Poetry. In his early twenties, Clemens Starck dropped out of Princeton and decided to take responsibility for his own education—to read deeply, travel widely, and write poems with the precision and plainspoken-ness of the Chinese masters. Over the d...
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Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. At long last his collected works are available in a handsome volume from Empty Bowl. TOO LATE TO TURN BACK NOW gathers all of Wilcox's hard-to-find, out-of-print and limited-edition books and adds a generous selection of...
Poetry. In I CAN SMILE LIKE ERROL FLYNN Tito Titus interrogates life, aging, and death with a delicate blow torch. These poems adore the beauty of youth and memory; fluently articulate the melancholy and nostalgia delivered by loss; and, with irreve...
Poetry. Michael Daley's OF A FEATHER passes Thoreau's moral test. To have written so well of what he has so clearly seen—birds, insects, landscapes—requires a receptivity to what is before him, everyday, animate or inanimate, large or small. Recepti...
Poetry. Memoir. Glenolden Park is a beautifully crafted memoir of the early Forties in narrative verse by Richard Lloyd. Set in a blue-collar community close to Philadelphia, the book recounts the free-spirited adventures of the author and his frien...
Poetry. East Asia Studies. Translated from the Chinese. Reprinting of the 2nd revised edition, including a new preface and beautiful illustrations. In these translations of the mysterious P'u Ming's work, Red Pine demonstrates the way in which the o...
Poetry. MARSHALLTON SAGA adds to those narrative poems in GLENOLDEN PARK: a beautifully crafted memoir of the early Forties in narrative verse. Set in a blue-collar community close to Philadelphia, the book recounts the free-spirited adventures of t...
Poetry. "These vivid poems give a sense of Hanoi as an Asian City of Dreadful Night, dense with temptation and lost hopes, in which this young American poet (to quote James Thompson) 'writes in the dust' his 'heart's deep languor' in poems of sharp ...
Poetry. In SWIMMING THE COLORADO, Denise banker's poems capture the reader for an intense existential journey from remembered childhood into an adulthood haunted by loss and grief but redeemed through nature by love. The lyrics—beautifully etched—ar...
Poetry. In these warm, precise, and big-hearted poems, Finn Wilcox celebrates love, family, commitment, and the ever-deepening grace of a life shared with others. The poet looks back with tenderness on the generosity of parents, lovers, and friends....
Poetry. Asian and Asian American Studies. PETROGLYPH AMERICANA is a book-length poem that careens across landscapes of the American West and resonates with Scott Ezell's dozen years in Asia. By turns narrative and lyrical, PETROGLYPH AMERICANA is a ...
Poetry. Tim McNulty's Pawtracks established him as a fresh voice for the power and beauty of Northwest landscapes. Long out of print, twenty poems that represent the core of that collection are reissued with a preface by the poet. Intimate and wide-...
Poetry. OLD TALE ROAD, Andrew Schelling's first full collection of poetry in six years, is a visionary work of crisply detailed language and wide-ranging content. It balances the ecological, mythic, and personal realms, while carrying the flavor of ...
Cultural Writing. Essays. Poetry. WORKING THE WOODS, WORKING THE SEA is a unique collection of poetry and prose by Gary Snyder, Tom Jay, Holly Hughes, Tim McNulty, Jim Dodge and many more of the North Pacific Coast. Deeply connected to the earth and...