“This compelling collection speaks with firm tenderness to the inner-struggle of human agency that we all feel, caught between our resoluteness and our limitations, especially during these trying times. Through Aguero's arresting metaphors and intim...
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Poetry. Latinx Studies. "It is simply not possible to discuss Pablo Medina's work without first recognizing his sheer mastery. In THE FOREIGNER'S SONG, Medina skillfully merges the bard and the troubadour as his poems at once court love, share origi...
Poetry. "Who in the world of poetry is like Stephen Kuusisto? I want to give you lines like 'pale geographies of the heart,' or 'I love the Jesus who lets me stay blind,' unforgettable words, but no one moment conveys the beauty and austere brillian...
Poetry. "I've been a grateful reader of Roger Greenwald's work for many years. This moving collection names again and again the hard names, with their deep tone-falls, that mark the inner landscape of his poetry. It's a sensuous wordscape of life an...
Poetry. "In this transcendent new collection, memory is the fulcrum of clear-eyed, beautiful, and life-affirming reflection. Richard Foerster's BOY ON A DOORSTEP brings together some of his finest work of seven previous volumes, plus a generous gath...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Essays. This is Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn's first collection of essays since Walking Light."There comes a time in a poet's development as a writer and as a reader when he or she is more interested in how a...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Moving through losses both private and public, the poems in TOTEM: AMERICA, Debra Kang Dean's third full-length collection, sing of a "thee" who is sometimes a beloved, sometimes a country, and sometimes both.
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...
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...