Poetry. Religion & Spirituality. Zen. Sufi. "These small pieces are meant to be savored, to be chewed slowly one syllable at a time, swallowed and digested, metabolized and in time they should provide
Poetry. "an obscure-side apprenticeship, akin to learning pick- pocketry ; a dark economy guild of seers & sounders a practitioner of call/caul poetics, a self-embodied variorum; a calling forth from
Poetry. "The Civil War in poetry has not ended. The '50s sent us South to the Fugitives, the '60s North to the Beats and Deep Imagists. Now the South has sent its secret weapon across the line in the
Poetry. David Wolinsky's early poems, here gathered for the first time, many decades after they were written, have an expressive power that emanates from the poet's struggle to articulate not just his
Poety. Caring, precise, intelligent, profound—these beautifully crafted poems come out of the poet's flesh and blood literally steaming as if freshly skinned. The book is powerful and spooky and lovel
Poetry. Collages by Wayne Atherton. "Sharon Olinka's poems ripple with intense clarity and passion. Collage artist Wayne Atherton contributes eerie, haunting pieces that evoke the identity issues
Poetry. "If you were to listen to a middle-aged Holden Caulfield, you might hear a voice like the one in Geoff Woolf's gut-punchingly funny and irreverently honest poems. Like Salinger's young pr
Poetry. "These poems lie in wait, offering to show you things. Some are exact and immediate, like visits to a moment; others take you to locations that reveal themselves slowly. Here, too, are ex
Poetry. "This small book has I hope both social and aesthetic content. It argues for the 'truth' of certain experiences, for the possibility that these particulars link to something larger: 'The
Poetry. "With precision and rue, these poems bear witness to a lost world, the wounds still fresh, the tenderness undiminished. In a delta where landscape, body and dreams converge, consolation is sou
Poetry. "...[these poems} release the human heart to connect with the universe's numinous energy...these compositions...convey the reader to a heliopause of sorts on the edge of the unknown. Then thin
Poetry. "I had the privilege of interviewing Richard Hague not so many years ago about poetry and teaching and this, among the many things we discussed, will always remain with me: as far back as his
Poetry. "'How will I know myself?' asks Bea Opengart in this searching, insistent archaeology of familial remembrance, separation, distance, and connection. Her quiet new volume investigates remnants
Poetry. Dos Madres Press is pleased to announce the publication of an anthology of poems from its first ten years. Edited by Richard Hague, REALMS OF THE MOTHERS contains work by sixty-eight poets fro
Poetry. "Anne Whitehouse's poems locate moments of transformation when the old life mutates irrevocably into a new form, moments of terror and confusion followed by clarity and the possibility of a ne
Poetry. Illustrated by Donatella D'Angelo. "Daily life and monumental changes, diet colas and chocolate cake, writing projects and road trips. DRAWING THE SHADE captures, in Beat-inflected seat-of-yr-
Poetry. WOMAN AT THE CUSP OF TWILIGHT draws on photographs, anecdotes, letters, and other documents to weave a unique extended portrait of the author's maternal family from the 1920s to the present, a
Poetry. "An ambitious recounting of a life well–traveled, this poem began the day its author was born. When the colors blue, red and yellow exploded him into the world he was offered to walk. So inten
Poetry. Women's Studies. Our core, our humanity, finds expression in language. That core is linked by a genetic thread to other living beings. It is linked to a human past that is personal, social, an
Poetry. "Of the many good things I could say about these beautiful poems, the one I want to sing the loudest is that each presents a secret of some kind: the surprising cargo on a ship in the harbor,
