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Mary Barnard, American Imagist
(December 2013)
Sarah Barnsley - Author
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Uncovers a new chapter in the story of American modernist poetry.
Perhaps best known for her outstanding translation of Sappho, poet Mary Barnard (1909–2001) has until recently received little attention for her own work. In this book, Sarah Barnsley examines Barnard’s poetry and poetics in the light of her plentiful correspondence with Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and others. Presenting Barnard as a “late ...(Read More) |
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Unruly Catholic Women Writers
(November 2013)
Creative Responses to Catholicism
Jeana DelRosso - Editor
Leigh Eicke - Editor
Ana Kothe - Editor
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A literary anthology exploring contemporary Catholic women’s experiences.
This unique literary anthology is devoted to unruly Catholic women. In short stories, poems, personal essays, and drama, the contributors describe women’s struggles with Catholicism and also complicate contemporary understandings of women’s relationships to their faith. Catholicism often oppresses the women in these creative pieces, but it al...(Read More) |
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Poems of Wine and Tavern Romance
(October 2013)
A Dialogue with the Persian Poet Hafiz
Hafiz - Author
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A selection of poems by one of Islam’s greatest poetic voices.
“In his poetry, Hafiz has inscribed undeniable truth indelibly … Hafiz has no peer!” — Goethe
Poems of Wine and Tavern Romance includes 103 pioneering poems by the medieval Persian poet and Sufi monk Muhammad Shemseddin Hafiz (ca. 1320–1389). With the rich complexity of a character in Shakespeare, Hafiz celebrates h...(Read More) |
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A Slant of Light
(June 2013)
Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley
Laurence Carr - Editor
Jan Zlotnik Schmidt - Editor
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A collection of contemporary prose and poetry by women writers from New York’s Hudson Valley.
This volume celebrates the contemporary prose and poetry of more than a hundred women from New York’s Hudson Valley. Drawing on writers from the eastern border of New York State to the foothills of the Catskills, and along the length of the Hudson River from Westchester to Albany, editors Laurence Carr and Jan Zlotnik Schmidt ...(Read More) |
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Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice
(May 2013)
Hölderlin-Heidegger-Celan
Charles Bambach - Author
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A new reading of justice engaging the work of two philosophical poets who stand in conversation with the work of Martin Heidegger.
What is the measure of ethics? What is the measure of justice? And how do we come to measure the immeasurability of these questions? Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice situates the problem of justice in the interdisciplinary space between philosophy and poetry in an effort to explore t...(Read More) |
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Freeze
(April 2013)
Heather Cousins - Author
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Winner of the Codhill Poetry Chapbook Award for 2012.
“Heather Cousins’s Freeze, as sparse and elegant as winter branches, illuminates how time is both fixed and divisible, the human paradox both archetypal and mutable.” — Pauline Uchmanowicz, final judge
Heather Cousins of Monroe, Georgia holds an AB in Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College, an MA from the Wri...(Read More) |
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Here, Everything Is Dreaming
(April 2013)
Poems and Stories
Robert Moss - Author
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Poems and stories that stream directly from dreams and shamanic adventures in the world-behind-the-world.
Our earliest poets were shamans. Today as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal. They understand that the right words open pathways between the worlds and draw closer the gods and goddesses who wish to live through us.
Robert Moss brings ...(Read More) |
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Selected Poems
(March 2013)
Celestine Frost - Author
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In these idiosyncratic, subtly rhymed and occasionally violent lyrics, Frost runs her tongue along the edge of the knife dividing wit from rage.
This book includes poems culled from Frost’s five published volumes, An Inhuman Rival, The Choice, An Imagined Experience over the Entrance, I Gathered My Ear from the Green Field, and A Yelp in the Ideal, as well as some uncollected work...(Read More) |
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Letters and Found Poems of Edisa and Chloe
(October 2012)
David Appelbaum - Author
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The story of two women and their quotidian existence in rural New York.
Conceived first as a correspondence between two women, Letters and Found Poems expresses the mystery of their intimacy in their quotidian existence in rural New York. The complexity of Chloe’s affairs creates a damaging separation that brings a tragic turn of events. A collection of poems each had written to the other serves as a supplement to...(Read More) |
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Rumi's Holistic Humanism
(July 2012)
The Timeless Appeal of the Great Mystic Poet
Mirza Iqbal Ashraf - Author
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Rumi’s universal approach to life is compellingly revealed in easy-to-read prose with excerpts from Rumi’s poetry.
This book presents Rumi’s startling conviction that “Love is the strongest unifying force in the Universe.” Rumi said that all things in the universe are in orbit. The atoms, molecules, galaxies, and universes are all turning, around a center, and the center is Love. For Rumi, peace is...(Read More) |
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