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| Title: A Night in the Country |
| By (author): Laura Newbern |
| ISBN13: 9798988904205 |
| Selected by Louise GlÃ"ck as Winner of the 2023 Changes Book Prize, Laura Newbernâ s second collection is a work of burning, restrained urgency that looks at loss, isolation, the passage of timeâ and what endures despite. Written in a town that was once home to the worldâ s largest asylum, these poems are studies in the dual nature of that idea: asylum, always both a protection and an exile. The â countryâ of these poems is not, or not only, the idyllic backdrop of a pastoral scene; it is also, more ominously, the kind of country defined by a flag, dark borderland, and violent history. In other words: place of separation. Writing about the works of Bellini, Newbern shifts focus away from the paintingsâ subjects and into the scenery where landscape is what constitutes the irreducible distance of the subjects from every other thing. â The Madonna of the Meadow cannot also be the Madonna not of the Meadow,â GlÃ"ck writes in her foreword. â No one thing can be everything.â A Night in the Country is haunted by figures of loneliness who attend to their isolation with a spirit of religiosity, for them a necessary art. This is a quietly astonishing book about the enduring discrepancy between what we hope for and what is possible. Laura Newbern is the author of Love and the Eye, selected by Claudia Rankine for Kore Press. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic, The Threepenny Review, Poetry, and The Georgia Review, among others. The recipient of a Writerâ s Award from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, she grew up in Washington, D.C. and currently lives and works in Georgia. â Poetryâ s impossible objectivesâ permanence, the dream of perfectionâ haunt these poems. Poems about art and the making of art recur, but in the main, A Night in the Country is rooted in a recognizable human reality, less rarefied than art but sharing with art a recognition of limitation. [. . .] At a time when most are preoccupied with justice, with what can and must be changed, Laura Newbern writes about what does not change, writing not so much against current modes as apart from them. Small occasions, clear sentences. And underneath, measureless fathoms.â â LOUISE GLÃ CK â Laura Newbernâ s A Night in the Country is at once direct and mysterious, a book ofdeclarations and decrees subsumed in the language of the fable. These poems romp and turn and wander and wonder with no easy endings in sight, or as Newbern herselfmight say, â Lifeâ s a room: outside/it two great rivers meet in sunlightâ ¦there is no help in them.â These are exceptional poems, and a subtle song of heartbreak plays through every line.â â JERICHO BROWN â The poems in A Night in the Country contain poignant inquiries into the satisfactions that images provide, or fail to provide, in our mental and emotional lives. The poet imagines Renaissance painters at work; tries out various self-portraits with animals; resolves discrete images of daily life with an acknowledgement of the passionate distances and trade-offs involved in making art. She maintains a sort of visual staining in mind, so that the significance or resonance of a lyric moment must remain aesthetic, and not existential. In other words, the image houses the mixed feelings and unprovable intuitions that express the lyric impulse: â The mind goes back, the heart goes with it, the forest/whirls all around.â Laura Newbernâ s poetry is the more remarkable because it makes these instances feel at once piercing and abidingly generous.â â SANDRA LIM |
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Pages: 66
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| Published: Changes - March 2024 |
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| List Price: 14.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: Earth Room |
| By (author): Rachel Mannheimer |
| ISBN10-13: 1955125104 : 9781955125109 |
| Selected by Nobel Laureate Louise GlÃ"ck as Winner of the inaugural Changes Book Prize, Rachel Mannheimerâ s debut, Earth Room, is a dazzling book-length narrative poem that explores with tenderness how art and love intersect to make oneâ s life. Transporting the reader across decades and from the Moon to Mars by way of Alaska, Berlin, and the Hudson Valley, Earth Room considers a lineage of sculpture, performance, and land artâ from Robert Smithson to Pina Bauschâ with observations shaped by gender and environment, history and portents of apocalypse. With an urgent, direct, and unmistakably powerful voice, Mannheimer tests the line between nature and culture, ordinary life and performance. A work of sly wit and bracing sincerity, Earth Room is an original, unsparing book that Louise GlÃ"ck calls â a lesson in how to make something of where we find ourselves.â RACHEL MANNHEIMER was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, and lives in New Haven, Connecticut, where she works as a literary scout and as a senior editor for The Yale Review. This is her first book. â Multiple readings of Rachel Mannheimerâ s thoroughly fresh debut reward and fascinate like multiple visits to Walter De Mariaâ s eponymous â Earth Roomâ installation. This book is a charismatic travelogue for our interior and exterior landscapes; itâ s a conceptual art catalog with a poetâ s notes written in the margins; itâ s a one-act play of engrossing verbal theater. The stupendous Earth Room makes language a place. Itâ s roomy, itâ s personal, itâ s every day.