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This is a dialogue, an exploration of what Oles calls the“parallel universes” of American sculptor Harriet Hosmer's life aner her own. In beautiful and affecting lyric and narrative poems, some in Hosmer’s voice, some in the poet's, Oles bends time and circumstances to reveal the essential kinship between two women artists. (more …) |
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Sparkling with shout-outs to Beowulf and Keats, varied meters, and surprising rhymes, she lifts centuries of hurt and anger into a contrary music. (more …) |
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The adventure of moving, the meaning of home The journey of this book shows how the conditions of our lives are illumined by our cultural forbears—Goethe, Chopin, Nietzsche, Bonnard, Klee—by the heritage of personal memory, and by the ever amazing “book of nature.” (more …) $16.00 Paper |
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Herman Melville, Matthew Arnold, Sarah Orne Jewett, Dusty Rhodes, and Hoyt Wilhelm skinny-dip and pick up gondoliers and cut figure eights into the ice in Christopher Bursk’s new collection. But the main cast of characters for these poems is the alphabet itself, “the first inhabitants of Arcadia, / now homesick, curious exiles from Eden.” (more …) $16.00 Paper |
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Delves into the life of a nineteenth-century woman poet In the long tradition of biography-in-poetry collections, Annie Boutelle’s first collection probes the layered life of one of nineteenth-century America’s most popular poets, who is now almost forgotten. The Celia Thaxter who speaks these poems disturbs the placid myth created around her public persona, and focuses on the fierce mysteries and ironies that frame her. (more …) 94 pages |
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A feast of language that lets us taste how it feels to live on this earth A winner in the UAP Poetry Series If the poet often finds himself “[h]alfway between grief and longing,” that may be his natural condition, rooted in this world against the pull of the next, his faith in the “purple evidence of plums, the testimony of wild persimmon” weathering the stormy preachers and the droughts of middle age. (more …) 128 pages |
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Poems with a conversational tone and lyrical intensity “Standing around the Heart shows Gary Fincke at his inimitable best. . . . Fincke writes a poetry of abiding generosity, of true feeling and thought. His is an essential American voice.” (more …) —Rodney Jones, author of The Kingdom of the Instant 104 pages, 5 1/2" x
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A first book from this accomplished formalist poet K. E. Duffin’s poems are about transformations, from life to death and from death to life, from the sprawl of experience to the spare music of the poem that can reach the future only through memory. (more …) “In her many sonnets and rhymed quatrains, Duffin makes the old forms sing with a baroque splendor as she travels from New England to Siberia, Naples to Yucatan, Iceland to Jersey. . . . With the eyes of a naturalist and a traditionalist, Duffin’s high-flying persona ‘drifts in and out of worlds.’ As readers, we can only stand below and watch the poetic flights with admiration and awe.” —Henry Hart, author of The Rooster Mask 120 pages, 5 1/2" x
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“The ‘intensity in the seeing’ that Theodore Roethke believed good poetry possessed is everywhere present in Patrick Phillips’s clear-eyed debut collection, Chattahoochee.” (more …) —Michael Collier, author of The Ledge August 2004 |
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“This new book is marked by a clarity of words and of purpose that shimmers, and a stubborn and elegant insistence throughout that good words spoken well matter in our lives.” (more …) —Bruce Weigel 2004 |
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"This is the poet’s most personal book, filled with family elegy, formal eloquence, and the embrace of those small, luminous, fire-tested things worth saving." (more …) —Maxine Kumin 2004
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Candlefish is part of the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series, edited by Enid Shomer. In palpable, richly textured language, here are poems of love and loss, acute perception and grief, and the pleasure of finding our place in the profusion of the natural world.” (more …) —George Keithley, author of The Starry Messenger and The Donner Party March 2004 |
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Trembling Air …things poised on the brink of revelation In these poems, Michelle Boisseau troubles sound into music and light into color. She renders the physics of absence and the deceptions of presence: a garage full of haunted tools, the ordinary and odd lives embodied in medieval paintings, the voice of a father traveling on radio waves. (more …) 5 ½" X 8 ½" |
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Foreword Magazine Book of the Year (Poetry) 2003, Finalist SEBA Best Book of the Year (Poetry) 2003, Finalist Dannye Romine Powell writes of marriage, parenthood, and temptation-of love in its many forms. (more …) 6" x 9"
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