"Manzano's poems go beyond the traditionally circumscribed lyric, beyond the often humble and household range of so many contemporary poems. Translating those poems, and talking with Manzano about his work, was to experience that energy and ambition at close range, too close indeed to avoid being...

Alexis Stamatis has been hailed as "one of the most gifted writers of his generation" (Françoise Noiville, Le Monde) in both Greece and Europe. His work has not yet been published in America and thus has been mostly inacces sible to US readers. Amerikaniki Fouga (American Fugu...

“You will remember the day you discovered this book.”—Suzanne Cleary

Mildred's in the Big House for art forgeryand Claude, our high school Prometheus, is strapped to a rock in the Peruvian Andes of his locked ward.As for me, I'm dying of lost ...

“The reader will see that such a desire infuses language with a passion for breathing and utterance equally.”—Fanny Howe

“A beautifully cadenced and charmed performance by a young writer of great soul and promise.”—Carole Maso

The Disappearance of Seth tells t...

"Untroubled authority . . . and the talent to make us weep."-Dan Chiasson, Poetry

"He has written the most important poetic sequences published by an American poet during the last several decades. He is the most interesting American poet writing today, the least predictable and the m...

“‘Nothing attested, everything sung.’  And these poems are the songs, the mournful lieder of a reimagined life.  H. L. Hix’s melodies are pure; his harmonies are haunting and strange. Incident Light composes a soaring chorus from the dark and ...

The Fugitive Self is a tribute to a distinguished career spanning fifty years in American letters. At once meditative, whimsical, and hard-hitting, it illuminates the spiritual cost of American expansion.

Nothing we’d been counting onall the time we’d waited...