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This newest collection from Richard Vargas stands chest-to-chest with the realities of the American working class. At once acerbic and tender, the poems swell with curiosity and compassion for the people living in a culture designed to milk them dry. Vargas writes with humor, with wonder, with wickedness and guileless admiration, acknowledging those whose lives are seldom glamorized.

The legendary Margaret Randall's latest work shines as some of her finest poetry yet, with explorations of the many senses of home. As Sandra Cisneros says of this book: "Home is not something inherited, but an act as creative as writing a poem. This book is a homecoming. I celebrate with you.

This artful book collects the black & white imagery of renowned photographer Magdalena Lily McCarson and the words of poet Zach Hively. Thirty photographs and thirty poems paired in conversation. From the Introduction: "When Magdalena and I decided to collaborate, one spring morning over breakfast in the desert, we set the arbitrary and entirely binding terms of our game. The point was explicitly not to plot and plan every piece. No waiti...

Why did Lucretius begin his poem on physics and the philosophy of materialism with an invocation of the Goddess Venus? Is love a mere attraction, a kind of helpless gravity, or is there a holy logic to it, a divine sense to be made both in and beyond cosmic matter, a logic to not only feeling it, but to sustaining it, and meaning it? These questions are what V. B. Price sets out to explore in his response to the Roman poet Lucretius's classi...

Margaret Randall's latest poetry collection is perhaps her finest work yet. Vertigo of Risk is, as Denise Chávez calls it, Randall's Master Opus-a "Testimonio to a life lived in the blessed search of Truth." The series of poems called "Dearest, " which read as letters to friends and inspirations, leads into a sharpened assembly of pieces that both celebrates and champions life and art, all with Randall's rich candor and ear for language throug...

Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award. An owl caught Zach Hively going from a wedding to a gravedigging. From that encounter sprouted this series of poems and illustrations. Owl Poems grapples with ancestral loneliness and intense natural connection in sparse, evocative, even lighthearted imagery, guided always by the wise, observant, death-dealing owl. These poems, from the Reading the West Book Award-winning poet of Desert Apo...

American Book Award winner Renato Rosaldo writes with grace about age and injury: topics too often ignored in both life and poetry. He addresses his experience with grace and humor, frustration and agony, and emerges wiser than before. These poems advance the awareness and compassion readers have come to anticipate from the author of The Chasers, The Day of Shelly's Death, and Prayer to Spider Woman/Rezo a la mujer aran¿a.

The legendary feminist and revolutionary Margaret Randall once again turns her eye to keen, insightful poetry. Stormclouds Like Unkept Promises is both political and personal as one, with turns into mythology and language. For the first time, this book publishes Randall alongside her longtime partner (now wife), the visual artist Barbara Byers, whose boldly textured black-and-white photography accompanies the written work. Their brilliance, pu...

The macabre, the unsettling, the uncertain, the unforgettable: stories and legends supplant the sensible and the predictable of everyday life. Whatever else we may think of these instances, they tingle our fears and our imaginations long after we look away-if we can. These are the subjects of Leslie Grace McMurtry's evocative debut collection, The Hoax Poems, where what we perceive takes precedence over what's real.

When Zach Hively moved back to New Mexico, he found his new home not in the city but in the high desert where things made a different sort of sense. Over two years, he wrote these five suites of poems from that place-feral and introspective, playful and mindful-and made a book that feels as analog as the desert itself.

This volume is V. B. Price's second Selected Poems, covering a wild and wildly productive period of his poetic life. While some of the pieces have been previously published (including Rome MMI, Memoirs of the World in Ten Fragments, and some of the Christmas poems), most are new and published here for the first time. Price has added to his body of Chaco work with "Chaco Nights, " as well as excerpting from ambitious and ongoing projects such a...

In 1969, V. B. Price wrote a small poem that he gave to his friends and loved ones for Christmas. He has continued that tradition each year ever since. This book collects 43 of those intimate, inquisitive, and inspired poems, published together for the first time.

The truth is out there... and it's in this collection. Amaris Feland Ketcham uses the technique of found poetry-limiting her word bank to the transcripts of episodes of The X-Files-to craft entirely new and vivid poems. Indebted to the show's writers for using such interesting and precise words, this collection retains a sense of mystery and inquiry, mirroring and adapting big ideas and issues, and a smattering of references and slang that mak...