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Marc Vincenz
For Every last Earthling Orbiting their own spacetime
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The Mayfly Codex unfolds with such a deftly woven oscillation between high and low (though which is which in the 'frothy brew?'): mechanical and organic, bawdy and reverential, declarative and…
In a descent toward what might make our epoch sing in its most falsetto pitch, Vincenz troubles our ears by running a narrative script thru it to plumb its bottom…
Mark Vincenz is a poet, fiction writer, translator, editor, musician, and artist. He has published over 40 books of poetry, fiction, and translation. His more recent collections include "The Pearl…
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Marc Vincenz’s newest book of poems is a call and response-a call issued by a lyric self to a natural world that frequently yields pieces as an answer-a feather, a…
Traverse lunarscapes and earthly seasonal time-spaces in this liminal peek into the galaxy of our mortality.
Part travelogue, part love song, and part meditative reflection, these poems take us on a profound journey through inner and outer space.
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About the author Marc Vincenz is Swiss-British, was born in Hong Kong, and currently divides his time between Zurich, Reykjavik and New York. His work has appeared in many journals…
There is, as Bob Grumman termed it, the knownstream; then there is the otherstream, a raging subterranean river of literary lava. It bursts through to an unsuspecting public in Warholian…
As the title implies, he ponders our destination while reveling in the journey, mixing the quotidian and the
quixotic with his trademark quicksilver facility. Wondrous.
This book starts out listening for bees, and hears none, the listener being something of a pupa in a cocoon on the early pages. Honeycombs begin not as sources of…
In subtitling this book A Divine Comedy, the poet Marc Vincenz brushes up against Dante, and yet he does so in the pulse of a breath, /waiting for the rain…
Marc Vincenz is a prize-winning Anglo-Swiss-American poet, a fiction writer, translator, editor, publisher, designer, multi-genre artist and musician currently based in Massachusetts. He has published fourteen books of his poetry…
In There Might Be a Moon or a Dog, Anglo-Swiss-American poet Marc Vincenz takes us on an unexpected trip. We are lured into disarming circumstances blending despair with wonder, where…
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Marc Vincenez
Marc Vincenz seeks nothing less than to track and sing the forms life takes / as it vanishes and reappears / then as it dissolves. Marc Vincenz’s The Pearl Diver…
Erika Burkart
Originally published in German as Eine speate Anerkennung der Schilder
Klaus Merz
In these lyrical miniatures, Merz reconnoiters the sustainability of the world and the endurance of language.
This important volume gathers work from Herman Hesse Prize winner, German-Language Swiss poet Klaus Merz’s fifteen collections of poetry, from 1963-2016.
This important volume gathers work from Herman Hesse Prize…
In America, we tend to look at poetry written in English in siloed ways, according to rubrics that allow for distinct academic distinctions and syllabi and the logic of reviews…
Marc Vincenz,Dennis Paul Williams
Spanning the emergence of the Italian Renaissance and out of the darkness of the medieval era, from the Black Death to the Baroque period-eventually reaching Tinsel town, Marc Vincenz’s newest…
Ernst Halter,Erika Burkart
Powerful and terse. Frankfurter Allgemeine Poems that wrestle with the pain of an inexorable death; among the most powerful poems that this highly-gifted writer [Erika Burkart] has written. Aargauer Tagblatt…
Jurg Amann
Eros and Thanatos. Love and Death. The majestic themes of life and literature that characterize Jurg Amann’s entire body of work are delicately woven together in Lifelong Bird Migration, his…
This year spoKe marks its 10th anniversary. Launched in response to the Boston Marathon bombings, we have now shared ten issues of poetry and poetics from Boston and beyond. This…
