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Everybody
Poems
For five decades Albert Goldbarth has been astonishing readers with the erudition, wit, lyric invention, wisdom, and depthless humanity of his prolific writing. He has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry twice...
ISBN: 9780899241845
more detailsThe Present State of the Garden
Winner of the 2020 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry
In The Present State of the Garden, both childhood and the natural world are elegized as the speaker works through layers of loss: the dissolution of a...
ISBN: 9780899241807
more detailsLittle Mirror
You could say that Little Mirror is a book-length conversation with an inanimate object. Or you could say it’s a monologue in forty-seven fragments told to a different kind of fragment—a piece of mirrored glass....
ISBN: 9780899241821
more detailsThe Many Beds of Martha Washington
“There is so much unpredictability and surprise in Nance Van Winckel’s poems that they seem to hover, sometimes tremble, slightly ahead of the reader and writer, yet all the while rewarding anyone who cares to...
ISBN: 9780899241814
more detailsOsage Elegy
“This sequence of 30 fierce, lovely poems is set in the 1940s and '50s at the edge of Greater Appalachia, in west-central Missouri, a world at once exotic and familiar. The poems provide a border...
ISBN: 9780899241777
more detailsA Drunken Man on a Bicycle
A lyrical exploration of the dysphoria of our current social reality, A Drunken Man on a Bicycle focuses on the intersection between personal and communal experience as authoritarian national leadership overwhelms the individual consciousness. These...
ISBN: 9780899241784
more detailsLong Coordinates
“Christina de Villier’s Long Coordinates is an old-time book of mountain tunes, of blues, of songs sung by a soul deeply enmeshed in place and trying to reckon love and all its complications. The language...
ISBN: 9780899241791
more detailsThe Consolations of Science and Philosophy
Poems
Christopher Buckley’s latest book continues his exploration of how, despite the intellectual tools of science and philosophy, we are still somehow left with questions about identity, memory, love, loss, value, self, and God—not to mention...
ISBN: 9780899241838
more detailsThe Long Embrace
21 Contemporary Poets on the Long Poems of Philip Levine
Philip Levine is one of the foremost poets of the last fifty years, but moreover he is a master and unparalleled practitioner of the long poem in our time. No recent poet has written as...
ISBN: 9780899241715
more detailsFrom the Annals of Kraków
Born of hours spent watching and listening to the testimonies of Polish Holocaust survivors and those who came to their aid, these poems by noted Polish poet Piotr Florczyk document the unspeakable evil unleashed by...
ISBN: 9780899241739
more detailsBread Crumbs
These are poems of the garden and house, of dreams lost and fulfilled, and of children and struggle and love. They are poems that occur at the exact point where the inner life and the...
ISBN: 9780899241708
more detailsExplain This Corpse
Winner of the Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry
“Sophisticated and cerebral gymnastics of language sway with gravity through the poems and poetic sequences of Explain This Corpse. Throughout, Kirsten Kaschock’s gestures are contemporary, jagged, and stop-start,...
ISBN: 9780899241746
more detailsEvery Waking Moment
In Every Waking Moment, James Crews plumbs his past and family life for insights, yet always returns to the moment at hand, approaching the world with mindfulness, openness, and clarity. He finds the miraculous in...
ISBN: 9780899241722
more detailsMother Water
Poems
Mother Water centers on maternal inheritance in literal and figurative forms. Through its water motif, the book traces the speaker’s transformations as she absorbs, and often resists, lessons from the women who guide her. The...
ISBN: 9780899241678
more detailsBlue Nude Migration
By means of exceptionally concrete and direct language, Laura Stott’s poems lift dark matter up out of the shared unknown and give it shape. They have the simplicity of blue shadows and bells, the curiously...
ISBN: 9780899241692
more detailsThieve
Thieve is a pointed, political book, though the politics here are local, particular, physically felt. The central sequence of poems—subtitled “Poem against the Crumbling of the Republic”—was written in direct response to the poet’s own...
ISBN: 9780899241661
more detailsAgnostic
Poems
Specters as various as Vallejo, Szymborska, Neruda, Fidel Castro, and Groucho Marx guide and support the elegies in Christopher Buckley’s new collection. A god that may or may not be there as well as politics,...
ISBN: 9780899241685
more detailsThe Lord of Everywhere
The poems in The Lord of Everywhere are about strength and courage and the will to hold on, about home and homelessness, and the tension that floats like Emily’s feather between knowing what home means...
ISBN: 9780899241654
more detailsLong Day
Poems
The poems in this volume bring us a taste of Peter Sears’ unique range of sensibility. Entertaining, somberly hilarious, exquisite and filled with refreshment, these are poems for all seasons, reasons, purposes, and tastes. This...
ISBN: 9780899241579
more detailsThe Appointment
The Tale of Adaline Carson
The action of this novel takes place in the West, but it is not a “Western”; and though its central focus is the life of Adaline Carson, daughter of the famed frontiersman Kit Carson, it...
ISBN: 9780899241630
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