Category Archives: Spring 2011
Netsuke
“Netsuke comes at the summit of Rikki Ducornet’s passionate, caring, and accomplished career. Its readers will pick up pages of painful beauty and calamitous memory, and their focus will be like a burning glass; its examination of a ruinous sexual life is as delicate and sharp as a surgeon’s knife. And the rendering? The rendering is as good as it gets.” — William Gass
Leche
A young Filipino American’s riotous adventures through the sprawling, tragicomic landscape of modern-day Manila.
“Linmark nails the excitement and terror of being young with a rare and moving accuracy.” —Spin
The Iovis Trilogy
Published for the first time in its entirety, this major epic poem cements Anne Waldman’s place in the pantheon of contemporary poetry.
How Long
Padgett’s title poem asks: “How long do you want to go on being the person you think you are? / How Long, a city in China.” With the arrival of his first grandchild, Padgett becomes even more inspired to confront the eternal mysteries with a wry, rueful honesty.
Testify
“Testify, a great book, places itself at America’s street corner of Origin and Decay. A delicate, tentative lyricism arises full of want, and Lease is its astonished keeper.”—Gillian Conoley
Becoming Weather
An intimate, atmospheric distillation of how “one wakes only / to this false peace / with the voice / of a weatherman,” Becoming Weather confronts the comforts and hierarchies that make us complacent.
