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Extraordinary content with spiritual insight and academic depth…Few, if any writers of our day can ground one part of the mind in the material world while allowing the other to roam in philosophical eternity like Ginger Zaimis, as if it were the neighborhood she grew up in. Part of her psyche-creative intelligence-resides in the world of Heraclitus, Sophocles and the other in the light of presence…Her ability to unite dualities; synthesize opposites as One that are greater than the sum of their parts…Breathtaking! Lee Slonimsky Poet, Author of Pythagoras in Love and Literary Executor Daniel Hoffman Archive, Library of CongressGinger Zaimis' idea of observing Greek, Norse and biblical mythologies through an architectural lens stands boldly at the intersection of contemporary and comparative literature. Her 'text-tile' is poetry as well as philosophy, while her walls, ceilings, and floors are metaphors' built of letters and words shaped by a vivid curiosity. Her work reveals the in-between of worlds, strata and disciplines by inventing new prototypes. Cecile I. Margellos Critic, Translator and Co-Founder Margellos Republic of Letters, Yale University PressSomeone who bridges the arts with mythology, history and philosophy from the ancient world…Ginger is a poet, thinker and serial creative who doesn't fit in-to-a-box but rather perceives life out-of-the-box…A polymath and philhellene, she connects abstractions while bringing architectural order to the world by shaping words, poetry and perception-radiance. Maria Georgopoulou Director, The Gennadius Library American School of Classical Studies at Athens

With gentle humor and passionate meditation, Lion, Gnat, Lee Slonimsky's latest poetry collection, soars above the clamor of modern life and "steel against indifference". These poems argue vigorously that not only is nature man's origin, but also his destiny. Like the winter oak, nature sheds light on life's enduring lessons and shows the path forward. Luminous, deeply felt, Lion, Gnat once again establishes Slonimsky's singular voice in contemporary poetry. Pui Ying Wong, author of An Emigrant's WinterLee Slonimsky has long been master of the sonnet, as both nature poem and persona poem, often in the voice of the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras, in love with the pure order of the cosmos. In "Geometry in Paradise," Slonimsky finds "math's everywhere," and in the title poem, "Lion, Gnat," he observes "the lust of molecules to rearrange / themselves quite differently: as lion, gnat." In this collection, he extends his range, exploring other forms such as triolet, haiku, and free verse, while turning his piercing intelligence inward on the conundrum of romantic love. What is love, marital and extra-marital, current and passed? He brings us face to face with this enigma with startling clarity. Finally, this is a book about love, pervading the micro- to the macro-cosm: in "Electrons Love to Dance," Slonimsky sees how electrons "romance / their protons while they whirl." Barbara Ungar, author of Charlotte Brontë, You Ruined My Life and Immortal MedusaI'm convinced that though he respects the lion, it's the gnat-like things of the world that most often fuel Lee Slonimsky's admiration. And in Lion, Gnat, he shows us the riches to be found in ants ("each one a President/ of his or her own life"), the talons of birds, tree bark, dust and the varied life of electrons, even how they love to dance. The human animal too gets its say: couples who learn to achieve something like bliss (his take on Ghent will fire the romantic in you), a stockbroker who turns a bit into a Thoreau as he watches the flight of birds, a poet's meditation on poetry and the joy of teaching-while the mysterious Weldon Kees rises from the windswept ocean. The last section of the book celebrates Pythagoras, the mathematician Slonimsky has turned into one of the great characters of poetry, enlightening us all again with the Greek who's at once young and old, timeless. In the title poem of the collection, Slonimsky offers "Complexity determines everything"-yes, but it's his poetry that reminds us of the simplicity we often overlook in our often busy lives that makes the complex a concern to us. Lion, Gnat and Lee Slonimsky-listen hard (as he might put it), the Universe is being written. Tim Suermondt, author of Election Night And The Five Satins

Katie Jean Shinkle is our new master writer of the nightmare. In Ruination she has created a classic world of infestation and prophets and terrorist sisters. It's a world where girls are sent to eradication centers for sprouting flowers and mushrooms and forsythia bushes from their skin. The prose is tender and bold and sharp. If you were to carve the initials of this book on your knee, you would have to spell one word: amazing. Scott McClanahan, author of The Sarah Book and The Incantations of Daniel Johnston

Meklina's writing skill in English is astonishing. Ursula K. Le Guin Meklina's writing is metamorphic, tangling comedy, irony, tragedy and beauty together. Alicia Ostriker In these startling and engaging stories, Meklina presents the familiar and the unfamiliar through bright beams of language, and wonderful flourishes of narrative craft. Her literary eye is one that wisely observes and wisely embroiders simultaneously, and I came away ready to think about everyone I know in wiser ways. Rod Val Moore, author of Igloo Among Palms (Iowa Fiction Award) Meklina's short prose portrays with jarring realism the gritty street life of big cities, and the inner Angst of people on the edge, through the naive perspective of immigrant narrators and helpful fools. The characters are frequently the quintessential American oddities or expatriates, people who nonetheless carry the taste of every-day reality in large 21st Century cities anywhere. These narratives weave together the stream-of-experience images that, in a few hundred words, say more about city life and daily struggle than some books of as many pages. D.A. Rich, author of The Tsar's Colonels: Professionalism, Strategy, and Subversion in Late Imperial Russia

