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Ullsvik Miller's debut collection affirms the reader's need for a daily massaging of profanely innocuous, even corporate language into meaning.

Each of his poems is a singular disturbance in the matrix of contemporary poetry.

With their syntactic sleight-of-hand, these poems trouble the space between history and nostalgia. A seriously playful and arresting new voice.

The Mandarin requires the strictest attention, its pace is quick, odd and askew but careful not to exhaust.

This volume is a guide to alternative word-worlds-it is their index."--Lyn Hejinian

Sims enters the territory of the irreconcilable, where the intimacy that lies deepest in us... remains event or entity."--Elizabeth Robinson

What strange, archaic, 3-D prayer is this? A lucid palimpsest showing us where the gold is buried."--Rachel Zucker

MISS AMERICA finds a world wide-open but unharmed. Wagner is a mage and a marvel."--Donald Russell

A verse-play that tells the story of sailors Zest, Coast, Ivory, Irish, and their run-in with the Devil.

Steensen's sources are antiquarian archives, journals, magic acts: what has been saved and lost and saved again. [She moves] among materials of our checkered past--magicians, changelings, George Washington, seances, Cotton Mather, the Davenport Brothers, W. C. Williams, the spirit of Charles Olson. Through imaginative exorcism she brings back into our perception the experience of the invisible dead"--Susan Howe.

With alarmed intelligence, Kunin exposes the violence of an expectant look, synthesizes the organic and robotic, then unzips.” --Jacqueline Waters

POVEL is a compulsive read, an extended excursion into the mind and life of Kim, a first-generation Korean-American.

Craig blurs the line between documentary and imaginative impulses. These poems mutilate pastoral myths while paying tribute to the West.

These sometimes scatological, often buoyant poems juxtapose squalid fact with incandescent images.

Sims's poems exhibit an attenuation not unlike devotion. This is the work of one practiced in the art of listening.

Sharma's poems offer an unusually modern take on modernity. Her program of whimsy and loneliness transforms simple declarations into myth.

The poems are equally clownish and fuck-offish, taking on with equivocal weightlessness the lexicons and trimmings of fashion.

Beyond brilliant, THE COW is a manifesto of the paradoxical girl-state in which disappearance beckons through presence."--Chris Kraus

These are occasion-stained lyrics, im- rather than compulsive. Their pretensions are few, their presumptions, endearing. We all laugh last.

Swallows uses the metaphor of the House to explore the uncanny presence and absence of self, and world, in poetry.