Do the Math

Publication Date:
April, 2008

$16.95 pb
ISBN 13: 978-1-932195-16-0

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“These poems, some written as plays — often with a stage right and stage left, and lighting — force a majestic tempo to their reading. Galvin delights in the extraordinarily rich arithmetic of her novel poetic forms, making full use of the interplay between their crystalline and organic nature. She takes her forms from some of the most elegant and fundamental constructions in basic arithmetic, the Fibonacci Sequence 1,1, 2,3,5,8,13, 21…  as described in a great treatise written in the 13th century; of the Euclidean Algorithm as described in Book VII of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry;  and some of her forms depend simply upon the sequence of prime numbers 2,3,5,7,11,13,17….   But it is not at all necessarily to know anything about the mathematical architecture of her poems to enter into their gleaming, evocative, imaginative world.”

         —Barry Mazur, Mathematics Professor, Harvard University

Emily Galvin

Emily Galvin was born in Iowa City, Iowa, to the poets James Galvin and Jorie Graham. She was raised traveling between Iowa, Italy, and the mountains of Wyoming before attending Harvard in the class of 2004. She graduated from Harvard Magna Cum Laude with a degree in English and American Literature and Language.

Narcissus

Publication Date:
May, 2008

$9.95 pb
ISBN 13: 978-1-932195-54-5

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Winner of the Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Award, selected by Marie Howe.

Narcissus is driven by the alternating energies of prose poems in the form of “postcards” and free verse. Woloch understands a person’s true relationships with family, friends and lovers. These poems disclose Woloch’s empathy for family, ex-lovers and strangers.

Cecilia Woloch

Cecilia Woloch is the author of four full-length books of poetry, and has been named Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry for 2004. On the faculty of the MFA Program in Writing at Western Connecticut State University and the B.A. program in Creative Writing at the USC, she received her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University L.A. in 1999.

Invitation to A Secret Feast

Publication Date:
May, 2008

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ISBN 13: 978-1-932195-62-0

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Invitation to a Secret Feast, translated by Khaled Mattawa, is Haddad’s 5^th book of poetry. In a voice that’s altogether rare, she brings the world—where love is a common denominator—closer in startling and evocative ways. Nobody writing in English makes our language sound the way Haddad does, and only good translations of Neruda come close the to evocative, rich sounds that she produces in these poems.

Joumana Haddad

Joumana Haddad was born in 1970 in Beirut, Lebanon, where she lives and works. A poet, journalist, and translator, she is Editor-in-Chief of the cultural pages of the Lebanese daily An-Nadar, and has published four collections of poetry which have been translated into French, German, Spanish, and Italian.  She is fluent in seven languages.