Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Tupelo (www.tupelopress.org), $16.95 (90p) trade paper ISBN 978-1-932195-58-3
Nezhukumatathil's fourth book is fascinated with the small mechanisms of being, whether natural, personal, or imagined. Everything from eating eels in the Ozark mountains to the history of red dye finds a rich life in her poems. At times her lush...
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Author Tupelo Press $14.95 (86p) ISBN 978-0-9710310-8-1
With a lovely, effective poem about elephants, a boat-shaped poem whereby ""The Bonsai Master's Daughter Breaks Her Silence"" and a ""Canticle with Sea Worm"" (""blessed be juice and raspberry vodka""), the Miracle Fruit of Aimee Nezhukumatathil's
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Copper Canyon, $17 trade paper (80p) ISBN 978-1-55659-526-4
“Every thicket has/ a secret and/ every mighty beast/ has a soft underside,” writes Nezhukumatathil (Lucky Fish); it’s something of a thesis for this book, in which she marvels at existence in a sprawling and miraculous world. Her poems invoke a...
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Ecco, $26.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-328226-1
Poet Nezhukumatathil (World of Wonders) presents a smorgasbord of concise and lyrical odes to foods linked to some of her most important memories. She associates saba bananas, a Philippine staple, with a vacation she took to the country, where she...
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Milkweed, $24 (184p) ISBN 978-1-57131-365-2
Nezhukumatathil (Oceanic) applies her skill as a poet to a scintillating series of short essays on nature. She takes up topics that fascinate her—the bizarre-looking potoo birds of Central and South America; corpse flowers, with their rich colors...
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