"Gewanter's poetry offers a sense of obstacles, and of obstacles not overcome but ridden and thus dealt with, and is nowhere better illustrated than in 'Conduct of Our Loves.' Read this poem in the bo
Susan Stewart plumbs human history in an attempt to articulate the way language, memory, and art join in evoking consciousness. The Forest is about violence and memory: the violence we do to our surro
What does it mean to be a woman--a lover, mother and artist? In Swoon, Redel tackles the question of Eros as it animates domestic life. These are poems unafraid to embrace the sweetness of difficulty
Hollywood & God is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing—even lurid—hallucination. From the
The Worry of the Far RightThe Reverend Donald Wildmon, executive directorOf the American Family Association in Tupelo,Mississippi, birthplace of Elvis Presley, he who?Unleashed the libido of a generat
This World and That OneSometimes you defy it,I am not that, watching a strangercry like a dog when she thinks she’s aloneat the kitchen window, hands forgottenunder the running tap.The curtains blow o
At the heart of Gail Mazur's The Common is the refusal to simplify what is paradoxical in our world and a recognition of the tensions in our own divided nature. These unflinching poems create a place
At the heart of this unusually accomplished and affecting first book of poetry is the idea of the hinge—the point of connection, of openings and closings. Maggie Dietz situates herself in the liminal
Who are the lords of labor? The owners, or the working bodies? In this smart, ambitious, and powerful book, David Gewanter reads the body as creator and destroyer—ultimately, as the broken mold
This moving prose poem tells the story of an aged man who suffers a prolonged and ultimately fatal illness. From initial diagnosis to remission to relapse to death, the experience is narrated by the m
Winner of the 2012 National Book Award for Poetry.To read David Ferry’s Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and
From Ritual A slow parade of old west enthusiasts,camp song and hymn, came in along the winding way where rural declined to suburban, slowriders and wagoners passing a cow staked t
James McMichael's psychologically penetrating long poem traces a man's twenty-year entanglement with a woman; the events that brought them together; the settings in which the two spent their time, tog
Brings together poems from his first two books, Against the Falling Evil and The Lover's Familiar , through his two book-length poems, Four Good Things and Each in a Place Apart , to the new wor
