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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.

A career-spanning selection of work by a widely respected American poet, including a generous gathering of new poems. David Wojahn was awarded the 2007 O. B. Hardison Poetry Prize for this collection.

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.

In Natural Causes, a collection haunted by death, compassion, and love, the penchants for metaphor and resonant turn of phrase that informed Cox's earlier work remain as vibrant as ever.

In a poetic voice that is at once reflective and lively, Sandra Kohler explores the patterns of everyday life and the inner drama of imagination.

A unique sequence of narrative poems focusing on Galileo's life, relationships, and work. George Keithley provides one of the most personal portraits of the astronomer ever written.

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

Gray Jacobik creates poems out of the mundane and extraordinary moments of our lives. Mature, elegant, and crackling with energy, this volume won the 2001 Associated Writing Programs' Award in Poetry.

Winner of the 1999 Associated Writing Programs' Award Series in Poetry. Set against a fantastic backdrop of religious imagery, myth and dreams, science fiction, and the stark realities of a northern factory town, Voisine's poems carefully detail the life of a common hero and his family.

As its title proclaims, Eve's Striptease delivers a female voice that seeks to "find out for (her)self/ all the desires a body can hold." Through artful acts of revelation and concealment, these poems test experience against the notions of love and loss that tradition and religion have taught us.

The fifth collection of poetry by David Wojahn. The Falling Hour is a book in which the workings of personal history collide with the forces of public history, examining loss and cultural legacies. Marks a significant advance from Wojahn's previous works, as he employs both strict forms and free verse.

Late Empire, David Wojahn's most wide-ranging collection of poetry, affirms his status as one of the most compelling and original voices of his generation. In these poems, private history and public history mingle and merge in a way that is by turns deeply personal and elegiac.

Winner of the 1989 Associated Writing Programs' Award Series in Poetry

Emplumada is Lorna Dee Cervantes's first book, a collection of poems remarkable for their surface clarity, precision of image, and emotional urgency.

Winner of the 2013 Donald Hall Prize in PoetryThe Dottery is a book of poetry arisen from a thought experiment-what if there was a school before birth where gender was taught?

Wojahn continues to explore the themes and approaches which he is known for, among them the junctures between the personal and political, a giddy mixing of high and pop culture references, and a deep emotional engagement with whatever material he is writing about.

Babel features more of the rhetorical acrobatics that fueled Barbara Hamby's earlier work. These whirlwinds of words and sounds form vistas, images, and scenes that are at once unique and immediately recognizable.

Poetry in America offers lyric and narrative poems that function like works of social realism for our times: hard times, wartime, divorce, times of downturn and dissipated resources.