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Proofreading the Histories fuses personal and public life. These speakers may wish for privacy, but the public world, with all its ethical and emotional demands, always encroaches. In these poems the bedroom is wired straight to the street. The vocabulary is direct, accessible, at times surreal, musically and visually rich, and situated in real history and real politics, even though dream continually intrudes. The title poem was nominated for ...

Comic, elegaic, and always formally intricate, using political allegory and painterly landscape, philosophic story and dramatic monologue, these poems describe a moment when something marvelous and unforeseen alters the course of a single day, a year, or an entire life.

This book explores the terrain of the distance between what is and what should be It s a healing book in the sense that it examines moments concrete instances of individual confrontations with the sacred It s a harsh book at times but above the portraits of a struggle and desperation a voice can be heard singing hymns of praise Life if we can master the art of appreciation contains innumerable riches

1987 Beatrice Hawley Award Laurel Trivelpiece writes beautifully Her spectacular use of imagery leads us into deeply personal and yet transcendent places Rosalie Moore Laurel Trivelpiece is the real thing She breathes new life into language and blessed with a splendid ear that also seems to see and hear and touch and taste she sings of everything she s ever known or felt These are beautiful spirit soothing poems that say yes and yes and yes to...

Funkhouser deliberately chooses commonplace and ordinary objects (fish scales, the blue in beets, paper clips) to display her altogether uncommon vision… Repeatedly she challenges seemingly prosaic matters to give up their secrets.” -ALA Booklist "Erica Funkhouser's poetry is based on a vision of correspondences and affinities in the natural world. She always reads confidently and easily… she has a real feel for seeing and describing the poet...

Of "The Moon Reflected Fire "and its subject, the Vietnam War, poet James Tate writes: "These are trenchant, wrenching poems. With artistry and honesty they perform an inquest into war and its corrosive after effects." Of "The Moon Reflected Fire "and its subject, the Vietnam War, poet James Tate writes: "These are trenchant, wrenching poems. With artistry and honesty they perform an inquest into war and its corrosive after effects.

Table of contents:AlbumArtist SonAugust ThunderAustrian Christmas MailBackBackward-walking WomanBlack DogBlue WillowChurch Packed With WasherwomenCountryside Near Pembroke, MassachusettsDublin StreetsExileFull February MoonGazeGray ParisHalf-sunHand-carried WaterThe Happy WorldHealthIsland SummerLandfallMeditative AfternoonMilk Woman Into SteelNoel MinimalNunOn EdgeOxford Street MuseumPeachtree PrayerA Question Of ScaleRainbow At Two O'clockSm...

Middle Kingdom, Adrienne Su's first collection of poems, explores American identity in terms of language, geography, and personal history. Starting in Georgia, the poems travel to New York, New England, China, Mexico, and other locales in the search for a sense of place.

This compelling first book sings the half-white-quarter-Delaware-quarter-black blues.

Poetry. "THE KNOT is an extraordinary combination of lyricism, mythmaking, and an informed use of the language of medicine. We have had William Carlos Williams, the doctor-poet - now here is a woman, skilled at the same kind(s) of work, and with her own forceful voice" -Alicia Ostriker.

Poetry. In THE KINGDOM OF THE SUBJUNCTIVE, the cruel weights of history are freshly remembered while computer-age white noise is subject to an almost lascivious forgetting. The center will not hold, the apocalypse is, was, and will be. Suzanne Wise's imagination is assertive and surprising, her sensibility extends from the deliciously funny to the austerely tragic. The music of electronic angst wilds through these poems of displacement and vic...

Poetry. Asian American Studies. VOX ANGELICA was Timothy Liu's first book of poems. As his work developed over the course of many other prize-winning books, Liu's work proved to be generally shocking, although the shock was perhaps less the shock of recognition than the shock of estrangement. Jean Valentine comments that, "These poems do sing: they are candid, grateful for the experience itself, and taken up from a mysterious depth." Born and ...

With lyric freshness and a wry wisdom, Kinereth Gensler locates her personal life in the context of a history learned first-hand as a child in the 1930s and 1940s, traveling on the margins of World War II, shuttling between the US and Palestine.

Infrequent Mysteries is a collection of poems which hopes to accept the world as fearful, dangerous and miraculous. The poetic voices stretch between childhood, both imagined and recalled, and the troubled, yet hopeful, questions of adulthood and its spiritual dilemmas. These poems acknowledge recovery and the fresh responsibilities of glimmering maturity.

Poetry. Every night the dog down the road/ asks the same question in an afflicted howling/ I don't understand. Amy Dryansky's poems open the moment of experience for fresh possibilities of understanding. By this, I mean the impact of her language, her vision, and her quest bring us to the point of moving beyond the poems. We are given more in this book than in most collections because the poet has not held anything back. We find ourselves on t...

Eighteen new poems extend the trajectory of Jean Valentine's work. Included are selections from her four previous books: "Dream Barker, Pilgrims, Ordinary Things, " and "The Messenger." Her themes of pilgrimage, time, and human connection are revealed in intense meditations.

Poetry. HEAVY GRACE is the third collection of poems by Robert Cording, exploring what he terms the "deep syntax of grief" with spirituality and humbleness. "Cording recognizes that the 'heart cannot be comforted, ' yet his stern poems offer a measure of solace, a kind of grace - a way to live in ther here, the now." - Christopher Merrill

Poetry. "Here, finally, is a book of poetry that reads like a book! There is such adroitness of craft and sequence - each poem lit by Janet Kaplan's steady spirit of intelligence - that the reader can enter a poem of a difficult, even treacherous, nature and still experience real discovery and delight. The Groundnote moves in and out of shadow and myth, the human condition in its ringing specifics and in paradigms, but the plot of this book is...

E.J. Miller Laino is a tough, honest poet. She is liable to say anything. Her poems are startling, from their frank treatment of sex and death to the abundance of hard, true metaphors. This is more than a confrontation with daily pain and fear, however, these poems celebrate survival, the durability of family, the liberation of unheard voices, especially female and working-class voices. The poems of E.J. Miller Laino transcend, with all the po...

Poetry. "I enjoy Varela most when he drops below street-level into the dark earth, which is something of the city's subconscious, the flip side of the urban experience. His poems about laboring with soil, rooting up growing things, are thoughtful and touching, redolent with the fragrant costs of mortality"-Sesshu Foster, author of Angry Days.