Quipu was a tactile recording device for the pre-literate Inca, an assemblage of colored knots on cords. In his eighth collection of poetry, Arthur Sze utilizes quipu as a unifying metaphor, knotting and stringing luminous poems that move across cultures and time, from elegy to ode, to create a precarious splendor. Revelation never comes as a fern uncoiling a frond in mist; it comes when I trip on a root, slap a mosquito on my arm. We go on, but stop...

La reedición de El riseñor reproduce la edición original de 1975 con el mismo grabado de Blas Castagna en la tapa y agrega, a modo de apéndice, las partituras de "El riseñor" para coro a mixto a capella, obra compuesta por Julio M. Viera. En este libro, que fue censurado en los setentas, se encuentran las primeras reescrituras de Lamborghini, por ejemplo, la del Himno Nacional Argentino, la del poema de Quevedo "Amor constante más allá de la...

A collection of poems about faith and angels. T.S.Garp's spiritual beliefs is a blend of Western and Eastern philosophies, from studying Buddhism to Christianity with poems that express the universal belief of angels, divine beings, wintry fairies, and having faith, worshiping God, receiving blessings, embracing nature's beauty and keeping hope alive in our hearts and mind.Voices of Angels is about experiencing great expectations, understanding loneliness,...

Living Quarters uses both the structure of a domestic space and the rhythms of the seasons to seek, but not reliably find, order and consolation in life's seeming disorder. Relationships dissolve; deaths come too soon; the past vanishes; the earth that gives beautiful and nourishing foods swallows up the creatures for whom it provides. These poems struggle with that mix of affirmation and destruction, celebrating nature's generosity while trying to...

How to find wisdom and spiritual sustenance in a time of crisis and uncertainty? In Divine Fire, David Woo answers with poems that move from private life into a wider world of catastrophe and renewal. The collection opens in the most personal space, a bedroom, where the chaotic intrusions of adulthood revive the bafflements of childhood. The perspective soon widens from the intimacies of love to issues of national and global import, such as race and...

Poetry and love seem pretty out of place these days. This poetry album is a test to see if these are really rare quaint commodities that do not matter and thus, do not sell. It is also a test to see if there can be something other than what poetry is purported to be in modern times. It is to prove that modern poetry should take a lot of lessons from the music world and the art world before it is pronounced defunct.

About the Chapbook The book delves into the implication and philosophy of colors from a Hindu woman's point of view, from birth until death. The color she adorns herself with almost depicts the story of her life. Expressed through different poetic and verbal forms, each color in the book has its own tone and is specific to different age groups.

Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author's hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American region's invigoration in recent decades by immigration and a spirit of reinvention. Focused mainly on food and cooking, these poems explore the city's transformation from the mid-twentieth century to today, as seen and shaped by Chinese Americans. The poems are set in restaurants, home kitchens, grocery...

"The Republics is a massively brilliant new work, a leap in literature we have not seen. It's gripping, harrowing, and at times horrific while its form paradoxically is fresh, luscious, and original. Bypassing pity and transforming pain into language Handal stars. She has recorded like Alice Walker, Paul Celan, John Hershey, and Carolyn Forche some of the worst civilization has offered humankind and somehow made it art."-Sapphire

Wet Silence bears moving accounts of Hindu widows in India. The book raises concern about the treatment of widowed women by society; lends their stories a voice; shares their unheard tales about marriage; reveals the heavy hand of patriarchy; and, addresses the lack of companionship and sensuality in their lives. This collection of poems covers a myriad of social evils such as misogyny, infidelity, gender inequality, and celibacy amongst other things....