The Tears of the Muses

Weinfield, Henry

Dos Madres Press

Poetry. Translation. "A poet of exquisite formal control, Henry Weinfield writes lyrical and narrative poems that have a rich, sad music for which the ear and the heart hunger"--Kevin Hart. "The secret of this poet's power lies in the music of his verse. If poetry consists foremost of harmony in words, Weinfield has perfect pitch! Whatever the subject, with the happy rhythms of dance and the lovely magic of verbal sound he always takes us along to that point, where all things and all words, even the most abstract, look new and fresh. This is a precious book"--Louis Dupre. Henry Weinfield is a poet, translator, and literary scholar. He is the author of a number of collections of poetry, including The Sorrows of Eros and Other Poems; of a translation of and commentary on the Collected Poems of Stephane Mallarme; and of a literary study, The Poet Without a Name: Gray's Elegy and the Problem of History. His poems, essays, and articles have appeared in numerous journals. His verse translation of Hesiod's Works and Days and Theogony (with Catherine Schlegel of the Classics Department) was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2006. He is a professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Without Mythologies: New & Selected Poems and Translations

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Poetry. "To read SCRIBE is to pass 'through a series of gates' into the paradoxical heart of the poem, where 'terror and enchantment,' the communal and the solitary, the light and the dark, the imaginings of adult and child come together in an ancient music entirely of our moment. Norman Finkelstein here articulates the permissions and responsive urgencies of poetic engagement, echoing now ballad music--or magic, now the muted voice of dailiness, now the lyric strains of desire"--Michael Palmer.

Scribe

Finkelstein, Norman

Poetry. Illustrations by Jim Holyoak. In this debut volume of selected poems, Keith Holyoak explores the borderlands where dualities run together--life and death, despair and hope, man and woman, reason and passion, human and animal, reality and dream. His poetic voice is juxtaposed with the surrealistic artistic visions of Jim Holyoak, Keith's son. MY MINOTAUR creates an extra imagination space between the dualities of father and son, word and image.

My Minotaur

Holyoak, Keith

Poetry. "In THE ATHEIST'S PRAYER Madeline Tiger never forgets, even in the most intimate moments, that 'truth is...like the old inveterate river that holds clouds.' Tiger encompasses, with a tender embrace, a life made whole; her ministrations do not deny it sorrows, and she is glad to celebrate its hard-won triumphs. I don't know when I have ever been allowed to contemplate the intricacies of the personal so unflinchingly and to understand that, beyond the window, there is a vast untempered world, a glorious one. It is the caring in these quietly intelligent poems which makes living in this world possible"--Burt Kimmelman.

The Atheist's Prayer

Tiger, Madeline

Fiction. "In the Diaspora, the Book replaces and compensates for the the Land that is lost. But in Bea Opengart's IN THE LAND, the Land and the Book are one. Opengart's accounting weaves personal reflection with precise reportage, the awareness of tradition with an openness to the changes, the upheavals, of contemporary Israeli life. Neither tourist nor native, she is, rather, the lost lover strangely returned, the stranger forever falling in love. Give yourself to her Book as she gives herself to the Land"—Norman Finkelstein. With ten color photographs taken by the author.

In the Land

Opengart, Bea

Poetry. "Here is a quarter century of work from a poet who has patiently teased out the sounds of sense from American speech—overheard on a father-and-son tour of prospective colleges or at a 'scrub-urban birthday barbecue.' To read David Katz's shapely, sonically savvy, poems is to enter with the poet into an ongoing dialogue between contemporary talk and our modern literary past (as Bishop, Crane, Borges, Rushdie, Moore, O'Hara, Stevens, Auden, and Lowell traverse the stage of his poetry in turn), as well as with ancient Jewish culture (as enunciated by Gabirol, Halevi, and the Bible). Katz's CLAIMS OF HOME bestrides the new world and the old, claiming finally an enduring home in the heart"—David Yezzi.

Claims of Home

Katz, David

Poetry. "Infused with an eerily adept understanding of Latin American history and culture dating from the 15th century to modern times, their collective duende, REFLECTIONS IN A SMOKING MIRROR will come to stand as a monumental work and as a companion piece to the epic Gabriel García Márquez novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. This collection of poems takes on the true power of myth"—Wayne Atherton. "REFLECTIONS IN A SMOKING MIRROR tells the story of the fall of an ancient, vibrant civilization to Spain's conquistadors under Cortez. Pines's language is intelligent and refreshing, his ideas provocative, his images striking, and his narrative—however tragic—dramatically thrilling. This book is a smoking mirror"—Maurice Kenny.

Reflections in A Smoking Mirror

Pines, Paul

Poetry. "I like the vivid lines that James Tolan is able to produce. He knows how to hold onto the hog and let go at the right moment"—Robert Bly. "From the wellspring of a ramshackle youth emerges a poet capable of great empathy, whose eloquence is embodied in reticent, measured, sensuous verse. This poet resurrects the catastrophe of childhood with hard-won insight. Yet even the wise poet might not get inside of us and seize us. James Tolan, though, does and, in his wisdom, realizes that memory is always in danger from the words meant to perpetuate it. His attention to craft is what allows for his knifing, unforgettable testimony. I wonder what word in this extraordinary collection can be done without"—Burt Kimmelman.

Red Walls

Tolan, James

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The Tears of the Muses

Without Mythologies: New & Selected Poems and Translations

Scribe

My Minotaur

My Minotaur

The Atheist's Prayer

In the Land

Claims of Home

Reflections in A Smoking Mirror

Red Walls