Poetry anthologies (various poets)

Book SynopsisLey lines mark alignments of sacred sites such as ridgetops and ancient megaliths and create pathways between them. This book too marks alignments and creates pathways, but its sacred sites are not monuments, they're artworks and poems. Its various forms of exchange between writers and artists offer unique access to contemporary art, poetry, and the creative process. In this unique anthology, working poets respond to questions about their recent books, painters and other artists offer statements about their work, and writers respond to artworks. These offerings and exchanges are juxtaposed so as to speak to one another in a capacious, resonant dialogue. The result is a broad-minded and inclusive poetics, a vision of creative work as a constituent of personal and civic life. Anyone who nurtures the creative impulse will enjoy Ley Lines and return to it again and again. Writing students, art students, and any reader engaged in artistic practice will find in Ley Lines not a how-to manual or step-by-step instruction but an inexhaustible vein of instructive reflection on imaginative work and the creative life.Trade Review"Hix assembles an array of contemporary poets and visual artists into a single conversation that is at once deeply philosophical, literary, and often times politically subversive. Ultimately, this compilation reminds readers how closely the act of creating art is linked to the art of listening. director, Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco"In 'Ley Lines', H. L. Hix assembles an array of contemporary poets and visual artists into a single conversation that is at once deeply philosophical, literary, and often times politically subversive. From dialogues on poetics to meditations on how one continues to create in a country (world) of non-stop war, these elegantly curated triads reverberate with collective insights. Ultimately, this compilation reminds readers how closely the act of creating art--written and visual--is linked to the art of listening." -- Glori Simmons, director, Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco"H. L. Hix's generative, generous anthology renews the poetics of listening. The dialogues between poets and artists seem to ask, in the words of Brian Teare, what kind of language 'offers clarity sufficient to pain'? One of the most fascinating questions Hix returns to, with a refreshing and buoyant inter-criticality, is whether language adapts consciousness or perception to it or vice versa. 'Capacious' is a word he is fond of, and his wide arc of collaborative inquiry into eternity, war, responsiveness and responsibility delivers an expansive one-pointedness. Hix is an able, engaging curator whose book takes time and enriches it." -- Cherry Smyth, poet and curatorTable of ContentsTable of Contents for Ley Lines H.L. Hix About This Book Rationale Process Participants Elements and Pattern Mystery Ways of Dialogue Capacious Enlivened Sense, Complex Daily Ardor Between: Paisley Rekdal | Anne Lindberg | Renée Ashley Balance: Zach Savich | Vera Scekic | Jericho Brown Representation: Johanna Skibsrud | Ien Dobbelaar | Michelle Boisseau Most Importantly I Have My Library Archive: Brian Teare | Thomas Lyon Mills | Evie Shockley Scan: Matthew Cooperman | Bruce Checefsky | Mary Quade Things: Lia Purpura | Jason Dodge | Philip Metres Only Rearrange the Stones Repetition: Jon Woodward | Doug Russell | Andrew Joron Pattern: Scott King | Gerry Trilling | Nin Andrews Spacing: Gillian Conoley | Phillip Michael Hook | Alex Stein Here Long Enough to Disappear Complexity: Lily Brown | Sreshta Rit Premnath | Debra Di Blasi Complexity: Veronica Golos | Alisa Henriquez | Caleb Klaces Opposition: Catherine Taylor | Jane Lackey | Carol Moldaw Each Begun With a Stain Voices: Jacqueline Jones LaMon | Murat Germen | Nina Foxx Particulate: Laurie Saurborn Young | China Marks | Denise Duhamel Connections: Valerie MartÃ-nez | Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann | Anis Shivani Alive in a Strange Region Response: Kristi Maxwell | Aviva Rahmani | Rupert Loydell Language: Jill Magi | Brian Dupont | Rita Wong Words: Jena Osman | Sarah Walko | Bin Ramke To Invent a Method Beauty: Kathleen Wakefield | Anne Devaney | Jonathan Weinert Aura: Sue Sinclair | Anna Von Mertens | Afaa Michael Weaver Space: Dan Beachy-Quick | Cassandra Hooper | Alyson Hagy This and Other Labor-Intensive Techniques Attention: Julie Hanson | Adriane Herman | Laura Mullen Confrontation: Sandra Simonds | Jim Sajovic | Susan Aizenberg The Real: Lisa Fishman | Leeah Joo | Jennifer Atkinson The World to Me Event: Paige Ackerson-Kiely | Christine Drake | Cynthia Atkins Moments: Warren Heiti | Susan Moldenhauer | Bruce Bond Setting: Juliana Spahr | Leah Hardy | Christine Gelineau And Their Shadows At the Same Time Failure: Kirsten Kaschock | Daniel Dove | Ann McCutchan Uncertain: Barbara Maloutas | Christopher Leitch | Supriya Bhatnagar Disappearance: Jared Carter | Shelby Shadwell | Alison Calder Works About Which Interview Questions Are Posed Artworks Reproduced Acknowledgements About the Curator About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisStories of Art and Artists gathers two centuries of stories from around the world. From Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Artist of the Beautiful” and Albert Camus’s “The Artist at Work” to Bernard Malamud’s “Rembrandt’s Hat” and Aimee Bender’s “The Color Master,” the tales collected here range from haunting fables about the power of art to vivid portraits of those who create. Featured art forms include sculpture, pottery, architecture, miniatures, landscapes, portraits, and abstract painting, illumined in brilliant stories by such great writers as Honoré de Balzac, Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka, Marguerite Yourcenar, John Berger, William Boyd, Doris Lessing, Valerie Martin, Julian Barnes, Orhan Pamuk, and A. S. Byatt. Writers have long been fascinated by the idea of artistic genius, the relationship between portraits and their subjects, the inspirational role of muses, and the effects on artists of ambition, failure, and success. Their dazzling literary evocations of the visual arts—using one art form to reflect on another—make Stories of Art and Artists an irresistible gift for lovers of art of all kinds.

