Long-anticipated collection by award-winning poet David Bergman. PLAIN SIGHT is an exquisite book of poems by David Bergman, “a post-modern master of the lyric narrative poem,” according to Daniel Mark Epstein. Now in his 70s, and having lived with...
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Debut Collection from 2022 Morgenthau Poetry Prize Runner-Up Sandy Longley In a world filled with cows, cormorants, dogs, mola molas, crows, bullfrogs, wrens, box turtles, chickens, bears, possums, mothers, daughters, and more, Sandy Longley is a p...
Debut book of poems by 2022 Henry Morgenthau Poetry Prize winner Mark Elber. HEADSTONE is Mark Elber's stunning debut poetry collection examining his personal history as well as his Jewish inheritance. The book won the 2022 Henry Morgenthau Poetry ...
THE SOLITUDE OF MEMORY is Michael Miller's 12th collection of poems. As a young man, Miller followed in his family's belief in the importance of serving one's country and became a Marine, where he was faced with the cruelty of war. Now, at age eight...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. GRANDFATHER'S MANDOLIN, by Fran Markover, is a collection of poems deeply rooted in family and what has come before. David Keplinger notes that "in these poems languages and names and articles of clothing seem to have lives, ...
Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. California Interest. Roy Cheng Tsung, a young American-born Chinese, escapes from Communist China with his mother in 1974 after 20 years of isolation during the Cold War and searches for the reaso...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. TIDAL WAVE is the debut collection by Dennis H. Lee, winner of the first Henry Morgenthau lll Poetry Prize for a poet 70 or older. "A serious achievement," notes judge David Keplinger, "of growing up and growing older, as if ...
Poetry. Latinx Studies. PRAYERS OF LITTLE CONSEQUENCE is a debut collection by a new poet and first generation Mexican American, Gilbert Arzola. Arzola's humble, penetrating voice invites us into his story with poems about growing up poor and Mexica...
Poetry. DAYS OF BLUE AND FLAME by 101-year-old Sarah Yerkes investigates subjects closest to the author's heart—childhood, family, travel, aging, art. After a career as a sculptor and a landscape architect, Yerkes began writing poetry at age 97. "I ...
Poetry. These poems were influenced by the author's grandchildren, adolescence, mortality, marriage, sexuality, travel, and her keen observations of strangers. Present too are connections to nature and the natural world. "Like the sturdy root that l...
Poetry. Art. Music. This collection of poems was written under the influence of jazz, Shakespeare, Basquiat, boxing, the Bronx and the Basque country. The poems are more Coltrane-like riff than meditation, unable to keep their verbal dexterity still...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Women's Studies. In OLD WOMEN TALKING, Wilderness Sarchild celebrates growing old without denying the difficulties. Shouting, divulging, gossiping, sobbing, ranting, keening, Sarchild's old women awaken us with their passion ...
Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Memoir. Humor. PRICKLY ROSES: STORIES FROM A LIFE is a collection of high-spirited, often humorous essays spanning the adventurous life of 93-year-old Joyce Abell. Frequently on her own from the age of three...
Poetry. The poems in A SUNDAY IN PURGATORY combine memoir, reflections on aging, sexuality, and wrestling with the tension that exists between being part of a famous American family and wanting to be an individual, separate from family history. Morg...
Poetry. Anne Frydman has the soul and sensibility of a Japanese poet, her poems small, shining moments where an intimate dramatic situation is coupled with piercing insight. Frydman writes with disarming simplicity and directness about human mortali...