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On entre dans Lettres au ciel blanc comme on sort de la ville, à la recherche d'un rythme plus apaisé ou d'une «?autre heure du ciel?». Habité par la matérialité des choses et des discours qui nous assaillent, ce cinquième recueil d'Emmanuel Simard nous convie à l'exploration d'un nouveau souffle par lequel le langage, le territoire et la vie battraient d'un même essor. À travers des séries de poèmes en prose qu'on traverse comme un chemin parsemé de cailloux, il s'agit que le cœur persiste et «?[tienne] sa place comme le feu s'installe à la tombée du jour?».

Les couteaux dans ma gorge ne sont pas des fruits de mer convoque l'énergie des marées pour débusquer les traces du passage du temps sur le corps et la douleur. Entre failles et fractures, comment réconcilier une filiation faite de ruptures, d'échecs et de recommencements?? Dans une posture géopoétique, Annie Landreville arpente les berges bas-laurentiennes à la recherche d'une mémoire à refaire, d'un dialogue à ouvrir entre le calme d'une mer étale et la violence des tempêtes.

Les pères parlent peu de leur expérience. En littérature, la figure du père est souvent dépeinte par l'enfant – devenu adulte – sous les traits de l'absence ou de la violence. Et s'il existait « une communauté manquante [...], potentielle de pères qui se parlent du temps qu'il fait dans leur rôle » ? Dans une poésie limpide qui emprunte à l'essai et au journal, Soleil sans heures explore la paternité et les silences qui l'entourent.

A long poem in six sections, Dream House takes its cue from Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space in its investigation of female embodiment, calling up such feral, liminal spaces as the pregnant body, the aging mind, snail shells, broom closets, low-ceilinged pubs and abandoned pizza boxes. Part Tardis, part townhouse, part Howl's Moving Castle, this wry, surreal and many-peopled narrative interrogates what metaphor might hold of history, both personal and social, after a mother's passing.

Joyce Mansour, a Syrian Jewish exile from Egypt, was 25 years old when she published her first book in Paris in 1953. Her fierce, macabre, erotically charged works caught the eye of André Breton, who welcomed her into his Surrealist group and became her lifelong friend and ally. Despite her success in surrealist circles, her books received scant attention from the literary establishment, which is hardly surprising since Mansour's favorite topics happened to be two of society's greatest fears: death and unfettered female desire. Now, over half a century later, Mansour's time has come.

An exciting new collection of poems by "one of the Spanish-speaking world's greatest living writers" (LA Review of Books). Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence, by the renowned Mexican writer Homero Aridjis, is a brilliant collection of poems written in and for the new century. Aridjis seeks spiritual transformation through encounters with mythical animals, family ghosts, migrant workers, Mexico's oppressed, female saints, other writers (such as Jorge Luis Borges and Philip Lamantia), and naked angels in the metro.

Longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. A New Yorker Essential Read. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR, Financial Times, The Telegraph, and Electric Literature. A formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10:04 and The Topeka School. The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice mails and vignettes, songs and felt silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation.

It is rare to find in one collection an entire skyline burning and the quiet to follow a single worm, to hear soil breathe - in Jorie Graham's fifteenth poetry collection, you do. Jorie Graham's fifteenth poetry collection, To 2040, opens in question punctuated as fact: "Are we / extinct yet. Who owns / the map." In these visionary new poems, Graham is part historian, part cartographer as she plots an apocalyptic world where rain must be translated, silence sings louder than speech, and wired birds parrot recordings of their extinct ancestors.

Tomasz Różycki’s To the Letter follows Lieutenant Anielewicz on the hunt for any clues that might lead 21st century human beings out of a sense of despair. With authoritarianism rising across Eastern Europe, the Lieutenant longs for a secret hero. At first, he suspects some hidden mechanism afoot: fruit tutors him in the ways of color, he drifts out to sea to study the grammar of tides, or he gazes at the sun as it thrums away like a timepiece. In one poem, he admits “this is the story of my confusion,” and in the next the Lieutenant is back on the trail.

A stunning memorial work that excavates the forgotten experience of West Indian soldiers during World War I. Deep-dyed in language both sensuous and biblical, Ishion Hutchinson's School of Instructions memorializes the experience of West Indian soldiers volunteering in British regiments in the Middle East during World War I. The poem narrates the psychic and physical terrors of these young Black fighters in as they struggle against the colonial power they served; their story overlaps with that of Godspeed, a schoolboy living in rural Jamaica of the 1990s.