Indolent arts foundation inc (13 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - It is so refreshing to discover a poet as rapturously rich with magic as Logan February. In Painted Blue with Saltwater, the poet swims with sea monsters, becomes a feather, becomes a window, becomes a safe house by the sea. This is the great pleasure of Logan's poetry--whatever lamentable situation the speaker finds himself in, there is always a way to shapeshift back toward the light: 'Because I am / void & because I am vast & because / I am ocean.' What welcome gifts, these gorgeous poems. Kaveh Akbar Saltwater, ghost-filled air, the fires of becoming a young queer man, and the dirt, the dirt of searching for home, for a name, and another name. Logan February's Painted Blue with Saltwater feels at once ancient/ elemental and utterly new/refusing to order the world in the same or any manner. This collection bends and stretches lyric language to show us how 'a house is a box of doors, / of openings, of wounds,' how the family's house is far from a heaven where 'they have heterosexual sons & / perfectly grilled fish.' Logan February's speaker is both drawn to and skeptical of what this world has given him. He wants 'to talk to shovels / and ask them to be gentle.' He wants to know 'do knives know what they are used for.' This is a collection that will inhabit your bones and rearrange your sky. Chen Chen The magic in Logan February's Painted Blue with Saltwater manifests from a needed eagerness. Sketches of boyhood & body cannot be negotiated without a level of antagonism & February's collection does so beautifully. It's the world that Painted Blue creates--filled with wings & air & ghosts & dust--that transmits the delicate yet heartening sentiment key to the work. February's voice is salient & sweet; carving out much-needed space for young Black queer poets. Jayy Dodd Painted Blue with Saltwater is, if nothing else, a self-portrait. It is opening a box of trinkets and knowing who the owner is based on what you find. It is running your finger across a canvas and feeling the thick chunks of paint, imagining exactly how the artist moved their brush. February balances precision and thoughtful curation with a breathtaking transparency, from which we learn that to be vulnerable is to be strong. These poems are stunning. Read this book and then read it again. Olivia Gatwood.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Dante Micheaux's superb poetic aptitude is wedded to an eually superb poetic amplitude. Intimate soliloquy, lyric address, and linguistic allegory merge with resonating voices and personae. This poem is masterful, paradoxical and spiritual. The 'holiness in all its unholy rejoicing' is variously scored in Dante Micheaux's commanding Circus. --TERRANCE HAYESI still stand by words I wrote almost twenty years ago, when I read Dante Micheaux's poems for the first time: 'I am impressed by the serious depth and masterful technique of Micheaux's poems. He is a true man of the world, mature beyond his years, one whose voracious intelligence and richly diverse background uniquely equip him for the literary vocation. Circus promises to be received as a masterpiece reminiscent of the best of Melvin Tolson's work, and some of Micheaux's poems bear an a nity to the delicate music and wisdom of Robert Hayden. But Micheaux's in uences are not limited to the stars of African American poetry; his experience and reading ranges wide. Dante Micheaux is a code-switcher fluent in many languages. Some of his lines bring this reader close to heartbreak.' --MARILYN NELSONDante Micheaux's Circus commands the reader's attention. In this long poem, each line is tuned by breath and image, serious play and heartfelt critiue, but also by the modern urban motifs of grief and love. At times, signifying can get us to a desperate truth. The reader or listener has to possess a sense of history in order to be transported to the here and now. In Circus, the borders between the imaginary and the real dissolve as the poem delivers us into verisimilitude. --YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Wit and nihilism, deadpan intelligence, and candid examinations of human hungers abound in J.G. McClure's The Fire Lit & Nearing. McClure's smoldering poems take on the grind of time, obsessive love, manliness and its illusions, alternative fates, being and nothingness, and much more. His is a winning voice, dark and self-critical, a bit reminiscent of John Berryman's, a brave and true voice one might dub melancholic/comic/heroic. AMY GERSTLER The recurrent mode of J.G. McClure's The Fire Lit & Nearing is a version of lament and complaint (both with long distinguished poetic traditions), but this tone is relieved and complicated and enriched by McClure's distinctive zaniness and invention, which gives the reader great enjoyment in this kind of 'gaiety transfiguring all that dread' À la Yeats. This inventiveness also makes use of McClure's intelligence in a fundamentally writerly way and communicates the mind-of-the-writer at work in an exhilarating act of making that extracts beauty even from human pain and despair. MICHAEL RYAN J.G. McClure's first book, The Fire Lit & Nearing, is a wild cosmically inclusive, sometimes surreal, sometimes hilarious but always compelling thought experiment about contingency as both a source of freedom and inescapable pain. These poems embody an irrepressible charm, a formal poise and wit that I find welcoming, even life affirming, even in the midst of sorrow. A truly beautiful book. ALAN SHAPIRO.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The Inside Room, by Lisa Andrews, traces and inspects the way back to hidden places buried within ourselves. The poet invites us to get inside her 'own / chariot to hell' and travel down to the rawest relationship we know. The story of mother and daughter is raveled in rage, love and desire. Her poetic vision is large yet precise. The poems sweep from myth to memory to present moment, illuminating the numinous threads which bind art and survival together. Andrews' diamond stylus etches vivid worlds into the glass walls of our imagination. This is a book you will come back to for its siren call to live your own life with more hunger, more love, more tenderness. --Carla Drysdale We, readers, exist on a spectrum of motherlessness, and Lisa Andrews' heartbreaking rendering of our cleaved state is exquisite, pitiless, gorgeous. Andrews' scrupulous eye for the exact marries the unflinching stare of the poet at her situation ('You almost had me / believing I was your audience, the one / you flowered for'). Other work here, generous, loving, and anguished, tries to recapture the father, too (the remarkable 'Turkish Coffee' notes 'How it blazed, / almost boiled up like oil . . . / I never told anyone how much I liked / that bitter taste'). Read The Inside Room and you will remember what you lost; these poems will return to you your memories. --Sharon Kraus 'Disappoint a mother and you get winter.' Lisa Andrews' coolly passionate collection, The Inside Room, submerges readers into myths you might be familiar with--such as the story of Persephone--but have never heard rendered with such intimate clarity. Longing rises quietly in these poems, and without fanfare. I love the ability of these crisp, nostalgic poems to admit their hunger, and to welcome us into the feast they deliver. --Lynn McGee.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Exploring the performative complexities of female embodiment, bell lap is a gorgeous muscular surge of linguistic athleticism and sensory endorphins. Athenian, mud-streaked, and spiked with adrenaline, this smart and sexy poem cycle running the course of a cyclocross race caroms with imagistic verve and chiseled diction through rugged physical, gendered, psychological, and poetic terrains--glistening with sweat-sheened splendor and pure animal joy. Lee Ann Roripaugh What a great book [bell lap] is. It races along and is racy and exhilarating and unapologetic for flinging mud into the air. Laura Winberry is Sappho on a bicycle. Lisa Jarnot In bell lap, Laura Winberry takes you on a ride through 'the carnival of cyclocross' with her badass girl gang of spandex-clad cycling Eves in tow. These poems whoosh past you at lightning speed, blowing your hair back as you cheer on their unapologetically gutsy & gritty, joyful & vulnerable version of womanhood. Marisa Crawford.…

