This collection of poems deals with such themes as a history teacher who lies about the past in order to protect his children, and a wolf who reads fairy tales until he enters one
Winner of the 2014 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeWild Hundreds is a long love song to Chicago. The book celebrates the people, culture, and places often left out of the civic discourse and
World Tree is in many respects, David Wojahn’s most ambitious collection to date; especially notable is a 25-poem sequence of ekphrastic poems, “Ochre,” which is accompanied by a haunting series of dr
“Among other things, Shepherd has always been an elemental poet. His work abounds with the imagery and motifs of water and fire, and while those elements are important here, it is air and ea
In Codrescu’s own words: “I wrote my first book of poems, License to Carry a Gun (Big Table, 1970), when I first lived in New York City, 1967–1970. Those were troubled times and I wa
The author combines traditional lyricism with passion and experimental forms to explore the territory between "otherness and brotherhood." Original. (Poetry)
The poems of Reginald Shepherd’s third book move among, mix, and manufacture stories, seeking to redefine the meaning of mythology. From the ruined representatives of Greek divinity (broken statues an
Praise for Maggie Anderson’s earlier work, Cold Comfort:“The crux of Maggie Anderson’s poems is the strong narrative line, one accompanied by an abundance of lore based in the folkways of the people.
Edited and with an Afterword by David St. JohnWhen Larry Levis died suddenly in 1996, Philip Levine wrote that he had years earlier recognized Levis as “the most gifted and determined young poet I hav
An accessible new and selected collection of poems for poetry insiders and general readers. Powerful, passionate, humorous, and often complex, yet fun to read. They go down easy, but pack a whallop.
WINNER OF THE 2010 AGNES LYNCH STARRETT POETRY PRIZE “Glenn Shaheen is claiming new ground for American poetry. His poems are about the nightmares of information overload, collapsing infra
Praise for Martha Collins:“A dazzling poet whose poetry is poised at the juncture between the lyric and ethics, Martha Collins has addressed some of the most traumatic social issues of the twentieth c
“We’d not slept in days, or else we were/ still sleeping—who could tell,” a voice announces in the opening poem ofEternity & Oranges. The voices we encounter in this book speak from a place marked
Milk Black Carbon works against the narratives of dispossession and survival that mark the contemporary experience of many indigenous people, and Inuit in particular. In this collection, autobiographi
This is the second volume of a trilogy (the first was The Plum Flower Dance) in which Weaver analyzes his life, striving to become the ideal poet. In The Government of Nature, Afaa Michael Weaver expl
Joanie Mackowski's hypnotizing View from a Temporary Window is filled with Kafka-like transformations and metamorphoses and haunted by a sense of the body's strangeness. She writes in a relaxed
Set against a fantastic backdrop of religious imagery, myth and dreams, science fiction, and the stark realities of a northern factory town, Voisine's poems carefully detail the life of a common hero
