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DAYS presents the pencil drawings of Brian Calvin, selected from sketchbooks in which he made one a day over the course of a year. Presented chronologically, they include glimpses of family life, cubist portraits, drafts for sculptures, abstract compositions, and comic cartoons, with human figures reduced to their most expressive elements. These images give us an intimate sense of the thought and process of an artist who has been described as "quietly disconcerting and mischievously witty" (Artforum). Calvin's work has been widely shown, nationally and internationally; it is included in the permanent collections of the Orange County Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others.Miscellaneous. Art.

Poetry. Ronald Johnson (1935-1998), one of the most original American poets of the last century, wrote poems that were striking for both their minute observation as well as for their formal invention. Guy Davenport describes Johnson's work as being "poetry with a passion for exact, even scientific scrutiny." This volume, edited by Peter O'Leary, is a collection of Johnson's final poems, condensed and cosmic mediations on death and the natural world--"the halftones of reality/of veritable life/a various weave of stuff."

"Elizabeth Arnold's poems are structures for our times: built to move and to hold. Within them surge the elemental forces, the earth's deep patterns and the human-driven, breakneck hurts--and the poet's own migratory mind, coming honestly to terms with her restless and embattled life. In WAVE HOUSE, her sixth book, she emerges as one of our great American contemporaries. Niedecker, Oppen, and Pound are Arnold's forebears, though she sloughs away nativist habits, 'unhindered by belief, / utterly available.' If, within the far-flung geographies visited by her poems, you are often reminded of her birth-state, Florida, that is not because her goal is return. Elegy belongs to the Wanderer's exile, as spoken in her thrilling translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem. Arnold's aim is to be here: 'in the open-air room / at the top of the house // where I've been working, ' to 'see more sharply' into the movements of species beside her. So she brings that life to the reader, thriving in the vital moment of each poem."--Jenny MuellerPoetry. Environmental Studies.

Over the last two decades, John Tipton has directed his energy at once toward innovative translations of Greek tragedies and his own gnomic poetry about the uses of myth and syntax. The twain meet in BELIEVERS AND SEVEN SERMONS FROM THE BACCHAE, an idiosyncratic offering of Euripides' Bacchae interlaced with passages from the Gospel of Mark (among other texts). In setting one of the last and most skeptical plays of Euripides against Mark, we see Tipton returning to the experimental roots of his poetry and the evangelical origins of his uneasy fascination with faith. As Sarah Ruden writes in her foreword: I commend this bold, subtle, intoxicating blend: anyone who is curious about the history and nature of belief can drink deeply and think deeply while reading this book.Poetry.

Poetry. A new edition of Ronald Johnson's masterpiece, edited by Peter O'Leary."ARK is a metaphysical poem that could only have been written in our time, of which it displays a new vision. It is a late harvest of seeds sown by Blake, L. Frank Baum, the Bible, and Zukofsky, all in a new architecture, a wholly new voice, and even a new chemistry of words and images. It is for those who can see visions, and for those who know how to look well and be taught that they can see them."--Guy Davenport