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Reading Suburban Sutras, as I am, during a global pandemic, a national uprising against systematic racism in America, and amid our president's embrace of strongman rhetoric, white supremacy, and fascist tactics, I must call Austin Sanchez-Moran a fierce political poet, who calls into question his own privilege, and who confronts unflinchingly the bitter burlesque that is our age. Read at an earlier time, I might have focused on the poems' madcap, surreal, and topsy-turvy world, on their slapstick pranks and wicked humor, and on their trickster-smarts and mischief, but today I must praise his candor, his piercing insight, and his cunning, sharp-edged humor in the face of the tragic. -Eric Pankey, Author of Alias: Prose Poems Like a series of lyric Twilight Zone episodes, the poems in Austin Sanchez-Moran's Suburban Sutras twist familiar scenes in uncanny ways: A man is plucked from his hotel lobby and dropped into a military coup. Children in small-town America eat cake off the bodies of their town's founders. A commuter train derails and is swallowed by vines before the speaker's eyes. The deft surrealism of this collection exposes the racism and classism that permeate America's "gulag of opulence." These poems amaze with their imagination and insight. -Nick Lantz, Author of You, Beast Suburban Sutras, Austin Sanchez-Moran's daring debut collection arrives at a time when white America is just starting to acknowledge its long racist history, a time of absurd economic inequity and deep racial, political, social, and moral division. How does a white poet of this nightmarish history, a poet from the privileged white suburbs wake up from the decadent ennui of his privilege? Sanchez-Moran does it by facing his somnambulant past and his family's wealth, by exposing his own protected ignorance and complicity in the long nightmare. He composes not only autobiographical poems but also absurdist fables, sutras in the spirit of Magritte, Dali, or the Twilight Zone. His poems are alarms meant to wake the sleepy suburbs. I can still feel the hand shaking my shoulder. -Jennifer Atkinson, Author of The Thinking Eye
Louis Johnson (1924-1988) published many volumes of verse over 45 years. This selection comes from all phases of his career, with reprints of many difficult to obtain works. Includes a biographical introduction and many of Johnson's own comments on the origins and inspirations of his poems. Terry Sturm is Professor of English the University of Auckland, a friend and colleague of Johnson.
Exploring fiction, film and art from across the USA, South America, Asia, Europe and Australia, New Suburban Stories brings together new research from leading international scholars to examine cultural representations of the suburbs, home to a rapidly increasing proportion of the world's population. Focussing in particular on works that challenge conventional attitudes to suburbia, the book considers how suburban communities have taken control of their own representation to tell their own stories in contemporary novels, poetry, autobiography, cinema, social media and public art.
A startlingly frank take on modern femininity, Michele Seminara's Suburban Fantasy combines finely crafted narratives with lyrical artistry and sure-footed eloquence. This is raw, fiery, firebrand feminist writing that manages to artfully co-exist with giddying intimacy and poignant soul-bearing.
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's "research" becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate in historic events or merely watch them pass him by? In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle. Born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979, Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a 2010-2011 Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie. Leaving the Atocha Station is his first novel.
this edition of d.a. levy's Suburban Monastery Death Poem is illustrated in the fashion of a graphic novel. Bree (clevelander, of Green Panda Press) spent three months, drawing each day, making her way thru the poem as an independent spiritual retreat. the result is stanza by stanza poem-drawings accompanying one of d.a. levy's finest works. his was an existential look at life, death and Cleveland, particularly East Cleveland, and the relationship of poets and cops. Bree had her own existential crisis and took the opportunity to live in levy's head for awhile. his head that only she perceived. special thanks to her mentors, too humble to be named, who encouraged her journey and were as much a part of it as her own subconscious.
"Exquisite . . . A powerful example of how to carry the things that define us without being broken by them." --WASHINGTON POST
100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem Implicit in poetry is the idea that we are enriched by heartbreaks, by the recognition and understanding of suffering--not just our own suffering but also the pain of others. We are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish, or to let others vanish, without leaving a record. And poets are people who are determined to leave a trace in words, to transform oceanic depths of feeling into art that speaks to others. In 100 Poems to Break Your Heart, poet and advocate Edward Hirsch selects 100 poems, from the nineteenth century to the present, and illuminates them, unpacking context and references to help the reader fully experience the range of emotion and wisdom within these poems. For anyone trying to process grief, loneliness, or fear, this collection of poetry will be your guide in trying times.
Do you believe in angels? When Xaviere is tasked with transcribing taped interviews her deceased friend Daphne left to her in her will, she begins to piece together the story of the photographer Irene Guernsey, a moderately well known but elusive photographer Daphne was interviewing. Irene's mysterious images captivate Xaviere as they had Daphne. Irene had never given interviews or talked about her work publicly, but near the end of her life, she reveals the magic hidden in plain sight in her mysterious and ethereal photographs and her attempt to capture angel wings on film.?And once the angels appear, the reader is taken on a journey that spans decades and changes the lives of multiple women along the way. Everything Affects Everyone, /em> is a novel about listening, about how women speak to one another, and about the power of the question.
The house is perhaps the most recognizable emblem of the American ideals of self-making: prosperity, stability, domesticity, and upward mobility. Yet over the years from 1945-2021, the American house becomes more famous for the betrayal of those hopes than for their fulfilment: first, through the segregation of cities and public housing; then through the expansion of private credit that lays the ground for the subprime mortgage crisis of the early twenty-first century. Walt Hunter argues that, as access to housing expands to include a greater share of the US population, the house emerges as a central metaphor for the poetic imagination. From the kitchenette of Gwendolyn Brooks to the duplex of Jericho Brown, and from the suburban imagination of Adrienne Rich to the epic constructions of James Merrill, the American house poem represents the changing abilities of US poets to imagine new forms of life while also building on the past. In The American House Poem, 1945-2021, Hunter focuses on poets who register the unevenly distributed pressures of successive housing crises by rewriting older poetic forms. Writing about the materials, tools, and plans for making a house, these poets express the tensions between making their lives into art and freeing their lives from inherited constraints and conditions.