4 Ergebnisse.

Janice "Pegs" Pegula, a mechanic and test driver at a driverless car company in 2030 Pittsburgh, does not steal from her employer. Not necessarily. She skims-a tire here, a battery there, reselling parts from the supply room to save for a higher, drier apartment. Surge season is about to hit, bringing with it hurricane-like winds, public protests for better surge pay, and desperate modifications to driverless prototypes by companies who see th...

Abraham Smith's Dear Weirdo is a wayward romp that offers prismatic insight into the nature of love, loss, and home along the way. With a spellbinding immediacy, Smith rides a prophetic cadence through town, into the sky, and down the "gut's lonely road." The deeply familiar reappears-neither dust-covered nor bathed in golden light-but as a continuous explosion in this book-length poem, drawing the reader into a personal history refracted thro...

Wendy Bourgeois is a poet, a teacher, and a staff writer at Propeller, where "Reading Lines, " her popular column on poetry and life, has run for the past several years. This collection reveals that in addition to the humor, intelligence, and insight Bourgeois offers in her responses to poetry and philosophy, she also has the ability to craft, in just a few words, indelible sketches of children and parents, lovers and friends. Together the pie...

What are the poems like? Inventive, capricious, witty, aphoristic. There are bebop parts where what she's doing is throwing words into a pan slicked with boiling oil and watching 'em explode all over the kitchen...If you set about making your first book with your eyes steady on the prize ('What do I really like? what do I actually get off on?') you might coin a classic. That's what I think we're looking at here. Now the issue is: Can she keep ...