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Ángelo Néstore's poems in Impure Acts are both heartbreaking and an absolute joy to read. I especially love 'When I Picked the Wrong Bar.' --Hollie McNish Ángelo Néstore's poetry, his 'impure acts,' changes the whole cartography of desire with the beautiful perfection of a modern, dream-like demiurge who knows he is in absolute possession of his glory. Poem-temples, poem-traps, gaps in the disquiet for those who will have no better illumination than that which is offered by this dialogue between poet and reader. Communion, I would say, if communion were not sometimes dangerously conflated with religiosity. Poems which, in their exquisite and innovative craftsmanship, already demand a canonical place in our collective memory and anthologies. --Carlos Pintado Ángelo Néstore's Impure Acts is a pair of full lungs heaving just below the surface of the text. The poems explore and explode inherited notions of gender, desire, & reproduction. The lyric voice is alive and vibrating in these clipped narratives where nostalgia abuts the present & sings there. This is a book to be read aloud & then to read aloud again. Try it with your friends. --Sam Sax Ángelo Néstore (Lecce, Italy, 1986) is a poet, actor, and professor in the Department of Translation and Interpreting of the University of Málaga in Spain. The author of two poetry collections, he co-directs the Irreconciliables International Poetry Festival and the feminist poetry publisher La Señora Dalloway. He is also a translator from English and Italian into Spanish, and from Spanish into Italian. Lawrence Schimel (New York, 1971) is a bilingual author and translator living in Madrid. Writing in both Spanish and English, he has published over one hundred books as author or anthologist and has translated over thirty poetry collections.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Condición: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 98 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | From the ballads of blues-singer Bessie Smith, the triumphant flights of aviatrix Bessie Coleman, and the violence faced by Bessie Mears (from Richard Wright's novel Native Son), these poems give voice and power to Black women past, present, and future.…

Condición: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Ángelo Néstore's poems in Impure Acts are both heartbreaking and an absolute joy to read. I especially love "When I Picked the Wrong Bar." --Hollie McNish Ángelo Néstore's poetry, his "impure acts," changes the whole cartography of desire with the beautiful perfection of a modern, dream-like demiurge who knows he is in absolute possession of his glory. Poem-temples, poem-traps, gaps in the disquiet for those who will have no better illumination than that which is offered by this dialogue between poet and reader. Communion, I would say, if communion were not sometimes dangerously conflated with religiosity. Poems which, in their exquisite and innovative craftsmanship, already demand a canonical place in our collective memory and anthologies. --Carlos Pintado Ángelo Néstore's Impure Acts is a pair of full lungs heaving just below the surface of the text. The poems explore and explode inherited notions of gender, desire, & reproduction. The lyric voice is alive and vibrating in these clipped narratives where nostalgia abuts the present & sings there. This is a book to be read aloud & then to read aloud again. Try it with your friends. --Sam Sax Ángelo Néstore (Lecce, Italy, 1986) is a poet, actor, and professor in the Department of Translation and Interpreting of the University of Málaga in Spain. The author of two poetry collections, he co-directs the Irreconciliables International Poetry Festival and the feminist poetry publisher La Señora Dalloway. He is also a translator from English and Italian into Spanish, and from Spanish into Italian. Lawrence Schimel (New York, 1971) is a bilingual author and translator living in Madrid. Writing in both Spanish and English, he has published over one hundred books as author or anthologist and has translated over thirty poetry collections.…

Condición: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 98 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | From the ballads of blues-singer Bessie Smith, the triumphant flights of aviatrix Bessie Coleman, and the violence faced by Bessie Mears (from Richard Wright's novel Native Son), these poems give voice and power to Black women past, present, and future.…

Condición: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | In an homage to the Homeric tradition, McClure's epic hero is an astronaut, rife with self-loathing, flawed, and searching desperately for his heroine. While our hero drifts in an intergalactic sea of regret, longing, and self-revelation, his follies in life and love remind us of ourselves, and bring us with him on his epic homecoming. …