{"title":"Literary Criticism\/Essay","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"madness-rack-and-honey","title":"Madness, Rack, and Honey","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/authors\/products\/mary-ruefle\"\u003eMary Ruefle\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!--END DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca class=\"active\" href=\"#tab1\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab3\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--DESCRIPTION--\u003e \u003cem\u003eFor every time I read a poem I am willing to die...\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the course of 15 years, award-winning poet Mary Ruefle delivered a lecture every six months to a group of poetry graduate students. Collected here for the first time, these lectures articulate the wisdom accrued through a life dedicated entirely to poetry. Intellectually virtuosic, instructive and experiential, \u003cem\u003eMadness, Rack, and Honey\u003c\/em\u003e resists definition, demanding instead an utter—and utterly pleasurable—immersion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2012 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in Criticism \u003cbr\u003eListed in Best Books for Writers by Poets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--REVIEWS--\u003e This is one of the wisest books I've read in years... \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Kirby, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledges and celebrates in the odd mystery and mysticism of the act—the fact that poetry must both guard and reveal, hint at and pull back... Also, and maybe most crucially, Ruefle’s work is never once stuffy or overdone: she writes this stuff with a level of seriousness-as-play that’s vital and welcome, that doesn’t make writing poetry sound anything but wild, strange, life-enlargening fun. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeston Cutter, \u003cem\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfound, unpredictable, charming, and outright funny...These informal talks have far more staying power and verve than most of their kind. Readers may come away dazzled, as well as amused...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMadness, Rack, and Honey \u003c\/em\u003eis a gift from a rigorous intellect, unflinching critic, and a big old sloppy heart. Ruefle has created a work of poetry from the daunting task of writing about it. Don’t be surprised if this book is remembered as a classic of its genre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLisa Wells, \u003cem\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book not just for poets but for anyone interested in the human heart, the inner-life, the breath exhaling a completion of an idea that will make you feel changed in some way. This is a desert island book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMatthew Dickman, \u003cem\u003eTin House\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRuefle’s voice is rangy and intellectually supple, capable of conjuring with the knottiest questions of identity and narrative in one breath and then swooping to the personal or lyrical in the next. Especially tonic is the author’s impatience with stodgy, unquestioned verities or lazy thinking in general; at times, she bristles with exasperation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Lindgren, \u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are adroit, polysemic essays that frequently wrong-foot the reader: just when one thinks the writer has gone too far out, is wandering lost amidst her quotations and references, she turns suddenly canny and pulls the connections together in one swift movement. Ruefle likes to play dumb and then turn on a dime to reveal an intelligence almost cruel in its precision. Hers are neither formal essays nor craft writing (though there is no doubt that the exercise of poetic craft is their fuel); they are learned, thoughtful pieces, with thick references to Coleridge and Keats, Bataille and Barthes, Cy Twombly keeping good company with John Crowe Ransom. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJ.S.A. Lowe, \u003cem\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRuefle’s musings defy genre or the neat order of the form, and their marvelous charm is the result of not adhering to particular rules.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Seltzer, \u003ci\u003e Flavorwire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe accomplished poet is humorous and self-deprecating in this collection of illuminating essays on poetry, aesthetics and literature...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSan Francisco Examiner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: August 7, 2012\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN# 9781933517575 (5.5x8 332pp, paperback and limited edition hardcover)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mary Ruefle","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":195564852,"sku":"9781933517575","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Limited Edition Hardcover","offer_id":237575681,"sku":"9781933517575","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":50255100805424,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/1312\/products\/mrahsoft.png?v=1682024282"},{"product_id":"a-beautiful-marsupial-afternoon-new-somatics","title":"A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon - New (Soma)tics","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/authors\/products\/caconrad\"\u003eCAConrad\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!--END DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\" id=\"tab1\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--DESCRIPTION--\u003e \u003ci\u003ethis mechanistic world…has required me to FIND MY BODY to FIND MY PLANET in order to find my poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince their 2005 inception, CAConrad’s (Soma)tic exercises have been summoning the whole spectrum of human experience in the name of poetry. \u003ci\u003eA Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon\u003c\/i\u003e collects 27 new and previously published exercises and their emerging poems, incorporating unorthodox steps in the writing process from the tangible everyday to the cosmos of the imagination. 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This beautiful hardcover edition celebrates Maggie Nelson’s uncompromising vision, inviting longtime fans and newcomers alike to experience and share in an indispensable work that continues to disrupt the literary landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue, while folding in, and responding to, the divergent voices and preoccupations of such generative figures as Wittgenstein, Sei Shonagon, William Gass and Joan Mitchell. \u003ci\u003eBluets\u003c\/i\u003e further confirms Maggie Nelson’s place within the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished in over ten foreign editions\u003c\/b\u003e, including Jonathan Cape, UK (2017), Kolektif Kitap, Turkey (2017), Editions Du Seuil, France (2017), Hanser Berlin, Germany (2017), Modernista, Sweden (2017), Saiplanet, Korea (2017), Editores Tajamar, Spain (2017); Pelikanen Forlag As, Norway (2018), No Kidding, Russia (2019), Schildts; Soderstrom, Finland (2019), Nottetempo, Italy (2023). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdapted for the stage in 2024\u003c\/b\u003e, by director Katie Mitchell, script adapted by Margaret Perry. 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Seeking such reciprocity—no less an ideal than, say, “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”—may radically redefine poetry, as it increasingly becomes the genre that is not one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlbert Mobilio, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuilding the book as a collection of facts and quotations, Nelson interweaves her own insights, textual interpretations, and anecdotes ranging from the tragic to the outrageous. Nelson may, admittedly, have fallen short of the “compendium of blue observations, thoughts, and facts” she says she at first envisioned, but this slim volume is nonetheless an elegant, indispensable addition to the genre of the lyric essay. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKathleen Rooney, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom blue factoids like Benedict de Saussure’s 1789 invention of “cyanometer, with which he hoped to measure the blue of the sky,” to her own struggles with depression, Nelson gifts us with what seems like a lifetime study of blue while somehow slyly avoiding any of the obvious “blue” clichés. Maggie Nelson continues to raise the bar higher in what a reader can expect from a book. \u003ci\u003eBluets\u003c\/i\u003e is smart yet intimate, quiet yet provocative, and a welcome addition to the poetic non-fiction discourse. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusie DeFord, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the end Nelson breaks free of romance’s tyranny. She dreams someone sends her cornflowers, the American name for bluets. Shaggy, wild, and strong—they’re a revealing metaphor for the author. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeffrey Cyphers Wright, \u003ci\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 240 entries, Nelson relates a history of blue from philosophical, zoological and literary perspectives, all the while weaving in bits of memoir and emotional rumination. Through this collage, she broadens the definition of blue from a merely visual phenomenon to a vehicle for the divine. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine Lacey, \u003ci\u003eTime Out New York \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s an impossible book to describe without simply handing it to you; it is, hackneyed as it is to say, a book to be experienced. I can only report that I am reading it again and again, that the resonances between the (seemingly) disparate propositions are startling and emotional, that I suspect your reaction will be different and also quite wonderful. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Rock, \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrash, feverish, intractable, exploratory, and terribly “touchant” Nelson’s \u003ci\u003eBluets\u003c\/i\u003e is, I am remind’d for some reason (it’s in Marías) of Rimbaud’s line: “Par délicatesse \/ J’ai perdu ma vie.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Latta, \u003ci\u003eIsola di Rifuti \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 240 prose entries the book consists of, Nelson deals with the personal loss of a relationship and witnesses the physical suffering of a friend who became a quadriplegic following an accident (something Nelson also wrote about in her 2007 poetry collection, Something Bright, Then Holes), all while returning again and again to the color blue. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGina Myers, \u003ci\u003eBookslut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNelson doesn’t want to leave anything out, as suits a collector’s project. Thus, in the same way that she wanders among blue objects (shards of glass, bottles of ink, stones and tattoos and the nests of bowerbirds) and accidental theorists of color (Goethe and Newton and Duras and Novalis) and the color’s utility in human imagination (blue moods, blues music, the blue divine), she likewise wanders among the positions the orchestrator of these lists must adopt. This results in an admixture of candor, passion and detachment that makes for irresistible intimacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRay McDaniel, \u003ci\u003e The Constant Critic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt must be said upfront that Maggie Nelson could have worked this out as a book of poetry if that’s what she had wanted to do early on. Which is to say, for a book that might actually be an essay, which might be a lyrical essay, for a long work that “blurs genre,” she fills the requirement of what good poetry must do, which is deliver new ways of talking and looking and thinking, and helping us to look and think. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Fama, \u003ci\u003eFanzine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is a philosophical and personal exploration of what the color blue has done to Nelson. Despite the exhaustion, \u003ci\u003eBluets\u003c\/i\u003e wears its hybrid\/fragmented dress well, showing its seams and much enthralled by its wanderlust, an aesthetic runway that constantly leads Nelson to find new ideas, images, and expressions. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Larson, \u003ci\u003eTriQuarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBluets\u003c\/i\u003e reaches far beyond the constraints of its subject, resulting in a series of delicately associative numbered paragraphs investigating a broken romantic relationship, a friend’s chronic nerve pain, the writing process itself, and the deceptive elements of perception and color. 