This stunning debut poetry collection announces the distinctive voice of an emerging American poet. Amber Adams, a veteran of the Army Reserves who was deployed under Operation Iraqi Freedom, writes of the marks left by war in a new and startling wa...
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VALLEY OF WANT is a song in celebration of the difficulty of naming, of seeing, of putting one's finger on the elusive thing one feels is true. Graceful and witty, these poems are grounded in the thrilling stillness of nature and the contours of hum...
“Chiyuma Elliott’s AT MOST is a book of lyric ambiguities. They are built into the very materials of which lyric poems are made, their words, their phrasings, the songs and what they sing from and what they sing toward and for. It is also a book of ...
Poetry. "With a documentarian's eye for getting things accurate and the poet's imaginative sense of transformation, NOWHERE BEULAH introduces a writer of landscape and lore. In these musically and structurally inventive poems, Nicole Stockburger pre...
Poetry. "In poems quietly fierce, meticulously observed, faithfully rendered, musically tempered; in the uncanny ability to evoke both the presence of the past, its once molten iron, and its abandonment by time, Julie Swarstad Johnson raises a 'host...
Poetry. "In these bracing meditations on matriarchal inheritance and the nature of the real, Lynn Otto breaks open pervasive, inherited silences, the 'prickered vines' that 'hold one so still.' By putting into motion various methods of perception, O...
Poetry. "Spooky, devastating, and ultimately tragic, Wayne Johns' ANTIPSALM is as real a love story as you're going to find. Its sinuous weave of story and song lures the reader to resurrect the fragments of a buried past: the object here is to rifl...
Poetry. "Claire Millikin's lines condense paradoxical and painful experience into glittering musical constellations—an expressionist torrent, informed by a neoclassical taste for symmetry and keen closure. Defying all jurisdiction, her lyrics evade ...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Edited by Lenard D. Moore. "A literal and metaphorical groundbreaker, this unique and indispensable collection contains a brilliant array of haiku by five members of the Carolina African American Writers C...
Poetry. Winner of the Unicorn Press First Book Award. In SELF-PORTRAIT IN DYSTOPIAN LANDSCAPE, Stephen Lackaye explores post-industrial disquiet in the Rust Belt. The figures in his poems try to reckon a subtle menace that lingers just beyond sure s...
Poetry. VIGIL is an ode to creating—to following a path from a dimly-lit home through a quiet wood, to the banks of a watercourse and back again. This collection, Chiyuma Elliott's second, is set across a range of physical and formal landscapes that...
Poetry. "The poems in CREEKS OF THE UPPER SOUTH rely on call and response—both within individual poems and from poem to poem—which seems fitting, given the collaborative nature of the collection. At times, the voices and personal narratives are aliv...
Poetry. Stuart Dischell's new chapbook sings of adventuresome travel and camaraderie. On the waterfront, we find drunken captains, dissolute merchants and, improbably, a momentary restful pause. In the countryside and in the city, Dischell focuses n...
Poetry. What is the spirit of our age, and what are the consequences of that spirit? THE POLITE SOCIETY pursues these questions, urging readers to ignore politics in its infamous, decadent sense and focus instead on how we might still work together ...
Poetry. In Colleen Abel's debut collection, voices from classical mythology, the sciences, and the arts explore the contours of love and passion. Through these guides, REMAKE contemplates what it is to be embodied—as a mind in a human body, or a spi...