Poems deal with art, myth, freedom, nature, parenthood, dreams, music, religion, memory, language, and time

New Math (National Poetry Series)

Literature & Fiction

Cole Swensen

Poetry

William Morrow & Co.

Covering a variety of subjects - from the plague and the first danse macabre to the development of perspective and recipes for pigments - the poems in this collection are set in 15th-century France. They explore the end of the mediaeval world and its transition into the Renaissance.

Such Rich Hour (Kuhl House Poets)

University Of Iowa Press

Compiled on the occasion of Arab American poet and painter, Etel Adnan's receipt of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011, HOMAGE TO ETEL ADNAN is a collection of poetic and critical reflections, meditations and personal anecdotes written in tribute to Etel Adnan and her work by friends, colleagues and admirers including: Ammiel Alcalay, Jen Benka, David Buuck, Steve Dickison, Thom Donovan, Sharon Doubiago, Simone Fattal, Robert Grenier, Benjamin Hollander, Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure, Stephen Motika, Nancy J. Peters, Csaba Polony, Megan Pruiett, Brandon Shimoda, Roger Snell, Cole Swensen, Stacy Szymaszek, Lynne Tillman, Fawwaz Traboulsi, Anne Waldman.

Homage to Etel Adnan

Michael McClure

Nancy J. Peters

Lynne Tillman

Stacy Szymaszek

Anne Waldman

David Buuck

Joanne Kyger

Ammiel Alcalay

Jen Benka

Norma Cole

Steve Dickison

Thom Donovan

Sharon Doubiago

Simone Fattal

Robert Grenier

Benjamin Hollander

Stephen Motika

Csaba Polony

Megan Pruiett

Brandon Shimoda

Roger Snell

Fawwaz Traboulsi

Arts & Photography

The Post-Apollo Press

These restless poems meditate on sleep, night, darkness, and silence. And on sleeplessness, on waking up in the middle of the night, and on silence interrupted. Making tight loops and insistent returns, the words split and dissolve into silence, just as everything falls quiet and still, just as sleep begins to wash over you―when the light comes on, or the faucet drips, or a branch scratches the window. A slightly different pattern emerges as the words are reassembled, one with its own unique pattern of interruptions. Saying Poetry is a brilliant reflection on this state of distraction, which, Roubaud suggests, is essential to poetry.

Sleep Preceded By Saying Poetry

Jacques, Roubaud

Matthew B. Smith

Fence Magazine, Incorporated

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