In this book of translated Danish poetry, farming is not used as a background for personal drama but as the speaker's central subject. The poet succeeds in defining his central task as the vivid evocation of the repeated seasonal chores that make up the essence of farming life. Never sentimental, and often humorous, the book might be called an earthy celebration of essential ritual; but it is an elegy as well, for the poems also chronicle the pressures that lead to collapse of farming as a vocation, describing the slow shift of a vital farming village into a bedroom community for those who work elsewhere. How the poet manages to maintain his "dream about farming" as a living possibility, to make it part of a stable vision of the possible, without flinching from sober facts and figures, is one of its many impressive achievements.Carl Dennis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of twelve books of poetry including Practical Gods and Another ReasonKnud Sorensen's poems investigate and lament the end of the Danish farmer's way of life, brilliantly capturing its intertwined beauty and sadness. These poems have a universality that speaks to the disappearance of the family farm, not just in Denmark but in America and across the globe. All thanks to Michael Goldman for such vivid translations that allow a new audience to see 'Denmark like a green dream about eternity.'Denton Loving, author of Crimes Against Birds, editor of drafthorse literary journalKnud Sorensen's formidable literary output bears a vulnerability, an embracing, gentle warmth, and a penetrating apprehension of emotional depth in commonplace events. May his work take flight and find readers around the globe.Dorthe Nors, Danish author of Karate Chop..".Sorensen is one of the best Danish poets.,"br> Martin Gregersen, Kristelig Dagblad"Knud Sorensen has acquired a unique, compassionate and deep insight into the mentality and the psychological shifts among farmers and rural people as a result of the total change in their circumstances over the past 60 - 70 years."Johannes H. Christensen, Jyllands-Posten"No one has, for so many years and in so varied and detailed ways, written about rural life and the radical changes it has undergone, as Knud Sorensen."Erik Svendsen, Jyllands-Posten

Focused deeply on a language to navigate the outward space of the body, the heart of these poems beats between want and its relief, no matter how briefly it's obtained. Gagnon's poems forage, find their bearings, then sing out of the body's reorientation in a territory it is continuously desiring to understand, they gallop "as a flame / does, against / the turbulence / of convictions." Pam RehmThese poems are fluent in the language of pool, sky, bath, afternoon, body, earth-the way things pass into and out of the mind, the way a bird's song can become: "the slow ancient call of the bird/ in the distant flicker." Gagnon has much to say about how and where we find one another, how and what we see in the field of the world's luminous circumstance. For the sheer dexterity of phrase, the pleasure of perceiving, and the music of quiet crescendo, this is a book to be savored and read and savored again. Mark McMorrisIn ravishing language that blends ecstasis with visionary wonder, Matt Gagnon's poems plumb the phenomenological terrain of our creaturely experience. "This terra parches wonderment / and leaves us still and ghosted," Gagnon writes, and the work gathered here speaks to the serious introit of desire and ghostliness that limn our anthropomorphic selves. Forwarding Louis Zukofsky's "upper limit music" and the prescient romanticism of Robert Duncan's lyric address, Gagnon masterfully weaves together the scales and signs of our worldly attention, providing necessary evidence of the body's "molecular advance twilit, sheened, abraded." Querulous, ruminative, distilling narratives from the molecular tide of diurnal experience, Gagnon's haunting Song of the Systole asks "Is it possible to love more than one world, to see clear across to the other side?" This beautiful book, "hounded by rituals of loss," inscribes its pain-worn and joyous journey in an effort to make that crossing visible and audible to each of us. Andrew Mossin

Cecil Bodker's characters are raw and sensitive, unpredictable and universal. The young boy, Tacit, untangles secrets in mythic stories of family, love and sacrifice. Each character has refused to leave me.Jacqueline Sheehan, New York Times bestselling author of The Center of the WorldOnce-in-a-lifetime storytelling with the power of Faulkner. These characters live and breathe in Michael Goldman's expert translation. Cecil Bodker's prose rings with sheer humanness that connects us all.Casey Harding, Managing Editor, The Missing SlateThe first words, the first lines, and we are Cecil Bodker's captive and her fan. There is no waiting for a reward; it is there in every sentence.Annelise Vestergaard, Jyllands-Posten...every word believable. Quite a rare achievement. "The Water Farm" is the ideal of fine, unassuming, story-telling craft.Bent Mohn, Politikken

Heather Woods is a lightning rod; her poems abundant with the evanescent, sensual pleasures of God and spirit in this remarkable, transformative first collection. 'May all beings be full of light and the roots of light,' she writes, a modern mystic who acts as both a receiver and transmitter of radiance. This is a holy book of the highest order.D. A. PowellSomebody shook, then popped the lid on, the Great Hymnal: out flew these devotional lyrics wholly recast - ravenously tender, carnally transcendent, and fearlessly pitched towards ecstasy. Heather Woods reawakens a tradition that Dickinson, George Herbert, H. D. inhabited, whereby the poet constructs a void of self as an act of seduction, a surrender to language that is also a command of sonority and syntax. Light bearing calls down the powers holily and hotly; it filled "me up such// that my seams would burst."Aaron ShurinHeather Woods' extraordinary debut poetry collection, Light Bearing, is a spell binding, light-charged tour de force. Shot through with ardor, compassion, love and wit, Woods invites us to "commit luminous chaos together and render havoc holy." These poems swoon, dive, dip, swirl, twirl, and ascend to help us transcend our pedestrian daily cares. Word play offers us new angles into the spiritual and the corporeal. Lines like, "This little light of mine,/ I'm gonna fret and pine," turn time worn lyrics on their heads and wake us from any dolor to light our way. You'll have no need for extra candles or a flashlight if the power goes out on a windy night. This shining, glowing book of poems will light the darkest room and your world will be suddenly, brilliantly lit.Toni MirosevichLight Bearing is a work that is at once precise, conflicted, unflinching in its gaze. In these pages, I am reminded that the real work of poetry is hidden in the underbelly of its lines, and the complexity of emotions. That is to say these poems are beautiful, dangerous, and devastating to read.Truong Tran