Love and Resistance
Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani’s translated poems are selected for their breadth of representation, their influence in the Arab world, and their poetic prowess.
Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani’s translated poems are selected for their breadth of representation, their influence in the Arab world, and their poetic prowess.
The poems in this collection deconstruct and reconstitute the story of Isaac and Abraham, textually and metaphorically, as a means of stitching together meaning after violence and loss.
Part elegy, part pastoral, part ode to beloved and beleaguered set-asides, Hills Full of Holes journeys in widening understandings of injuries to body and land, and their possible recoveries.
There is no strong split between the natural world and the human world. Perhaps we endanger ourselves when we insist on such a split.
These poems pull from the mundane and the supernal and the mystical in order to celebrate the world as a constant in our ever-changing lives.
This book of verse makes conscious the sentiment that contradictions reside in silence.
Brazen, sincere, and refreshing, Purification in Queens welcomes the fracturing of faith as an invitation to reconstruct and develop a hope-filled, tenacious pursuit of a God who Sees. At times morbidly curious and strikingly comedic, Gill lays out her daring ambition to challenge the Christian Church’s ecclesiastical hierarchy and its collective fall from grace.
These supple, melodious poems address mortality with humor and wit as the speaker loses family and friends, survives her own heart event and surgery, and takes care of her wife as she undergoes cancer treatment during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Between the Joints & the Marrow is an imaginative guided tour of the Bible. These poems affirm the strange truth that the symbolic is the greatest opponent of the diabolic.
Be Radiant, a work in four movements, gathers together scenes of celebratory brooding in the loving eye. Jacob Riyeff’s second collection of poems hopes for home in a passing world, resting in what we’ve been given while awaiting a new heaven and a new earth.