This is Paul Fryer's first collection of poems, and it has been illustrated with keen insight by Damien Hirst. Together they have produced a beautiful diatribe against current complacencies that, remarkably, also shows a precious tolerance and love for their fellow men and women. The novelist and painter Harland Miller has written the foreword.
"In this inventive and powerful collection, August Kleinzahler creates a new idiom for American lyric poetry that captures the swerves of contemporary life in the city. He pushes the language very hard to get there, and the results are breathtaking: an angular, propulsive poetry that transforms character, voice, and setting into buzzing, luminous events."
Ann Lauterbach is one of America's most inventive and admired poets. Since the mid-1970s, she has explored the ways in which language simultaneously captures and forfeits our experience. By turns elegiac, fierce, and sensuous, her musically-charged poems subvert distinctions between narrative coherence and fragmentary elision, between outward attention and inward response. Throughout, Lauterbach questions the hope for personal agency within proliferating fields of cultural and historical event. If In Time brings together selections from each of her first five collections, as well as an exhilarating group of new poems.
Love Poems Pablo Neruda New Directions Press $11.95
"One of the greatest major poets of the twentieth century." The New York Times Book Review charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952.
"Materialism is a book about America, its Old World heritage and its perilous New World freedom and responsibility...It is moving, often chilling, and surprisingly passionate."
August Kleinzahler has been one of American poetry's best-kept secrets for nearly fifteen years. His new collection, "Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow," will change this situation. The landscapes of these poems are urban, their elements sensuously particularized and positioned to blend in startling and revealing ways. Scenes and characters shift and are spliced together with the audacity and speed of cinematic cuts.
