Best poetry books of 2011, decided by poeple you've never heard of.
Best poetry books of 2011 “Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels’’ by Kevin Young (Knopf) A good epic poem is hard to come by
Month: December 2011
The Cookie Crumbles
Once upon a time by Halifax she’d called up Grandma living in the woods to tell her she sent out the brat-skis and expected back
NEXT-DOOR LIPSTICK VIDEOGAME GIRLFRIEND.
NEXT-DOOR LIPSTICK VIDEOGAME GIRLFRIEND. by Shannon Baker at the sixteenth birthday party there was lacrosse, cheesecake treehouse, beach-hat and lots of board game rhetoric nothing
The Old Anchor
The Old Anchor by Kristian Meikop The first sign of winter crawled in from the midnight sea in the shape of a furtive medieval fog.
horchata in the shade
horchata in the shade by Oscar Smiles pile it on was the proposition just a mile from a pop. 2 town way up north near
Cocoon effect
Cocoon Effect by GW Hartley You in your weakened state I want to be the dark stuff Under your eyes The perspiration rolling southwards I
George Whitman dies.
George Whitman (December 12, 1913 – December 14, 2011) was the proprietor of the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris. He was a contemporary of
Used Book
Used Book by Julie Kane What luck—an open bookstore up ahead as rain lashed awnings over Royal Street, and then to find the books were
The Gravity of Demise
The Gravity of Demise by George Young can be swift as a phone book sliding off the table and crashing to the floor or slow
Two Gates
Two Gates by Denise Low I look through glass and see a young woman of twenty, washing dishes, and the window turns into a painting.