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Noelle Kocot (MFA, 1995) Four Way Books, 2001 ISBN: 1884800327 Winner of the Levis Prize Winner of the Greenwall Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Selected by the Poetry Book Club of the Academy of American Poets Exciting Debut.
Does This Church Make Me Look Fat?
Rhoda Janzen (MFA, 1988) Grand Central Publishing, 2013 ISBN: 9781455502882 What does it mean to give church a try when you haven’t really tried since you were twelve? At the end of her bestselling memoir Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, Rhoda Janzen had reconnected with her family and her roots, though her future felt uncertain. […]
Mennonite Meets Mr. Right
Rhoda Janzen (MFA, 1988) Grand Central Publishing, 2012 ISBN: 9781455502875 At the end of her bestselling memoir Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, Rhoda Janzen had reconnected with her family roots, though her future felt uncertain. When this overeducated professor starts dating the most unlikely of men-a weight-liftin’, church-goin’, truck-drivin’ rocker named Mitch—she begins a surprising […]
Creature
Jerry Harp (MFA,1991) Salt Publishing, 2003 ISBN: 1844710289 This collection engages with traditional forms and carries out various kinds of experimentation centering on the physical meaning of life. The poems confront issues of cognitive, spiritual and erotic experience, and address longing and desire in the material world. The Creature yearns for new language in which we can […]
Rhyme’s Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture
David Caplan (MFA, 1994) Oxford University Press, 2014 ISBN: 9780195337136 Rhyme’s Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan’s stylish study examines hip-hop’s central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets generally dismiss formal rhyme as old-fashioned […]
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The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry
Geoffrey Brock (MFA, 1998) Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012 ISBN: 9780374105389 More than a century has now passed since F.T. Marinetti’s famous “Futurist Manifesto” slammed the door on the nineteenth century and trumpeted the arrival of modernity in Europe and beyond. Since then, against the backdrop of two world wars and several radical social upheavals […]
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Roberto Calasso; Geoffrey Brock, trans. (MFA, 1998) Knopf, 2005 ISBN: 1400041899 What are Kafka’s stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when? Countless answers have been offered, but the question still arouses feelings of acute uncertainty. Many solutions have been proposed, but the essential mystery remains intact. […]
Disaffections: Collected Poems 1930–1950
Cesare Paves; Geoffrey Brock, trans. (MFA, 1998) Copper Canyon, 2002 ISBN: 1556591748 Cesare Pavese – poet, novelist, diarist – was among the greatest Italian writers of the twentieth century. This bilingual volume gathers all the poems he wrote during his last two decades, including work originally deleted by Fascist censors and poems discovered after his […]
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Umberto Eco; Geoffrey Brock, trans. (MFA, 1998) Harcourt, 2005 ISBN: 0151011400 Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory – he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn’t recognize his wife or his […]