Q – R – S

All artists filed by last name under Q, R and S :

Ricardo Sternberg | The Invention Of Honey | Gazelle Books

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Ricardo Sternberg’s writing is controlled and superb. Fairy tale-like pieces rest happily next to probing looks at the urban psyche; whimsical pieces about childhood mesh with harsh, adult realities. Sternberg’s poetry has appeared in the best of this continent’s literary journals–Poetry [Chicago], The Paris Review, The Nation, American Poetry Review, Canadian Literature, Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly, among others. Continue reading →

Inside the Outside | An Anthology of Avant-Garde American Poets | Gazelle Books

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This volume brings together 13 major poets of the American small press scene, each representing an important branch of the avant-garde as it has developed over the past forty years. Each of the poets is presented in a large selection, in most cases chosen by the poets themselves. They range in age from 41 to 81, their poetics range from visual/conceptual poetry to surrealism, from personal/observation poetry to cut-up & collage poetry. Powerful, touching, innovative & humorous, these poems illuminate the underground poetry scene to give the reader a view of the real new American poetry. Kirby Congdon, Hugh Fox, Stanley Nelson, Harry Smith, Richard Kostelanetz, A.D. Winans, Lyn Lifshin, Eric Greinke, Lynne Savitt, Doug Holder, John Keene, Mark Sonnenfeld & Richard Morris Continue reading →

Shane Rhodes | The Bindery | Gazelle Books

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This third collection from acclaimed poet Shane Rhodes is full of poems to be felt, to be underlined, to be whispered, to be dog-eared and talked about. Tracing themes of travel, love, personal and collective history, “The bindery” combines lyrical poetry with experimental verve. These poems were composed from hurried scribbles in Mexican bus stations, meditations on street corners in Buenos Aires, letters from friends in the Himalaya, and odes from the Canadian hinterland, and emphasise how “to be stained by what we see”. “Before his first collection appeared, what I saw of Rhodes’ work was made up of “great lines in good poems,” and, with each new publication, has steadily improved. Rhodes has always managed to maintain a loosely-restrained lyric, pulling between that and the underlying (barely contained) energy that runs through his lines, but the pieces in The Bindery are far more refined, and fuse the two far better than anything he has accomplished previously.” — Rob McLennan Continue reading →

Ralph Sneeden | Evidence of the Journey | Gazelle Books

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This rich collection of poems explores family history, personal narrative, and man’s relationship to the natural world with an exacting eye and curious, searching spirit. Ralph Sneeden’s voice is accessible and honest, with a sense of wry wisdom that derives from his deep respect for the landscapes of New England and the shores of Long Island, New York-the terrain of his childhood, and the basis for his artistic vision. The book is the poet’s attempt to understand, through song and speech, elegy and observation, the personal and historic wars of a uniquely examined life. Continue reading →

Matt Rader | Living Things | Gazelle Books

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Written in the year after the birth of Matt Rader’s first daughter, “Living Things” honestly introduces the contradictions of the modern world: “how what we see in daylight is less than whole / and also more so”. Using words in lieu of sonar, these poems bounce off the ecology of “shabby saturated grasses” and “panther-eyed armies salal” and locate both author and reader within a literary geneology, Matt Rader’s poetry brings subtle slowness to a chaotic, fast-paced environment. It is both celebration and documentation of this world and its relationship to all living things. Continue reading →

Vittoria Repetto | Not Just a Personal Ad | Gazelle Books

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Vittoria Repetto is a subtle poet who has preserved her working class sensibility and her taste for the actual language of daily life while maintaining an acute ear for literary echoes. From the first poem where she places her grandparents young and in love right in front of us, to ‘she’s doing the dishes’ where in a tongue in cheek delivery she eroticises a simple household chore to the last poem ‘not just a personal ad,’ Vittoria repetto casts an unapologetically direct and witty eye on life’s complexity. These are poems that paint unforgettable moments within unforgettable scenes. Continue reading →

Shoshauna Shy | What the Postcard Didn’t Say | Gazelle Books

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The combustible verses comprising this anthology examine the unsettling way people, places, and relationships affect everyday life. Exposing the baggage, detours, accommodations, and push and pull of the male/female dance, the verses reveal what the postcards really said from the backstage of the subconscious where the messages are throwing a now-or-never party. Full of turbulent encounters and startling discoveries — a groom dancing with his ex at his wedding, a cashier in a hold-up by her former one-night-stand, something you hope you won’t have to tell your daughter — this collection is a tailbone toss across the continental divide in a jeep that dropped its muffler ten miles back. Continue reading →

Irina Ratushinskaya | Wind of the Journey | Gazelle Books

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Irina Ratushinskaya will forever be known as the poet who was arrested for her writing, sentanced to a Soviet prison camp. And who continued in the face of persecution to write new poems. She wrote them on bars of soap, memorised them, and then washed away the ‘evidence’. Irina is a recognised poet in both the International community and the United States. Many of Irina’s poems have the earmarks of a well-seasoned traveller: and eagerness for adventure, melancholy good-byes, and a faith forged from life’s journey. Continue reading →