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In a distant country, recently imprisoned filmmaker Vasant Rai is offered a chance at freedom. But the choice, he learns, offers itself at a very steep price. Ravi Mangla's The Observant is a sharp-eyed literary thriller.

Eleven-year-old Larus finds orphaned girl Tinka and brings her back to the farm where she begins her journey to find a family who accepts her as she is.

David Miller has been writing some of the most beautiful, adventurous and intelligent poetry he has ever written in the last few years, which makes the present (poetry is always in the present) a blessed time for readers like myself. Each new work astonishes and delights.

We can view Blevins as contemporary with Melville's Confidence Man. Or perhaps with Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives. Kathy Acker? Or, my favorite: B. Traven's The Death Ship with its motto above the entry to the engine room: "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." That quote was applied by Dante in The Inferno for Pope Celestine V whose cowardice "opened the door where evil entered the Church." For Blevins, it applies to the Maga Ship of...

THE BULGARIAN PSYCHIATRIST arrived with a suitcase filled with ties, and knowing how to wear a dead man's clothes, and how to initiate a son into the art of beating a prisoner to death and ... all of which did not prepare him for a life of listening in the USA.

Still Shall Hear a Calling Bell is an invocation and a promise-that the power of language and the aesthetics of art are at their best, their most pleasurable, when they move untrammeled along the corridors of the human soul. To read this, is to pause before a deeply mystifying experience, to seek reprieve from the noise and admonitions of the world, to rejoice in the power of literature as it is meant to exist: fiercely independent and urgentl...

Is it the divine, earthly desire, or both commingling? Through sinuous lyrical syntax that interweaves Hildegard's own words and a 13th century manual for female anchoresses, Towers grows a nuanced investigation of the ecstatic, a burning inquiry into how the sacred can be heard in all of us, and a call to pour out thy heart like water.

The publication of Jim Dunn's first poetry book in more than a decade is reason to rejoice.

Stephens has written about the Cooles before, and perhaps he will do so again, continuing to supply a necessary if nasty corrective to one of the myths of the moment. In a strange way his grimness nearly makes this book a political statement.

Keine Beschreibung.

Grimes' The Economist continues probing the ways economies and public policies intersect with individual lives and personal conflicts. To bring pathos to an emerging "deplorable" takes this novel far beyond social commentary and well into art.

Slonimsky's poetic achievement in Bright Yellow Buzz is more than technique, more than memory, though master technique and master memory are everywhere in this work: it is nothing less than "spirit's truth", nothing less than transport: his landscape is written as though pen touched on bough.

Telescope Highway is a great-grandchild of Breton and Eluard's Magnetic Fields and is also akin to the wild vision of Philip Lamantia's poetry and the gnomic magic of the Wizard of Oz. Transmitted in trance and notated with drawings, Toni Simon's apocalyptic "songs out of salt shakers, " "appearing within, hidden in a package, the thread, and a mesmerization mirror" are conveyed in a series of profoundly enigmatic, metaphoric communications.

Nothing But reveals the disruptions-welcome or unsettling-to our stream of consciousness that occur when we encounter the unexplainable. In these poems, such suspensions of linear thought become a beckoning toward transcendence, an opening both deeper into, and out beyond, our perceptions in an otherwise prescribed world.

Keine Beschreibung.

Pearson's scalpel-like critique of the voyage, each word a careful enunciation of where the line has been, there remains the constant question of where it will go and what it will become. For just as Emily Dickinson once asked, "Is my verse alive?" so Pearson, with every word, challenges us to face down (if quietly and with grace) the dormant future. And it isn't metaphor. Pearson is all-too-aware of the tenuous state of our condition, our art.

Eric is a fraud as a sadhu. He has none of the appropriate credentials: no religion, no wisdom. His meditations are self-absorbed, nihilistic musings on the failures of both his aspirations and achievements. And yet, might the memory of those holy men and their path of world renunciation be the key out of his existential void? American Sadhu is a novel about the crisis of meaning in contemporary America.

Like Sartre's Nausea gives intention and personality to external reality, in Eye, Apocalypse, Fuhrer brings the Apocalypse to the kitchen table, to your fragmented memories, to the television, to the common moments that are ending, dripping from us one after another.

Fiction. "Laynie Browne channels the energy of Mira in a book that is both charred and luminous. Her writing is a gift of abrasion, making the body of the reader a portal too. Who is arriving? Who is very near? The intensity of this narrative carried me through the summer in which I read it. Browne is a genius of aperture and stance. All desire, she has written a remarkable book. It changes something to read it (the book) and to have it near. ...

Novelists have long understood the literary merits of Pym and often modeled their own books after its example. Jules Verne was inspired to write a sequel to Poe's novel, The Sphinx of the Ice Realm and Henry James found the title for The Golden Bowl by reading Pym. John Barth re-read Pym in the spirit of Italo Calvino's The Castle of Crossed Destinies, and Borges considered the novel to be Poe's greatest work. Melville had Pym in mind as one m...