Given

GivenBy Arielle Greenberg Description Reviews New consciousnesses shine here in delicate, angry, ecstatic, funny, heartbroken play: the forked lightning of true poetry.Jean Valentine Arielle Greenberg's debut collection rises to the occasion, at once bold and tender, experimental and clear. In Given, Arielle Greenberg makes dazzling explorations into the secrets embedded in language. Greenberg deals with words as strange objects that offer obscure meanings

There You Are: Interviews

Translated by Graham Foust and Samuel Frederick

enigmatic edition in every motel room nightstand from Duluth to Sault Ste

hold the cold mirror against your skin

though their utterances are contained formally within a communicative mode

Nguyen's poems are swift

I have a notion that there should be a copy of this lovely

and they exist in hair’s breadth proximity: waving sometimes looks like drowning

heartbreaking

Minnis flips the troubadour script to silver-screen banter

as she vowed to do years ago

it is a faltering born of a new sincerity the world (of which readers are a part) renders suspect