The Tyranny of Milk Review in Poets' Quarterly

Read the review of Sara London's The Tyranny of Milk in Poets' Quarterly!

Four Forthcoming Titles Named in Library Journal!

The Library Journal's blog post "What Else is Hot?: More Spring Poetry" names Young of the Year by Sydney Lea, In a Beautiful Country by Kevin Prufer, Blinking Ephemeral Valentine by Joni Wallace, and Torn by C. Dale Young, all forthcoming from Four Way Books in Spring 2011, as titles to watch for.

Two readings to check out in NYC tomorrow:

FARRAH FIELD at Pete's Candy Store:
http://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/2010/12/123-reading-farrah-field-tanya-larkin.html

and

KEVIN PRUFER at NYU, 5pm
Location: Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
http://cwp.fas.nyu.edu/page/readingseries

CONGRATULATIONS Blas and Jennifer!!

Congrats to 2011 NEA Poetry fellowship recipients Blas Falconer and Jennifer Denrow!! A list of all the 2011 recipients can be found here:

http://coldfrontmag.com/news/nea-poetry-fellowships-announced

New Review of Fimbul-Winter in the Huffington Post

Debra Allbery's recently released Fimbul-Winter was reviewed by Carol Muske-Dukes, the Poet Laureate of California, in the Huffington Post's Thanksgiving Book Reviews. Read the reviews here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-muskedukes/thanksgiving-review-books_b_787912.html

Monica Youn on Good Times

Good Times Santa Cruz is featuring Monica Youn in this week's Poetry Corner. If you have yet to read Monica's book, Ignatz, currently a National Book Award Finalist, or you simply can't get enough of it, visit Good Times to read selected poems from the collection:

http://www.goodtimessantacruz.com/component/content/article/15-literature-poetry-book-reviews/1837-the-poems-of-monica-youn.html

Farrah Field Reads in NYC This Week

Come hear Farrah Field read in NYC this week:

Wednesday, November 10, 7 pm
with Bhisham Bherwani and Andrea Baker
NYU Bookstore
725 Broadway, just south of Waverly

Sunday, November 14, 7 pm
with Christie Ann Reynolds
Zinc Bar
82 W. 3rd Street

Farrah Field is the author of Rising (Four Way Books, 2009), which was selected by Tony Hoagland for the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in magazines including Chelsea, Harp & Altar, Harpur Palate, Margie, The Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, Pool, and Typo. She was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

The Plath Cabinet Reviewed by Cerise Press

We've received quite a few recent reviews of Four Way Books! Check out Catherine Bowman's review at the link below, and other great reviews in the preceding posts.

http://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/unboxed-secrets-the-plath-cabinet-by-catherine-bowman

More reviews! Belated Heavens in Sewanee Review

Daniel Tobin, who published three poems under the collective title, "A Green Road in Clare," in the summer 2006 issue, has a new collection of poems from Four Way Books to be published in October 2010. "Belated Heavens" Tobin's fifth book, is an exploration in free verse of humanity's violence and endurance that spans prehistory and modern Manhattan. "Violence however, is not the main concern of this collection," Tobin explains. "But rather how humanity thrives despite the volatility of the world." -- Sewanee Review

What the Right Hand Knows Reviewed in LAMBDA Literary

http://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/10/14/what-the-right-hand-knows-by-tom-healy/#more-2737

Stories That Listen Reviewed in Publisher's Weekly

Stories That Listen

Priscilla Becker, Four Way (UPNE, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (72p) ISBN 978-1-935536-05-5

This second book by Becker (Internal West) speaks from a stark place beyond heartbreak, after the dust has settled, where "It is a mistake to call logic/ cold: it has no temperature at all./ It merely reveals itself/ when the last of the emotion is gone." Cast in uneven free verse lines, this book begins and ends in resignation; it's less a journey than a confirmation of what its speaker suspected all along, that life is both disappointing and unfailingly interesting. At times these lines echo the lonely brilliance of Sylvia Plath or Louise Glück, and, of course, their forebear Emily Dickinson, for whom the natural world mirrored the inner one. Becker's claustrophobia begets insight--Becker often addresses a hazy "you," a lost beloved, but really this is the self addressing the self, saying what only the self needs to hear or can understand, "the kind of thing/ one notices--/after the extremes-- /a kind of sobriety." (Oct.)

Catherine Bowman reviewed by Cerise Press

Read Cerise Press' review of The Plath Cabinet here: http://www.cerisepress.com/02/05/unboxed-secrets-the-plath-cabinet-by-catherine-bowman

Huffington Post Names Daniel Tobin's Belated Heavens One of "The Coolest Book Covers This Year"

Congratulations to Daniel Tobin, whose new book, Belated Heavens, which will be officially launched THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4th at McNally Jackson Bookstore in Soho, was named one of the 21 coolest books covers this year by Anis Shivani in The Huffington Post. You can view this cover, and the other winners here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/coolest-book-covers-2010_b_775990.html#s168334.

