Kimberly Lyons’ title derives from Latin vulgate and it refers to burnt embers. Among Lyons’ recent books are Rouge, Phototherapique, Asterik 12 and The Practice of Residue . Elizabeth Robinson praises Lyons’ gift for lyric that “pours out from it’s mythic eggshell lost traces of amniotic fluid that every reader needs if she is to realize and be realized: divination becomes ‘a binding condensation’.” Jennifer Moxley discovers, “windows into transcendence offered by everyday life.” She adds, “Thank you Kim, for keeping the vision grand and the scale intimate.”

John Godfrey wrote these poems during 2011 and 2012 in Manhattan’s East Village, where he has lived since the 1960s. Previous collections include Tiny Gold Dress (Lunar Chandelier), City of Corners (Wave Books), and Private Lemonade (Adventures in Poetry). Charles Bernstein deduces “an evanescent lilt…[p]erception becomes an aroma of reflection and infatuation in John Godfrey’s fractured songs.” Anselm Hollo says John “hands us…richly unpredictable language…an ever alert eye and ear, a particular human life [that’s] always kept from descending to the obvious or solemn by…humor.”

Alli Warren is author of Here Come the Warm Jets (City Lights Books), as well as many smaller poetry collections, Grindin (Lew Gallery), Acting Out (Editions Louis Wain), and Well-Meaning White Girl (Mitzvah Chaps). Anselm Berrigan sets his watches to Here Come the Warm Jets: “Relative time, absolute time, ornery time, palpation time, and a kind of time I can’t name are al in play…Warren’s end of capitalism would come with the richest planes of full life…” Alan Bernheimer finds Warren’s work “unflinchingly honest, transcendent.” Alli Warren edits the magazine Dreamboat, and co-edits the Poetic Labor Project website.

This is Vincent Katz’s new collection of short poems — some literally one line (one is one word), others slightly longer, in carious configurations, tonalities, intonations. A chorus, with properties ancient and modern, speaks throughout, and the typography matters here. One-liners like these advance a classic mode of social discourses (not to mention critique). Moliere would dig it! As would Kenneth Koch who depicts Katz as “an expert guide to pleasure.” Other books by Vincent are Cabal of Zealots, Boulevard Transportation, Pearl, Understanding Objects, Judge, Alcuni Telefonini, New York Hello! and forthcoming, Swimming Home.

Michael Gottlieb is the author of nineteen books including most recently, I Had Every Intention, Dear All, and Memoir And Essay, the authoritative recounting of the early days of the Language school. He was one of the editors of Roof, the foundational 1970s and 80s poetry magazine. A number of his works have been adopted for the stage, including his definitive 9/11 poem, The Dust, hailed by Ron Silliman as one of the “Five greatest Language poems.” The Dust was staged by Fiona Templeton and company at the Poetry Project at St. Marks on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. His latest book, WHAT WE DO: ESSAYS FOR POETS has just been published by Chax Press.