Rocket Fantastic(1st Edition) Poems by GabrielleCalvocoressi Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2018 by Persea ISBN-13: 978-0-89255-492-8, ISBN: 0-89255-492-4
"Now in paperback, a spellbinding reinvention and exploration of self, gender, and family.Like nothing before it, in Rocket Fantastic explores the landscape and language of the body in interconnected poems that entwine a fabular past with an iridescent future by blurring, with disarming vulnerability, the real and the imaginary. Sorcerous, jazz-tinged, erotic, and wide-eyed, this is a pioneering work by a space-age balladeer.“A dance of ..."
""Gabrielle Calvocoressi is a wonderfully talented poet."―Eavan Boland Whether in the title poem, spoken by those who lived longingly and vicariously through the famous missing aviator, or in "Circus Fire, 1944," which intimately recounts a haunting New England tragedy, Gabrielle Calvocoressi uses her prodigious gifts of imagination and empathy to give voice to the hope and heartbreak of small-town America. In painstaking, vernacular ver ..."
Apocalyptic Swing(1st Edition) Poems by GabrielleCalvocoressi Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2012 by Persea ISBN-13: 978-0-89255-412-6, ISBN: 0-89255-412-6
"Now in paperback, a 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist. “She is a daring act as a poet/athlete . . . but she can also travel the backwoods, pointing out herons, ivy vines and creek water with a kind of divining rod rightness. . . . Her wild lyrics shudder and shine, jubilant and threatening, exuberant.”—Carol Muske-Dukes, Huffington Post"
"Finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry. Rarely has a first book of poems been more exalted than Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, which the Times Literary Supplement called “an excoriation of present-day America by a new and lethal commentator.” Now, in this extraordinary follow-up, Calvocoressi continues her mission to document the particular hardships of derelict American small towns. T ..."
Rocket Fantastic(1st Edition) Poems by GabrielleCalvocoressi Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2017 by Persea ISBN-13: 978-0-89255-485-0, ISBN: 0-89255-485-1
"From the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, a spellbinding reinvention of self, family, and gender. Like nothing before it, Rocket Fantastic reinvents the landscape and language of the body in interconnected poems that entwine a fabular past with an iridescent future by blurring, with disarming vulnerability, the real and the imaginary. Sorcerous, jazz-tinged, erotic, and wide-eyed, this is a pioneering work by a space-age ba ..."
Bounty Everlasting Poetry from 25 Years of Southern Cultures by Calvocoressi, Gabrielle, Greenfeld, Marina Trade Paperback, 36 Pages, Published 2019 by Unc Center For The Study Of The American South ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-5291-0, ISBN: 0-8078-5291-0
"Yes, there is barbecue, but that’s just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering.The roster of contributors includes Natasha Trethewey, Robert Morgan, Atsuro Riley, Adrienne Su, Richard Blanco, Ed Madden, Nikky Finney ..."