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Teardrops of Time
(December 2020)
Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkhan Kalayanaphong
Arnika Fuhrmann - Author
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Investigates how the Thai poet Angkhan Kalayanaphong adapts Buddhist concepts of time to create a modern Asian aesthetic imaginary.
Focusing on one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, Angkhan Kalayanaphong (1926–2012), this book makes a unique contribution to understandings of non-Western literary modernity. Arnika Fuhrmann investigates how the Thai poet adapts...(Read More) |
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José María Heredia in New York, 1823–1825
(September 2020)
An Exiled Cuban Poet in the Age of Revolution, Selected Letters and Verse
Frederick Luciani - Editor, translator and introduction by
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An English translation, with introduction and annotations, of a selection of the letters and verse that José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), wrote during his months of political exile in New York from November 1823 to August 1825.
This volume offers the most complete English translation to date of the prose and poetry of José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), focusing on...(Read More) |
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Birth Chart
(May 2020)
Rachel Feder - Author
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A collection of poems weaving together astrology, motherhood, music, and literary history.
In Birth Chart, a collection of heartfelt, ruthless poetry, Rachel Feder rethinks the relationship between astrology and motherhood. She asks, if astrology constellates the universe around the moment of one’s birth, then how might it serve as shorthand for a vast number of personal experiences and cultural phenomena? How might...(Read More) |
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Let's Hear Their Voices
(December 2019)
Cuban American Writers of the Second Generation
Iraida H. López - Editor
Eliana S. Rivero - Editor
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The first anthology of poetry, prose, and drama by second-generation Cuban American writers.
Let’s Hear Their Voices brings together works by ten distinguished and emerging Cuban American writers of the “second generation”—writers who were born between 1960 and the mid-1980s in the United States to Cuban parents or have a mixed ethnic background. Called “ABCs” (American-Born Cubans) or&...(Read More) |
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Philosophers and Their Poets
(December 2019)
Reflections on the Poetic Turn in Philosophy since Kant
Charles Bambach - Editor
Theodore George - Editor
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Examines the role that poets and the poetic word play in the formation of philosophical thinking in the modern German tradition.
Several of the most celebrated philosophers in the German tradition since Kant afford to poetry an all-but-unprecedented status in Western thought. Fichte, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Gadamer argue that the scope, limits, and possibilities of philosophy are intimately intertwined with those of poe...(Read More) |
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Tales from the Temple
(November 2019)
A Collection of Zen Prose Poems Translated from the Korean
Oh-hyun Cho - Author
Heinz Insu Fenkl - Translator
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A collection of prose poems by Musan Cho Oh-hyun (1932–2018), celebrated poet-monk of the Nine Mountain school of Korean Zen.
In this collection of prose poems, Musan Cho Oh-hyun, renowned abbot of Baekdamsa, one of Korea’s central Zen temples, innovates on a millenia-old Buddhist literary tradition going back to Buddhist classics like the Biographies of Eminent Monks. Tales from the Temple not only p...(Read More) |
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In the Region of the Heart
(July 2019)
A Collection of Written Fragments, 2018
Jack Cain - Author
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An exploration of states of consciousness as well as journeys in the imaginal realm.
Most of these “fragments” were written by Jack Cain in group poetry sessions he was facilitating. The sessions were designed to be an exploration of the distinction between material arising from the subconscious mind as opposed to material arising from our ordinary consciousness. This direction came from G. I. Gurdjieff’s startling and...(Read More) |
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The Now Dark Sky, Setting Us All On Fire
(June 2019)
Poems
Robert Krut - Author
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Winner of the Codhill Poetry Award for 2018, this collection unveils surrealistic imagery and apocalyptic moments to explore cityscapes external and internal.
In The Now Dark Sky, Setting Us All on Fire, Robert Krut unveils surrealistic imagery and apocalyptic moments that encroach on his cityscapes. Entering his urban vision of off-kilter fingerprint police, helix fireworks, and lockboxes replete with “unsewn / but...(Read More) |
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The Full Pomegranate
(January 2019)
Poems of Avrom Sutzkever
Avrom Sutzkever - Author
Richard J. Fein - Selected and translated by
Justin Cammy - Introduction
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Translations of selected poems by the Yiddish writer, covering the entire breadth of his career.
Yiddish writer Avrom Sutzkever (1913–2010) was described by the New York Times as “the greatest poet of the Holocaust.” Born in present-day Belarus, Sutzkever spent his childhood as a war refugee in Siberia, returned to Poland to participate in the interwar flourishing of Yiddis...(Read More) |
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Tilt / Hover / Veer
(January 2019)
Mary Newell - Author
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Poems depicting the planetary tilt that shuffles the seasons, the dynamic poise of a bird hovering, the tendency to veer as we aim for the polestar but wake up awry.
From a chrysalis morphing into a butterfly, to a person traversing a life cycle, to the planet tilting toward the sun, the poetry chapbook Tilt / Hover / Veer offers impressions of interlinked cycles on different scales. The text pivots around the modular ref...(Read More) |
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