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Fred Chappell continues to astonish. In his new collection of verse, he matches the vitality and grace, the deep intelligence and keenly observant sensibility, that characterize such earlier works as Midquest and Source. First and Last Words revives the traditional practice of supplying new prologue and epilogue poems to classic works of literature. The poems invite renewed acquaintance with familiar works and authors--The Georgics and The Dyn...

You will find me very much changed in everything but outside appearance when I come home". So Corporal Thomas H. Mann (1843-1916) warned his parents toward the end of the Civil War. A native of North Wrentham (now Norfolk), Massachusetts, Mann was a member of Company I of the Eighteenth Massachusetts regiment -- part of the heralded Army of the Potomac -- and saw action in many of the most pivotal and bloody battles of the war, including Secon...

Selected by Richard Howard from almost one thousand entries, Stephen Yenser's The Fire in All Things is the most recent recipient of the Walt Whitman Award, given annually by The Academy of American Poets to honor an outstanding collection of verse by an American poet who has not previously published a book-length collection. The poems in The Fire in All Things are as intricate as vines that intertwine and twist around the trunk of a tree, yet...

The Fields Of Praise: New and Selected Poems By Marilyn Nelson. 'Rooted in the basic soil of redemptive imagination, the voices in Nelson's poems seek a lyrical foothold in our daily lives. Her words teach us how to praise ourselves by praising each other.'--Usef Komunyakaa

Mobley's carefully argued study simultaneously offers important new insights into the works of these two significant women writers and points out ways in which narrative may be used as a catalyst for cultural and social change. "A richly suggestive study".--American Literature.

Henry Taylor's poems in The Flying Change embrace a wide range of subjects and tones. Taylor's concern with the rural anecdote, demonstrated in his two earlier books of poetry, The Horse Show at Midnight and An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards, is here broadened to include not only funny stories called "snapshots" but also extended meditations on change and death. Several of these poems take up the dark themes of the world's randomness and our he...

In January, 1965, in the café of the Hotel Metropol, in Moscow, the young American poet Kelly Cherry met the young Latvian composer Imant Kalnin. They fell in love--and began an alliance of the heart and mind sustained over twenty-five years in the face of threats from the Central Committee, surveillance by the KGB, confiscation of mail by censors, and eve "disinformation." Their passionate friendship, growing out of a recognition of each othe...

The occasion might be a holiday or a wedding, a christening or a funeral, and a family is gathered on the eve to eat, drink, talk, and cast eyes upon each other. Like all relations, the extended family in Fred Chappell's Family Gathering has its foibles and strengths -- oddballs and know-it-alls, hussies and historians, sparring spouses and model marriages. More than anything, this family loves gossip. Chappell portrays its members one and all...

Falling from Silence is the seventy-third book by David Slavitt, the prolific poet, translator, and editor. His amazing rate of production has only amplified and refined the power of his art. This is the work of an accomplished veteran, a craftsman who laments the limitations of what his hard-earned talent can do in the face of age and loss. He turns to religion, reads the classics, and in moments of cheer that may not be mere mania, he horses...

While the poems of Deborah Pope's latest collection are rooted in the here and now--the place where tables are set, children play, and empty cans collect--they are also suffused with a spirit of transfiguration and the miraculous. They map an earthy, palpable, yet oddly luminous landscape that embraces our most intimate relationships with lovers, with relatives, and with the body itself. Ranging over this terrain that is at once familiar and f...

In September 1863, President Lincoln considered Major General William S. Rosecrans (1819-1898) the most able general on the Union side, but only one month later "Old Rosy" was removed from his command and then quickly forgotten. With The Edge of Glory, William M. Lamers returns this imposing, colorful figure to his rightful place in history.Lamers examines many of Rosecrans's wartime experiences, including his role as commander of the Army of ...

Home has always been elsewhere, packed in a bag, and that is pretty much the story of my life." Like a gale at her back, history propelled Julia Israel Schueler early in life on a westward course. She was born in Moscow in 1923 and at the age of three months was exiled with her parents and other Mensheviks to Berlin. Twice more "The Group" was displaced--to Paris in 1933 as Adolf Hitler intensified the persecution of political opponents, and t...

The seventh book by the retired Georgetown professor advertises itself truthfully: it's easy-going, easily understood, and full of easy rhythms and rhymes. As the title poem about his happy marriage avers, "how / easy it is, the times like this, when it's simple." Flint's plain and folksy verse stays true to its humble intentions: in short-line forms, ballads, odes, and elegies, he records moments of joy. "Take the Moment: Thursday Aubade" rem...

Wonderful strong lyric poems, veined with sharp and striking insights and sure continuities that ground us in the implacability of earth and life, eros and spiritual longing.' --Peter Matthiessen

In Elegy for Etheridge, Pinkie Gordon Lane embraces the reader with a heartfelt invitation to shared human experiences. She quietly observes the panorama of life that surrounds us all, writing of family and friends, trees and owls, the exploitation of women on welfare, and the devastation of the natural environment. In so doing, she acknowledges the most intimate agenda of our lives, loves, and losses.Although Pinkie Gordon Lane is a native of...

A white Kentuckian, itinerant Methodist preacher, and antislavery spokesman, James T. Ayers moved to Illinois before the Civil War and, though nearly fifty-seven years old, enlisted in an Illinois regiment in 1862. In February 1864, he was dispatched as a recruiter for the U.S. Colored Troops in the Tennessee Valley and began this diary recounting his experiences, including his recruiting tactics, the difficulties he encountered in enemy terri...

Meet the Arkansas Reds, the oddest, craziest, wildest bunch of sluggers ever to step out of a dugout. An ex-con first baseman named Hog chronicles a season with the Reds as they travel from one seedy southern ballpark to another--always one step ahead of the small-town sheriffs and right-wing evangelists who think the Reds are an insult to "America's game". 392 pp.

As the more than 150 color photographs in 'Discovering Louisiana' reveal, Lockwood captures splendid views - both panoramic and intimate - of the jagged bluffs of the Tunica Hills in West Feliciana Parish, of cascading waterfalls and winding creeks in the Kisatchie National Forest in central Louisiana, and of unobstructed autumnal vistas from the summit of Bates Mountain, near Shreveport.

In Doing Lucretius, Sidney Burris crosses a sensibility shaped by a classical education with a contemporary culture that finds such an education increasingly remote and forbidding. Molding his artistry and buttressing his response to modern society with the literature of the ancient world, Burris displays in his work an unabashed reverence for the various traditions -- literary, cultural, familial -- that guide him, but maintains that these co...

The evasive and unsettling nature of family relationships threads consistently through the poems collected in Light years, the poet uncovers deepening emotional and psychological complexities.