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With its defiance for any one tradition or voice, Thomas Sayers Ellis's debut becomes a powerful argument against monotony " A dream. A democracy. A savage liberty." And yet another anthem and yet another heaven"and yet another party wants you." Wants you wants you wants you." --from "Groovallegiance" In one poem, Thomas Sayers Ellis prognosticates, "Pretty soon, the Age of the Talk Show / Will slip on a peel left in the avant- gutter." The r...

A new kaleidoscopic itinerary of poems by Albert Goldbarth, twice winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award "The glass eye = a prosthetic eye."And a telescope lens?--the dream life"of the glass eye when it's closed." --from "About the Dead" Albert Goldbarth's trusty travel guide, "Budget Travel through Space and Time, " is a steal. For only $14.00, you can: - Observe the nation of Tuvalu sinking into the Pacific!- Discover Goldbarth's L...

Black's poems, in their measured grace, have a quiet intensity, animated by her passion for a clarity of understanding, in the art as in the life."-Stanley Kunitz "I have not handled the ordinary well" "And wandered into much time spent" "Taking on the unfaithful, " "Blunder and flaw. -"-from "Heaven, Which Is" Sophie Cabot Black's anticipated follow-up to her award-winning debut, "The Misunderstanding of Nature, " describes a restless spir...

A chilling and masterful second poetry collection by the author of the award-winning "The Anchorage " "Sometimes the heart breaks. Sometimes" "it is not held hostage. The red world" "where cells prepare for the unexpected" "splays open at the window's ledge." "Be not human you inhuman thing. "-from "Amaryllis" "Voluntary Servitude" asks of the beloved, "You say, Don't wreck me, and I say I won't, but how can I know that?" Here the poet is bo...

Reading Miller's poetry has been likened to obtaining tickets to exotic places both real and imagined. In this fourth collection of her verse, she offers a wry and compelling series of wanderings through the ever-changing landscapes of Euorpe. With an inquisitive spirit and a generous sense of humor, Miller investigates the experience of otherness in a foreign land, exploring also the phenomena of human culture, womanhood, independence, desire...

Whether attending to a painting, a moment of love, or a hawk hunting over marshland, Eamon Grennan, in the words of the poet and critic Cal Bedient, "presents the commonplace in so luminous a spirit that it spreads meaning, by analogy, into our own lives." In this bold collection, Grennan widens his poetic gaze on the natural world and brings sharp focus to moments of intimacy, capturing in fresh verse the age-old connections between lovers.

Barbara Dimmick comes as close to precision as one can in a field that doesn't allow it: love. Zoe, of "Heart-Side Up, " faces her challenges with grace, fear, and a good dog. It was a pleasure and honor to stand by her side for the length of the book." --Joe Coomer Praise for In the Presence of Horses "All the traditional lingo and lore tucked into Barbara Dimmick's first novel is evidence of her inspired pursuit of her favorite animal, the...

In forms that blur between poetry and prose, Lopez-Colome uses spare and honest language to explore the music of dream, faith and faithlessness, history and memory. The fierce intelligence and insistent moral and spiritual engagement of Lopez-Colome's poetry has placed her among the very best contemporary Mexican poets.

Originallly published as four clothbound editions ("The Roses and The Windows, " "The Astonishment of Origins, " "Orchards, " and "The Migration of Powers"), this large paperback brings together all of Rilke's French poems, as well as his hitherto unpublished "Dedications and Fragments, " in an exquisite English translation by A. Poulin, Jr. Before Poulin's important efforts, it wasn't widely known that Rilke--often deemed one of modernity's ...

Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature Farah's landmark "Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship" trilogy is comprised by the novels "Sweet and Sour Milk, " "Sardines, " and "Close Sesame." In this volume, the second of the three, a woman loses her job as editor of the national newspaper and then finds her efforts to instill her daughter with a sense of dignity and independence threatened by an oppressive governme...

One of five winners of the 1996 National Poetry Series (chosen by Deborah Digges) Mary Leader's poetry sets out to collect signatures left by the nooks and crannies of history: recipe cards, a self-starved man's last will, a schoolteacher's ditty. "An astonishing gift". -- Allen Grossman

One of the pivotal critics of our times champions the creative spirit in an age of intense distraction, tackling such subjects as manufactured nostalgia and commercialism.

Award-winning American poet Marilyn Hacker offers the brilliance of Lebanese poet Venus Khoury-Ghata in an exquisite translation "She says" "the earth is so vast one can't help but be lost like water from a broken jug" "There is no fortress against the wind" "the winter wanderer must count on the compassion of walls" --from "She Says" Translated by celebrated American poet Marilyn Hacker, Venus Khoury-Ghata's "She Says "explores the mythic a...

Barter exchanges history for myth, direct speech for epistles, activity for observation . . . breathtaking." --Claudia Rankine "Felix the Rat's hind feet" "could be Barbie hands--" "same pink, same " "injection-molded seaming." --from "Electronica" The poems in "Barter, " Monica Youn's exciting first collection, negotiate transactions between scarcity and excess, pornography and abstraction, the thing and the thing seen. Rendered with a dazz...

Winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, "The Body's Question" debuts Tracy K. Smith's ambitious and engaging new voice "You are pure appetite. I am pure" "Appetite. You are a phantom" "In that far-off city where daylight" "Climbs cathedral walls, stone by stolen stone." "--from "Self-Portrait as the Letter Y" "The Body's Question" by Tracy K. Smith received the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African-American p...

The extraordinary second collection by Vijay Seshadri, winner of the 2003 James Laughlin award of The Academy of American Poets "We hold it against you that you survived." "People better than you are dead, " "but you still punch the clock." "Your body has wizened but has not bled" -from "Survivor" Vijay Seshadri's first collection of poems, "Wild Kingdom, " was celebrated as one of the most exciting debuts in years. In "The Long Meadow, " S...

The Award-winning poet Carl Phillips grapples with issues of authority, identity, and beauty in these sensual and deeply intelligent essays The "coin of the realm" is, classically, the currency that for any culture most holds value. In art, as in life, the poet Carl Phillips argues, that currency includes beauty, risk, and authority-values of meaning and complexity that all too often go disregarded. Together, these essays become an invaluabl...

In "Sad Little Breathing Machine, Matthea Harvey explores the strange and intricate mechanics of human systems--of the body, of thought, of language itself. These are the engines, like poetry, that propel both our comprehension and misunderstanding. "If you're lucky, " Harvey writes, "after a number of / revolutions, you'll / feel something catch.

This Iraq will reach the ends of the graveyard. It will bury its sons in open country generation after generation, and it will forgive its despot... It will not be the Iraq that once held the name. --from "A Vision" Living his life in exile--a series of forced departures from numerous countries--Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef also writes outside the long-standing forms of traditional Arabic poetry. In the words of Salma Khadra, a critic of Arabic ...

Fanny Howe's new collection presents a portrait painted from the inside of the life of a homeless woman. The poems speak in the voice of May, the girl crossed out, the bad girl, the mad and drunk girl, the jailed and drugged girl. May is swirling in language, and the language convinces us that we really are deep in the core of a human consciousness, near the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart. May is a neonomad, bringing to the world the oppo...