e 156 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Madhat, Inc.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 978-1-941196-49-6\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MadHat Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47557272136,"sku":"","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0163\/1814\/products\/pierced.jpg?v=1507657296"},{"product_id":"selected-poems-by-ben-mazer","title":"Selected Poems by Ben Mazer (paperback)","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSelected Poems by Ben Mazer\u003c\/em\u003e (paperback)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow he is a traveller, anonymous and haunted by a problematic past, “in a strange country”; now a jailbird leading a prison break; then a spy in exile, “handled by the handler’s handler” in an attractive mountain village with a faintly European feel (are there villages in the U.S.?), who finds himself reading the local newspaper backwards, presumably for secret code, and winds up experiencing a wild banquet as a vision of a mass descent into hell; and then again he speaks as a Welsh king, alienated but coming to grips with his hereditary royalty, his “divine rights.” Court and courtship, high expectations and high standards of sentiment and decorum, manifest themselves, not without a delicious irony, in this body of sophisticated yet moving 21st-century verse, much of which has an adventurist, experimental edge to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e—Philip Nikolayev, from the preface\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/b\u003e 248 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MadHat, Inc.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 978-1-941196-58-8\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MadHat Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47558895752,"sku":"","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0163\/1814\/products\/MazerSelected.jpg?v=1507659368"},{"product_id":"campaign-hc-by-david-breskin","title":"Campaign by David Breskin (hardcover)","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCAMPAIGN:  Advance Men\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“David Breskin is a righteous, exacting, politically astute poet, and his Campaign is something truly new, a blend of visionary journalism and poetry’s formal fire. 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