Songbirds of the Nine Rivers Book cover type:PaperbackFinalist for the 2024 California Book Award in Poetry. Part historical, part geographical, part philosophical lyric poems inspired by Vietnam's Mekong Delta and poems of the Tang and L dynasties. In his afterword to Songbirds of the Nine Rivers, Joseph Zaccardi recounts how, during his time as a Navy corpsman in the Vietnam War, he found refuge in a volume of ancient Chinese and Vietnamese poetry. His study, now lifelong, has borne fruit in this
Gabriel Blackwell bends found forms to story
Hardenberg's translations have been published in Asymptote
Prepare to dig a way through this seemingly random heap of shuffled pages and make this anthology the book you want it to be
Eric Pankey is the author of fourteen collections of poems and a book of essays
She was the laughing girl with the black helmet of hair and the sexy bangs
and a touch of irreverence
No Mission
In Ride the Wave
buried underneath the crushing weight of cultural and personal history
I found myself wishing that this book had been in the world when my son was a toddler
the poems paint a complex portrait of navigating life at the margins
or a group effort”