age ~49
from Matamoras, PA
Selected by Marie Howe for the 2011 Kathryn A. Morton Prize, Easy Math is anxious and exuberant both. Lauren Shapiro’s poems are Aesop stood on end, wry fables that defy our instinct to find a moral to the story. Instead, she offers us a gimlet eye to the disappointments of the world, tall tale-tell...
Author
Lauren Shapiro
Binding
Paperback
Pages
64
Publisher
Sarabande Books
ISBN #
1936747480
EAN Code
9781936747481
ISBN #
9
"The poems in Antiquity very much abandon themselves to language, to the collective poetic endeavor, and they do so in a rich, textured, and sustained voice."Mary Ruefle, from the introduction Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize, Michael Homolka’s Antiquity offers the present infused with the past...
Author
Michael Homolka
Binding
Paperback
Pages
64
Publisher
Sarabande Books
ISBN #
1941411274
EAN Code
9781941411278
ISBN #
8
I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl is film noir set in verse, each poem a miniature crime scene with its own set of cluesfrosted eye-shadow, a pistol under a horse’s eye, dripping window units, an aneurysm opening its lethal trap. In otherworldly vignettes, 1994 pairs the unreliable narration...
Author
Karyna McGlynn
Binding
Paperback
Pages
88
Publisher
Sarabande Books
ISBN #
1932511768
EAN Code
9781932511765
ISBN #
6
"Different poets possess different powers. So Lippman has eros and humor; somehow, also, he has a great, unfalsifiable affection for human nature. But his work is also empowered by verbal gusto, a faith in the joy of saying. . . . Full of exuberance and invention, flush with the stuff of struggle in...
Author
Matthew Lippman
Binding
Paperback
Pages
88
Publisher
Sarabande Books
ISBN #
1932511466
EAN Code
9781932511468
ISBN #
3
[T]here is something utterly in thrall here, honey-slow and fixated. Driven by obsession—in particular, obsession with the legendary French poet, Robert Desnos—Muench’s identification with a true self beyond the self’s known truth is startling.—from the introduction by Carol Muske-Dukes“Simone’s poe...
Author
Simone Muench
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
96
Publisher
Sarabande Books
ISBN #
1932511261
EAN Code
9781932511260
ISBN #
10
In the middle of the night, when the fruitis scariest. I hold my hand outand feel your nibbling. Don't worry,my eyes are still closed. I've onlypeeked that once. The coldthat is your breath—these windowsof fog. If I were outside,I'd read your name backward again and again.Trey Moody is from San Anto...
Author
Trey Moody
Binding
Paperback
Pages
80
Publisher
Sarabande Books
ISBN #
1936747677
EAN Code
9781936747672
ISBN #
7
“It’s impossible for me to imagine poems more fully integrated or more fully realized than those in this book, and it’s heartening to me that these poems were written by someone young.”—Michael RyanIn Gabriel Fried’s debut volume, the reader weaves through details of daily life, dream-life, and the ...
Author
Gabriel Fried
Binding
Paperback
Pages
88
Publisher
Sarabande Books
ISBN #
1932511490
EAN Code
9781932511499
ISBN #
5
"Solarium is a completely original gem of a book."—Henri Cole, from the forewordBowl of the lake. Bowl of the sky.Bowl of the lake with the sky in it. You looked at you in the water. The blizzard is cold.And the boy in the blizzard is blue. Jordan Zandi grew up in the rural Midwest, and in 2011 grad...
Author
Jordan Zandi
Binding
Paperback
Pages
64
Publisher
Sarabande Books
ISBN #
1941411177
EAN Code
9781941411179
ISBN #
2