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Book SynopsisOnce confined to a literary elite in Japan, haiku are now written all over the world by poets who find their combination of brevity, technical discipline and expressive content irresistible. This collection brings together hundreds of poems by Japanese writers from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, with modern examples from Europe and America. In addition, there is a selection of poems influenced by haiku, and a section devoted to haiku-like passages from traditional English poets. The book is dominated by four great masters – Basho, Buson, Issa and Shiki – who between them compress the gamut of human experience into the limits of seventeen syllables.

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Book SynopsisThe feline has inspired poetic adoration since the days of the pharaohs, and the poems collected here cover an astonishing range of periods, cultures, and styles. Poets across the continents and centuries have described the feline family-from kittens to old toms, pussycats to panthers-doing what they do best: sleeping, prowling, prancing, purring, sleeping some more, and gazing disdainfully at lesser beings like ourselves. Here are Yeats's Minnaloushe, Christopher Smart's Jeoffry, Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat, T. S. Eliot's Rum Tum Tugger, William Blake's tyger and Rilke's panther. Here are tributes from Sufi mystics, medieval Chinese poets, and haiku masters of imperial Japan, from Chaucer, Shelley, Borges, Neruda, Dickinson, and Shakespeare. Here are the cats of Mother Goose, and the one who wore the hat for Dr. Seuss.The Great Cat will delight cat lovers everywhere, celebrating as it does the beauty, the mystery, the gravity, the grace, and, of course, the unassailable superiority of the cat.

