Poetry that considers how we live with constant shifts, positioning alchemy as an example of endless change.The poetry of Laynie Browne’s Apprentice to a Breathing Hand explores alchemy, connectivity, and perception. Throughout the collection, Browne considers the formation and limits of personhood, the experience of a body moving through time, and the imperative to continually learn and unlearn. Browne looks to alchemy as a practice for cultivating the im...

Le psaume s'inscrit dans un rapport étroit avec le vécu d’un individu, un seul, ou le ressenti d’un individu, un seul. Il relève tout d’abord de circonstances précises qu’il exprime, pour répondre à un besoin, une soif, ou une faim. Trouver aumônes dans les Psaumes: écrire ses propres psaumes. Oui, le psautier de Browne va bien s’appuyer sur cette noble et prestigieuse tradition du chant, comme chance de l’individu (et de l’individuel) à travers la religion. Mais quelle liberté se joue, da...

Le psaume s'inscrit dans un rapport étroit avec le vécu d’un individu, un seul, ou le ressenti d’un individu, un seul. Il relève tout d’abord de circonstances précises qu’il exprime, pour répondre à un besoin, une soif, ou une faim. Trouver aumônes dans les Psaumes: écrire ses propres psaumes. Oui, le psautier de Browne va bien s’appuyer sur cette noble et prestigieuse tradition du chant, comme chance de l’individu (et de l’individuel) à travers la religion. Mais quelle liberté se joue, da...

Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts to give voice to these diverse imaginings of the Jewish God, and offers these collected essays and poems as a living text meant to provoke a substantive and nourishing dialogue. A responsive, liv...

A reissue of Bernadette Mayer's classic fugitive intergenre text.Co-published with SplitLevel TextsEndlessly inclusive, The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, first published in 1994 and long out of print, evokes the complexity of real persons as it simultaneously reinvents multiple genres: epistle, prose poem, and memoir. Written between 1979 and 1980 while pregnant with her third child, Mayer extends her imaginative letters into medi...

A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on the Poet’s Novel provides a unique entrance to the rare prose of many remarkable modern and contemporary poets including Etel Adnan, Renee Gladman, Langston Hughes, Kevin Killian, Alice Notley, Fernando Pessoa, Rainer Maria Rilke, Leslie Scalapino, Jack Spicer, and Jean Toomer, whose approaches to the novel defy conventions of plot, character, setting, and action.Contributors: Brian Blanchfield, Anne Boyer, John Keene, Món...