Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series," Sorting Facts is Susan Howe's masterful meditation on the filmmaker Chris Marker, whose film stills are interspersed throughout. An excerpt: Sorting word-facts I only know an apparition. Scribble grammar has no neighbor. In the name of reason I need to record something because I am a survivor in this ocean.

Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet" series, Two American Scenes features two masters of the essay discussing "found material." Excerpts: It was given to me, in the nineteenth century, to spend a lifetime on this earth. Along with a few of the sorrows that are appointed unto men, I have had innumerable enjoyments; and the world has been to me, even from childhood,a great museum. — Lydia Davis Bad rapids. Bradley is knocked over the side; his foot catches under the seat and he is dragged, head under water. Camped on a sand beach, the wind blows a hurricane. Sand piles over us like a snow-drift. — Eliot Weinberge

Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series", All the Helens of Troy is Bernadette Mayers' profile of all of the Helens living in Troy, New York, done with poems and images. Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series", All the Helens of Troy is Bernadette Mayers' profile of all of the Helens living in Troy, New York, done with poems and images, mixing the classical with the ordinary and delightful intelligence with irreverence. An everybody died there’s nothing more to say my hair’s braided like a family i took off, it was fun, i loved it if you did something wrong, they punished you one helen is enough, trust me

Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlets" series, Pneumatic Antiphonal is a fun, humming, bio-physiological word-whizzing flight into birdsong penned by young Canadian poet, Sylvia Legris ― her first publication in the U.S. Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlets" series, Pneumatic Antiphonal is a fun, humming, bio-physiological word-whizzing flight into birdsong penned by young Canadian poet, Sylvia Legris ― her first publication in the U.S. An The theory of corpuscular flight is the cardinal premise of red birds carrying song-particles carrying oxygen. Erythrocytic. Sticky. Five quarts of migration.

The Beautiful Contradictions is an awe-inspiring vortex of mythology, history, and anthropology The Beautiful Contradictions is an awe-inspiring vortex of mythology, history, and anthropology that pushes the lyric to its upper limit. A vast ecopoem for a dying Earth,a socially radical poem, a matrilineal drama, a Judeo-Mayan-Buddhist initiation, a transatlantic epic ending as a transamerican arrival, a testament uniting science and imagination.

Em “O inferno musical” (último livro de Alejandra Pizarnik, publicado em 1971, um ano antes de sua morte), a poeta argentina escreveu: “Quem me dera viver somente em êxtase, fazendo o corpo do poema com meu corpo, resgatando cada frase com meus dias e com minhas semanas”. Esse fragmento tem um ar surrealista, entendido como uma continuidade entre o caminho criativo e a experiência de vida da poeta. Mas, acima de tudo, resume aquela já famosa intensidade com que Alejandra escreveu. Um processo em que a leitura de diferentes tradições, a escrita cuidadosa, a compreensão da poesia como ferramenta para perfurar paredes da linguagem e o reconhecimento de que tudo o que ela tentava captar no papel tinha que partir de si mesma, mas se transmutar em algo mais do que memória ou escavação psicanalítica; tornado em experiência poética, comunhão com os outros.

Vale Ave—Latin for “Farewell, Hail” — is a hymn to Eros that unfolds as a gorgeous palimpsest of eternal recurrence and reincarnation, charting the course of two lovers who each seek the other across cultures, myths, and centuries. Vale Ave is alchemical — “mystery and portent, yes, but at the same time,” as H. D. writes, “there is Resurrection and the hope of Paradise.”

Poet Forrest Gander's mesmerizing series of poems ― hinging around a dance schematic ― that captures and extends Eiko & Koma's performance with lyrical intensity and vividness For over thirty years, Eiko & Koma, the Japanese-born choreographers and dancers,have created an influential theatre of movement out of stillness, shape, light, and sound. In tribute and collaboration, the acclaimed American poet Forrest Gander has written a mesmerizing series of poems ― hinging around a dance schematic ― that captures and extends the dancers’ performance with lyrical intensity and vividness.

A new, shorter collection by America's preeminent living poet and social activist, who is just as fiery and provocative as ever at 94 years old. Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Blasts contains blasts, blessings, and curses in the vortex of today, taking its cues from the original little magazine, Blast, published by Wyndham Lewis with Ezra Pound in 1914–15 that helped create the modernist movement in literature and the visual arts. In these fearless new poems, Ferlinghetti, America’s everyman bard, speaks for the poor, the forgotten, the beaten, and the bombed.

A prominent practitioner of the Arabic "very short story" (al-qisa al-qasira jiddan), Osama Alomar's poetic fictions embody the wisdom of Kahlil Gibran filtered through the violent gray absurdity of Assad's police state. Fullblood Arabian is the first publication of Alomar's strange, often humorously satirical allegories, where good and evil battle with indifference, avarice, and compassion using striking imagery and effervescent language.