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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 po...(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 Yiddish culture, was confined to the...(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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An Apple in Her Hand
(December 2018)
A Collection from the Hudson Valley Women's Writing Group
Colleen Geraghty - Author
Kit Goldpaugh - Author
Eileen Howard - Author
Tana Miller - Author
Mary K. O'Melveny - Author
Jan Zlotnik Schmidt - Author
Kappa Waugh - Author
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A collection of poetry and prose by a Hudson Valley–based group of women writers.
The authors of this collection are seven older women from diverse backgrounds who are members of a long-standing Hudson Valley writing group composed of academics, a social worker, a psychiatric nurse, a teacher, and a lawyer. Some are retired, some are still working, some are musicians. All are volunteers, activists, and artists. The sectio...(Read More) |
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Queer Expectations
(December 2018)
A Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry
Zohar Weiman-Kelman - Author
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Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures.
Jewish women have had a fraught relationship with history, struggling for inclusion while resisting their limited role as (re)producers of the future. In Queer Expectations, Zohar Weiman-Kelman shows how Jewish women writers turned to poetry to write new histories, developing “queer expectancy&rdq...(Read More) |
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The Poetry of Georges Bataille
(December 2018)
Georges Bataille - Author
Stuart Kendall - Translated and with an introduction by
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Presents a new window into the literary, philosophical, and theological concerns of this enigmatic thinker and writer.
Despite its relative rarity, and the condensed brevity of the poems themselves, poetry occupies a striking place in the literary and philosophical oeuvre of Georges Bataille. For Bataille, poetry had no meaning “except in the violence of revolt,” which it could attain “only by evoking the impos...(Read More) |
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Years I Walked at Your Side
(October 2018)
Selected Poems
Mordechai Geldman - Author
Tsipi Keller - Translator
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Finalist – 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry, presented by the Jewish Book Council
The first book-length collection in English of this major Israeli poet.
from “At Your Side”
Years I walked at your side
like our prophet Isaiah
barefoot naked and bare
I will put on no cover
until you see me
until you recognize an other
one person
at least
and so know yourself ...(Read More) |
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Reflecting Pool
(July 2018)
Poets and the Creative Process
Laurence Carr - Editor
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Both an anthology and an informal textbook that features poetry and essays by twenty-five New York State poets.
Reflecting Pool is an innovative volume of poetry and essays by twenty-five New York State poets who teach the writing of poetry, run poetry workshops, and publish the poetry of others. The book is both a poetry anthology and an informal textbook, with contributing essays by each poet that offers the reader per...(Read More) |
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Fraying Edge of Sky
(June 2018)
Danielle Hanson - Author
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Poetry that takes nature by surprise, observing the world while making it anew.
Danielle Hanson’s poetry presents strange images, precise, surreal, and darkly comical. They tilt the world for the reader, leaving it new and strange and beautiful. Between the destruction of angels, creation of philosophers, and use of mythological creatures, Fraying Edge of Sky captures a side of the other-world humans don’t see ...(Read More) |
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