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Poetry. For more than two decades Graham Foust has been sounding out the limits of common expression through precise lyricism, a tragicomic, almost slapstick absurdism, and syncopated guesses about what things might mean. EMBARRASSMENTS offers a syn...
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Literary Nonfiction. Art. Photography. Across the plains, in towns too small and scattered to field a full squad, high schools play six-man football. This book follows a single season of one such team, Prairie School, located in the vast Pawnee Nati...
Poetry. Afican & African American Studies. Edited and with an introduction by Eugene B. Redmond. "His work remains—a testimonial to his own committed love, his own sharp perceptiveness and zeal."—Gwendolyn Brooks"In 1968, a young Black man, Henry Du...
Poetry. Edited and introduced by Devin Johnston, REACHING LIGHT selects from five decades of work by one of Australia's finest poets. "Readers of Robert Adamson's books will have understood that this distinguished man of letters and major poet is on...
Poetry. The title poem in William Fuller's DAYBREAK begins with something abstract. "At daybreak one saw receptacles from the day before and in those receptacles lay strings of associations." From such associations "eyes emanating soft red light" em...
Poetry. First published in 1962, SO I LOOKED DOWN TO CAMELOT is the striking debut collection by the English poet Rosamund Stanhope (1919–2005). As Graham Foust suggests in his afterword to this edition, these poems offer "seemingly endless satisfac...
Poetry. Lisa Jarnot began A PRINCESS MAGIC PRESTO SPELL after the birth of her daughter, setting the modest goal of writing three words a day. Now a decade-long work-in-progress, these fragments of language are collected into a shorthand chronicle o...
Poetry. Drama. African & African American Studies. THE PRIME ANNIVERSARY is comprised of a sequence of poems and a one-act play, common themes of which include number, measure, and the very idea of continuity. Drawing from Pythagorean sources and Sp...
Fiction. In a preface to this volume, Merrill Gilfillan reflects, "Most of these stories took shape during the latter twentieth century, a period when I was regularly exploring the topography of the American Great Plains (especially the 'Indian coun...
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Music. With a foreword by Devin Johnston and studio photographs by Moira Tarmy. Through the drawings and paintings included in DUET (WITH CHORUS), Brian Calvin explores arrangements of figures at once boldly simplified and ...
Poetry. Edited and with an introduction by Peter Robinson. "Perhaps the last great modernist poem, Roy Fisher's A FURNACE offers an alternately brightening and thickening materialization of landscape, history, and thought. From its opening bus ride ...
Poetry. Through branching clauses of off-kilter syntax, Graham Foust makes poetry in NIGHTINGALELESSNESS from the common stuff of conversations, including the ones bouncing around in our heads. "If you think you've seen it all you've seen one thing....
Poetry. With Robert Herrick and Lightnin' Hopkins as her guides, Jennifer Moxley records in these bold new poems midlife's little losses, the subtle joys of a sweet marriage, and the give-and-take of the poet's vocation. Direct in speech, full of wi...
Poetry. In FIENDS FELL, Tom Pickard charts a single year out of a decade spent on a bare hilltop near the English-Scottish border, with the roaring wind as his only guide. In journal entries interspersed with lyrics and poems, as in Japanese haibun,...
Poetry. The final book by a master of compression."Very few significant American poets called as little attention to themselves in their lifetimes as Michael O'Brien, who died last November at the age of 77. Much as with Lorine Niedecker—whose 'sile...