Poetry. While widely published in literary journals during her lifetime, THE ROAD ITSELF marks the first overview of the late Aralee Strange's poetic works. It is a tour de force that moves from the urban blight of 1980's Cincinnati Main Street to t...
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Poetry. For many years the poets John Matthias and John Peck, friends since their time together at Stanford in the 1960s and often paired by reviewers and critics, have wanted to combine Matthias's long poem about the pilgrimage routes to Santiago d...
Poetry. RAVENNA DIAGRAM - VOLUME II, is a continuation of the much praised long poem by Henry Gould, which follows in the vein of "Leaves of Grass," "The Bridge," "Paterson," "The Cantos," "A," and "The Maximus Poems." It is an attempt to come to ne...
Poetry. Appalachia. "Imagine that all of life is something like a hangover: the mental haze, the regret, but still the memory of the vanished beatific high. Imagine the longing for health and comfort and love in the midst of knowing they are fleetin...
Poetry. Art. "Greg Rappleye is a poet of exquisite, lush language, exacting and precise in description, inventive in the re-creation of entire worlds. In this intoxicating and revelatory journey through the Brazilian rain forests of the 19th century...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. "'Genizah: Room, closet, or cabinet, usually in a synagogue, where fragments of text bearing the name of God are stored, perhaps forever.' What then does it mean to call a book of poetry a genizah? It means that existentially...
Poetry. "A FURNACE IN THE SHADOWS is much more than a new collection of poems by Paul Pines, or even a 'selected poems.' It is a body of work—a man's life, embodied in a lifetime's work. From the first poems here, written in the 1960s, when in his e...
Fiction. Poetry. Essays. "In our call announcing the theme for this issue, we said, 'We are blessed or cursed to live in these interesting times. For Volume 21 we offer the theme of Appalachia Acting Up. Take it as and where you will: political prot...
Poetry. "I call these poems LIFE LINES because poems have been for me, since childhood, a way into the life of poetry where there is emotional truth, assurance and balance. I call them life-saving lines, because they are cast back and forth, in poet...
Poetry. "Roger Mitchell's poems are superbly crafted—and at the same time always open to surprise and serendipity. The poems may begin in unassuming observation, but their ultimate aim is the clarity of thought that can only arise from a sensibility...
Poetry. Women's Studies. "In ALL WE HAVE IS OUR VOICE, Carole Stone's fierce dramatic monologues, delivered by the wives and lovers of such titans as Tolstoy, Lincoln, Freud, Yeats, Joyce, and (Dylan) Thomas, incisively protest patriarchal privilege...
Poetry. "In GARLANDING GREEN, Christine Aikens Wolfe summons worlds of green and the green of creation with a sense of folk wisdom. She writes of relics, spells, and invocations: 'Pour the dregs of your wine down a rock. / The next time you visit th...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Photography. "WHAT PAIN DOES, a collaboration between poet Megan Henson and her photographer husband J. Michael Skaggs, begins in the pain management clinic with the collective pronoun, 'we.' There is a generosity throughout...
Fiction. "The Clifton Probasco fountain on the cover could have been sketched by the author/illustrator at age nine, but unfortunately fear knocked him at an early age. His faith, restored later when he traveled the world—seeking solace—some comfort...
Poetry. PRESENCE OF LIFE is Eric Hoffman's poetic adaptation of scholar Brad Inwood's original translation of the extant fragments of the Pythagorean Pre-Socratic Empedocles, one of antiquities' most influential thinkers and the last ancient Greek p...