No Charity in the Wilderness is a book of poetry focused on the Great Basin and on the Mexican/American border, along with family and the people with whom the author, Shaun T. Griffin, works. A tender...
This collection is an homage to boxing at its grittiest levels, and to fighters who persevere—with hope, blood, and bone—against sense and loss. Few professional boxers earn a living in the ring, and even fewer arrive in their forties with any money left from their sport. In this collection, boxers attain poverty rather than riches, end up in post-career menial jobs, and have no pension plan to fall back on. Shuttleworth’s poetry is a visceral inside look at the brutality and humanity at the heart of boxing.
The collection of poems in The Reckoning of Jeanne d’Antietam circles the U.S. Civil War and the failed revolution of Reconstruction, and Matthew Moore makes incursions into the histories and...
Through poems of witness, species and habitat extinction, war, pandemic, technology, history, and race, Mark Irwin’s elegant collection of poetry explores the collision between metropolis and wilderness,...
To the North/Al norte is part of a growing field of narratives told by formerly undocumented or undocumented writers in the United States. It is a hybrid book of poetry written in Spanish by the Nicaraguan poet León Salvatierra, who mixes lyric and prose poems to explore migration, exile, violence, dislocation, among other themes that stem from the transnational experience of the Central American diaspora that emerged from the civil wars in the 1980s.
In her debut collection, Stephanie Berger cracks the earth open and exposes the “woman inside.” In a sequence of poems that present variations on the Western feminine archetype, Interior Femme visits many unique locales, from cemeteries in Brooklyn to canyons in New Mexico to churches in San Diego, Paris, and Peru. Berger approaches her subjects—mothers, goddesses, whores, daughters, muses, and movie stars—from multiple angles, and through her poems she reveals historical, personal, social, environmental, and artistic viewpoints.
With fearless and playful language, Katherine Factor’s debut collection reveals agony, humor, and the necessary voices of the female oracle through time. The oracle’s message is apparent—she is not dead. Her words are cryptic but contemporary, offering caution along with guidance to a society interested only in using prophecy for profit. In a time when only a select few are prosperous, A Sybil Society paints a portrait of the present moment and unveils a restless truth. The collection is fearless in the face of convention and gives readers a sense of devastating sorrow in a world gone mad.
Riddle Field tackles the complex process of self-awareness and recovery in the wake of profound sexual trauma by avoiding many of the most direct ways of commenting on it. In interweaving the voices of an entire fictional town that is about to be changed forever by the destruction of a dam, the poems highlight the environment, both human and natural, that sexual trauma is born from, and calls to attention the many ways in which we create intimacy and distance when our trauma is kept secret.
Wry, compassionate, and deftly observed, the poems in The Mouth of Earth contemplate how we might live wisely in the midst of a planetary change we barely comprehend. This vivid, compelling book is a powerful contribution to environmental literature of the 21st century, and a survival guide for those seeking connection to our planet and one another in the age of climate crisis.
Winner of the inaugural Interim 2018 Test Site Poetry Series Prize, Refugia is a bright and hopeful voice in the current conversation about climate change.
