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Beleaguered, appealing self-as-persona wades through crowded, messy rooms of adulthood in this unpredictable debut.

When is the last time a phrase went through your head for the umpteenth time before you caught it by the tail ? The phrases that go through our minds drive our lives. These phrases come in moods just like the weather, and often it doesn't occur to us that we make this weather and can change it. There seems to be a consensus that we need to change our consciousness, make a quatum leap, and get ready for the shift. Many people have already stock...

In the aftermath of his bestselling collection "Here, Bullet, " Turner deftly turns his attention to the war in Iraq. These prophetic poems wage a daily battle for normalcy, seeking structure in the quotidian while grappling with the absence of forgetting.

Daniel Johnson's debut is a praise song for the Midwestern steel towns sinking into their own history.

Laura McCullough's silent scream challenges conventional responses to tragedy with deft lyricism and almost ancient eyes.

Compelled by rhetoric of disaffect and detachment, Milk Dress uncovers the fatigue of too much wanting.

Chad Sweeney's imaginative poems embark on a tour of magical realism both breathtaking and slightly awry.

A diverse range of essays, new discoveries and book reviews on the latest research for interest to ceramic scholars.

Reginald Dwayne Betts sings mournfully, bearing witness within prisoners' cells, pulling readers to walk through a brutal underworld.

Poetry. Liz Waldner's second book, A POINT IS THAT WHICH HAS NO PART, won the Iowa Poetry Prize and the Academy of American Poets Laughlin Prize. Now, in her third book, Waldner again provides evidence of her remarkable ear and intelligence, focusing on the problematics (as the title implies) of SELF AND SIMULACRA. "Liz Waldner is a poet of high wit, high intelligence, and great musical rigor--she may be our Postmodern Metaphysical poet plumme...

In his fourth collection, Gaspar's unique narrative idiom--lush, songful, insistent--firmly establishes him as a distinct, important voice.

Poetry. Asian American Studies. Like the earth on its silver axis, Eric Gamalinda's poems spin into a light that is our consolation, and are all the more moving for their startling recognition that the jacaranda in bloom is changing the landscape of Los Angeles. These are wonderful luminous poems. -- Arthur Sze. Reckless / in our need for the possible, we knew / there was no turning back, our bags already packed, / the future a religion we cou...

To live on this continent exhilarates me, ' announces Nora Mitchell early in this book, then she goes on to prove it. Her passionate voice sounds like Whitman out of breath, writing in gaspingly brief lines, she seems deeply in love with everything she sees, everyone who touches her. Every experience--driving at dawn or watching Korean pearl divers--is read as transcendently meaningful. Mitchell never slides into the maudlin or bathetic, she s...

This lyric debut collection is grounded in history and nature.

In this first collection of poems, Rita Gabis explores the erotic against a backdrop of the natural landscape, and the wilder inner landscape of the human heart. Sensual, intimate, probing, these poems are concerned with kinship, the quest for self-knowledge and the elemental desire to connect with the world outside of the self. The Wild Field powerfully examines and redefines female sexuality, as the poems consider themes of family, spiritual...

Poetry. "DeNicola's debut, divided into four very different sections, is jarring, sensuous, and intelligent. She includes biblical and classical allusions, history, and nature but balances the collection with personal pieces focusing on adolescent sexual awakening, leaky faucets, and even a cold sore (1A bit of rosy leprosy on the upper lip. / The kiss of a tropical sun, that / overzealous lover, your burgeoning religion'). Her elegant writing...

Pastoral and devotional, this renowned author's eighth collection concerns itself with beauty and the deserts we inhabit.

You will close this book exhilarated by its quirky, passionate poems and grateful for its huge heart fired and fed by a prodigious imagination. This is brilliant, urgent work."--Thomas Lux

We Have Gone to the Beach is a collection of lyric and narrative poems, many of them set in Southern California, in which the disquieting aspects of contemporary suburban culture are explored, often in a darkly humerous light. At the heart of the book is a cycle of poems about specific individuals whose lives enact the states of social and spiritual crisis shared by the author.

The Way Out dares to enter the many underworlds of human exsistance: that of Persephone, that of Dante, and that of contemporary life. At once dark and affirmative, the poems move from personal observation to personal disclosure, never averting their gaze from the face they are seeing. Lisa Sewell is the unusual poet who uses the confessional mode in the service of reflecting fully, and with fidelity, the moment in which we now find ourselves....