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The bold and surprising imagination of Joe Wenderoth is everywhere present in these essays moving fluidly between aesthetics, obscenity, American culture, and the craft of poetry. Fans of his previous work will be thrilled to find his uncompromising and inimitable sensibility on brilliant display. \u003c!--END DESCRIPTION--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--REVIEWS--\u003e Wenderoth’s \u003ci\u003eLetters to Wendy’s\u003c\/i\u003e (2000)—irreverent, witty prose poems written on comment cards from the eponymous burger chain—racked up unheard-of sales and made the young writer a poetry-world celebrity. Wenderoth’s first post-Wendy’s publication collects equally irreverent, equally biting and sometimes frankly sexual efforts in prose, along with a few poems and photographs: it shows his wit, and his desire to shock, undimmed. Individual essays explore the semiotics of Mayberry RFD and the phenomenology of Wile E. Coyote; reinterpret a poem of Sappho’s to describe a seizure; rewrite a poem by Robert Hass so that it describes junkies in Cleveland; invent new drinking games; and advise academic colleagues, “Be glad that in truth you are... not in control of what comes into your mouth.” ...disorientingly smart, and funny. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his new book, \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Spirit of Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Wenderoth imbues essays with such concerned philosophical purpose (and drama) that the reader is led to believe in their deeper significance, and the tension between his earnest rhetorical choices and somewhat seriocomic tones and content leaves us laughing disturbingly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Wagner, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoe Wenderoth is “In”—in the sense that he is among the chosen. 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It’s a pleasurable thing, and especially if it is fostered in the home” (August Kleinzahler), to frustration with the canon: “I had the canon pointed at me. I got Ezra Pounded” (Martin Espada), to poetry as pleasure: “I don’t care so much about being understood now, but I want to give pleasure” (Medbh McGuckian), and “poetry has to be able to give pleasure before it’s understood; that’s why you want to understand it” (Reginald Shepherd); from praise for difficult poetry: “Why should everything be immediately accessible?” (Agha Shahid Ali) to mixed emotion about collective efforts: “There needs to be some collective efforts to do certain things, like get a press going or get a reading series going . . . but it takes poets to write poems . . . I actually don’t give a shit about collaboration because I want to write my own poems” (Anselm Berrigan), it is evident that this collective effort between Brian Henry and Andrew Zawacki is a good thing. They bring us a collection of interviews that engage the reader in questions of contemporary poetry; these are poets who all “add something to the world that wasn’t there before\" (Reginald Shepherd).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLilah Hegnauer, \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat I find interesting about this collection is precisely the fact that I haven’t heard of most of the authors, and those that I have heard of, I’ve only actually spent time in the work of two of them; what becomes interesting is the process of discovery. ... If these are most of the interviews the magazine has published over the past few years, it speaks very well for the magazine. 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We get to see the influences, the conversations, notes and journals, tracking what might otherwise be too ephemeral to follow. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eRob Mclennan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis gathering of various documents provides the opportunity to come as close as possible to observing the poet at work in her own mapped—out space—a rare, intimate consolidation of all relevant available information concerning one terrific poem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Patrick James Dunagan, \u003cem\u003eNewPages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn invisible hand seems to have selected and arranged layers of assertion and association in such a way that each aspect of the work seems both to reflect and illuminate the others. I have a notion that there should be a copy of this lovely, enigmatic edition in every motel room nightstand from Duluth to Sault Ste. Marie.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Joel Brouwer, \u003cem\u003eOn the Seawall\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike the eponymous Niedecker poem at its heart, \u003cem\u003eLake Superior\u003c\/em\u003e is a richly layered and deftly allusive work of art, one that requires the reader to collaborate in its making. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLaura Sims, \u003cem\u003eColdfront Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYears of half-forgotten letters and stripped-down poems, of slim volumes and scant attention: in \u003cem\u003eLake Superior\u003c\/em\u003e, the poet’s mind and the poet’s words are compressed together and revitalized... the extensive body of her work offers an extraordinarily singular, courageous, and radical poetics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Alice Whitman, \u003cem\u003eMusic and Literature Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout the poem and the included documents, a preoccupation with the natural world becomes apparent... an essential ruggedness and overarching sense of exploration, giving us both a history and a natural history though verse. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Renée K. Nicholson, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLake Superior\u003c\/i\u003e attempts to unearth the raw material buried in Niedecker’s records and lend insight into how these archives were compressed by the force of her pen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJay Yencich, \u003ci\u003e Poetry Northwest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLake Superior\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us that the creative process is one that combines learning with mental collage-making, serendipity, immense seriousness of purpose, happy accidents along with unhappy dead-ends, flashes of insight, and a willingness to fashion from the quotidian a haunted but enduring knowledge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Wojahn, \u003cem\u003e Numéro Cinq \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c!--END REVIEWS--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab4\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--TABLE OF CONTENTS--\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lake Superior” by Lorine Niedecker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLake Superior Country, a journal by Lorine Niedecker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Niedecker and the Evolutional Sublime” by Douglas Crase\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThree Letters from Lorine Niedecker to Cid Corman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from \u003cem\u003eBack Roads to Far Towns \u003c\/em\u003eby Bashō and trans. by Cid Corman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Tour 14A” from \u003cem\u003eWisconsin, A Guide to the Badger State\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“On a Monument to the Pigeon” by Aldo Leopold\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from the writings of Pierre Esprit Radisson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from the writings of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 2, 2013\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN# \u003cspan\u003e9781933517667\u003c\/span\u003e (6.5x9.5 104pp, paperback and limited edition hardcover)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Lorine Niedecker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":233037280,"sku":"9781933517667","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Limited Edition Hardcover","offer_id":288915426,"sku":"9781933517667","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/1312\/products\/Lake_Superior_for_website.jpg?v=1345062831"},{"product_id":"ecodeviance","title":"ECODEVIANCE","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/authors\/products\/caconrad\"\u003eCAConrad\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!--END DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\" id=\"tab1\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis series of 23 new (Soma)tic poetry rituals and resulting poems by CAConrad create what we can refer to as an \"extreme present\" set to reveal the creative viability of everything around us. Poetry rituals such as riding escalators and showing photographs of himself to strangers asking, \"Excuse me, have you seen this person?\" In another he pollinates flowers for security cameras, exclaiming, \"I'M A POLLINATOR, I'M A POLLINATOR!\" One was written with a ghost, another by stargazing to build his own constellations. (Soma)tic rituals are a practice of unorthodox steps aimed at breaking us out of the quotidian and into a more political and physical spiritual consciousness of The New Wilderness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eListed in \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe's\u003c\/em\u003e Best Poetry Books of 2014\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry\u003cbr\u003eWinner of \u003cem\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/em\u003e Poetry Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c!--END DESCRIPTION--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c!--REVIEWS--\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAgain and again, CAConrad’s poetry demonstrates that self-exposure—the braver and more apparently audacious, the better—has the capacity not only to create some of the rawest, most intensely intimate and original poetry being written today, but also to act as a powerful force for overcoming the communicative barriers all around us. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExcerpted from the announcement for The Fifth Annual \u003ci\u003eBeliever\u003c\/i\u003e Poetry Award to \u003ci\u003eECODEVIANCE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom these rituals come notes; from those notes come poems; and from those poems comes not just a view into his process, but an entrance into another present, which a reader could as easily follow on her own — across the page as a poem, or across time as a performance of the same ritual.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Andor Brodeur, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe need this so bad right now: an alternative to all the \u003ci\u003eshoulds\u003c\/i\u003e, the obligations we take on ourselves to \u003ci\u003ebe productive, do more, know more,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ecare harder\u003c\/i\u003e so we can \u003ci\u003efix\u003c\/i\u003e things; a counter to the stultifying and earnest gloom, self-flagellation, and resignation that is just crushing nature poetry. \u003cem\u003eECODEVIANCE\u003c\/em\u003e is a subversive syllabus for a queer ecopoetics, ... exercises, all at once, in magic, telepathy, transgression, confrontation, fantasy, wish-fulfillment, interspecies communications, self-healing, and writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Legere, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe constant reverberations of collective and individual injury and suffering are openly registered in Conrad's work to memorable effect. Dedicated to his friends, \u003cem\u003eECODEVIANCE \u003c\/em\u003eis kept from imploding on itself by love, camaraderie, and determination—a time capsule for the future wilderness and anyone who's being here now. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharity Coleman, \u003cem\u003eBOMB\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese poems are extreme, it’s true. There’s no way to, there’s no reason to, deny this. When Conrad explains that he wants to “create” an extreme present, he doesn’t mean that the present which he creates is one that is extreme by virtue of the fact that he has bloodied his foot or inserted a plastic tube into his penis, it is extreme by virtue of the fact that we have all made it extreme—“I blame everyone when I blame \/ myself I’m that good a shot,” he says. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrew Webster, \u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMuch of Conrad’s work directly illuminates his politics, attacking the separation that he believes American culture creates between humans and the natural world. He presents at once a project of radical existential protest, a back-to-nature agenda, and a goal of queer liberation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConrad's (Soma)tic rituals reinvent the world and his poems surprise the reader who imagines them before reading. Conrad gives us permission to be wild, to drop margins, to make sense and meaning, or not. CAConrad might be the best poetry teacher we have. