The eagerly awaited second collection of tender, considerate poems by The Song Cave editor Alan Felsenthal
Six years ago, Alan Felsenthal’s Lowly was heralded in the Boston Review for its “dreamlike fables and quasi-parables … [a] striking debut collection [that] bypasses many of contemporary poetry’s usual movements, feints and sources.” Now, Felsenthal’s poignant second collection of poems, Hereafter, moves between the difficult work of mourning and the spirited nature of life. Both an elegy for a dear friend and a search for signs of renewal, these poems recover pastoral symbols of sorrow from cliché. Essential in their attempt at consolation, Felsenthal's requiems traverse landscapes—the ocean, the earth and the moon—using both humor and pathos to awaken the depths of feeling that follow loss. Alan Felsenthal is the author of Lowly (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017). He currently serves as the head of The Song Cave. His writing has appeared in BOMB, the Brooklyn Rail, Harper’s, the New York Review of Books and the New York Times Magazine. He teaches poetry at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
Electric Literature
Skylar Miklus
Blending the pastoral and the elegiac, Felsenthal interrogates the impact of humanity on nature. His poems are infused with diverse sceneries: the ocean, the moon, and the desert. His voice is tender and hopeful for a better future.
Academy of American Poets
A meditative collection that is full of life—crawling with plants and animals, and exploring how the human body exists among these life forms.
Publishers Weekly
These profound yet accessible poems offer solace and insight to those navigating an unsettled existence.
Lit Hub
Rebecca Morgan Frank
These poems revel in solitary spaces.
The Backroom
Tom Bowden
Sparely punctuated, often using internal rhymes and slant rhymes to cohere the images, Hereafter provides gentle explorations of how to live, the metaphysics of a good existence.
McSweeney's
Jesse Nathan
There’s a dreamy and appealing naturalism to Alan Felsenthal’s elegy, 'Hereafter.' The poems are electric and vivid.
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Artbook | D.A.P. is proud to welcome celebrated literary press The Song Cave to our worldwide distribution list, effective immediately.
Founded by Ben Estes and Alan Felsenthal in 2009, The Song Cave has published more than 50 books of poetry, translations and art criticism. Widely respected as advocates of avant-garde literature and contemporary poetry, the New York–based independent press is “dedicated to recovering a lost sensibility and creating a new one.” Notable recent titles include The Sphinx and the Milky Way: Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield, the abridged edition of the visionary American painter’s collected journal entries—condensed from 10,000 pages to 200 by Estes and published in 2023, and Punks, a landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator and MacArthur Fellow John Keene, which won the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry.
Artbook | D.A.P. will take on The Song Cave’s extensive backlist, formerly represented by SPD, in addition to three 2024 frontlist titles. These include Emily Hunt’s Stranger, praised by Claudia Rankine and named one of the best books of 2024 by Vulture; The Selkie, up-and-coming New York author and librarian Morgan Võ’s first book of poetry; and Hereafter, Felsenthal’s second volume of “lush and evocative,” “profound yet accessible” poetry, offering “solace and insight to those navigating an unsettled existence” according to Publishers Weekly. continue to blog
FORMAT: Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 96 pgs. LIST PRICE: U.S. $18.95 LIST PRICE: CANADA $27.95 GBP £15.95 ISBN: 9798987828854 PUBLISHER: The Song Cave AVAILABLE: 6/25/2024 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: Out of stock TERRITORY: WORLD
The eagerly awaited second collection of tender, considerate poems by The Song Cave editor Alan Felsenthal
Six years ago, Alan Felsenthal’s Lowly was heralded in the Boston Review for its “dreamlike fables and quasi-parables … [a] striking debut collection [that] bypasses many of contemporary poetry’s usual movements, feints and sources.” Now, Felsenthal’s poignant second collection of poems, Hereafter, moves between the difficult work of mourning and the spirited nature of life. Both an elegy for a dear friend and a search for signs of renewal, these poems recover pastoral symbols of sorrow from cliché. Essential in their attempt at consolation, Felsenthal's requiems traverse landscapes—the ocean, the earth and the moon—using both humor and pathos to awaken the depths of feeling that follow loss.
Alan Felsenthal is the author of Lowly (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017). He currently serves as the head of The Song Cave. His writing has appeared in BOMB, the Brooklyn Rail, Harper’s, the New York Review of Books and the New York Times Magazine. He teaches poetry at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
