The poems in this collection, in various sections, elaborate on the emotional experience of challenging and trying; explore the ways of accepting vulnerability, and drawing understanding from it; search for beauty in endurance; explore protest and resistance; and finally revolve around the idea of taking risk and learning and becoming through experiences larger than the self and beyond the personal.

—Ottawa Express

In this new collection of poetry, Kuwabong shows a maturity of voice and a larger poetic vision to celebrate love—love for the people of the Caribbean and love between lovers.

In the first part of this collection the love that is celebrated emerges from a deep sense of historical reconnection with the poet’s African ancestors who were taken captive and sent to the Caribbean. But the focus is not on the brutality of their enslavement, though that is the guiding principle that informs the poetic voice. The poems perform a retrospective search for the roots that his African ancestors planted in the new world without romanticizing their struggles, defeats, and victories. Thus they recreate the continental African as a seeker of a poetic understanding of the African Diaspora in the Caribbean.

In the second part, Kuwabong takes the reader through a Prufrockian maze of relationships complicated by expectations and disappointments. The city of Hamilton, Ontario especially provides the social and physical landscapes that initiate the personae’s responses to love made tricky by the extreme challenges of the mundane. Though the poems silently scream with pain and disappointment, these moods are calmed by epiphanies of extreme tenderness that bind the relationships.

". . . these poems are rhythmical, full of life, meant to be read aloud."

—Rabble.ca

This long-awaited first collection of poetry by queer Sri Lankan writer and spoken-word artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is full of the stories we’ve been waiting for. Tracing bloodlines from Sri Lanka’s civil wars to Brooklyn and Toronto streets, these fierce poems are full of heart and guts, telling raw truths about brown girl border crossings before and after 9/11, surviving abuse, mixed-race journeys and high femme rebellions. Consensual Genocide celebrates our survival and marks our rebel memories into history.

Written at locations as widely disparate as eastern India, northern Canada, western Bolivia, southern Ireland, and even the taxiway at Boston's Logan airport, these poems explore the broad reach of the English erotic idiom. These are poems about love—sometimes licit though often not—lust, and the language of desire. Not primarily concerned with displacement or diasporic experience, they nevertheless reveal a deracinate and dark-limbed Krishna sort of fellow—reminiscent of classical Sanskrit erotic poetry—flitting in and out of these pages.

In his tenth collection of poetry, Rienzi Crusz attempts to track and document his faltering human journey towards God and the Divine.  Reflecting a devotional tradition professionally Catholic as well as South Asian (bhakti), these poems are witness to a personal love of God and the frailty of the human loves.  Gambolling with the Divine is the Augustinian confessions retold with brilliantly vivid Sri Lankan and Canadian variations.

“Both an affirmation of life and a meditation on death, the collection embodies and enacts poetry as prayer, as hymn, as benediction.
   He has much in common with such poets as W.B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Theodore Roethke and Irving Layton, embracing both the profane and the spiritual, the sexual and the sacred. Like William Blake, he recognizes that Everything that lives is Holy. Gambolling with the Divine contains the doubts, thoughts and feelings of a poet at the height of his powers as he approaches death's harvest of white bones.
   As such, it's a love letter to the examined life, gracefully and eloquently confirming that Faith trumps the wounded soul.”
― The Record
 

This book includes both the English translation and the original Yiddish text.

Using various poetic forms, lyric and narrative, Lien Chao presents us with experiences and reflections and confronts issues of identity, assimilation, and language. These issues occur in the very act of confronting the two very different languages—Chinese and English—with each other, so that that confrontation itself becomes a metaphor for adaptation and conflict of cultures in Canada.

NOTE: Includes both the English and Mandarin texts
 

— Trinidad Express

“Meena Alexander is one of the finest Indian poets writing today.’’

Readers previously unfamiliar with Yiddish literature will obtain a striking picture of a magnificent slice of world literature and will experience the emotional impact of great poetry. Those familiar with Yiddish literature will experience a revelation when they are exposed to the poetic creations of its women poets, whose work is far less well known that that of the male poets, but is equally brilliant.

This book includes both the English translation and the original Yiddish text.

“Songs to a Moonstruck Lady is a treasure. In Barnett Zumoff’s careful choices and supple translations voices long forgotten come startlingly alive once again, surprising and touching us. An invaluable collection.”
— Jeremy Dauber, Columbia University

“Dr. Zumoff’s translation of love poetry in Yiddish has opened the door to humanism in Yiddish– especially because the poems are beautifully chosen and well translated.”
— Dr. (Rabbi) Hertzberg, New York University
 

“Trish Salah's poetic sequence is not simply a narrative of gender change; it's a wandering, thoughtful text, one both fierce and tremulous.”

—Erin Mouré

“...Salah’s writing bosoms up every damn dam in the literary waterway.”

—The Globe and Mail