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy Otte, \u003ci\u003eHazel \u0026amp; Wren\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI’m crazy about how this project combines a dead-serious activist mission (connecting with other humans despite and in full acknowledgment of war, violence and environmental degradation) with wacky procedural methods ripe for inspiration. I love that it lays the whole process and intention bare for all of us to see with a kind of transparency all too rare for poets. . .and yet the resulting poems are still mysterious and wholly unexpected.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArielle Greenberg, \u003ci\u003eThe American Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe language in Conrad’s poems is surprising in its rawness. While grounded in the specific and the material, the poems touch on Big, Important Issues. The poems themselves, however, stay firmly grounded in this world, in language that actual people use.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eH. V. Cramond, \u003ci\u003eNew Pages\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe quiet invitation to grab the wheel, as the reader, challenges a great deal of what a traditional book of poems does, where the podium being rocked by context angers those seeking meaning straight from the mouth of the poem. Here, there are many mouths and many, many teeth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCJ Opperthauser, \u003ci\u003eHeavy Feather Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is an experience of the body in relation to and in communion with nature. Trajectories in relation to the potential of the page. A crystallization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeather Sweeney, \u003ci\u003eTarpaulin Sky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt 160 pages, \u003cem\u003eECODEVIANCE\u003c\/em\u003e, by C. A. Conrad, is a whiz-bang rocket ship, overfilled with home-baked mind-altering goodies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnnie Won, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Microreviews and Interviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout \u003cem\u003eECODEVIANCE\u003c\/em\u003e, Conrad’s themes emerge: love, the body, lust, nature, crystals, the unending bullshit of America’s hatred, and war. Some lines will make you cackle while others will make your heart ache. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Rose Etter, \u003cem\u003eFanzine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c!--END REVIEWS--\u003e\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 9, 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN# 9781940696010 (7.5x10 160pp, paperback) \u003cbr\u003eISBN# 9781940696003 (7.5x10 160pp, limited edition hardcover)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"CAConrad","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":622572797,"sku":"9781940696010","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Limited Edition Hardcover","offer_id":622572801,"sku":"9781940696003","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/1312\/products\/eco.front.22_de5d8573-e34e-468a-b1cd-f6cca1820b97.jpg?v=1419361560"},{"product_id":"retrievals","title":"Retrievals","description":"\u003c!--AUTHOR AND PAGE DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/authors\/products\/garrett-caples\"\u003eGarrett Caples\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c!--END DETAILS--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab3\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\" id=\"tab1\"\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eRetrievals \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection of criticism about underrecognized poets, unfairly discredited critics, artists obscured by more famous relations—basically, writers and artists that have fallen off the cultural map or never quite made it there in the first place. These essays, collected for the first time, span 10 years of Garrett Caples’ writing as an arts journalist and editor at City Lights\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eHis encyclopedic knowledge of surrealism, art history, and Bay Area artists together with candid and tender anecdotes give his writing a humble charm not often found in works of criticism.\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/article\/249094#article\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRead an excerpt from \u003cem\u003eRetrievals\u003c\/em\u003e at the Poetry Foundation!\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c!--END DESCRIPTION--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003c!--REVIEWS----\u003eWith this collection [Caples has] certainly achieved his goal of being “an activist critic”—one who seeks out lesser-known artists and writers, rehabilitates reputations, and brings new works to light. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/reg.publishersweekly.com\/978-1-933517-98-8\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book maneuvers through modernism by taking close looks at some of its artists, theorists, and critics, spanning such topics as the invention of art history and personally collaborating with Humpty Hump. Written in Caples' signature blend of erudition and elan, the essays also include photos of some of the art in question.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvan Karp, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sfweekly.com\/sanfrancisco\/fall-arts-2014-books-mcsweeneys\/Content?oid=3126420\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSF Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRetrievals\u003c\/i\u003e constructs an alternate (and wonderfully scenic) route through the 20th century that would likely lead us to Caples’s shelves. In this way, it’s a thoroughly personal document patched from public dispatches.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Andor Brodeur, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/arts\/books\/2014\/12\/20\/book-review-rocket-and-lightship-essays-literature-and-ideas-adam-kirsch-and-retrievals-garrett-caples\/ATNfjw7dRZiWQOhlxFMn1O\/story.html\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 9, 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN# \u003cspan\u003e9781933517988\u003c\/span\u003e (6.5x9 304pp, paperback) \u003cbr\u003eISBN# \u003cspan\u003e9781933517995\u003c\/span\u003e (6.5x9 304pp, limited edition hardcover)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Garrett Caples","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":622631581,"sku":"9781933517988","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Limited Edition Hardcover","offer_id":622642637,"sku":"9781933517995","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/1312\/products\/caples.front.25_a5ab2a44-5744-4300-a9b1-11b58894b64d.jpg?v=1419362138"},{"product_id":"calamities","title":"Calamities","description":"\u003c!--AUTHOR AND PAGE DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/wavepoetry.com\/products\/renee-gladman\"\u003eRenee Gladman\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!--END DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\" id=\"tab1\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER of the 2017 Firecracker Award for Nonfiction from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer by one of the most original voices in contemporary literature. Each essay takes a day as its point of inquiry, observing the body as it moves through time, architecture, and space, gradually demanding a new logic and level of consciousness from the narrator and reader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c!--END DESCRIPTION--\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough this sharp, dense, and utterly rewarding book, Gladman manages to achieve an impossible balance between the intellectual rigor of an academic, the linguistic sensibility of a poet, and the probing logical fantasy of a visual artist. It’s appropriate that \u003ci\u003eCalamities\u003c\/i\u003e would enact this sort of intersection of identities—that it would shift tectonically between them, shimmering all the while. A must-read for creators of all shapes, or even better those creators who shift shapes, who name in a number of languages, who can’t think of themselves as any one thing—so in that way, a book for everyone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Trevor Ketner, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf course, Gladman’s work can be counted on to live up to even the most handsome of book jackets. Billed as a book of essays, Calamities enters that exciting, genre-neutral territory between prose and poetry. The pieces are captivating in their humanness; Gladman captures the serpentine path neuroses travel through her consciousness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Lauren Kane, \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReading \u003ci\u003eCalamities\u003c\/i\u003e is incantational. The reading experience is one drenched in the constant feeling of ignition and obstruction. \u003ci\u003eCalamities\u003c\/i\u003e at once demands and inhibits; it solicits and perturbs. It frustrates and tickles. And it reminds us, most forcefully, that narrative is erotically phenomenological. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Prathna Lor, \u003ci\u003eJacket2\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGladman pushes up against the boundaries of narrative while nestling comfortably within it. Her prose is vivid, meandering, and acute. . . . The book is a welcome addition to the tradition of experimental literature exploring the boundaries of genre, identity, and artistic expression. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA standalone masterpiece. . . . Reading Gladman, I sometimes feel I’m watching a mastermind manipulate a Rubik’s Cube, except the goal isn’t to solve it but to present every possible arrangement. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Purkert\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGentle prying leads to memorable phrases, ballooning images, and twisty thoughts that take us deep into the syntax of calamity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJenn Mar, \u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGladman obsesses and opens new airways at the levels of sentence, story, essay, sequence, model, and of discrete words that draw themselves through the thickness and unexpectedness of their phonemes…each essay is a fragment, a new beginning, discontinuous from its neighbors but in conversation with them…each transformation is a calamity, unresolved but pointing to further possibilities. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSam Lohmann, \u003ci\u003eThe Volta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRenee Gladman’s fiction defies easy categorization […] Here, Gladman turns her eye to the essay, focusing on questions of bodies and time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVol. 1 Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRenee Gladman is one of the great hybridizers of contemporary letters. \u003ci\u003eCalamities\u003c\/i\u003e draws us into its own looking-glass world of language and time, the spaces of life happening and not happening all at once, and Gladman balances everything gracefully atop her sparse, nearly ambient prose. So rarely can syntax catch the heart off guard. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Jarrod Annis, \u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWithin this book is a new way to contemplate, investigate, and map the mind and the surrounding space, internally and externally, as one writes about writing, speaks about writing, and about the relationships, cross-overs, and shape shifts from film to drawing to words to people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLauren Wallach, \u003ci\u003eBook Court\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGladman’s wonders— brilliant and self-aware even when materializing just beyond her reach— on the mechanics and experience of writing through objects that are at once foreign and intimately felt, compose her narrative movement: her deepening into a set of reflective postures, a singular cartography that both models (and creates space for) storymaking we have not yet been equipped to recognize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Poetry Project\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe thing she is telling you how to make is pure imagination, it is not something you would or could bring to life—but you can wear it by reading her essays. These sketches inevitably twist and tumble into a beautiful knot of failed effort. And the failure is, somehow, the beginning. A premise for the next creative act. