Poet, artist and historian of film noir, Selby was born and raised in the Midwest of the USA but lives in Oakland, California. This work presents a collection of verse in some years.
Notebook of Signs is the first 'notebook' is a collection of four separate 'notebooks', which demonstrates the author's mastery in the area of short lyrics.
Presents poetry which is distinguished by its concentrated syntax, linguistic complexity, and an insistent moral and spiritual engagement.
Features a sequence of poems offered to the author's friend, the artist Paresh Chakraborty. The sequence of 37 short lyrics demonstrates that Andrew Brewerton's quiet poetic voice is a powerful one.
An epic poem on the war-in-the-air, 1939-1945, that focuses on the European theatre and also visits the Asia-Pacific conflict.
1557 saw the publication of this volume: the first printed anthology of contemporary poetry in English. The book is built on a foundation of two recently-deceased poets, Wyatt and Surrey, who had by their example given English poetry a new direction, above all with the introduction of the sonnet, but also with the invention of blank verse.
Presents a reprint of Rift and Hymns & Qualms , by Peter Cole, an acclaimed American-Israeli poet, about whom the US poet Forrest Gander observed: The moral seriousness of his work astonishes ...the exquisite specificity of his diction and the intricacy of his prosody are without parallel among the poets of his - and my - generation .
A collection of poems, which engage the content and form of anger, violence, intimacy, and the poetics of proximity.
Gael Turnbull (1928-2004) was long a friend of Shearsman Books and its associated magazine, and appeared some years ago in its earliest run of issues. This title covers his work from its beginnings in the late 1940's, all the way up to some poems from the last year of his life. It covers various aspects of his writing career.
A journey embarked on via contradictory terms that occur when one attempts to explore the limitations of human versus sentient abidance.
Features poems that sing and dance through heavenly mansions and real bungalows, tourist traps and museums, pharmacies and vending machines.
A work based on the author's work with families and focuses on mothers in particular who are experiencing problems in attachment to their children.
A guidebook to Lisbon for English-speaking visitors written by the author whose typescript of the book was discovered amongst his papers after his death.