Irene G. closes some of her wounds with this new collection of poems, without ceasing to be a ‘broken woman who swims in her own warm blood’, facing the mourning of abandonment, of loss, of the descent into the depths of solitude, with the thirst of a woman who longs to ‘kill fear’, and a ‘new life made of bits of life’. With the experience of a skilled...
In StockOn Oblivion and Other Poems is a viscerally carnal and intimate portrait of the poet, a versed rendering of his own long day’s journey into night. Balancing a deep sense of loss and regret is the refuge taken in favorite novels from antiquity to the present as well as humorous, if not deeply insightful observations of the animal kingdom, which perhaps say...
In StockDon’t let the demure-looking, tuneful wreath of sestets fool you.Intertextual and self-referential, these sharp poetic sound bites shimmerwith intellectual verve, humor, and “sci-tech verbal prestidigitations.” Theyreflect on place and democracy, on our future as “proto cyborgs” and ourcollective delusions. Is “the bio-exceptionalism we/affirm” “a miracle...
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