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAisha Sabatini Sloan, \u003ci\u003eTarpaulin Sky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe style of these essays, all of them short, is so impressionistic that it's probably safe to call these works \"essay-poems\" instead of essays proper…a minimalism so austere that the reader is often left to draw their own connections between events and feelings…it's a great writer-on-writing book, but it's an even better communicator-on-communication book, and that's really the key to it…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChris Schahfer, \u003ci\u003eChicago Center for Literature and Photography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays — or possibly prose poems — gives shape to the act of creation for the artist-as-writer or writer-as-artist. Always experimental, but never exclusionary, Renee Gladman’s writing is open, reflective, and sublime. I wanted to read “Calamities” as soon as I woke up and I wanted it to sing me to sleep at the end of the day. Gladman is my dream writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Thompson, \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn Paper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA word, once written, calls for more words. This additive\/corrective\/amendatory process is the draw of writing. In her new book of essays, \u003ci\u003eCalamities\u003c\/i\u003e, Renee Gladman lays bare these paradoxes at the heart of writing… \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversal Hubbub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 6, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN# 9781940696270 (5.5x8 144pp, paperback)\u003cbr\u003eISBN# 9781940696287 (5.5x8 144pp, limited edition hardcover)\u003cbr\u003eISBN# 9781950268283 (e-book*)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Renee Gladman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":16350275333,"sku":"9781940696270","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Limited Edition Hardcover","offer_id":19942664517,"sku":"9781940696287","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":50255078129968,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/1312\/products\/Calamities_SC_for_website.jpg?v=1457464029"},{"product_id":"my-private-property","title":"My Private Property","description":"\u003c!--AUTHOR AND PAGE DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/wavepoetry.com\/products\/mary-ruefle\"\u003eMary Ruefle\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!--END DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca class=\"active\" href=\"#tab1\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab3\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor of \u003cem\u003eMadness, Rack, and Honey\u003c\/em\u003e (“One of the wisest books I’ve read in years,” The New York Times) and \u003cem\u003eTrances of the Blast\u003c\/em\u003e, Mary Ruefle continues to be one of the most dazzling poets in America. \u003cem\u003eMy Private Property\u003c\/em\u003e, comprised of short prose pieces, is a brilliant and charming display of her humor, deep imagination, mindfulness, and play.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!--END DESCRIPTION--\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMary Ruefle’s \u003ci\u003eMy Private Property\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that, if not read carefully and to its very last words, almost invites the reader to underestimate it. . . . In her recent work, Ruefle can seem like a supernally well-read person who has grown bored with what smartness looks like, and has grown attracted to the other side. Some of her narrators here come across as inconsistent, unsure and even inarticulate, which is not the same as dumb. She is not writing with a prescription, or at least not one for this earth. Nor is she celebrating the commonplace. She is concentrating on one thing at a time and doing something that, depending on how the light strikes it, can look like weirding out or being very serious.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBen Ratliff,\u003cem\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a book you want to read slowly, to savor both for what it says and how Ruefle says it. And even more remarkable is the way she lures you, the reader, in, and gets you to suspend your disbelief. I do not know of another book like \u003cem\u003eMy Private Property\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Yau, \u003cem\u003eHyperallergic \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe property that Ruefle deems private is the impalpable nature of the inner life we all share; it is at once ours and everyone’s. . . . Ruefle has shown a talent for elevating her acute observations and narrative inclination well above mere anecdote to create quietly disquieting moments—a literature of barbed ambiguity and unresolved disruption.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlbert Mobilio, \u003cem\u003eBookforum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[R]eading her collection \u003ci\u003eMy Private Property\u003c\/i\u003e, I’m struck by the conversational quality of this new work, by its anthropological spirit, and by its stubborn emphasis on the facts as Ruefle has found them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLorin Stein, \u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere we see the fruitful possibilities of my-ness, of privacy, of property, that are leagues deeper than the frail ghosts of these concepts that currently carry currency. Ruefle’s work is a guide and a gift, a chance to find ourselves (and our selves) in a world in which the self is not an enclosure, but an opening. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNathan Goldman,\u003cem\u003e Kenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMary Ruefle is, in this humble bookseller’s opinion, the best prose-writing poet in America. (And one of our best poets, too.) \u003ci\u003eMy Private Property\u003c\/i\u003e, her latest collection of stories, essays, and asides, is as joyous and singular a book as you’ll read. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStephen Sparks, \u003cem\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe writing recalls fables, in that contained narratives and simple premises turn to reveal something of the human predicament. But far from offering moral instruction, Ruefle tunes into an unsettling and enlivening strangeness. . . . Playing through distinct notes of knowing and unknowing, Ruefle’s writing strikes a chord that resonates in psychic and social realms. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection’s sensations are marvelous small hoof kicks all over.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eConnor Stratton,\u003cem\u003e Full Stop\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Private Property\u003c\/i\u003e is pure magic. It dazzles and moves the reader to a deeper understanding of the place sadness holds in their lives. . . . Insightful, emotive, and brimming with empathy, \u003ci\u003eMy Private Property\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterwork of love for the world and others in it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTrevor Ketner, \u003cem\u003eThe Bind \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRuefle collapses the boundaries between the personal, political, and metaphysical. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eScout\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMy Private Property\u003c\/em\u003e, all of life can be mined for meaning — the pieces concern themselves with the small and the large without making value distinctions between the two. Ruefle deals as frequently with mundane matters — a Christmas tree, feeding a finch, crumbs on a kitchen counter — as with those capital-letter concepts: God, Love, Death, Time, Memory. Any of these “other things” can undergo some transubstantiation and become poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStephanie Pushaw, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[Ruefle’s] work thrills not just for the pleasure and surprise of [her] language, but for how [she] allows us in on something otherwise so secret, so private, the very leaps and dances and stumbles of [her] own actual thrumming mind. . . . \u003cem\u003eMy Private Property\u003c\/em\u003e is suffused by an atmosphere of solitude. The book possesses the energy of a woman alone, isolated, tending to the daily tasks of living and moving words around. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNina MacLaughlin, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMary Ruefle's careful, measured sentences sound as if they were written by a thousand-year-old person who is still genuinely curious about the world. . . . [She] combine[s] imagistic techniques from surrealism with narrative techniques to create surprising, high-velocity, and deeply affecting work. This aesthetic has spawned many imitators and variations, but her style is unmistakable. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRich Smith, \u003cem\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI might say us dreamers have gotten ahold of the essay form. I might speak about how Mary Ruefle’s prose explores the varied experience of singular feeling, feelings within feeling, braiding feelings, feeling slipping into other feelings, feelings inflecting feeling, feeling chasing feeling. . . . I might talk about how Mary Ruefle’s prose makes you laugh aloud, and, in the same beat, breaks your heart. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJay Ponteri, \u003cem\u003eEssay Daily\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow does she create a tone at once distanced and intimate? Straightforward and offbeat? Mary Ruefle’s mind is on display here in all its quirky richness. If you don’t know her erasure books, her essays, or her earlier books of more conventionally lineated poetry, starting with My Private Property will give you the essential flavor of her work. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMeryl Natchez, \u003cem\u003eZyzzyva\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection demonstrates Ruefle’s superb ability to manipulate and handle her chosen subject matter with the greatest of ease. These are words of flesh and cloud coming to life as a surrealist’s song. Ruefle has tamed the lion of language. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSonja James, \u003cem\u003e The Journal\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this volume, she continues to do what she does best: take a microscopic look at the human condition and try to make some sense of it. . . . Ruefle is perceptive and reflective, silly and laugh-out-loud funny. She is like a saint of language and her collections are like prayer books. I remember her pieces better than any of the sumo-sized novels I’ve read in the past year, and, like prayer books, I return to them again and again for nourishment. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRachel Hurn, \u003cem\u003eMusic \u0026amp; Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRuefle shows a poetic intelligence . . . in which emotion is rendered through objects and scenes . . . There is a strange air inside them. If I were to rip the pages out from this book and place them on the floor . . . the color pieces would become the Bermuda Triangle of the collection. Some readers might not know what to make of these poems . . . while others who take their time sailing through this electric fog of words will appreciate them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSean Shearer, \u003cem\u003eMeridian \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[T]his book . . . defies the reduction that book reviews require of their typist-failers—you have to read the whole thing to register an impression of the whole thing. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKyle Minor, \u003cem\u003eFanzine \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: Paperback: September 5, 2017 | Hardcover: October 4, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN# \u003c\/span\u003e9781940696515 (5.25x7.75 128pp, paperback)\u003cbr\u003eISBN# 9781940696386 (5.25x7.75 128pp, trade hardcover)\u003cbr\u003eISBN# 9781950268252 (e-book*)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mary Ruefle","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40525277381,"sku":"9781940696515","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":16350442245,"sku":"9781940696386","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":50255101985072,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/1312\/products\/mppsoft_e789e783-a04b-4d42-9ac0-aaa3bf0ffd73.png?v=1682023473"},{"product_id":"what-is-poetry-just-kidding-i-know-you-know-interviews-from-the-poetry-project-newsletter-1983-2009","title":"What is poetry? (Just kidding, I know you know): Interviews from The Poetry Project Newsletter (1983–2009)","description":"\u003c!--AUTHOR AND PAGE DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdited by \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/wavepoetry.com\/products\/anselm-berrigan\"\u003eAnselm Berrigan\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c!