Keith Holyoak's reputation as a meticulous translator of classical Chinese poetry is already established. Now his powerful new book My Minotaur presents us with a wide-ranging selection of his own poe
Poetry. "To read SCRIBE is to pass 'through a series of gates' into the paradoxical heart of the poem, where 'terror and enchantment,' the communal and the solitary, the light and the dark, the imagin
Poetry. Illustrations by Jim Holyoak. In this debut volume of selected poems, Keith Holyoak explores the borderlands where dualities run together--life and death, despair and hope, man and woman, reas
Poetry. "FILCHED: to steal a small thing, casually, as if it belonged to the filcher, anyway, or as if it were no one's thing to keep. The poems in James Tolan's FILCHED are such stolen things, treasu
Poetry. "'I was the grand-daddy long- legs thrown / hard against the garage door today, / and I was the hand that threw it.' Thus concludes one of the most stunning poems in Rhonda Pettit's new collec
Poetry. Women's Studies. "Ruth Handel's MOMENTARY STAYS is a remarkable hybrid of lyric, documentary poetics, and inspiration for teachers. Drawing on seven years of poetry workshops with women in a p
Poetry. "'Pyrrhonic,' the term, comes from skeptical philosophy, and as a unifying title for this collection, it sets a welcome and helpful frame. The poems in Stephanie Erdman's PYRRHONIC range from
Poetry. "A WORD FOR IT, Warren Slesinger's heartfelt and evocative collection of lexical poems, combines a love of language, habit of close observation, trenchant wit, and mature wisdom. Looking outwa
Poetry. "These are intellectual love poems—love for the planet, for human beings, for deep learning, and for understanding the earthy history of people and things. Affection resides here for the
Poetry. "David Giannini's FACES SOMEWHERE WILD spans his 45 years in the Berkshire hill-towns of Massachusetts. Like the farmer whose 'face resembles what's fixed and moves around him,' he is an astut
Poetry. "David Giannini's FACES SOMEWHERE WILD spans his 45 years in the Berkshire hill-towns of Massachusetts. Like the farmer whose 'face resembles what's fixed and moves around him,' he is an astut
Poetry. "STUDIED DAYS sings with strange and sensual enchantment, calling the reader into that other time, that other 'halfway place of slopes' where human longing assumes memory's abiding shapes. Kno
Poetry. "In this wrenching work—sonnet sequences, free verse lyrics, journal entries—Pauletta Hansel confronts the slow and agonizing demise of her dementia-stricken mother. This is not the first time