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Book SynopsisIt is a rare pleasure to unleash beauty upon the ever-tragic world, an exception to the plagued misfortune of greed, despair, and injury. Though elements of colonization do present certain challenges and malady to a natural world inhabited for tens of thousands of years by peoples steeped in ideologies, practical and philosophic systems, they do not overcome the lingual sensibilities and prowess of the poets representing the areas of the planet present in this text. Instead the poets overcome the intrusion.From baleen row, razor clam edge, rabid willow ptarmigan plume, to white buds of plumeria, gardenia, lei, shaded grave of dried lauhala and graying niu, fertile Pacific essence swells these poems into hummock ice knolls, into layers and layers of white sea laps rolling, into mindfulness, consideration, climate care--belonging.From ulu, to cane knife, where aurora’s green vein bleeds blue and tangles into indigo or green-robed mauna combs t? stalks, palms, kukui, and pines. From Barrow to Waihe’e, tethered and hammered through wild among dark branches and snared by voices, these poems harbor whale and seal oil burning to bring sustenance to a reader’s search for light and with them carry us into a seafaring world of rich embrace. Spectacular, immediate, these beaches and beeches along the shores provide a tactile relationship made immense in their stream-crafted images.Table of Contents Contents Acknowledgements Editor’s Note In the time of Okvik d g nanouk okpik Mask of Dance In the time of Okvik Foist Ninilchik Date: Post Glacial Little Brother and Serpent Sedna Sinnaktuq There and Here Cell Block The Pact with Sedna Utkiavik: a Place for Hunting Owls Oil is a People Corpse Whale Palpate Voices For-the-Spirits-Who-have-Rounded-the-Bend iivaqsaat Spirit World Black Ice Cathy Tagnak Rexford Luis Gonzalez Palma Never Took a Picture Here Baleen Scrimshaw as 16 mm Film Inuit Print Kinetoscope The Negative The Ecology of Subsistence When Ivory Changes Color from the Oils in Your Skin Pre-Gunpowder Here With a Westwind Uncle Foot Baleen Corset A Caribou Skin Mask Scripture According to Sila Migration Bridge Passage What is Not Silence A Wind Drives Over the Waters Black Ice Return to the Kula House Brandy Nalani McDougall Po Huaka’i Haloa Naka Haumea Kumuhonua The History of This Place The Petroglyphs at Olowalu Lei Niho Palaoa Emma, 1993 On Finding My Father’s First Essay, San Joaquin Delta College, 1987 How I Learned to Write My Name Ma’alaea Harbor, Father’s Day The Salt-Wind of Waihe’e The Dream Of Kaha’ula Turns of Light, the Story of Your Birth Dirty Laundry Koa and the Burning of the Kula House Easter Return to the Kula House Cane Spider Back When We Lived with Ghosts Kukui Waiting for the Sunrise at Haleakal? Red Hibiscus in the Rain Synaptic Collisions Ho’ailona Ka ‘Olelo Over and Over the Return, Mo’oku’auhau Papatuanuku Papahanaumoku Ma’healani Perez-Wendt Papahanaumoku Segmented Kalalani Bury Our Hearts at Wal-Mart, etc. Double Decker We Are Not the Crime We Are the Evidence Uprooting Calvary At ‘Anaeho’omalu Nancy Kwan Anna at a Crossroads Huluhulu Bag Kipahulu No Steal Maile Never Miss Oblong Moon Biographical Notes