--END DETAILS--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab3\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\" id=\"tab1\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Poetry Project was founded in 1966 for the overlapping circles of poets in the Lower East Side of New York. These interviews from \u003cem\u003eThe Poetry Project Newsletter\u003c\/em\u003e form a kind of conversation over time between some of the late 20th century's most influential poets and artists, who have come together in this legendary venue over the past 50 years.\u003c!--END DESCRIPTION--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--REVIEWS START--\u003eA striking anthology of interviews that sheds light on one of the most iconic poetry institutions in New York City…An essential tour de force for poetry buffs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/anselm-berrigan\/what-is-poetry-just-kidding-i-know-you-know\/\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoet Anselm Berrigan has carefully curated a selection of these interviews between emerging and established writers to render a history of The Poetry Project. The critical and foundational thoughts of writers such as Charles North, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Schmidt, Kenneth Koch, Alice Notley, Ed Sanders, Bernadette Meyer, Fred Moten, and Ann Waldman punctuate the work. It’s because of these seminal thinkers that notions of Language Writing, praxis, conceptualism, and collaboration are understood as they are today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Valinsky, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/391281\/anselm-berrigan-what-is-poetry-just-kidding-i-know-you-know-wave-books-2017\/%0A\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eHyperallergic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe playful title of Berrigan’s book suggests not only the importance of poetics, but that it is always a collective, highly personal, undertaking... that is, the new poetics conceives of poetry as an open field... In short, we get insight, if not a total picture, of the New York avant-garde. Beyond individual actors we get to know a community and an institution. It is a complex story told in many first persons; even though it is incomplete, it tells us much.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam J. Harris, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/jacket2.org\/reviews\/what-poetry\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eJacket2\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBerrigan presents an idiosyncratic gathering, selecting interviews from a limited set of years—there’s the satisfying feeling that inclusion was determined solely by what most appealed to him personally. Rather than a comprehensive anthology, therefore, he offers more of an in-depth glimpse into the chummy archival lore behind the Poetry Project’s community engagement. \u003cb\u003ePatrick James Dunagan, \u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI strongly recommend this book—it is well-edited (and\/or perhaps the interviews originally were well-written) so that the prose flows; it is educational; it is interesting; in places it is funny; in places it’s gossipy (in a fun way); and it succeeds in presenting a profile of The Poetry Project that makes the reader applaud its existence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEileen Tabios, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/galatearesurrects2017.blogspot.com\/2017\/03\/what-is-poetry-just-kidding-i-know-you.html\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eGalatea Resurrects\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c!---BIO END----\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 4, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN# 9781940696393 (6.5x8.5 440pp, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Anselm Berrigan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":21135684741,"sku":"9781940696393","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/1312\/products\/poetry_project_final_for_web.jpg?v=1475985016"},{"product_id":"there-you-are-interviews-journals-and-ephemera","title":"There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera","description":"\u003c!--AUTHOR AND PAGE DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/wavepoetry.com\/products\/joanne-kyger\"\u003eJoanne Kyger\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eEdited by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wavepoetry.com\/products\/cedar-sigo\"\u003eCedar Sigo\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c!--END DETAILS--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab3\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\" id=\"tab1\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe inaugural book of Wave’s new interview series, \u003cem\u003eThere You Are\u003c\/em\u003e combines 40 years of interviews, letters, poems, and journals to present a narrative of the remarkable poet Joanne Kyger, who intersected with the most influential movements of late twentieth-century poetry yet remained rooted in her daily practice with a forthright attention to our present moment. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2018 Firecracker Award in Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the 2018 Northern Californian Book Award in Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c!--END DESCRIPTION--\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--REVIEWS--\u003eThis collection offers a revealing addition towards comprehending the wide range of influences and enchantments informing Kyger's practice as a poet... The several interviews collected in this volume capture Kyger at different moments along the path of her lifetime, providing, overall, an account of an existence lived intentionally, simply, thoughtfully and non-materialistically; an existence especially attuned to local ecology, and attention to, and deep appreciation for, a poetic articulation of the daily commonplace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eColin James Sanders, \u003cem\u003eThe Pacific Rim Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne reads in her work great extremes of feeling, in which the scorpionic energies struggle to break though the casual forthrightness of her line, even as the steadiness and certainty of another day and another poem animate the drama of reading each poem next to the other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJared Stanley, \u003cem\u003eJacket2\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKyger consistently proves herself similarly committed to attending to the needs of the work first and foremost. Gorgeously laid out in an over-sized format, There You Are provides vivid documentation of the places and people in back of her poetry. It’s a smorgasbord of remembrances recounted in interviews from throughout her life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Patrick James Dunagan, \u003cem\u003e4 Square Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab3\"\u003e\n\u003c!--BIO--\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the major poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, \u003cb\u003eJoanne Kyger\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1934 in Vallejo, CA. After studying at UC Santa Barbara, she moved to San Francisco in 1957, where she became a member of the circle of poets centered around Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan. In 1960, she joined Gary Snyder in Japan and soon traveled to India where, along with Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, they met the Dalai Lama—all experiences she has written extensively about. She returned to California in 1964 and published her first book, \u003cem\u003eThe Tapestry and the Web\u003c\/em\u003e, in 1965. In 1969, she settled on the coast north of San Francisco. She has published over 30 books of poetry and prose, including \u003cem\u003eThe Japan and India Journals: 1960-1964\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), \u003cem\u003eOn Time: Poems 2005-2014 \u003c\/em\u003e(2015), \u003cem\u003eAs Ever: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), and \u003cem\u003eAbout Now: Collected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2007), which won the 2008 Josephine Miles Award from PEN Oakland. She taught at Naropa University, The New College of California, and Mills College. In 2006 she was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She passed away in March 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!--END BIO--\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 5, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN# 9781940696584 (8x10 176pp, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Joanne Kyger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":24116141829,"sku":"9781940696584","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/1312\/products\/THERE-YOU-ARE-23.jpg?v=1680809574"},{"product_id":"the-lives-of-the-poems-and-three-talks","title":"The Lives of the Poems and Three Talks","description":"\u003c!--AUTHOR AND PAGE DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/wavepoetry.com\/products\/joshua-beckman\"\u003eJoshua Beckman\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c!--END DETAILS--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab3\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\" id=\"tab1\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring 2014, Wave Books editor Joshua Beckman traveled around the country giving lectures on poetry. Collected here as two books in conversation—and inaugurating Wave’s Bagley Wright Lecture Series publications—these talks provide a rare and unique insight into a deeply literary life. In \u003cem\u003eThe Lives of the Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, Beckman offers three variations of the same talk that—through repetition and adjustment, a sort of echolocating—illuminate the intimate experience of making a particular set of poems. In \u003cem\u003eThree\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e Talks\u003c\/em\u003e, he explores the fluid social dynamics of poetry as it lives between readers, poems, and books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!--END DESCRIPTION--\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeckman traces the development of his ideas, many accompanied by images of long-hand edits, and gives his audience not only insight into making a poem, but the hope that they, too, can make a poem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eValerie Wieland, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.newpages.com\/book-reviews\/lives-of-the-poems-and-three-talks\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNewPages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeckman’s talks and poetry are based on what he perceives spontaneously in things when they are encountered in the moment – and his confidence in doing so, despite his illness, does not allow for a tragic sensibility. If poetry is an art that expresses unease at the limitations of institutionalized thought and operates among neighbors who have lost a feel for the totality of human experience, it is also the memory of that loss and works to reestablish contact with the actual.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRon Slate, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ronslate.com\/on-poets-poetry-walking-with-david-blair-william-carlos-williams-as-pen-pal-joshua-beckman-at-the-lectern\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn the Seawall\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: May 1, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN# \u003cspan\u003e9781940696423\u003c\/span\u003e (6x8.5; \u003cem\u003eThe Lives of the Poems\u003c\/em\u003e: 80pp, \u003cem\u003eThree Talks\u003c\/em\u003e: 72pp; paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Joshua Beckman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":24155312901,"sku":"9781940696423","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/1312\/products\/Lives_and_Three_Talks_COMB_BANDED_COVER.jpg?v=1516822653"},{"product_id":"while-standing-in-line-for-death","title":"While Standing in Line for Death","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/authors\/products\/caconrad\"\u003eCAConrad\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c!--END DETAILS--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca class=\"active\" href=\"#tab1\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab3\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter their boyfriend Earth’s murder, CAConrad was looking for a (Soma)tic poetry ritual to overcome their depression. This new book of 18 rituals and their resulting poems contains that success, along with other political actions and exercises that testify to poetry’s ability to reconnect us and help put an end to our alienation from the planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2018 Firecracker Award in Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c!--REVIEWS--\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrief and survival drive these poems, but never so much that Conrad forgets anger…A ferocious work of queer rage. