Envelope of Night: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1966–1990
Michael Burkard
Poets whose principle source of inspiration is a well of deep sorrow, as Burkard's is, tend to avoid sentimentality either by tempering their feeling with formal rigor and stylistic complexity or Continue reading »
The devastation of alcoholism and the loneliness of sobriety, the demands of death and memory and the challenges of language itself all find their way into Burkard's sixth collection, following Continue reading »
A fugue-like sensibility sustains Burkard's lyric imagination throughout his eighth collection, harking back to previous book-length investigations like Fictions from the Self and My Secret Boat. The Continue reading »
Envelope of Night: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1966-1990
Michael Burkard
Poets whose principle source of inspiration is a well of deep sorrow, as Burkard's is, tend to avoid sentimentality either by tempering their feeling with formal rigor and stylistic complexity or Continue reading »
Burkard's ( Fictions from the Self ) work is an acquired taste. For those who wish a direct encounter with an elusive medium, his seventh book--particularly its prose poems--may well offer a Continue reading »
The powerful sixth book from Metres (Shrapnel Maps), who is of Lebanese descent, confronts the trials of the present moment—including forced migration, climate change, and Continue reading »
The bright and speculative latest from CAConrad (Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibration) delivers poems whose forms reflect their interest in organic processes: “A voice Continue reading »
Impressively translated by Yang (Line and Light), this ambitious and capacious long poem from Dao spans the poet’s life in China and in exile abroad, interweaving reflections on Continue reading »
This beautiful retrospective brings together selections from four of Blanco’s previous books—including his most recent, How to Love a Country—as well as vital new poems. Blanco Continue reading »