Apogee Press

The editors at Apogee Press are thrilled to announce the publication of Stephen Hemenway’s new book, untitled ocean.
Contemporary culture drowns us in stimulus, an
omnipresent noise that saturates our consciousness. These quiet poems are a kind of antidote, a soft and subtle music that requires attentive listening.

Here we find a commitment to a deliberately simple language, a careful transparency, and to poems that are meditations in the best sense of the word.

Within the consistent discipline of the originality of its language, untitled ocean includes many different kinds of poems: poems of intimate personal grief and loss, reflections on people living together and the destructive violence of war, poems that experiment with the space of the page, and a compelling exploration of climate change.

We’re honored to have published this completely original and deeply moving book.

untitled ocean | Asterism Books This essential collection moves the reader from the elegiac to a poetry in which, with a photographer’s eye, we “hold reality still for observation”. Grief is mitigated by a lyric repositioning of the physical self in slowed time, precisely noting patterns in the human body as well as in urban...

We're delighted to share a recent conversation with Susanne and Elizabeth about their collaborative process on Rendered Paradise.

Many thanks to Elizabeth and Susanne for sitting down with us!

https://www.apogeepress.com/blog-1/2024/9/12/rendered-paradise-edward-smallfield-interviews-susanne-dyckman-and-elizabeth-robinson

Our next Apogee Press book will be Stephen Hemenway’s gorgeous collection, untitled ocean. We’re delighted that Steve is able to join us at our 25th anniversary celebration tomorrow, and we can’t wait to hear him read!

Paul Hoover is the author of fifteen poetry collections, including O, and Green: New and Selected Poems (MadHat Press, 2021), His book with Apogee is Edge and Fold. His numerous translations include, most recently, The Complete Poems of San Juan de la Cruz, (with María Baranda, Milkweed Editions, 2021).
He is editor of many books as well as the annual literary magazine New American Writing. We can’t wait to hear Paul read!

Denise Newman is a multimedia poet and translator based in San Francisco. Her poetry collections are Future People, Wild Goods, Human Forest (all from Apogee) and The New Make Believe. Her forthcoming collection is The Redesignation of Paradise. Newman is also involved in video and social practice projects that explore incongruities between perception, language and reality, and for many years she has collaborated with composers providing lyrics for choral works and songs. We’re so happy that Denise will join in our celebration, and we can’t wait to hear her read. We’d love to see you there!