â â TERRANCE HAYES, author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin â Rachel Mannheimerâ s Earth Room is something uncanny. Behold the odd charge in the atmosphere: one minute, your attention is carried forth by the poemsâ calibrated details and riveting textures of thought; the next, youâ re inexplicably bereft, left with a dense, lush grief lodged inside you. Itâ s a feat the poem pulls off again and again: making traces of meaning felt while leaving much unseen. Earth Room registers the body traversing and impressing upon the edges of psychic, physical, and imagined landscapesâ and at each way station and geographic marking, Mannheimerâ s warm, animating intelligence renews its insistent claim on lifeâ s blurriness and opacity. Earth Room is a singular and lambent collection, made perfectly strange.â â JENNY XIE, author of Eye Level â To describe Rachel Mannheimerâ s elegiac Earth Room, I need to borrow the words an astronaut used to convey his first impression of the moon: â magnificent desolation.â This is an intimate, understated, lunar-lit work of earthen dispossession in which Mannheimerâ in community, in grief, in love, and in solitudeâ acknowledges the very fine eroding line between art and life, and dares not only to cross it, but to do so with abandon. There is nowhere in this vertiginous work, as it takes us to memorials, galleries, performances, parks, guestrooms, seascapes, and cemeteries, in which the scale of human atrocity is not palpably encountered in â direct, tactile intimacy.â Earth Room is a wholly original confessional-ekphrastic undertaking that brings artifice and reality so close they speak with a single crystalline voiceâ Mannheimerâ s. This is an extraordinary book.â â ROBYN SCHIFF, author of A Woman of Property â How many voices can sustain an entire book length poem? I think of Claudia Rankine and Maggie Nelson. And here, Mannheimer, as she thinks aloud on the page with her supple, discerning intelligence. This is that rare work that is both profoundly alert to its historical moment and also, in the questions it entertains and the magnitude of its intent, timeless.â â LOUISE GLÃ CK, author of Faithful and Virtuous Night |
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Pages: 82
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| Published: Changes - April 2022 |
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| Title: 2 of: 6 |
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| Title: GLIB |
| By (author): Ashley D. Escobar |
| ISBN13: 9798988904281 |
| Winner of the 2025 Changes Book Prize, selected by Eileen Myles. Ashley Escobar botanizes the parking lots of Bob's Big Boy, Cumbies, and Brick Oven Pizza, mining limestone quarries and plastic factories for material for her sparkling, knowing, and fast-paced debut. Glib is flush with characters and cultural touchstones, other poets, novelists, musicians, directors. "They are very crowded poems, there's lots of stuff but I don't get full;' Eileen Myles writes in their preface. Not sardonic, not moralizing, never jaded or didactic, sometimes tender, sometimes cutting, not indifferent but also not taking it personally, Escobar's poems proceed by markingâ usually without further remark, never forcing an insight or observation, just pointing out, gliblyâ the myriad contradictions, miracles, incoherences, and indignities that make up their world. And still, the nervy syntax and insouciant attitude give way to occasions of pure equipoise, as in the final moments of an eight-line poem that ends, simply, perfectly, "I love being alive with you." "The world we write is the world we live in," this book tells us. There is enough world in the poems that it hardly seems a stretch. |
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Pages: 96
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| Published: Changes - May 2025 |
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| Title: 3 of: 6 |
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| Title: Not Us Now |
| By (author): Zoë HItzig |
| ISBN13: 9798988904243 |
| In her vertiginous second collection, ZoÃ" Hitzig delivers an astonishing act of ventriloquy in reverse â speaking no t through the voice of a singular, lyric â I,â but through a consciousness that seems to have amassed itself out of the detritus of human life. The future world of Not Us Now is remembered in an even further future, where language is both the survivor and the cargo of an earthly wreckage. Crushed under the weight of collection and storage, what remains are those records of human curiosity, habit, and longing which have increasingly formed the information economies of the present. What are we doing to language and ourselves as we extract more and more material for questionable optimization? What will the appetite of a controlled, controlling public erode from the private? Across a series of elliptical, siren - like poems and sequences, Hitzig performs an urgent lyric intervention, recovering defiance from our accumulating raw - data footprints. With equal measures of method and entropy, Not Us Now presents the chorus we are hurtling toward, our own voices in the future issuing a plea for a new course. ZoÃ" H itzig is the author of two books of poetry, Mezzanine (Ecco, 2020) and Not Us Now, winner of the Changes Book Prize (Changes, 2024). She currently serves as poetry editor of The Drift. â There was no need to dream it; I could feel my organic machine taking in each of ZoÃ" Hitzigâ s remarkable poems |
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Pages: 112
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| Published: Changes - June 2024 |
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| Title: 4 of: 6 |
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| Title: OSSIA |