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElwin Cotman, \u003ci\u003eElectric Lit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems range widely from delightful to gut-wrenching and can move from despair to defiance to exuberance from line to line: “few things tire me more than\/ imagining\/ reincarnation\/ a child\/ struggling\/ all over again to\/ not favor war\/ not surrender to greed.” Conrad consistently surprises, and few, if any, American poets are doing more visionary, disorienting, and wonderful work today. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt its hilt, this book exposes the little tolerance America has for the queer, the abject, and the mystical forces that Conrad and his poetry call home, and not only does it refuse to apologize, this book reclaims loss, all bruised and defiant experiences, and makes them a testament. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eArkansas International\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConrad may be our Ginsberg, as well as our Yoko Ono (whose work Conrad mentions), teaching us not so much how to write as how to live outside a great machine. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephanie Burt, \u003ci\u003e Academy of American Poets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhile Standing in Line for Death\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates that CAConrad is, in the end, a poet of defiant joy, straddling the line between self-indulgent cynicism and simpering happiness. He is a poet who fiercely embraces impossibility as the very condition of the hard-won anger and despair raging through this book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTyrone Williams, \u003ci\u003ePLUME\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery word is charged to perform at its peak energetic level. Rituals call the poems into being and set the intention, and the poems themselves catalyze the energy. With their propulsive, often paratactic energies, Conrad’s work in this and other books seeks to remake or reset human awareness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSara Burant, \u003ci\u003e OmniVerse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKiller drones, institutional homophobia, police violence and racism, ongoing wars, \u003ci\u003eWhile Standing in Line for Death\u003c\/i\u003e makes all of these things impossible to ignore, and by waking us up to these realities, this uncompromising and powerful poetry also wakes us up to the agency of tuning into our own bodies and the ways they are joined to the world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eColin Herd, \u003ci\u003e3:AM Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems contain language that is eaten up, digested, and propped within their stanza like gleaning results of process. There is often a harmony within them, and a dependable personal distance to them as well. 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They are, again, gifts. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGreg Bem, \u003ci\u003eYellow Rabbits\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 5, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN# 9781940696553 (7x9.75 160pp, paperback) \u003cbr\u003eISBN# 9781940696546 (7x9.75 \u003cspan\u003e160pp\u003c\/span\u003e, limited edition hardcover)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"CAConrad","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":24312029765,"sku":"9781940696553","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Limited Edition Hardcover","offer_id":24312029829,"sku":"9781940696546","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/1312\/products\/while_standing_in_line_final_for_website.jpg?v=1501609435"},{"product_id":"to-float-in-the-space-between","title":"To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight","description":"\u003c!--AUTHOR AND PAGE DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wavepoetry.com\/products\/terrance-hayes\"\u003eTerrance Hayes\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c!--END DETAILS--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab3\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\" id=\"tab1\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation “as speculative, motley, and adrift as Knight himself.” Personal yet investigative, poetic yet scholarly, this multi-genre collection of writings and drawings enacts one poet’s search for another and in doing so constellates a powerful vision of black literature and art in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER of the 2019 Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism from the Poetry Foundation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for Criticism\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!--END DESCRIPTION--\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorking in a kind of essayistic confessional style, Hayes considers political poetry, black masculinity, the end of marriage, absent biological fathers, the affections that fathers hold for sons, the beginning of love, kinship, and dream song. At each turn, one feels Knight pulsing in Hayes’ self-interrogations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWalton Muyumba, \u003cem\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePartly, this is a critical biography of the black poet Etheridge knight: how he came to be the poet and man he was, who did he influence and who was he influenced by. 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The 19 sections in Hayes’s book take their titles and focus from phrases in Knight’s most celebrated poem, “The Idea of Ancestry.” Thus this collection offers a deep textural (as opposed to textual) encounter between two important and mercurial minds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEd Pavlic, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNational Book Award–winning poet Hayes plunges into creative nonfiction with this book about another poet, Etheridge Knight, cautioning readers that 'this is not a biography.' Throughout, Hayes challenges genre constraints, bringing together personal reflections, drawings, and poems by Knight and himself, and constructing a work that is part speculative biography, part autobiography, and part critical essay. . . . 'How does someone become a poet?’ In this wonderfully lyrical text, Hayes suggests it isn't in the details of an individual's life, but through a hard-to-trace yet vital network of influences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are no heroes to be found here but there are plenty of poets. There’s also an abundance of evidence regarding what makes a poet a poet. Not surprisingly the best instances transcend far beyond anything possibly offered in a classroom setting. Hayes has written a book in its best parts about the larger realm of living... and, for the most part, he does so with the self-scrutiny necessary to bring those lessons to bear on his own work. For there is no work without the life which both informs and is informed by it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePatrick James Dunagan, \u003cem\u003eEntropy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTerrance Hayes has always asserted his own contingency. He doesn’t effect a neutral stance, he is in the history that feeds and shapes his point of view. Writing from inside the storm, as it were. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChelsea Whitton, \u003cem\u003eThe Cincinnati Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo Float in the Space Between\u003c\/em\u003e is simply amazing. It’s an investigation of Hayes’s family tree, a time-lapse of one poet’s bloom, and an homage to the seed(s) that started it all. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCody Lee, \u003cem\u003eNewPages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoets are people who promise to continue responding to what is actual. The poet’s first poems comprise the promise. As time passes, one admires the continuation as much as the poems. This is why a young poet may be inspired simply by watching his mentor put on her coat and walk out the classroom door: she is in motion, heading towards the world of her materials, as she vowed to do years ago. The motion is the influence, the air stirred in the space between teacher and ephebe...In To Float In The Space Between, Terrance Hayes serves up a creative meditation on Influence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn the Seawall\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 4, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN# \u003cspan\u003e9781940696614 \u003c\/span\u003e (6x8.25 224pp; paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Terrance Hayes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":12207284027473,"sku":"9781940696614","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":50255079964976,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/1312\/products\/To_Float_in_the_Space_Between_COVER_for_WEB.jpg?v=1523568795"},{"product_id":"preserving-fire","title":"Preserving Fire: Selected Prose","description":"\u003c!--AUTHOR AND PAGE DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wavepoetry.com\/products\/philip-lamantia\"\u003ePhilip Lamantia\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited by \u003ca href=\"\/products\/garrett-caples\"\u003eGarrett Caples\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!--END DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca class=\"active\" href=\"#tab1\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab3\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePreserving Fire\u003c\/em\u003e recounts the life and thought of Surrealist, Beat Generation, and San Francisco Renaissance poet Philip Lamantia through his fugitive prose works. Ranging from poetry to politics to mythology to dance, from manifestos to travelogues to wartime declarations of conscientious objection, these writings—expertly collected by Garrett Caples—offer a dynamic picture of Lamantia’s multifaceted intellectual life and the artistic movements he helped shape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c!--END DESCRIPTION--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter decrying interpretation, Sontag notes that the ‘world, our world, is depleted, impoverished enough. Away with all duplicates of it, until we again experience more immediately what we have.’ This—experiencing immediately what we have, and being open to that experience—strikes me as the broad point of Lamantia’s work. It also seems a sound approach to reading Lamantia’s extensive body of poetry, and now his prose too. Which I recommend you do.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Kevin O'Rourke, \u003cem\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe celebrate him [Philip Lamantia] and the remarkable posthumous work Wave Books have just put out.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Allen Ginsberg Project\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLamantia’s belief in poetry’s alchemical powers to transform the individual through resistance to the most deadening effects of society shines through Preserving Fire...In the end, Lamantia’s is a voice of rebellious freedom. He always returns to what remains central, the unknowable fullness which inspires his work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePatrick James Dunagan, \u003cem\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRanging from poetry to politics to mythology to dance, from manifestos to travelogues to wartime declarations of conscientious objection, these writings—expertly collected by Garrett Caples—offer a dynamic picture of Lamantia’s multifaceted intellectual life and the artistic movements he helped shape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLive! From City Lights\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLamantia was an intense, complicated, often conflicted human being. Tracking his trajectory isn’t an easy task, but Caples provides an abundantly detailed mapping of Lamantia’s affections and disaffections, allegiances and abdications. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Olson, \u003cem\u003eSeedlings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt provides valuable insight into a poet whose career runs like a connecting, if often twisting, thread through some of the most important heterodox poetic movements of postwar America: Surrealism, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation, and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaniel Barbiero, \u003cem\u003eArteidolia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 9, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN# 9781940696706 (7x8.75 216pp; paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Philip Lamantia","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":12207359688785,"sku":"9781940696706","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/1312\/products\/PRESERVING-FIRE-23.jpg?v=1680810176"},{"product_id":"keeping-the-window-open","title":"Keeping \/ the window open: Interviews, Statements, Alarms, Excursions","description":"\u003c!