God's One Hundred Promises

Lee, Karen An-Hwei

Religion & Spirituality

Swan Scythe Press

Poetry. HOW TO BE THIS MAN collects men's evocations and invocations of maleness and boyhood. While each man sounds like himself, the poets also speak with one voice, affirming the self-portraits we leave of ourselves and the community we join in. Poets include Clarence Major, Marvin Bell, Jack Marshall, Walter Pavlich, John Olivares Espinoza, Alejandro Escude, Francisco Aragon, and Eric Gudas.

How To Be This Man

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Nhan Trinh's PURSUE is a book of necessary meditations, a Viet Kieu's reconciliation to truths born within the rage of wars-personal and political. His poetry speaks from the quieter moments when the witness gathers the sacred ghosts of both afterthought and afterimage to find meaning in present uncertainties. Yet his timbre scatters complacencies, resonating with all the fury of the prodigal son come back to reclaim his beloved and plundered ancestral home--Rigoberto Gonzalez. Nhan Trinh was born in Vietnam and grew up in Wichita, Kansas. He received his MFA from Cornell University.

Pursue

Trinh, Nhan

Poetry

The poetry of Emmy Perez celebrates and grieves borders, the division between poverty and sustenance. Perez's precise and soulful language erases boundaries...Two languages are barely enough to name her world--Mary Jane Nealon. "In SOLSTICE Emmy Perez looks deeply at shards of the physical world, its sensual body, its cycles...Perez follows the personal and cultural connections and beckons us to take part in her discoveries"--Molly Bendall. Emmy Perez received an MFA from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, New York Quarterly, and Crab Orchard Review.

Solstice

Pérez, Emmy

Robinson, VirginiaCarrierPoetry. In this, her first collection of poetry, "Virginia Robinson is a carrier herself, a woman left behind in wartime to bear the burden of fearing for those she loves, of remembering the lost days of peace before her friends were deployed on those other carriers, Navy ships"-Joan Swift. "This book tells a story that rarely shows up in American poetry. It does so with perfect dramatic pacing, just the right mix of tenderness and detachment, and inventive language"-Alan Williamson.

Carrier

Robinson, Virginia

Poetry. James DenBoer has selected 35 poems to include in his collection entitled STONEWORK. "James DenBoer is the awake one, and vulnerable to his awakeness. In this physical world he has ties to the comic and to the suffering. He pays tribute, he asks for counsel, and a great spirit is born and sustained. STONEWORK exhibits the bonding of difficult material to lucid expression. What an artistic fulfillment!" -Sandra McPherson.

Stonework: Selected Poems

Denboer, James

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. These multilingual poems, by a highly honored Chicano poet and children's author, celebrate our unity as human beings and announce the coming of the New Sun--which the Maya believe arrives in 2012--and Alarcon identifies as the era of the "Flower Sun" when the World's biggest concerns would be "the colors / and the scents / of flowers // sprouting / from nowhere / everywhere...."

Ce Uno One: Poemas para el Nuevo Sol/Poems for the New Sun

Alarcón, Francisco X.

Poetry. Asian American Studies. Southeast Asia Studies. The second book published by a Hmong poet by Swan Scythe Press, THE DEAD I KNOW: INCANTATION FOR REBIRTH is winner of the Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Contest 2010. Burlee Vang's poetry is a powerful testament to the human spirit in a time of harshness--in times of war and struggle. "That's what the reader is in for, in this undertow of a book. Burlee Vang is part of everything and everybody he writes about, from growling stomachs to the tiger's roar. This is a persuasive debut"--Sandra McPherson.

The Dead I Know: Incantation for Rebirth

Vang, Burlee

United States

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. At last A new edition of Emmy P rez's SOLSTICE--expanded and with Spanish translations of selected poems--a book that set the highest standards for Chicana poets when first published in 2003, for its adroit mixture of lyricism and politics. "Emmy P rez's poems are elegantly political, never polemical. They discover the beauty in revolution without romanticizing its hardships. From the first moment I encountered her poems, I knew I was meeting a singular voice--one that can find lyricism in struggle, dignity in injustice. Her voice sings of landscape and longing with deftness of image and diction. What a welcome debut."--Allison Joseph "The new generation of Latina poets will be noted for the work of writers such as Emmy P rez."--Ray Gonz lez

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Arturo Mantecón. Introduction by Jack Hirschman. Leopoldo María Panero admits of himself that he is a "Communist, homosexual and paranoid schizophrenic"—who lives now in a mental hospital—an "outsider" poet of startling originality and sensuous impact. Arturo Mantecón's translations capture Panero's poetry with authenticity and sensivitity."What a revelation, what a discovery, what a gift to have these poems of Leopoldo Panero in such convincing English as Arturo Mantecón's. This is life-and-death poetry, prodigious imagination, language flirting with madness yet controlled, expression pushed to its limits in pursuit of unspeakable truths. A moving, profound, extraordinary book."—Stephen KesslerLeopoldo Panero integrates instinct and emotion, intellect, humanity, and dream, often in lyrically gritty images, seductive in their multiple states of being. Imagine Panero as some odd Virgil, a guide knocking at the gates of a rising hell and a falling heaven, setting out with 'the amplitude of words' to pursue 'the mystery of that which names itself.' Arturo Mantecón lends focused sensibility and depth to the challenge of reconstructing Panero's 'mad' revelations, in all their beauty, precision, and grace."—William O'Daly

My Naked Brain: Selected Poems

Panero, Leopoldo

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God's One Hundred Promises

How To Be This Man

Pursue

Solstice

Carrier

Stonework: Selected Poems

Ce Uno One: Poemas para el Nuevo Sol/Poems for the New Sun

The Dead I Know: Incantation for Rebirth

Solstice

My Naked Brain: Selected Poems