And if you want a taste of what's inside, you can view yesterday's selection on Poetry Daily: http://poems.com/poem.php?date=14915.

Debra Allbery on Poetry Daily

If you missed two poems by Debra Allbery from Poetry Daily this weekend, you can still view them here:

http://poems.com/poem.php?date=14907

CORRECTION: NYU Bookstore Reading Tomorrow at 7pm

Don't forget to come to the NYU Bookstore at 726 Broadway at 7PM to hear Priscilla Becker read for the first time from her new book, Stories That Listen, along with Paul Legault and Timothy Donnelly.

NOTE THE NEW TIME: 7PM

http://www.bookstores.nyu.edu/events/index.html/#new

Priscilla Becker, Tim Donnelly, and Paul Legault at the NYU Bookstore

Come to New Poetry Night at the new NYU Bookstore at 726 Broadway on Wednesday, October 27th at 6pm to hear Four Way Books author Priscilla Becker read for the first time from her new book, along with Tim Donnelly and Paul Legault.

Timothy Donnelly, The Cloud Corporation (Wave Book)
Timothy Donnelley is poetry editor for Boston Review and teaches at Columbia University; this is his second collection of poetry.

Paul Legault, The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn)

Paul Legault holds an MFA in creative writing and a BFA in screenwriting. He is the winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Prize, and his poems have been published in theDenver Quarterly, Pleiades, and other journals.

Priscilla Becker, Stories That Listen (Four Way Books)

Priscilla Becker, whose first book of poems, Internal West, won The Paris Review Book Prize, has written an astonishingly precise second collection, Stories That Listen. These poems attempt to come to terms with absences personal and global.

http://www.bookstores.nyu.edu/events/index.html/#new

Belated Heavens Reviewed in today's Image Journal newsletter

Belated Heavens by Daniel Tobin

In “An Orange Tree in Redlands,” one of the poems in Daniel Tobin’s just-released fifth volume of poetry, Belated Heavens, he writes: “Time’s an eye / that remakes the world just by looking.” If it is true that any observation changes that which is being perceived, “remakes” it, then all artists literally change the world, and perhaps Tobin more than most, for his observations are of an uncommon depth and precision. Under his eye, an Easter connect-the-dots puzzle forming the words “He is Risen” carries the weight of a heavenly sign, swept by the wind into the hedge lining his lawn. A mouse spotted the day after his mother’s death becomes a “fleet-footed messenger from the afterlife,” who came at night “in stealth to whisper the momentous, / then, turning back, thought better of it.” A wailing siren is a “coroner-crooner.” Throughout the book, Tobin probes the portentous, but never in the heavy-handed way of a zealot. Sure, God is in these poems, as is Mary, and Daniel, whose “best self longed for God,” but you will also find Babylonian gods, Koko the Gorilla, and “The Great Cow,” who can heal afflictions with one great, rough lick. Tobin’s sense of form is just as diverse as his cast—Belated Heavens runs the formal gamut from free verse to paradelle (a strict form invented by Billy Collins to poke fun at modern poets who employ strict forms, intended as a joke but now quite popular in its own right). The paradelle is titled “Prayer,” and according to the strictures of the form, doubles its opening lines: “There is something to be praised in repetition, / There is something to be praised in repetition...,” and with that, Tobin has tidily combined tradition and innovation, while echoing liturgical style. Do not miss the culmination of these queries into the nature of life and what lies beyond it in “Heaven,” the penultimate poem in the book, in which heavens of various traditions are considered, and longed for, although at the end, the poet settles for an eternity that is “only a short walk together / to that still, small place where memory is healed.”

Ignatz Announced as Finalist for the National Book Award

We are excited to announce that Monica Youn is a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award for her poetry collection, Ignatz, published in March 2010 by Four Way Books. Congratulations Monica!!

You can view the complete list of poetry and fiction finalists here: http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2010.html

In Case You Missed It!!

In case you were out celebrating the long holiday weekend and missed the Poetry Daily selection on Saturday, it was our own Meg Kearney! See Meg's poem "1970" in the Poetry Daily archives via the link below:

http://poems.com/poem.php?date=14892

Upcoming Readings with Farrah Field!

Venice! San Diego! Tucson! Marfa! Stop in and hear Farrah Field read if you're nearby.

Oct. 8th with Jared White, Maureen Alsop, and Louise Mathias, 7:30 p.m., Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Bl., Venice, CA

Oct. 9th with Jared White, 7 p.m., Agitprop Gallery, 2837 University Avenue in North Park, San Diego, CA

Oct. 10th or 11th with Jared White, 6 p.m., Casa Libre en la Solana, 228 N. 4th Avenue #2, Tucson, AZ

Oct. 14th with Jared White, 6 p.m., Marfa Book Company, 105 South Highland, Marfa, TX