Family mayhem and uncertainty is voiced with conviction by this narrator who knows without any doubt that she's not Evelyn. In this second volume by author Susan Hankla, who hails from Roanoke, Virginia, women run across the lawn in their slips spil...
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A double-bladed act of empathy and affection that cuts deep both ways. A set of poems by two first-rate poets concerning the life and doings of Ms. Hazel Hicks, both here and in Purgatory, often hilarious, often wise, always engaging. Poetry. Colla...
A first collection from a poet of traumatic intensity and transcendence. The death of a horse in the opening poem, a storm of violence throughout worth chasing, and one of love, loss, suicide, divorce, family, excursions both imaginary and all too ...
Poetry. BOOTLEG uses the life of North Carolina banjo revolutionary Charlie Poole as its organizing principle, both sonically and thematically. These are poems bound by familial roots to a geography and a culture that gives them both their accent an...
Poetry. SOUTH is a book that defies description. It is not a book of fiction. It is not a book of history or mythology. It is not a book of poetic prose. If W.J.'s Cash's book The Mind of the South were to marry Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Ma...
Poetry. Music. The poems in Howard Nelson's new collection are often two or three pages long. They are meditative, digressive, and carefully crafted. The natural world and cultural history are equally interesting to him, and both are the subject mat...
Poetry. In her stunning debut, ALMOND, EYELESS, Karen Meadows explores the complex interaction between internal and external landscapes, and the powerful influence of context on experience. Through rich sound and unexpected imagery, ALMOND, EYELESS ...
Poetry. LET'S SIT DOWN, FIGURE THIS OUT, Grant Kittrell's debut collection of poems, contains multitudes. From furry, whimsical fables of broken logic to personal meditations saddled tightly to failing metaphor, the worlds these poems inhabit, and t...
Poetry. Kelly Cherry's background in philosophy and classical music are the pillars of her poetry, although she seeks ways to keep them in the background. BEHOLDER'S EYE, her eleventh book of poetry, is a about where she went and what she saw, and t...
Poetry. In Susan Hankla's debut poetry collection, CLINCH RIVER, Appalachian women can dirt in Mason jars, push husbands down wishing wells, and try to read the signs on Hostess cupcakes. This landscapes is made of thorns, where the golden fleece of...
Poetry. 7,000 SPARROWS is a meditative long poem addressed to RafaĆ Lemkin, the Polish-born linguist and lawyer who gave name to the crime of "genocide" and assured its irrevocable place in the framework of international law. Divided into seven part...
Poetry. AS A FLOCK OF GOATS, a collection of poems in miniature, negotiates the strange terrains of promise, space, longing, and origins. Using just a few painterly strokes, Quill culls images from the bank of mythological memory and arranges them i...
Poetry. Jack Christian's charming follow-up to his debut Family System (2012, Colorado Poetry Prize) reads as if compiled of epiphanies had while vacuuming. Weird and profound, and often weirdly profound, these poems make delicate sculptures of the ...
Poetry. From flashcards and sonnets to long poems that stretch over pages, varied and adventurous in form, Cathryn Hankla's eighth collection of poems, GREAT BEAR, strikes a mature note in terms of tone, range, and subject matter. While her preoccup...
Poetry. The poems of Julia Johnson's third book, SUBSIDENCE, speak on personal, geological, and metaphysical levels about subsidence, both as a concept and as a fact of the slowly dissolving American Gulf Coast. Richly lyrical and deeply felt, Johns...