An exploration of the various ways language can help us transcend both the banal and unusual cruelties which are inevitably delivered to us, and which we equally deliver unto others. These poems comb
The Red Canoe: Love in Its Making - poetry and memoir exploring the anatomy of a marriage - underbelly and crown.A practicing psychologist and former marriage therapist unveils the role of parents, re
We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders is a collection of poems written over the course of twenty-five years as the author struggled to live with a devastating mental illness, paranoid schizophrenia. The poems be
"These poems honor the human mystery. They celebrate the oneness of two great truths: that we are each other, and that we are each alone. They evoke love and loss, hurt and daily courage. These rare
In this collection of linked poems, Andrews describes a childhood during the Vietnam War era on a farm in a divided household with a southern father and northern mother. The memories and trials of ch
The dynamics of race, family, motherhood, career, sex and ultimately, transformation are explored in this debut collection. Underlife represents the wilderness of thought and emotion hidden away from
This poet's relationship to language is nearly physical in its intensity. Fearless and headlong, these poems sing in service to love, loss, pity, and hope. Whether a story of Keat's last days in Rome
Tragedy shattered Marie Lawson Fiala's life as wife, mother and lawyer when her 13-year old son, Jeremy, was felled by a massive hemorrhage from a ruptured artery deep in his brain. Within an hour, Je
"This poet writes like a woman with a mission. Her collection resounds with an honesty that is at once brutal and determined. "You will not go hungry into a strange soil," she writes to her jaundiced
Jack Wiler knows what it's like to lose things. Like the sun. Like the moon. Now we know what it's like to lose Jack Wiler. But we don't. Because his poems are here. Like the sun and the moon. And som
The tradition from which Robert Cording's poems emanate is the rich borderland between spirit and religion, between nature and God, between suffering and redemption, between Wordsworth and Eliot. The
