Poetry. Finalist for the Oregon Book Award. A LONG LATE PLEDGE, Wendy Willis's second book of poems and the first from Bear Star Press, arrives at the perfect moment in our national conversation about democracy, what it is and where it has failed. W...
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Poetry. Winner of the 2016 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize. THE GUNNYWOLF, Megan Snyder-Camp's third collection of poems, takes its title from an obscure folk tale about a wolf that scares little girls for their songs. Aiming to articulate what has be...
Poetry. LEAF IS ALL is meticulously inventive as it considers varieties of replication—benign and malign—and the intersections, the politics, of our communal narratives of family and science. A background in biology informs this poet's compassionate...
Poetry. "Out here, a shutter tries its luck on the wind. The sun's / bleached linen, dilute liquor, dry sourdough, color of / nothing. When the wheat fails the houses / come undone." Sure-footed, lyrical, and unsentimental, the poems of Melissa Mylc...
Poetry. "In the midst of his discourses on love and yearning, terror and the suffering of the flesh—especially in the masterful crown of sonnets of the title poem—Booton displays an originality that is mature and wise. This is a splendid debut."—Dav...
Poetry. Winner of the 2012 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize. "In THE ACCIDENTALIST, you'll find a lover as slide projector, a brain 'split / like a horse's hoof,' 'a music box pricked by sunset's light,' and a writer who tracks oddity and beauty, findi...
Fiction. "Davidson is a wonderful writer, a real find. There are a lot of writers out there who can put a story together and make the surfaces of their work gleam. What is special about Davidson's stories is something else altogether. He has the abi...
Poetry. WOODNOTE is Christine Deavel's debut and winner of the 2011 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize and the 2012 Washington State Book Award in Poetry. Indiana is the backdrop for poems that range through time and lyrically blend poetry, prose, and fr...
Poetry. LIKE HAY brings together the last poems of Quinton Duval, beloved poet and teacher, also the editor of Red Wing Press."His poems show Quinton as he was—a person of such charm that he could afford to be wry in his ironies.... His poems preser...
Poetry. Comprising three sonnet sequences and one very long indefinite sentence ("...of Exile in Florence, Massachusetts"), THE KILIM DREAMING showcases Robert Hill Long's gift as a storyteller. "The Spear Lily" introduces readers to two prostitutes...
Poetry. "Mercy is a lie, is a lie, is a li- / lac cutting from the neighbor's ancient bush. / My hands are his secret." These lines, from the opening poem in GORRILL'S ORCHARD, hint at the book's overall enterprise, which is the fashioning of pain i...
Poetry. Winner of the 2009 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Contest. "The meditative, quiet beauty of Linda Dove's IN DEFENSE OF OBJECTS helps defend the reader against all sorts of daily blindnesses. Although there are lovely poems here about art, Dove lead...
Poetry. Perfect bound. Troy Jollimore's new chapbook, THE SOLIPSIST, contains fifteen new poems, including four Tom Thomson poems. His first book of poetry, Tom Thomson in Purgatory, won the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have ap...
Poetry. Winner of the 2008 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Contest. "Here is a book addressed to origins: to first things; to first springs into the turbulence of real conversation. Cowles is a poet who knows where poetry comes from and whither it is bound....
Poetry. The intensely lyrical poems in Deborah Woodard's first full-length collection collapse the usual boundaries between dream and so-called reality to explore varieties of loss and the resonance of myth, classical as well as personal. Sure-foote...