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“Part song for the end-times, part song for San Francisco, its longtime troubling glamor and glamorous trouble. If you want to read a book that sugarcoats nothing,
read Burial Fragments.”
NEW!
Now out from Gunpowder Press
Praise for Burial Fragments
“San Francisco, the millennial city: Mission and Market, bars and cafes, hills, bridges, and ocean. To read the pages of Keith Ekiss’s Burial Fragments is to follow a gorgeous thread of urban encounters until you reach the center of the anxious, frenetic, marvelous, and random maze that is life and fatherhood at the edge of America and the 21st century. Ekiss’s subtle prose-poem portraits read like novels in miniature, while his meditations on panic attacks and raising an only child unfold with such distilled precision, you feel their power like current through a wire. As with the city it honors and elegizes, this memorable collection reveals evocative surprises everywhere you look.”
—Maria Hummel, author of Still Lives
“In Burial Fragments, Keith Ekiss has absorbed and articulated the dramatic and emotional attention of Charles Baudelaire’s flâneur.”
Praise for Pima Road Notebook
“Keith Ekiss’s remarkable first collection contrasts the finite imagination of the American dream with the enduring serenity and mystery of the Sonoran Desert. Free of sentiment and dream trance, Ekiss is a fair witness to one of America’s most sundered lands.”
— Michael Collier, author of The Missing Mountain, New & Selected Poems
“In the midst of dead fathers, blurred histories and lost peoples, the ‘flowering of drought’ and the ‘cleansing of roots’ is possible. In horizon-shaped lines and measured whorls of breath, Keith Ekiss guides us through the brave spaces between fire and desire. A brilliant collection for years to come.”
— Juan Felipe Herrera, author of Akrílica
Reviews of The Fire’s Journey,
Eunice Odio’s epic poem,
published as a 4-volume set by Tavern Books, 2012-2019
“It is Time to Reveal Myself: Eunice Odio’s The Fire’s Journey,”
by Dean Radar, in the Huffington Post
“The Creation of Herself: Eunice Odio’s Mythopoetics,”
by Sharon Mesmer, in American Poetry Review
Territory of Dawn:
Selected Poems of Eunice Odio
The first book of Costa Rican poetry translated into English.
published by Bitter Oleander Press