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The poems in this collection are the proverbial spring bulbs abandoned in the basement, growing toward a slim crack of sunlight. The characters in these poems resist the twenty-first century\u2019s prescription for a life of emotional-spiritual bankruptcy, reaching toward an ever-elusive glimmer on the horizon.

Between Life and Death, Joy Links Human Experience to Animal Existence

Poems exploring understandings of belonging - from places and histories, to ways of knowing, loving, and grieving.

Poems navigate the American chaos of wars, street violence, apocalyptic fantasies, and racial tension.

Chard deNiord is the Poet Laureate of the State of Vermont.

A new collection from the award winning poet Nathalie Handal, whose work includes The Republics, Poet in Andalucia, and Love and Strange Horses.

A New Collection of Poetry from the Author of the Highly Praised INVENTING DIFFICULTY, and THE TWO YVONNES.

"Astonishingly honest, bittersweet, hilarious, and heart-breaking: no time like now is a book you must read!"-Marjorie Perloff

A Plea and an Awakening to Peace as a Process and a Transient State.

Waters explores the confluences of the sensual and the spiritual, and renders their mysteries with precision and clarity. The title evokes the rigorous consciousness that prods the artist to deepen into his craft. Line by line, Waters delivers the passionate eloquence and intensity that distinguish his poems.

Bloom in Reverse moves from death to life as it chronicles the aftermath of a friend's suicide and the end of a turbulent relationship, working through devastation and loss while on a search for solace that spans from local bars to online dating and beyond to ultimately find true connection and sustaining love.

The Switching/Yard deals with the horizontal worlds of the birth table, the continuum of gender roles, and the head-on landscape of power and home as seen through the train yards of the West.

"Poems that stick with you like a song that won't stop repeating itself in your brain, poems whose cadences burrow into your bloodstream, orchestrating your breathing long before their sense attaches its hooks to your heart."-Washington Post on Captivity

A book of contemporary poetry exploring the fine, shifting line between faith-secular and spiritual faith-and fanaticism in an insecure age, American Fanatics is a lyrical, pop-culture inflected meditation on democracy, morality, beauty, commerce, and the cost of falling dreams.

"I have long believed that Lynn Emanuel is one of the most innovative and subversive poets now writing in America. The brilliant, shattering, and disturbing poems of Noose and Hook are not only wry critiques of recent poetic and cultural activity in this country but also compelling signposts to what yet might be possible in our future.

"Joanie Mackowski's hypnotizing View from a Temporary Window is filled with Kafka-like transformations and metamorphoses and haunted by a sense of the body's strangeness. She writes in a relaxed and lucid manner that pays scrupulous attention to both the imaginary and the real, and to what is uncanny in each."-John L. Koethe

A New Collection from the Starret Prize Winning {Poet Nancy Krygowski

Winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Prose poems that profile the interrelationship of the two central characters, looking deeply into their psyches and thoughts of race, class, and identity. Read a press release about this book

These poems, threaded by the teachings of Buddha, examine loss-the death of a loved one, the longing for a child, the yearning for another place and time-and the suffering such attempts transpire, but ultimately the poems are an affirmation that to be born into human life is our greatest opportunity to transform loss and sorrow into awakening joy.

The Floating Bridge, David Shumate's second collection of prose poems, transports its readers over the chasm between the mundane and the enchanted. We traverse one bridge and find ourselves eavesdropping on Gertrude Stein and her gardener. Halfway across, each bridge vanishes beneath our feet. Another bridge awaits.

Once I met Borges in a crowded room with his cane over his arm, led by a friend. He was looking up and a little to the left and seemed to be listening to words from above. One does not inherit courage, he had said in an essay on blindness. His courage had grown as his eyes failed him.

The Invention of the Kaleidoscope is a book of poetic elegies that discuss failures: failures of love, both sexual and spiritual; failures of nature, imagination, memory and, most importantly, the failures inherent to elegiac narratives and our formal attempt to memoralize the lost.

Fata Morgana mingles personal experience, history, mythology, politics, and natural science to explore the relationships of conception and perception, the self finding its way through a physical and social world not of its own making, but changing the world by its presence.

In creating this collection Suarez creatively combines poems from six previous collections with unpublished ones to give compelling expression of what it means to live in exile.

Rosser's poems explore some of the darker corners of the human panorama-failure, loss, disillusionment-but always brightening them with humor and her playful attention to the compensatory alchemy of language, which can transform the sometimes base metals of our lives to noble ones.

Winner of the 2009 Donald Hall Prize in PoetryA collection of lyric poems that address issues of death and personal crisis by filtering them through an obsession with monsters and animals.

Second book by an acclaimed young poet. This volume features more of Barry's refined brilliance and delicate lyricism, cast in a more meditative mode.

Full of wit, vivid language, and devastating honesty, these poems trace the timelines of Kercheval's life forward and backward, offering a moving examination of the connections that bind us together into families and communities.

Barresi's poems take the world's brutal vitality as their music, and they refuse to despair.