Spring 2012 - University of California Press

poetry
Karen Garthe
The Banjo Clock
Poems
For Karen Garthe, poetry is a Molotov
cocktail. A master of radical invention,
Garthe combines brio of conception
with linguistic virtuosity, bringing language
to new life from the inside at
breakneck speed. The Banjo Clock, her
second collection, cultivates a luxuriant
sensibility even as it interrupts poetic
continuity with cuts, ironies, sharp wit,
and wild recklessness. In poems that
consider poetry itself, Garthe writes
about preparing the medium, the ink,
“the motion of new utility.” She then
turns to America’s psychic maladies
and the need to rehabilitate our democracy,
now floundering in the glare of
TV’s blue depressive light.
Karen Garthe is the author of Frayed escort,
winner of the 2005 Colorado Prize.
New California Poetry, 34
APRIL
96 pages, 6 x 8”
Modern & Contemporary Poetry
World
paper 978-0-520-27316-0 $21.95/£14.95
’Annah Sobelman
In the Bee Latitudes
In the Bee Latitudes, ’Annah
Sobelman’s second book, traverses
and choreographs the places of passion
where visible and invisible
touch. With extraordinary ability to
imagine her way far into an experience,
making new moves in the
English language at each and every
point, Sobelman enlists many voices,
questions, and bodies (mostly in
Taos and Florence) that press toward
Emersonian nature. In vibrant, malleable,
and layered syntax, these
poems break conventions of lineation
and punctuation, each utterance
at the frontier of the articulate,
yet necessarily pitched toward the
insistently visceral.
’Annah Sobelman is the author of The
Tulip Sacrament.
New California Poetry, 35
APRIL
96 pages, 6 x 8”
Modern & Contemporary Poetry
World
paper 978-0-520-27306-1
$21.95/£14.95
new
california
poetry
Editors:
Robert Hass, Calvin Bedient,
Brenda Hillman, and Forrest
Gander
The New California Poetry
series presents works by
emerging and established
poets that reflect UC Press’s
commitment to innovative and
asesthetically wide-ranging literary
traditions.
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