Waters’s 13th collection delves into aging, caretaking, the shifting landscape of modern marriage, and the slippery nature of familial memory.In passionate poems about sin, obsession, and mortality―an
In An Unkindness of Ravens, Meg Kearney's poems weave voices of estrangement and redemption: mothers, daughters, lovers of gin and dead things. In the middle poems, the protagonist confronts "Raven":
Tagalog is a language spoken by twenty-two million people in the Philippines. Diwata is a Tagalog term meaning "muse." Diwata is also a term for a mythical being who resides in nature, and who human c
Burning of the Three Fires shows Jeanne Marie Beaumont using her characteristic variety of techniques: dramatic monologues, lists, prose poems, object poems, and ekphrasis, to which she adds biography
Finalist, 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Dorianne Laux's poetry is a poetry of risk; it goes to the very edge of extinction to find the hard facts that need to be sung. What We Ca
Winner of the 1994 Lamont Poetry selection of The Academy of American Poets. "Kelly has a talent for coaxing out the world's ghosts and then fixing them in personal landscapes of fear and uncertainty.
Poet, teacher, essayist, anthologist, songwriter and singer, Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the country's most acclaimed writers. Her voice is generous; her vision true; her subjects ordinary people, and
These dramatic monologues are spoken by members of the German High Command--Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Albert Speer, Hermann Goering--their wives and mistresses, during the l
A collection of poems focusing on Crazy Horse, the Native American who, according to the author, embodied the spirituality of his culture and the fierceness of a people under attack
In Peter Makuck's Against Distance nature is both a reprieve and a danger. Here, various landscapes - oceans, inlets, rivers, foothills, deserts - pressure and test human relationships. The book's tit
Laure-Anne Bosselaar's poetry captures the lives of "lost souls roaming" - be they young girls in convents, merchants, whores, widows, soldiers, nuns or farmers. Eccentric, vibrant people, who lived
In poems that span the time from her son's fetal stages through the first year of life, Laurie Kutchin's, The Night Path, focuses on the genesis of life. These poems express the connection between the
In Small Gods of Grief, Laure-Anne Bosselaar explores her childhood in post-war Belgium and her later struggles with grief, love and identity in contemporary America. Ms. Bosselaar mixes imaginative l
Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory,