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Book SynopsisThese five first books join to represent a freshly emerging 21st Century Indigenous Mainland poetry. This collection releases a reader into parallel spaces of Native culture as diverse as the US-occupied landscapes they embody; the desert Southwest, the Pacific Northwest, Eastern Woodlands, Great Lakes Region, Kansas and Oklahoma, bringing a bit of urban and rural symphony by resisting folds into Americana with courageous unfolding imagery in a serious range of departure. Five debut books present a fistful of furious nature, supple with beauty and brilliance and packing the punch intentional poetry delivers. This is a fearless collection of evocative and challenging verse. Effigies II is a road trip through Indian Country with five American Indian women poets who bring it all back home.“The Tecumseh Motel traces a parallel path of Shawnee culture and personal history. Spanning from the period of Indian Removal to the present, this text lyrically examines identity, generational memory, and the importance of place.” – LAURA DA“This book explores the images of the American West. From the neon light of honky tonk barrooms to the Southwestern landscape to the railroad, dirt roads and grandmothers’ living rooms.” – UNGILBAH DAVILA“A narrative through wrenching spaces in the life of one descendant wrestling with post apocalyptic identity, grounded by persistently supportive ancestors and helpers determined to see their blood survive and resist colonial assimilation through disembodiment” – KRISTI LEORATrade ReviewWednesday, August 27, 2014 – August Book of the Month: “Effigies II”Effigies II is a compilation of works from Native women poets. Editor Allison Hedge Coke says debuting these works in a collection gives these Native writers a chance to enter the literary publishing world as a community. The book is like a road trip through Indian Country through words. The poems allow the reader to experience a multi-regional view on Native life. We invite you join us live as we take in the words of Laura Da’ (Eastern Shawnee), Ungelbah Davila (Diné), Kristi Leora (Kitigan Zibi Anishinaabeg), Laura Mann (Choctaw/Cherokee/Mohawk) and Kateri Menominee (Bay Mills Tribe of Chippewa). * Native America Calling *Table of Contents Acknowledgements Editor’s Note Laura Da’ The Tecumseh Motel Ungelbah Davila Outlaw Neon Kristi Leora Dark Swimming Lara Mann A Song Of Ascents And Descents Kateri Menominee In Tongues Biographical Notes

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Book SynopsisMexico is one of the major centres of Hispanic poetry-something which is perhaps more visible from the USA than from Britain, but nonetheless something that needs to be realised by anyone who cares about contemporary poetry in Spanish, or indeed, contemporary poetry of any kind. This volume includes work by the following poets: Luis Miguel Aguilar, Maria Baranda, Efrain Bartolome, Marco Antonio Campos, Hector Carreto, Elsa Cross, Jennifer Clement, Antonio Deltoro, Gloria Gervitz, Francisco Hernandez, Elva Macias, Victor Manuel Mendiola, Samuel Noyola, Jose Luis Rivas, Silvia Tomasa Rivera, Pedro Serrano, Natalia Toledo, Manuel Ulacia, Jorge Valdes Diaz-Velez and Veronica Volkow.

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Book SynopsisRecent years have seen the arrival of new approaches to writing about landscape. Partly to do with new eco-sensibilities, this is however also due to a realisation that "landscape writing" need not be confined to literary tourism, or the verbal equivalent of chocolate-box imagery, and to the injection of radical poetic styles. The Ground Aslant is the first volume to engage with this new wave of writing, and presents the work of Tony Baker, Elisabeth Bletsoe, Thomas A. Clark, Ian Davidson, Mark Dickinson, Mark Goodwin, Nicholas Johnson, Peter Larkin, Helen Macdonald, Wendy Mulford, Frances Presley, Peter Riley, Colin Simms, Zoe Skoulding, Harriet Tarlo, Carol Watts.

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Book SynopsisThis is an anthology of radical new women's poetry from the UK, featuring work by: Sascha Akhtar, Isobel Armstrong, Caroline Bergvall, Elisabeth Bletsoe, Anne Blonstein, Andrea Brady, Emily Critchley, Claire Crowther, Carrie Etter, Catherine Hales, Frances Kruk, Rachel Lehrman, Sophie Mayer, Marianne Morris, Wendy Mulford, Redell Olsen, Frances Presley, Anna Reckin, Carlyle Reedy, Sophie Robinson, Lucy Sheerman, Zoe Skoulding, Harriet Tarlo, and Carol Watts.

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Book SynopsisMore than 250 quatrains of love and loss, the texts to those inimitable flamenco performances - these are the songs that are wailed by those keening male voices, as the red-and-black-clad women dancers stamp, pirouette and fire castanet rhythms at machine-gun pace. Not high art certainly, but a part of deeper fabric of the real Spain, and a powerful influence on poets such Lorca.

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