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Texts that elucidate the poetics of a major American poet at the center of the vibrant Beat and Surrealist movements.

With ambitious manipulations of poetic forms, Jess presents the sweat and story behind America's blues, worksongs and church hymns.

Now in paperback, the most recent collection from celebrated poet Mary Ruefle--moving, authoritative, generous.

New edition of a breathless prose work with a unique vision of suburbia.

Cultural criticism meets poetry memoir—a contemporary master reflects on a life dedicated to poetry.

A career-defining retrospective by a much-beloved contemporary master.

This important anthology full of fresh voices includes a CD of original love songs by well-known independent recording artists.

From poet, novelist, and teacher Laynie Brown comes Translating the Lilies Back into Lists, an homage text to the poet C. D. Wright.

Assembled using recorded conversations with the Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun, this book-length poem by Joshua Beckman spans the first forty years of Salamun's life in his own words. -- Tomaz Salamun

Cedar Sigo's fourth collection evoke ancestors and mentors in ways that speak to the devotional practice of writing itself.

From esteemed City Lights editor and poet Garrett Caples, Lovers of Today is not only a tender tribute to departed artists, it is a veneration of the evanescence of life.

From one of the greatest poetic minds of our century comes the latest collection from CAConrad.

Lyn Hejinian selected this, Nikolayev's first collection, as Winner of the 2001 Verse Prize.

Witty, compassionate, restless, Knox fearlessly takes on NASCAR, numismatics, canned Spam -- and makes it all fascinating.

Poetry. In this follow-up collection to the National Poetry Series winner A Hummock in the Malookas, Rohrer's poems play against convention, finding dark, surreal underpinnings in the seemingly innocent objects and experiences of everyday life. Direct, humorous and disquieting, SATELLITE demonstrates the unique sensibility of this important young poet. "The surface ease and playfulness of these poems belie their seriousness. In language as clean and surprising as that of dreams, they skate out onto the thin ice of consciousness. Actually, as my grandmother would have put it, they don't skate on thin ice; they skate on cold water. They're smart, inventive, and sneakily profound"--Chase Twichell.