| By (author): Jimin Seo |
| ISBN13: 9798988904267 |
| The dead draw the living toward new language in Jimin Seoâ s extraordinary debut poetry collection, OSSIA. Writing across Korean and English in poems that span a breadth of forms, Seo renders an entirely original map of the voice in its shifting address to a range of ghostly figures: his mother; old lovers; his late friend and mentor, the legendary poet-translator Richard Howard. Taking the cleaving mechanism of translation as a point of departure (â ossiaâ means â or ratherâ and is used to indicate an alternative way of playing a passage in a musical score), Seoâ s intricate, polyvocal poems are rich with grief and radiant with the vivid charisma of specific people, specific love. What regions does the lyric mode chart that the dispassionate account cannot? How do present conditions of longing shape perceptions of the past? OSSIA surfaces the unsayable terrain of history, holding us in the complex coordinates of eros and education, origin and loss. JIMIN SEO was born in Seoul, and immigrated to the US to join his family at the age of eight. OSSIA is his first book. His poems can be found in Action Fokus, The Canary, annulet, Pleiades, mercury firs, and The Bronx Museum. He lives in New York City. â OSSIA is thrillingly alive. Thereâ s an inventive daring at work in the lines that feels at times like a song, at times like the voice in your head, telling you about yourself and others, everything you do and donâ t want to know. One part intimate self-regard, one part provocation, this lyric extension of a conversation between friends, between mentor and mentee, the living and the dead, lover and beloved, pursues a series of renewals as the poet offers the poems in Korean and English, hoping to include all of the registers ofhis feelings. The result is a gorgeous game of language and poetry, conducted for the highest stakes: love.â â ALEXANDER CHEE, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel â To enter OSSIA is to step inside a haunted house, a hall of mirrors, and an echo chamber all at once. At the outset, Jimin Seoâ s speaker (disguised as himself, or himselfin disguise) offers traces of a family history marked by abandonment and loss, and one whose legacy includes a habit of retreating into oneâ s headspace so deeply that anything outside it, even oneâ s own body, seems strange, and too unpredictable to approachâ except, of course, through language. In other words, he is made a poet. â I am a child of nothing,â Seo writes, â that is to say / I am a child of books and the voice they sang / into my body.â â Fortunately, Seo comes to share a life-defining friendship with the legendary poet Richard Howard, a bond so magical that the late Howardâ s voice is virtually resurrected in the bookâ s ongoing dramatic exchange. Parts of this back-and-forth appear also in Seoâ s native Korean, which recurs throughout the book as if from the speakerâ s alternate (ossia means â alternativelyâ ) linguistic perspective. Uncanny, gorgeous, wise, exhilarating, and driven to represent the messy business of subject formation as accurately, but as exquisitely, as possible, OSSIA is an extraordinary achievement, and unlike anything Iâ ve read before.â â TIMOTHY DONNELLY, author of Chariot â Abounding with ghost and animal voices, Jimin Seoâ s OSSIA makes a radiant and enchanting debut that musically oscillates between Korean and English. There is a mythological tone that permeates the collection, that tells and retells themes of death, birth, and rebirth mainly in the form of letters and incantatory address. One does not need Korean reading ability to fully relish in the linguistic prowess and hypnotic imagination of this collection. And yet, it is impressive how the bilingual presentations ofpoems invite stimulating questions of how and when images and figures are conjured and transformed amidst processes of revision/re-visionâ adding to our meditation on the bookâ s themes while positioning the act of translation as a rich, creative, and spiritual act of communication. I am eager to witness this book to cast its luscious spell on both Korean and Englishâ speaking literary communities.â â EMILY JUNGMIN YOON, author of Find Me as the Creature I Am |
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Pages: 136
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| Published: Changes - September 2024 |
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| Title: 5 of: 6 |
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| Title: P.E.A.C.E. |
| By (author): Chariot Wish |
| ISBN13: 9798988904298 |
| From the rubble of Uber Eats, Beyond Meat, and collapsing cities, Chariot Wishâ s debut P.E.A.C.E. incants a radiant, visionary, and irreverent poetics of queer devotion. A lapidary for the end of one world, Wishâ s ecstatic, embodied poems are pierced with holes, drenched in fluids, and alive with longingâ for sex, for love, for a new world order. Channeling interlocutors like Simone Weil, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Robert GlÃ"ck, Wish blends Christian mysticism with a punk lineage of queer transgression, mending an urgent through-way between sacred and profane. What emerges is a text that is worshipful in the way only prayer and erotica can be. In P.E.A.C.E. the poem becomes a site of raw contact, where language touches flesh and readers encounter a world worth desiring, even in its ruin. |
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Pages: 112
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| Published: Changes - January 2026 |
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| Title: 6 of: 6 |
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