Geoffrey Babbitt
A Grain of Sand in Lambeth: The Visionary Life of William Blake University of Nevada Press, 2025
$17.00 |
Playlist:
“Blake at the Star Wheel” is for Cami Nelson. It is also indebted to Peter Ackroyd and G. E. Bentley Jr.
“A Screenplay with Blake” is the first poem mentioning Blake I wrote (the unnamed walker is Blake, although he wasn’t known to have sported a beard). The Wim Wender’s film about Nicholas Ray is Lightning over Water. Virgil’s utterance to Dante’s pilgrim is phrased in the Hollander and Hollander translation of the Purgatorio.
Kathryn Cowles
The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor
Fence, 2026
$18.95
Playlist:
“Self-Portrait as Useful Domestic Item”
“Self-Portrait as If, Then”
“Self-Portrait as Empty Woman Shape”
“Clouds”
Jami Macarty
The Long Now Conditions Permit
University of Nevada Press, 2025
$17
Playlist:
The ecofeminist poems in The Long Now Conditions Permit are deeply in love with trees, birds, and all other elementary components of Earth's fragile ecologies. The poems are deeply preoccupied with the remarkable lives of women—the diminishments and endangerments, shames and choices, friendships and freedoms in women’s lives. The poems unfold from an ethos of the entangled state and persistent connection of all beings.
Poems read:
“Seeker”
“From hill's slant”
“Three Ladders Window”