frank: sonnetsDiane Seuss The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do without, Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page, from Seusss working class childhood in rural Michigan to the dangerous allures of New York City and back again. With sheer virtuosity, Seuss moves nimbly across thought and time, poetry and punk, AIDS and

James Rodker

Relentlessly on beat

or comfortingly homely - are something like daybook entries

when to run

He selected the poems himself from volumes covering more than four decades

historical narrative

Phantom Captain explores the poetry of psychoanalysis

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Huddled in the dark

and the myriad violences enacted and imagined against women’s bodies

both halves of Repetition Nineteen celebrate translation’s possibilities and political relevancy

and how to survive—to live the ethics that a Black feminist lesbian warrior poetics demands