In seeking to make sense of the world, Western intellectual tradition has celebrated the power of reason and the rational mind. Yet pivotal moments arise in life when the most formidable assembly of facts is useless, and its capacity for... Read More

In the tradition of Louise Gluck’s lyric narratives and religious and near-religious imagery, these poems are stark, lean, and fresh. In them, the poet considers longing and desire, language and death. She begins with the raven and the... Read More

In a 1998 article in UNLV Magazine, the author claimed, “This is unusual, I know, but I never revise. If I write a poem and it’s not there, I don’t go back and try to refine the experience because that wouldn’t be true to time.... Read More

For this poet, heaven is gray, industrial, and mechanized, and around every corner of this Burning World, there is some residue of what is left behind—ash, slag, pig iron, and Gibb himself, a child who shared the world with his mother... Read More

Spoken in Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao (those islands in the Caribbean popularly known as the Netherlands Antilles), Papiamentu is a Creole language, a combination of Aboriginal, African, Spanish, and Dutch languages. The author, an... Read More

This exceptional retelling is worth reading for one reason: it doesn’t merely tell the story of the “star-cross’d lovers”; it raises the curtain on the story of their story, too. The book opens as a play would. In lieu of a... Read More

Graphic novels have risen high on the book sales chain, attracting both critical acclaim (read Pulitzer) and marketing success ($100 million in sales). How did comic books, once looked down on as something to be feared and discouraged,... Read More

It was midnight on the ocean. / Not a streetcar was in sight. / The sun was shining brightly, / For it rained all day that night. Nonsense and playfulness prevail, as the title poem suggests, in this witty compilation of autographs,... Read More