--AUTHOR AND PAGE DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wavepoetry.com\/products\/rosmarie-waldrop\"\u003eRosmarie Waldrop\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wavepoetry.com\/products\/keith-waldrop\"\u003eKeith Waldrop\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdited by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wavepoetry.com\/products\/ben-lerner\"\u003eBen Lerner\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!--END DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca class=\"active\" href=\"#tab1\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab3\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA rich array of materials coalesce here into a vibrant portrait, in text and image, of two extraordinary artists and collaborators. For nearly sixty years, the Waldrops have influenced multiple generations of writers through their own poetry and fiction, translations, teaching, and their press, Burning Deck, which published some of the most influential authors of late-twentieth-century avant-garde literature. This collection seeks to illustrate the many ways in which the Waldrops have expanded the possibilities of bookcraft, art, community, and literature.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--REVIEWS--\u003eKeeping \/ the window open is a treasure trove, filled with complete or partial facsimiles of many now-rare publications and ephemera... There are poems, translations, a play, essays, and interviews, all of which serve to give the widest possible sense of their poetics and practice—the closest thing possible to an overview of two life-works that really permit of no overview.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Barry Schwabsky, \u003cem\u003eHyperallergic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA rich, fascinating compendium of the extraordinary oeuvre of these poets, translators, and editors of the legendary Burning Deck Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKatherine M. Hedeen, \u003cem\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEveryone will discover something new; this is a book for dedicated Waldrop fans and unacquainted readers alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLaura Wetherington, \u003cem\u003eFull Stop\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReading this collection of texts leaves one feeling that there is a great deal of possibility in the world of publishing and writing avant-garde works of literature, and, to be clear, a feeling-centered sort of avant-garde. That is, a writing not concerned with experimentation for the sake of experimentation, but a pushing of limits in order to allow language to speak to our deepest ideas and emotions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAllison Grimaldi-Donahue, \u003cem\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: May 7, 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN# 9781940696690 (8x10 368pp, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rosmarie Waldrop and Keith Waldrop","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":12595743621201,"sku":"9781940696690","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/1312\/products\/KEEPING-THE-WINDOW-COVER-23.jpg?v=1680814957"},{"product_id":"love-three","title":"Love Three: A Study of a Poem by George Herbert","description":"\u003c!--AUTHOR AND PAGE DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/wavepoetry.com\/products\/aaron-kunin\"\u003eAaron Kunin\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!--END DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab3\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\" id=\"tab1\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--DESCRIPTION--\u003e\u003cem\u003eLove Three\u003c\/em\u003e is a study of a seventeenth-century devotional poem by George Herbert; an essay on eroticizing power; and a memory palace of sexual experiences, fantasies, preferences, and limits—with Herbert’s poem as the key. It is unlike anything you have ever read—a deep, attentive reading of a text and a broad analysis (personal, historical, philosophical) of humanity’s most enduring theme.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c!--END DESCRIPTION--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003c!--REVIEWS--\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat’s the magic of \u003ci\u003eLove Three\u003c\/i\u003e. It sneaks up on you, then overpowers you. The relentless, titillating, intellectual pleasure of it. Of candor, of clear, unfashionable insight, Kunin’s \u003ci\u003eLove Three\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Moxley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI recommend this book to anyone curious about new forms in poetry, poetry scholarship, close reading, ekphrastic writing, and anyone blocked in their own work. Kunin’s reworking of Herbert’s sweetly voiced poem is a gift to writers of contemporary poetry; he gives us a hermeneutics we can use. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Fama, \u003cem\u003eHarriet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere’s a clear pattern of advancement and hesitation in Herbert’s poem, and everything—redemption, sanctification, creation—is boiled down to the simplest words in the English language, which is why I’ve been in awe of what Kunin has done in his expansive study. Kunin takes elements of the poem and creates something else entirely. . . . Open \u003cem\u003eLove Three\u003c\/em\u003e to any section and you get an intimate portrait of both poets, and honest reflections on our most complicated feelings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCamille Jacobson, \u003cem\u003eParis Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExamining his own interests in bondage and humiliation, Kunin jumps from interpretations of Herbert’s poem to arguments about the inconstancy of power and the possibility that submissiveness can (in certain situations) reverse or twist hierarchies. Most importantly, Kunin posits that the desire to submit is not a psychological flaw or an ideological illusion, but is grounded in an understanding that love is not a matter of equality, but of the exploration and invention of compatibilities. . . . 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In deceptively simple language carrying profound insights—with a sense that is at once bold and subtle—Lasky serves as an encouraging guide through the startling, sometimes dangerous, always exhilarating landscapes of feral poetic imagination. 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Retracing the ways in which he first encountered the realm of poetry, Sigo plumbs the particulars of modern critique, identity politics, early influences, and poetic form to produce a singular autobiography of voice. Across these lectures, Sigo explores his childhood on the Suquamish Reservation, while paying homage to revolutionary artists, teachers, and thinkers whom have shaped his poetic aesthetic. 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As kinetic on the page as they are in person, these lectures offer an urgent critique of the intersections between violence and entertainment, interrogating the ways in which poetry, humor, visual art, music, pop culture, and performance alternately uphold and subvert this violence. With genius precision and an avant-garde sensibility, Kearney examines the nuances around Black visibility and its aestheticization. In myriad ways, \u003cem\u003eOptic Subwoof\u003c\/em\u003e is a book that establishes Kearney as one of the most dynamic writers and thinkers of the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eListen to these lectures on the Bagley Wright Lecture Series Podcast\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne hesitates to call any aspect of contemporary poetic practice under-theorized, but by looking hard at the institution of the poetry reading, Kearney has gone where others should follow. 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And what he says about race, violence, and poetry reminds us that the Bagley Wright Lecture Series is one to keep an eye on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Scott Stanfield, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e blog\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Kearney’s nonfiction, as in his poetry, the violences of language are many and changing. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCindy Juyoung Ok, Poetry Foundation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication month: November 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN# \u003cspan\u003e9781950268672\u003c\/span\u003e (6x8.25 176pp, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Douglas Kearney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39849735422033,"sku":"9781950268672","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"EBook","offer_id":50255084126512,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/1312\/products\/optic-subwoof-web.jpg?v=1649172590"},{"product_id":"the-poetics-of-wrongness","title":"The Poetics of Wrongness","description":"\u003c!--AUTHOR AND PAGE DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab3\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\" id=\"tab1\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her first book of critical non-fiction, \u003cem\u003eThe Poetics of Wrongness, \u003c\/em\u003epoet Rachel Zucker explores wrongness as a foundational orientation of opposition and provocation. Devastating in their revelations, yet hopeful in their commitment to perseverance, these lecture-essays of protest and reckoning resist the notion of being \u003cem\u003ewrong\u003c\/em\u003e as a stopping point on the road to being \u003cem\u003eright\u003c\/em\u003e, and insist on \u003cem\u003ewrongness \u003c\/em\u003eas an analytical lens and way of reading, writing, and living that might create openness, connection, humility, and engagement. Expanded from lectures presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2016, Zucker’s deft dismantling of outdated paradigms of motherhood, aesthetics, feminism, poetics, and politics feel prescient in their urgent destabilization of post-war thinking. In her four essay-lectures (and an appendix of selected, earlier prose), Zucker calls Sharon Olds, Bernadette Mayer, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich, Alice Notley, Natalie Diaz, Allen Ginsberg, Marina Abramović, and Audre Lorde—among others—into the conversation. This book marks a turning point in Zucker’s significant body of work, documenting her embrace of the multivocality of interview in her podcasting, and resisting the univocality of the lecture as a form of \u003cem\u003ewrongness \u003c\/em\u003ein and of itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3xNiJYMJlAshmIppjqmRwX?si=0c150ec0892c439b\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eListen to these lectures on the Bagley Wright Lecture Series Podcast\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe issue that urgently dominates this book is whether a writer’s obligation is to the others whose lives are part of her experience, or whether all of her experience is legitimately her material to use in her art, even when its use may cause others unhappiness or pain....Especially likable is her unwillingness to simplify a solution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaren Kevorkian, \u003ci\u003eColorado State University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese essays meander while never losing purpose. They suggest without forcing the point. Like any good writer, Zucker manages to leave the reader with more questions than they began with while addressing topics ranging from confessionalism to motherhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eC. Francis Fisher, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe’s been thinking about writing and writing about thinking about writing and writing about thinking about thinking about writing for so long that the trajectory feels entirely natural.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRob McLennan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication month: February 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN# 9781950268702 (6x8.25, 256pp, paperback)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rachel Zucker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39870629478481,"sku":"9781950268702","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":50255123054896,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/1312\/products\/9781950268702_FC.jpg?v=1669677108"},{"product_id":"four-lectures","title":"Four Lectures","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca class=\"active\" href=\"#tab1\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFour Lectures \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eby Isaac (formerly Lisa) Jarnot is the seventh book in the Bagley Wright Lecture Series, comprising autobiographical essays that form an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the lectures, or talks, given between October of 2020 and December of 2021, Jarnot examines what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental tradition, to have white privilege, and to write poetry. With colloquial ease and wit, Jarnot investigates the generative tensions at the intersections of traditional and experimental forms, develops relationships between ‘deep gossip’ and ecstatic connectedness, and considers the prophetic tradition in American poetry as inflected through counter-cultural spirituality. Ultimately, Jarnot presents poetry as a calling, asking us to consider the means by which poets can envision a new heaven and a new earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/26\/magazine\/poem-suddenly-last-summer.html\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead poem by Isaac Jarnot in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3xNiJYMJlAshmIppjqmRwX?si=0c150ec0892c439b\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eListen to these lectures on the Bagley Wright Lecture Series Podcast\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!