Poetry. SMALL WORKS is Pam Rehm's sixth book of poetry. While moving towards an ever more spare clarity, Rehm awakens the moral senses through bewilderment, impatience, and quizzical humor. Amid the c
Life is Elizabeth Arnold's fourth volume of poems. John Palattella has written of her poetry in The Nation: “Elemental and unsparing, quiet and startling, Arnold's supple syntax is a source of gravity
Poetry. Aboriginal Australian Studies. Through a series of compact lyrics, Ali Cobby Eckermann's RUBY MOONLIGHT tells the story of a young Aboriginal woman in the late nineteenth century who survives
Poetry. Tom Pickard's poems are by turns erotic and political, pastoral and urban. They make use of everyday speech with formal inventiveness and sophistication. He is the author of six individual vol
Poetry. SURFACES is John Tipton's first full-length collection of poems. Here is a world of Cartesian precision, where matrices and Markov chains are revealed by the lattice of snowfall and the improb
Poetry. First published as two separate chapbooks in 1995 and 1996, Often Capital explores the tensions between political commitment and personal desire. Moxley draws in part on the love letters of th
Poetry. In Watchword, William Fuller plots the paths of consciousness with sensitivity and precision. Pivoting on what he has elsewhere called "transfer points almost too elusive to name," his poems s
In Night Scenes, her fourth book of poetry, Lisa Jarnot returns us to the "first melody" through mock archaisms, neologisms, rollicking rhymes, and childlike delight. Her circling lyrics sing the plea
Poetry. Graham Foust's third book offers agile poems of dread and humor. Robert Creeley writes, "These poems move in close to luxuriant circles, round and round each particular syllable, neither hurry
Poetry. First published by the Jargon Society in 1958, LETTERS announces the major phase of Robert Duncan's writing. Though long unavailable, it stands as a foundational book of postmodern poetry, set
Poetry. Drawing equally on Buddhist sutras and country blues, William Fuller's SADLY derives compassion from its ironic vision. Quick and sometimes elusive, these poems observe fluctuations in economi
Poetry. The final book by a master of compression. "Very few significant American poets called as little attention to themselves in their lifetimes as Michael O'Brien, who died last November at the
Poetry. "To Surrealism's associative leaps, juxtapositions, and kitsch paradoxes, Joron's savage detective lends his background in the philosophy of science, borrowing from non-linear systems theory,
Poetry. A MOUTH IN CALIFORNIA, Graham Foust's fourth book of poetry, uses the ironies and anxieties of contemporary life as a foil for mordant and sometimes violent humor. Through mangled aphorisms, m
Poetry. Edited by Richard Owens. First published by Faber & Faber in 1930, THE ECLIPTIC is a lost modernist classic. Complex in structure, rich in music, it was hailed by Morton Dauwen Zabel in Po
Poetry. "'What do I see' when I look into the eyes of another? What kind of exchange takes place when that look is returned? The poems in Elizabeth Arnold's devastating SKELETON COAST investigate the
Literary Nonfiction. Edited with an introduction by Jenny Penberthy, and an afterword by August Kleinzahler. This volume gathers twenty-four essays by the English critic Kenneth Cox (1916-2005) on var
Poetry. With Robert Herrick and Lightnin' Hopkins as her guides, Jennifer Moxley records in these bold new poems midlife's little losses, the subtle joys of a sweet marriage, and the give-and-take of
Poetry. Edited and with an introduction by Peter Robinson. "Perhaps the last great modernist poem, Roy Fisher's A FURNACE offers an alternately brightening and thickening materialization of landscape,
