Poetry. STILL YOU gathers together poems that invite us into private rooms of suffering and solace. In these profoundly personal stanzas, we recognize our own encounters with nature's inevitable blows. By turns we fall ill, we recover, we care for a...
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Poetry. In MERCY Judith Montgomery chronicles the story of caring for her a husband as he endures cancer treatment. Though brutal in its technology, the medical world Montgomery describes is merciful in its human form, peopled by chemotherapy nurses...
Poetry. As poet Richard Jones says, BREATH ENOUGH is "a book of courage and consolation" in telling of the loss of a sister to brain cancer. Yet at the same time the beauty of Teter's poetry tells a different story, one that can't help but affirm a ...
Poetry. "In these compelling and ambitious poems, Elizabeth Percer interrogates 'the murky significance' of life: its genesis, tenuousness, and our hope for its very existence. As if arguing that life begins in the root of a word, Percer's moving an...
Poetry. "It's amazing how legacies of family and habitation may be so neatly shaped and contained in lilting stanzas."—Naomi Shihab Nye"It is a clear listening, this music, to the heart-intelligence moving through us."—Coleman Barks
Poetry. A charming and compelling collection of poems, lovingly assembled by its editor after years of being knocked off his feet by poems he encountered in the process of teaching poetry at The Fromm Institute of San Francisco and making a growing ...
Poetry. "PASSING LOVE is deceptive in its down-to-earth honesty and simplicity. Rick Benjamin's clear-cut language brims and sings, and one is taken to the edge of reckoning before he or she realizes what has happened. There's a needful celebration ...
Poetry. Li-young Lee says of this book: "Wow! Lovely. Stark. Rich. Strange. I'd say these poems spy out the mind's quickest turns and slights and falls." These succinct, curious, and crisp poems thoughtfully crafted by Mr. Ellis find a direct connec...