Dan Machlin
Dear Body:

"Brilliant, fierce, and spare." —Ann Lauterbach

" The tone of these letters is elegant and almost elegiac, austere yet oddly moving." —Elaine Equi

" If ever there were a humane genome embedded in language’s possibilities, Machlin has found it." —Eleni Sikelianos
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LAURA SOLOMON
Blue and Red Things

"In her second collection, Blue and Red Things, Laura Solomon discovers what the wizards of the world have always known and hid under large rocks. Solomon bravely takes these things out from under the rocks, displays them for us in her large poetic voice, and begs us to listen to them, lest we forget them altogether....
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ELIZABETH REDDIN
The Hot Garment of Love Is Insecure

"This book is a filmic immersion in the sensorium of a being seeking to understand its incarnation in the body of a girl. The girl's struggle with her consciousness and her search for some stable ground of reality reads like a lyric existential detective novel...
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IVAN BLATNY
The Drug of Art

“The verses and fate of the poet Ivan Blatny . . . complete the fate of Czech literature, which transcended the borders of the nation, often struggling for survival.” — Václav Havel

Ivan Blatny was, according to the Czech Ministry of Culture, “one of the most significant Czech poets of the twentieth century.” Blatny fled Czechoslovakia after the Communist coup in 1948, spending the rest of his life in England. This volume spans fifty years of his career and is notable for being the first major collection of Blatny’s work in English, including multi-lingual poems and some poems written mostly or entirely in English... [read more]

ALL FOUR TITLES


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