Poetry. "I was riding in a plane from Dublin when I read Michael Brosnan's poem in The Moth. You know when you feel you've found a poet for keeps? At that moment I wondered if he had many books. Turns out, Brosnan had no poetry book. Now he does. Pl...
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Poetry. Croation Literature. In his third solo book with Harbor Mountain Press, Mario Susko's wit and precision are on display with ferocity: "It's hard to be / a transient / in one's literature— / I walk the streets, / carrying a travel bag with th...
Poetry. Includes the poem"Melody of Complaint," nominated for a Pushcart Prize. These wise and pithy poems address human ontology with surprising originality and wit. Struggle is made funny and acceptable and yet the poet doesn't downplay ordinary s...
Poetry. Edited by award winning Croatian authors Branko Čegec and Mario Suško. Translated from the Croatian by Mario Suško. This astounding collection of contemporary Croatian poetry is a first of its kind, by a U.S. publisher, marking these contemp...
Poetry. Women's Studies. This is Diana Whitney's debut book of poems—praised as a "saucily entitled and brilliant book...What a debut!" by Vermont Poet Laureate Sydney Lea, a debut with "a tremulous spirit full of...imaginative agitation" adds Major...
Poetry. Some say "mad" postcards. Some say "an international call and response," a sort of too-full screen of blues. Some say whispers. In fact, AMERICAN DRONE, this American poet's first full collection in a long time, takes rap, hip-hop, folk and ...
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Polli. A CAGE WITHIN is the first U.S. publication of poems by well known Cuban writer Wendy Guerra."Wendy Guerra's is a voice from the darkness, a siren call beckoning us towar...
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Polli. "Ana Merino's CHILD'S PLAY is a descent into the sea of memory where the experiences and magical characters of childhood are vibrant. The images from the past are caught in a...
Poetry. "Laura Davies Foley's THE GLASS TREE is a meditation on history and loss—a husband's death, his history in Russia, and the speaker's own history with a beloved that leads her to eventually work with hospital patients and the homeless. Clear ...
Poetry. "Susko leaves his readers with no easy answers. We must weigh dozens of opposing concepts in our own minds, and decide for ourselves what to keep and what to let go, to construct a self-defined sense of security in a disquieting world.... It...
Poetry. "Sharon White has the remarkable talent of weaving the various times that poetry can summon—moments, histories of eras, seasons, human recollections, botanical cycles, even geology—into effortless wholes. The poems reverberate with the feeli...
Children's Literature. Sustainability. Art. The sun rises and sets on a little farm. The farmer sleeps, bugs invade, farmers fight back, but the people still feast. Storyteller Jay Mead's simple and provocative intergenerational picture story follow...
Poetry. Robert Farnsworth's first two books were published by Wesleyan University Press. Twenty years later, Harbor Mountain Press brings out Farnsworth's next: fine narrative poems made of patina and salt, family memory and youthful outlook, realit...
Poetry. Elena Georgiou's second collection, RHAPSODY OF THE NAKED IMMIGRANTS, prompts us beyond the question "Where are you from?" to more complicated questions regarding multiple migrations, invasions, post-colonial freedom, and the ability to boar...
Poetry. ONE CLASS collects Norman MacAfee's major poems written between 1965 and 2008. MacAfee is a translator of Pier Paolo Pasolini's poems, and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. These are ecstatic, serious and often funny poems about war and peace, s...