--END DESCRIPTION--\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003c!--REVIEWS--\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is something delightfully and deceptively uncomplicated about Jarnot’s language across these four lectures, set into a cadence of intimate complexity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRob McLennan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication month: May 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN# 9781950268924(6x8.25 97pp, paperback) \u003cbr\u003eISBN# \u003cspan\u003e9781850268993 \u003c\/span\u003e(Ebook edition)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Isaac Jarnot","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46963062669616,"sku":"9781950268924","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":46963070763312,"sku":"9781850268993","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/1312\/files\/9781950268924_FCcopy.jpg?v=1697492972"},{"product_id":"the-unsignificant","title":"The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures","description":"\u003c!--AUTHOR AND PAGE DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca class=\"active\" href=\"#tab1\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab3\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Unsignificant\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cem\u003eThree Talks on Poetry and Pictures\u003c\/em\u003e is a selection of lectures that poet and Griffin Award–finalist Srikanth Reddy presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2015.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrue to its title, \u003cem\u003eThe Unsignificant\u003c\/em\u003e is concerned with what it’s \u003cem\u003enot\u003c\/em\u003e about—not significance, or insignificance, but “unsignificance.” The lectures approach poetry from Homer to Gertrude Stein to Ronald Johnson obliquely, refracted through images such as Bruegel’s \u003cem\u003eLandscape with the Fall of Icarus\u003c\/em\u003e, Hermann Rorschach’s inkblots, or Galileo’s drawings of the moon. 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Something of a companion piece to 2009’s \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wavepoetry.com\/products\/bluets\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBluets\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, Pathemata merges a pain diary chronicling a decade of jaw pain with dreams and dailies, eventually blurring the lines between embodied, unconscious, and everyday life. In scrupulously distilled prose, \u003cem\u003ePathemata\u003c\/em\u003e offers a tragicomic portrait of a particularly unnerving and isolating moment in recent history, as well as an abiding account of how it feels to inhabit a mortal body in struggle to connect with others. Formally inspired by Hervé Guibert’s \u003cem\u003eThe Mausoleum of Lovers\u003c\/em\u003e, and conceptually guided by Gilles Deleuze’s notion of artist as symptomologist, \u003cem\u003ePathemata\u003c\/em\u003e is yet another urgent innovation from Maggie Nelson in the art of life-writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eListen to Maggie Nelson read from this book for the Brooklyn Rail:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bD5_bKhGg3I?si=i0T7119Exs3GFHHn\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!--END DESCRIPTION--\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003ePathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the face of it, the book is a medical memoir, but it eludes the typical pitfalls of the genre. Skirting every mechanism of cheap manipulation, Nelson pursues a characteristically nuanced course of discovery, and goes all in on the quintessentially poetic conception that a mile of meaning can be packed into an inch of metaphor.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEric Bies, \u003cem\u003eOrange County Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this thoughtful work, she excavates the duties of parenthood and care, bodies and ageing, loneliness and mortality. The narrative jumps in time, and the lines between reality, dreams and fiction blur. \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSinéad Gleeson, \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReturning to the mind, Nelson puts the \u003cem\u003egnosis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e back in diagnosis—the mystery and confusion, the reverberations that pain sends through human relationships and through perception itself. The second half of the book’s title, “The Story of My Mouth,” invokes her vocation as a writer and the condition of being a woman with a lot to say....\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cem\u003ePathemata \u003c\/em\u003econveys the reader from plague to palate to parenting with searing images of lived details—no one else does it like Nelson. \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eB. K. Fischer, \u003cem\u003eLARB\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis unique work embodies its own definitions of hybridity responding to the conditions of its making—a pandemic, a history of mouth issues, a series of dentists, parenthood—as well as to Hervé Guibert’s \u003ci\u003eThe Mausoleum of Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e. This is “an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio” book. This is a Wave book. Fans of Nelson will want \u003ci\u003ePathemata\u003c\/i\u003e on their shelves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRMF, \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrevious Praise for companion book, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wavepoetry.com\/products\/bluets\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBluets\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBalancing pathos with philosophy, she created a new kind of classicism, queer in content but elegant, almost cool in shape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHilton Als, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis set of meditations on the colour blue is full of wisdom and beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNelson's expressive style springs from her subject as much as the content, in turn, inflects her vocabulary, tone and structure. Seeking such reciprocity—no less an ideal than, say, “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”—may radically redefine poetry, as it increasingly becomes the genre that is not one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlbert Mobilio, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuilding the book as a collection of facts and quotations, Nelson interweaves her own insights, textual interpretations, and anecdotes ranging from the tragic to the outrageous. Nelson may, admittedly, have fallen short of the “compendium of blue observations, thoughts, and facts” she says she at first envisioned, but this slim volume is nonetheless an elegant, indispensable addition to the genre of the lyric essay. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKathleen Rooney, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom blue factoids like Benedict de Saussure’s 1789 invention of “cyanometer, with which he hoped to measure the blue of the sky,” to her own struggles with depression, Nelson gifts us with what seems like a lifetime study of blue while somehow slyly avoiding any of the obvious “blue” clichés. Maggie Nelson continues to raise the bar higher in what a reader can expect from a book. \u003ci\u003eBluets\u003c\/i\u003e is smart yet intimate, quiet yet provocative, and a welcome addition to the poetic non-fiction discourse. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusie DeFord, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the end Nelson breaks free of romance’s tyranny. She dreams someone sends her cornflowers, the American name for bluets. Shaggy, wild, and strong—they’re a revealing metaphor for the author. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeffrey Cyphers Wright, \u003ci\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 240 entries, Nelson relates a history of blue from philosophical, zoological and literary perspectives, all the while weaving in bits of memoir and emotional rumination. Through this collage, she broadens the definition of blue from a merely visual phenomenon to a vehicle for the divine. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine Lacey, \u003ci\u003eTime Out New York \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s an impossible book to describe without simply handing it to you; it is, hackneyed as it is to say, a book to be experienced. I can only report that I am reading it again and again, that the resonances between the (seemingly) disparate propositions are startling and emotional, that I suspect your reaction will be different and also quite wonderful. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Rock, \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrash, feverish, intractable, exploratory, and terribly “touchant” Nelson’s \u003ci\u003eBluets\u003c\/i\u003e is, I am remind’d for some reason (it’s in Marías) of Rimbaud’s line: “Par délicatesse \/ J’ai perdu ma vie.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Latta, \u003ci\u003eIsola di Rifuti \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 240 prose entries the book consists of, Nelson deals with the personal loss of a relationship and witnesses the physical suffering of a friend who became a quadriplegic following an accident (something Nelson also wrote about in her 2007 poetry collection, Something Bright, Then Holes), all while returning again and again to the color blue. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGina Myers, \u003ci\u003eBookslut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNelson doesn’t want to leave anything out, as suits a collector’s project. Thus, in the same way that she wanders among blue objects (shards of glass, bottles of ink, stones and tattoos and the nests of bowerbirds) and accidental theorists of color (Goethe and Newton and Duras and Novalis) and the color’s utility in human imagination (blue moods, blues music, the blue divine), she likewise wanders among the positions the orchestrator of these lists must adopt. This results in an admixture of candor, passion and detachment that makes for irresistible intimacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRay McDaniel, \u003ci\u003e The Constant Critic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt must be said upfront that Maggie Nelson could have worked this out as a book of poetry if that’s what she had wanted to do early on. Which is to say, for a book that might actually be an essay, which might be a lyrical essay, for a long work that “blurs genre,” she fills the requirement of what good poetry must do, which is deliver new ways of talking and looking and thinking, and helping us to look and think. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Fama, \u003ci\u003eFanzine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is a philosophical and personal exploration of what the color blue has done to Nelson. Despite the exhaustion, \u003ci\u003eBluets\u003c\/i\u003e wears its hybrid\/fragmented dress well, showing its seams and much enthralled by its wanderlust, an aesthetic runway that constantly leads Nelson to find new ideas, images, and expressions. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Larson, \u003ci\u003eTriQuarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBluets\u003c\/i\u003e reaches far beyond the constraints of its subject, resulting in a series of delicately associative numbered paragraphs investigating a broken romantic relationship, a friend’s chronic nerve pain, the writing process itself, and the deceptive elements of perception and color. The result not only defies easy categorization, but also leans toward Walter Benjamin’s famous declaration that all great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRob Schlegel, \u003ci\u003eJacket\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncandescent prose with a structural flow unlike anything I’ve ever read. A book beyond genre that deals with deep topics playfully, offering revelatory insights on every page. 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