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Poetry. "William Waltz will take me through 'the buzz and clamor in a forest of hearts.' ADVENTURES IN THE LOST INTERIORS OF AMERICA is an adventure, I will goon this adventure with Waltz as a skillful, faithful, compass-true guide. I love this book." James Tate"
Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a selection of the year’s most brilliant, striking, and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. For The Best American Poetry 2022 guest editor Matthew Zapruder, whose own poems are “for everyone, everywhere...democratic in [their] insights and feelings” (NPR), has selected the seventy-five new poems that represent American poetry today at its most dynamic. Chosen from print and online magazines, from the popular to the little-known, the selection is sure to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the series. The series and guest editors contribute valuable introductory essays that illuminate the current state of American poetry.
Poetry. Women's Studies. "In a dish of fevered poppies, glassy ranunculus, and red tide hunger, the daughter infects herself. She's infected by self, burning up until McMullin's cool hand runs across the DAUGHTERRARIUM's viral waters. Cancer, the crab, a sunrise that won't clot. The neogothic daughter, her many manifestations bleed together in this prize-winning jailbreak. She says t]ake me out of this bed and put me back in the grass, but really she's taking us. Out, back. Give her your hand or get out of her way." --Danielle Pafunda "What are we born into? What does it mean to be loved by God and Earth? What do we owe and to whom? How does one experience the fusion of anger and shame in a mind and body? What do the doctors say to the bodies that are broken? Where do the bodies go when they are taken away from themselves? How does a body heal itself? How does a body degrade itself? How does a body mourn and survive the trauma of fear, pain and abuse? I admire DAUGHTERRARIUM for pushing too far, for making me cringe with its representations of what one human can do to another, of what a body can do to itself. McMullin takes a tenacious look at violence and the abject while also interrogating, with great compassion, the nature of faith, family and growth." --Daniel Borzutzky "'There are those who have hurt you not because you are ignorant, but because you have a heart.' Sheila McMullin's DAUGHTERRARIUM is a collection of the kindest rage I have ever seen. The book chronicles, among its tendernesses, McMullin's refusal to turn the rage onto herself--'How not to blame myself for being fragile?'--and the difficulty of locating what is hurting us, or why, and how to heal a wound that is constantly re-opened. If you believe in rage, if you care deeply about women, then read this brilliant book again and again across your lifetime. Otherwise, 'You have to get out of the way.'" --Sarah Vap
Poetry. With art by Aaron Cardella. "'The glass of water / on the table is / what's possible, ' observes Broc Rossell, 'a little / flood / of elegance, / a recital.' The same could be said of Festival itself. This is a book of defamiliarizations, a recital of phenomenological possibility aflood in its own formal elegance, like a glass of water made prismatic and strange. Threading through the Halloween parade of Aaron Cardella's spectral artwork, the speaker of this collection leads us 'From leaf to branch / From branch to figure / From figure to ground / From ground into darkness, ' where the catabasis of perception both ends and begins. Follow this guide and you'll find yourself 'in the center of the word Now, / in the center of the letter O, ' at the point- blank degree zero of poetry." Srikanth Reddy "A striking momentum drives this careful, meditative long poem in which the I strives to coincide with its body amid the rife overflow of the world. And it is that overflow, in all its vivid detail, that gives this work its deep wealth and visionary range. The attention to the world paid here, whether despairing, reminiscent, documentary, or jubilant, is always an act of applied love, a celebration of the passing present; every line rings with that commitment." Cole Swensen "I write in praise of Broc Rossell, who writes in his own praise: 'scrap wire, aging automaton, / wastrel bumblefuck.' A poet of praise with a tongue sharp enough to cut space. I take his celebration to be sincere, although his tone is subdued, even mournful at times, and the sweetness of the images is tempered by darkness, as in a fairy tale. Is he criticizing every wrong thing, as Dave Hickey once suggested, by 'praising it in the wrong way'? Or have the right things never been duly celebrated before?" Aaron Kunin"
Poetry. Women's Studies. Winner of the 2016 CSU Poetry Center Open Book Prize. "IN ONE FORM TO FIND ANOTHER is an heroically unsettling and compelling textual reenactment of feminine embodiments' lament, contemplation and recalibration of disturbed histories irrevocably intertwined with traumatic experience. In intense, palpable language, Lewty lays bare the somatic registers of complex and fraught circumstances that cling to the body as sensory framework, muscle memory and 'non-bearing loads.' This momentous and powerful book evokes feminist theory and practice, psychoanalytic discourse, and unflinching lyric to render the inscrutable territory of trauma tangible and perceptible. With each nuanced register Lewty cultivates a body politic of powerful disclosure and release." --Brenda Iijima "This is how we feel: the body remembers what the mind wants to forget. Inexplicable physical symptoms--indirect translations of traumatic past events--are rendered into language on medical message boards. In turn, these poems are mysterious lexical symptoms that connect words to feeling. Lewty's book is an inventory of intensity." --Jena Osman "'The past is not gone, but here, hectic, impatient.' IN ONE FORM TO FIND ANOTHER presents the meditative poem as agitated case study or transforms case studies into exquisite poetry, opening the question of what it means, now, to attempt to know. Wise about the many ways we are 'dismantled by memory and want, ' overwhelmed by inadequate explanations, and restlessly looking for a way to tell the dancer from 'a trance-state where you stop and turn, correct and rebuild, ' the poet returns us to writing's origin as address ('Dear Grapheme'), involving her reader intimately in the making of meaning. In this collection one form of memory (traumatic, embodied) is used to build a dwelling 'wherein attachment can occur.' I am in love with Lewty's lyric brilliance and attracted to this book as 'I am attracted to any real place...'" --Laura Mullen
Poetry. If you—your charismatic, beautifully erotic self—had died young, your ghost would count itself fortunate to have lived, loved, and flamed-out in the company of the wildly imaginative author of VOW. But it's not just ghosts who find themselves envisioned, en-fabled, sometimes horrifically, in these poems: An ex-husband, ex-lovers, and dear friends also populate these questioning, often darkly humorous lyrics. Like them, the future unsettles you because you have taken vows, too, and broken them. Take heart, you hold in your hands the poetic manual for how to proceed.
Poetry. "Lizzie Harris's debut collection, STOP WANTING, crafts images and lines of such arresting splendor that I am very often driven to joy at the feats of beauty and healing that language is capable of bringing into being." Tracy K. Smith"