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I am the past that feeds upon the present." "I am the darkness that daylight denies." "I am the sins that you must inherit--" "The final truth in a world full of lies." Based on F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent vampire film--a classic of German Expressionist cinema--Gioia's "Nosferatu" creates a poetic version of the Dracula story in the form of an opera libretto. Written for the neoromantic composer Alva Henderson, the opera "Nosferatu" has bee...

loverboy"Winner of the S. Mariella Gable Prize "Loverboy" is a fierce and harrowing book, a novel that precisely charts the course of a mother's love so steel-willed and relentless that we have no choice but come to understand the purely rational insanity Victoria Redel examines here. Ms. Redel is a writer whose stories and poems I have long admired, but "Loverboy "shows us all just how dynamic and beautiful and frightening her storytelling ar...

Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Simic introduces and translates the poems of Serbian feminist, activist, and writer Radmila Lazic "Dead-born will be your wishes."Your every hope will be a widow."And as for love, there won't be enough"To spread on a slice of bread."--from "Twilight Metaphysics" Translated and introduced with the surrealist wit that is Charles Simic's signature, "A Wake for the Living offers American readers, for the first time in...

A Hundred White Daffodils is an invaluable companion to Kenyon's best-selling collection, Otherwise: New & Selected Poems. This volume illuminates a poet, and a woman, of great presence. It offers glimpses into a life cut too short and traces the influences that created Kenyon's poetic voice.

Winner of the Neustadt Prize for Literature, Tomas Transtromer has a prestigious worldwide reputation. Robert Bly, a longtime translator of Transtromer's work as well as a friend and confidant, has carefully selected and translated the very best of his poems to make this a cherished, definitive collection.

Dana Gioia "In his best poems, Gioia rises to the occasion of all great poetry: to immortalize our experience by submitting it to the tests of tradition and inspiration. Anyone who really wants to know the answer to the question, 'Can poetry matter?' will find that "The Gods of Winter" is full of answers."--Thomas D'Evelyn, "The Christian Science Monitor" "In two exquisitely wrought books . . . he has already established himself as a poet with...

In 1970, during the war in Viet Nam, Marchant became one of the first Marine officers ever to be honorably discharged as a conscientious objector. In these poems, Marchant explores the concept of violence: What are its origins and consequences? What actions of the heart and mind resist it? Marchant takes us on a voyage from childhood to adult trauma, and eventually to a peace arrived at by unflinching meditation. A hard-won peace, it is our un...

With "From the Devotions, " Carl Phillips takes us even further into that dangerous space he has already made his own, where body and soul--ever restless--come explosively together. Speaking to a balance between decorum and pain, he offers here a devotional poetry that argues for faith, even without the comforting gods or the organized structures of revealed truth. Neither sage nor saint nor prophet, the poet is the listener, the mourner, the ...

Whether immersed in the exotic claustrophobia and sexual edginess of a Louisiana bayou or smelling again the sweat of workers in her father's garage, or remembering an aunt's passion for extravagant hats . . . Sandra Alcosser always gives us poems vivid with what she calls 'the tangible feel / of being alive.' EXCEPT BY NATURE is an exceptional collection: feisty, accomplished, and mature, its poems brim with serious delights".--Eamon Grennan.

This remarkable collection showcases the full spectrum of the genius of John Haines. Through essays and letters, he reflects on the craft and value of poetry, the arts and their influence in public life, the creative spirit in art and literature, and wilderness and nature. Together, these pieces act as an homage and tribute to this singular force in literature.

David Daniel explores a city-entire lives-swept clean off the map in this haunting debut "As breezes lap the shallow-tugged tide flow" "And swallows twitter and skirt the dusk, " "We lie within the wreckage of the stars-" "The moon spill, our planets' pull-this sad machine." "--from "Seven-Star Bird" You will not find Friendship, Texas, it now lies at the bottom of a lake of floodwater, forgotten. In" Seven-Star Bird, " David Daniel re...

As this novel turns from the hot, oppressive heat of Texas to the misty beauty of Scotland, a girl learns of her aunt's remarkable secret life and comes to fully understand the fragile business of living, and even of dying.