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A first book by Stephen Ackerman winner of the 2020 Gerald Cable Book Award Poem "If I Had as Many Hands as Vishnu" will be excerpted in the August issue of Harper's Magazine.“LATE LIFE is Stephen Ackerman’s breathtaking debut poetry collection. Ack...
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Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. "A WAY OF LOOKING is a powerful and original book. It is so concise and straightforward that it takes a few pages before one realizes how quietly complex it is. Zheng's form—half prose, half verse—is the sort ...
Poetry. Women's Studies. "In Julie Danho's THOSE WHO KEEP ARRIVING, the personal is political and the political is terrifying. Danho faces this terror and transcends it to make stunning poems about creating a home and family. She often employs the e...
Poetry. "I've been an admirer of Craig Beaven's poetry for years; for its deep focus as well as its immaculate craft. In NATURAL HISTORY the poet's domestic life—impending parenthood and marriage—is often in the foreground, but in the background of ...
Poetry. "If you focus on [Marks'] poems line by line and phrase by phrase, very often they turn out to be anything but calm. They turn out to be quite brilliant and quite insightful and sometimes quite reassuring but sometimes quite disturbing. I am...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Winner of the 2018 Nelson Poetry Award from the Kansas Authors Club. "Aaron Brown's ACACIA ROAD moves between the past and the present, and the known and the unknown, wandering the rooms of memory and the ...
Poetry. Winner of the 2015 Gerald Cable Book Award. "In Alison Jarvis' extraordinary WHERE IS NORTH, a life unfolds between breath-taking love poems. There's a powerful arc, but it's a vortex, more visceral than linear. Dramatic moments enclose each...
Poetry. "In WINTER GARDEN, everything slides toward the leaf rot and the twisted roots—the apparitions of a father, two countries, the landscapes of childhood, and the hinterlands of obsession and imagination. Aesthetics and hand tools, myth and win...
Poetry. Travel. In this unusual book, Oregon poet and carpenter Clemens Starck recounts in verse and in prose his involvement with Russia and the Russian language. "What began as a joke," writes Starck in the prologue, "soon turned into an obsession...
Poetry. "This accomplished first collection of poems by Randolph Thomas announces itself in rich poetic narrative and character invention, well-wed in the art of the persona, which has too often been rendered as unmasked autobiography in much of the...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Raphael Dagold's gorgeous collection of poems explores the ways that family and community narratives of pain, hope, loss, self-protection and self-preservation echo powerfully through generations. In Dagold's poems, intense l...
Poetry. "Charles Goodrich, who directs the miraculous Spring Creek Project, here writes a manifesto for world change one compact epiphany at a time. Administrator of local discoveries, he names himself a 'commonist,' loyal to the local, to the democ...
Poetry. Winner of the Library of Virginia 2014 Poetry Award. "In THE INVENTED CHILD, Margaret Mackinnon can say of a tiny child's appearance in a fairy tale 'the air shimmers as this miracle unfurls' and be speaking also of the way her poems appear ...
Poetry. "It would be a mistake to call this fourth collection of work set in the American Midwest 'farming' poems, though small farms and communities are at their center. These are poems about people: about what they make ofthemselves from what is o...
Poetry. "Gigi Marks's poems are intimate, in fact they explore intimacy as their primary concern, probing our desire to find ourselves reflected in an other, to sometimes give ourselves over to that other. In this sense, they are reminiscent of Dick...