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Realms of the Mothers
"This collection gathers poems from every book published by Dos Madres Press from 2004-2014...It is not possible to generalize about all these Dos Madres poets beyond claiming their universal mastery of craft. Beyond that, the diversity of theme, subject, form, diction, and speaker echoes what I, a former collector of beetles, loved about the insect order Coleoptera: a tremendous range of size, structure, color, habitat, life cycle...in the domain of poetry a rapturous fondness for, and extensive expression of, a similarly multifarious creation" --Richard Hague, from the introduction.
Many to Remember
Poetry. In her debut poetry collection, Rachel Kaufman enters the archive's unconscious to reveal the melodies hidden within the language of the past. MANY TO REMEMBER unravels the histories of New Mexican crypto-Jews and the Mexican Inquisition alongside the poet's own family histories. Kaufman's poems follow "fleshed like fables" and "the past's near ending" to arrive at an "alphabet, gardened, growing," creased and longing to translate the past for the present.
The Dawn of Nothing Important
Each of the eight sections of David Gianniniís THE DAWN OF NOTHING IMPORTANT contains mostly short poems and prose poems embodying aspects of Time and Duration anchored in the physical, and most often the natural, world. The book is, in its way, time-obsessed, sometimes with poems of death and comedy mixing together, and always with wonder. Some of the poems have a curious irreality about them, along with spiritual and metaphysical components. They tend to ësingí as the poems unfold or seem to grow organically on the pages, creating an overall envisioning of people and things in, and even beyond, Time. As Giannini says in these lines from one of the last poems in the book: "I establish myself through failure every poem in its meaning shatters against the stars." Poetry.
The Refrain
Poetry. "These poems portray exactly what they intend to portray, true feelings and a quest to understand our physical and spiritual existence. Whitehouse's personal narratives and meditations...are never elevated beyond the believable, yet they achieve a unique effect in their persistent attempt to discover and reveal the subtlety of experience. Her subjects are drawn from nature, from stories and observations of people, and from her own meditations.... Whitehouse doesn't judge, and she never gives too much, but she always gives us something that sticks." Ron Gaskill "Heartfelt, profound, and deeply insightful, her poems matter. A lot." Boston Literary Magazine"
A Cadence of Despair
We depend on poets to point in the direction of the unsayable. Facing trouble is an exercise in creativity. There are times in life when we are compelled on a journey, when grief pulls us into impossible ordeals, and when we have to leave our old insufficient selves behind. Through his poems, Tenneson invites us into such a passage. He knows that going through impossibly hard things with perseverance and courage is what can bring us together as human family.
Sugar Maker Moon
Poetry. SUGAR MAKER MOON, poet Mary Kathryn Jablonski's debut collection, explores the nuances of longing, from the trout streams of Vermont through mythical night skies. Respite is found in the natural and supernatural world, and the poet's imagery is used as a conceit for the beloved (be it lover, mother, father, child). The book contains over twenty poems named for seas on the moon in combination with epistolary poems to an imaginary husband: direct, humorous, heartbreaking. Inquiry into the formation of identity, integration of separation and loss, acceptance of imperfection, and reconciliation of memory fuel her work.
Small Talk
Poetry. "In SMALL TALK, Stephan Delbos has accomplished, if not the impossible, the unlikely feat of fusing a Rilkean Romanticism with something like Bunting's al dente concision and taut rhythms, a squaring the circle of a 21st century modern lyric that no one could have predicted. I take great pleasure in it, line by line, whether driven by sharp memories of childhood, or the difficulty of facing the world as a new father; a startling elegy for Charles Bronson, or a subversive homage to Bob Dylan; contemplation of a steel urinal in Dublin, or a door handle in Prague; whether in praise of wind or the winding legends of his native Plymouth; Delbos' imagination is populated by the bright objects of the world in an idiom all his own. With a warmth and humor that's not afraid to run disabused and cold, Delbos hits the road as a winning cosmopolitan of the present particular, a surprising troubadour of the now."--Joshua Weiner
During the Recent Extinctions
Poetry. Winner of the 2013 Weatherford Award for Poetry. "Richard Hague is a naturalist who comes from a landscape that has suffered the systematic removal of Nature. 'I come here to commune / with nothing, ' he says in one poem. Indeed, the ever-present industrial and chemical waste littering the southeastern Ohio Hague chronicles, suggests the awful darkness of nothing. This is a world of carnage and the great diminishment of human hope; from strip mines and steel mills smoking in their prime to the wreckage of their leavings, Hague summons the courage to speak against the ruin. He speaks for the wild things and their place, and he speaks for the people who live with profound and unrelenting loss. This is the land and these are the people who have paid the highest price for the so-called benefits and conveniences of modern American life. What we have given up in trade is incalculable. The poems in this generous collection, therefore, are wonders of bravery; they come from the ancient spirit of poetry whose task is to name, to say, and to make account, and to bring the ruined world into burnishing contact with beauty." Maurice Manning"
Tiny Kites
Poetry. "From Prague (a city he calls 'Threshold') comes the gnomic verse of the expatriate American poet Lucien Zell. The old alchemists would recognize what Zell is up to: the transformation of base materials (simple words, direct images) into spiritual gold. The result is what he calls 'The extraordinary bliss to be found in the ordinary.' Kafka too would surely understand."--Norman Finkelstein
