Poetry. In AFTER MORNING RAIN, Sam Hamill's final book, released shortly after his death, the revered poet and translator of Chinese poetry, returns to his most constant themes, of reverence for ancient masters, his loved ones,the natural world, pac...
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Poetry. "Inventive, ambitious, nimble, quick-witted, Tony Leuzzi's MEDITATION ARCHIPELAGO amasses poems of technical virtuosity and capacious insight. An alert, original personality is at work in this collection as subterranean vaults of feeling are...
Poetry. "George Drew holds a high place among our lyric poets, and is a masterful storyteller besides. For evidence of his narrative skills, see Elegy for Jared, The Men, Matthew Brady Speaks, About Connecticut and others. FANCY'S ORPHAN is an outst...
Poetry. "Deena Linett's high lyric sensibility shines its dark lantern upon inevitable losses. What I treasure is the way that her poems can turn with a panther-like, predatory quickness from the beautiful to the terrible, all within the bounds of h...
Poetry. Women's Studies. "Lucille Clifton's wish that she hopes her poetry will 'comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable' describes the project of this ambitious new book. In Nancy White's ASK AGAIN LATER, she offers vivid reimaginings of ...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Essay. Edited by Steven Huff. Bill Knott (1940-2014) was one of the most brilliant and iconoclastic American poets of our time, who liked to think of himself as an outsider even while publishing sixteen books in his life...
Literary Nonfiction. "In this follow-up to his first book, Plato's Erotic Thought: The Tree of the Unknown, Professor Geier attempts to clarify the fundamental and intimate relationship between 'the soul in a true learning condition and the Beloved ...
Poetry. "In PRICKING, Cuello smoothly erases the present moment and foregrounds the terrors of sectarian conflict and religious oppression. Esclarmonde de Foix, Jeanne d'Arc, and the unfortunate victims of witch hunts tell their truths in spare pers...
Poetry. "Wendy Mnookin's poems are deft reports from the unkempt country of love. Her fierce lyrics, her 'choreography / of desire"' shakes us again and again with intelligence, humor, and ardency. Mnookin's work bears abiding fidelity to Emerson's ...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. "If a great poet, as Randall Jarrell once suggested, is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by lightning a couple of times, then Israel Emiot is certainly one of the great poets of...
Poetry. Translated from the German by Stuart Friebert. "The poems in BE QUIET share with other good poems the capacity to penetrate and move readers, but I think they can do even more. I think Raeber's poems have the capacity to change readers. That...
Poetry. Religion. PSALTER is a book of psalms for the agnostic who still looks for sacred order in the doubter's soul, in the heart's intelligence, in the voice of the PSALTER's own singer. The very molecules of our makeup force an order to her cons...
Poetry. "As SLOW MOUNTAIN TRAIN winds across the borders of nations and of dream and waking, we discover that 'our silences are really full of noise,' and we become part of a conversation that is uncommon by virtue of its commonality: 'words acknowl...
Poetry. "Very few more recently invented forms feel a truly usable engine of meaning and feeling. The 'cadae' in Tony Leuzzi's THE BURNING DOOR are just that—you notice the formal pleasure, but the poems themselves are what thrill. Leuzzi couples th...
Poetry. This new volume of Kurt Brown's poems collects the best of his many past books, and the best of the new poems, as well as his most prevalent themes, and the "wonderment" that he was always anxious to share with his readers. I'VE COME THIS FA...