Red Carpet Maggie Nelson While absence and negation are

While absence and negation are key themes in her work

passing also through the boundaries of the individuated body

The minor dramas of temporary living are prised open and ransacked in Holly Pester's irreverent reckoning with those who house us

Yellow Rain calls out the erasure of a history

Red Carpet Maggie Nelson While absence and negation areSteve Malmude While the place and year of Steve Malmudes birth (Manhattan, 1940) nominally stamp him as a second generation poet of the New York School, his hieratic, almost ideogrammatic poems, made slowly and carefully sometimes over many years are utterly distinct from those of his peers. With substantial selections from his books all but ten of Malmudes previously published poems are included here Red Carpet also gathers unpublished early work