Suzanne Buffam
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A Pillow Book
Not a narrative. Not an essay. Not a shopping list. Not a song. Not a diary. Not an etiquette manual. Not a confession. Not a prayer. Not a secret letter sent through the silent Palace hallways before dawn. Making a daybook of oblivion, A Pillow Book leads the reader on a darkly comic tour through the dim-lit valley of fitful sleep. Named one of the ten Best Poetry Books of 2016 by The New York Times.
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The Irrationalist
In acclaimed poet Suzanne Buffam’s second collection, her unusual range, formal rigor, and imaginative force are on full display as we are introduced to the wry meditations of a literary “irrationalist” who pursues her own poetic logic beyond the bounds of reason. authority too seriously. A finalist for the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize
Anna Maria Hong
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Fablesque
A hybrid-genre carnivalesque of trauma and rebirth, FABLESQUE harnesses the power of old tales to dispel the disenchantments of women and animals in the #MeToo era. Winner of the Tupelo Press’s Berkshire Prize
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H&G
In this hybrid novella of trauma and survival, Anna Maria Hong re-imagines and extends the tale of Hansel and Gretel, breaking its received patterns of abandonment and abuse to set G. to wander a world racialized and gendered by power dynamics at every turn. Survivor, artist, hero, G.’s decisive action at the Witch’s oven becomes the kernel of a new identity, independent and resilient, capable of transforming cruel stories into a cunning, masterful feminist bildungsroman. Winner of the A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Clarissa Dalloway Prize.
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Age of Glass
“Anna Maria Hong’s poems—in this case a book of astoundingly innovative sonnets—confirm to us the credo we store in our hearts: that with intelligence, musicality and a love of language poetry can make any subject compelling and revelatory. But it takes a poet with a rare talent like Anna Maria Hong to make us see and joyously declaim what we believe . . .” – Khaled Mattawa. Winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Poetry Competition and the Poetry Society of America’s 2019 Norma Farber First Book Award.
