Poetry. Winner of the 2000 Green Rose Prize. In PERFECT DISAPPEARANCE, the much anticipated follow-up to Martha Rhodes' startling first book, we shift gears: the damaged child/woman has grown into a f
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "If Frank O'Hara had lived to chronicle the post 9/11 decade, he might have written these wonderfully funny, sad, heartbreaking, jaunty, and always delightfully accurate poems by
Poetry. "In Hadara Bar-Nadav's poetry, ruin gives birth to blossoms, and broken glass gives rise to temples of a thousand shining windows. In the presence of death, under the aegis of catastrophe, eve
Poetry. Steve Langan's brilliant first book is full of passion suffused with irony, poems cagily built to deconstruct sentimentality by using self-consciousness as a kind of comic foil. But for all th
Poetry. The kinetic energy of John Rybicki's poems is his unmistakable signature.His poem "Traveling at High Speeds" opens with the lines, "Some night my body takes the shape of this ci
Poetry. Fusing lyric meditation and narrative perceptions, the poems in Cynthia Hogue's new collection FLUX track the natural world and the self in it--from the Sonoran Desert of the Southwest to the
Poetry. Jim Daniels' latest collection bears witness to a life boat mis- and well-spent; to the family, remembered and new; to the melancholy pull of drugs and casual sex; to growing up; and to the on
Poetry. "The remarkable dynamism of this book comes partly from the struggle it enacts between the confessional and postmodern modes. As the title VIVISECT suggests, Lewis often seems to slice right i
Poetry. "With the observational eye of Charles Darwin and the soul of John Muir, Robert Grunst...takes us on a journey of the flora and fauna of his life in the Midwest and West"--Mary Swand
Poetry. The "lost book." "PENNSYLVANIA COLLECTION AGENCY, the ninth book from Michael Burkard, is comprised of poems written in 1986 but withheld from publication until now. This volume utilizes the u
Book of thisness, book of withness, book of now: Kristen Case's Little Arias meticulously situates a woman's consciousness in the immediacy of relation: with language, objects, other people, and the p
Poetry. Winner of the 2007 Green Rose Prize. "In THE TRANSLATOR'S DIARY, where truth 'never survives its translation,' Jon Pineda composes a haunting elegy. His keen attention journeys through ab
