The Last Two Seconds is an astonishing confrontation with time--our experience of it as measured out by our perceptions, our lives, and our machines. In these poems, full of vivid imagery and imaginative logic, Mary Jo Bang captures the difficulties inherent in being human in the twenty-first century, when we set our watches by nuclear disasters, species collapse, pollution, mounting inequalities, warring nations, and our own mortality. This is brilliant...

"The story of an editor caught up in a publishing scandal around the manuscript of a renowned and beautiful female poet"--

Jedna z najgłośniejszych powieści ostatnich dekad uznana za manifest feminizmu i wiwisekcję postkomunistycznej Ukrainy. Wydana po raz pierwszy w 1996 roku powieść, którą sama Oksana Zabużko określiła mianem psychoanalizy narodowej szybko stała się ukraińskim bestsellerem i zyskała międzynarodowy rozgłos. Jej bohaterka, poetka i wykładowczyni, z dystansu amerykańskiego uniwersytetu przygląda się swojej poturbowanej przez historię...

This volume presents works by fifty women who may not have identified themselves as concrete poets, but whose work focused on multiplying the possibilities opened up by attending to language's materiality, and on challenging the very constructs that support the binaries divorcing a poem's physical properties from its more subjective ones. Their work may very well represent the "tension of word-things in space-time" that the Brazilian Noigandres group...