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THE SEA AGAIN is a book of poems about the recurrence of natural power in our lives, of seeing the Atlantic ocean for the first time in a few months, or a couple of years, and being astonished at what you have forgotten, the endless movement while you are standing still, the power and sound of the waves while your mind is silent, the absolute sense of space, more space than you ever imagined, while you, the watcher, occupy only a small portion...

THE SEA AGAIN is a book of poems about the recurrence of natural power in our lives, of seeing the Atlantic ocean for the first time in a few months, or a couple of years, and being astonished at what you have forgotten, the endless movement while you are standing still, the power and sound of the waves while your mind is silent, the absolute sense of space, more space than you ever imagined, while you, the watcher, occupy only a small portion...

S. J. Stephens is a stunning and beautifully imaginative and passionate poet. In her poems we encounter a speaker who is an uncanny observer of the awareness of her own experience and its richness and complexity. She writes fearlessly about both physical and emotional pain and other arguably-if you will, "impossible" subject matters such as romantic love and loss and death. She writes with a lyrical intensity and with what occasionally becomes...

Home is Not Lost could be considered a chronological description of a life. The author has arranged her poems to indicate the various stages and ways of dealing with or ways of experiencing life. Some poems are joyful, or playful, some are not. They are all as truthful as she could make them.

M. G. Stephens considers our physical world and its health as portrayed by our own relationship to birds and their well-being. Here the birds are bellwethers of the Earth's and our own human survival. But mostly these poems are about that most human of emotions-love-in all its permutations. This poet is not afraid to be lyrical and to love, in fact, he sees the lyrical impulse as poetry's most natural expression, just as love is the most creat...

This book of poems by Marsha Blitzer relates in lyrical style many of her experiences in Russia immediately after the fall of the Soviet Union. It was a time of deep despair for many and a time of great hope for most. The poems deal with issues related to raising a young son as well as issues related to working as a corporate lawyer in a highly turbulent legal environment. Among themes the poems address are street crime, setting up a Russian l...

This book of poems by Marsha Blitzer relates in lyrical style many of her experiences in Russia immediately after the fall of the Soviet Union. It was a time of deep despair for many and a time of great hope for most. The poems deal with issues related to raising a young son as well as issues related to working as a corporate lawyer in a highly turbulent legal environment. Among themes the poems address are street crime, setting up a Russian l...

Juxtaposing elements, forms, and voices, the poems in Matrimonies offer vignettes and perspectives on what "wedded" can mean. "wry, agile, and deeply felt poems" - "images flow, glow, and linger long after reading" - 'a new aural dimension that is not enjoyed in most current poetry

In Mike Dillon's Close Enough, luminous scenes from a lifetime unfold through poetry and prose in a pilgrim's progress toward an I-Thou relationship with the world. The introductory poem, Kyoto, echoing the Japanese haiku master Basho, sets the tone: to stand in the heart of Kyoto/longing for Kyoto. Born in 1950, Dillon grew up with his father's silent legacy of combat in World War II. In the prose passage, Vietnam, he waits for the school bus...

The long poem VIEW-MASTER LAND is about the poet's struggle to come to terms with the loss of his wife Lenora and the profound changes to his life that her death has brought. It's also about celebrating companionship and hope with his new love, Mary. It's about how technology like the BlackBerry, which seemed so wondrous when it was first introduced, is now defunct, a relic of the past. It's about the act of seeing, and how that evolves and ga...

In this debut collection, Sarah Stoltzfus Allen takes us on a meandering journey through love, loss, grief, motherhood, and everything in between. She is not afraid to investigate the dark places of her mind, and history, so that she can show us her path through the muck into the dazzling sunshine.

Sarah Stoltzfus Allen's The Darks and the Lights imbues the ordinary-the dust rag, the laundry, the drive to work-with expressive turns of phrase, rendering the mundane and familiar in innovative ways. Allen's narratives counter sadness and loss with myth and music. "I can't make any of this ethereal. / It's not pretty, " writes the poet, but the observations and images in these poems offer a lyrical wisdom that can only be achieved through li...

Sondra Melzer's poems reflect a lifetime of surviving and thriving. She plumbs her memory to write of a family plagued by alcoholism and held together by a mother's strength. She writes deeply about losses - a child in infancy, an adult son. Other poems tell of her long and happy marriage, a daughter who brings laughter and joy, and the rewards of a decades-long teaching career. This suite of poems, full of passion and intensity, go straight t...

LITHOPAEDION is a poetry collection both visceral and tender. Named after a greek term meaning "stone baby, " a lithopaedion is the result of an extremely rare condition in which the fetus of a failed ectopic or abdominal pregnancy cannot be reabsorbed by its mother's body, its tissues become calcified to prevent infection, sepsis, or death. Likewise, these poems consider the unspoken hardness of being mothered, the hazards of coming into moth...

JUPITER MOMENTS: represents those "moments of transcendence" in our lives that bring hope and rebirth to us in a seemingly hopeless world. Using the blank-verse sonnet form, Ballard uses the sonnet as an "IF-THEN-CLAUSE, " if the Octave is true, then the Sestet must be true. These sonnets by Ballard mark a path of light for us, in a seemingly dim world.

JUPITER MOMENTS: represents those "moments of transcendence" in our lives that bring hope and rebirth to us in a seemingly hopeless world. Using the blank-verse sonnet form, Ballard uses the sonnet as an "IF-THEN-CLAUSE, " if the Octave is true, then the Sestet must be true. These sonnets by Ballard mark a path of light for us, in a seemingly dim world.

BLACK PAPER ALBUM is the story in poetic form of a young girl growing up in the 1940's and 50's absorbing her grandparent's immigration to America and their hardscrabble life in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains and her parent's struggles to make a life for themselves and their family in the hustle of New York City. Captured in family photographs dating back to turn of the 20th century in a crumbling "black paper album, " the family stor...

Sondra Melzer's poems reflect a lifetime of surviving and thriving. She plumbs her memory to write of a family plagued by alcoholism and held together by a mother's strength. She writes deeply about losses - a child in infancy, an adult son. Other poems tell of her long and happy marriage, a daughter who brings laughter and joy, and the rewards of a decades-long teaching career. This suite of poems, full of passion and intensity, go straight t...

The Sight of Invisible Longing explores the shattering and remaking of identity following the end of a long marriage. If a woman is no longer wife or primary caretaker of her children, who is she and where does she belong in this world? Her dreams of flight share both a sense of the untethered and a desire to live free of traditional roles and expectations. In these linked poems and collages, Braden exposes the raw wound of her grief, recogniz...

In What You Wish For, Ruth Bardon uses a feminist lens to take a fresh look at wishes, witches, magic spells, princesses, sleeping beauties, and 21st century queen bees. Her poems are sympathetic both to hopeful, yearning heroines and to equally hopeful, yearning villains and minor characters. At the same time, they are darkly pessimistic about the possibility of happy endings. With subtlety and humor, these quiet poems radically deconstruct f...