"The extravagant lyricism, the questing intelligence, the spiritual longing, the honesty and the zany humor that mark his many previous books are all at play here."-from the introduction by fellow luminary Gary Young

This intensely personal collection of symphonic prose poems uses politics,...

This fourth book of poems by an American living in Ireland celebrates the ordinary and extraordinary with urgency, passion, and tenderness. Poems veer from Irish cliffs, to American hospitals, to European street corners with gentle ironic wordplay, gravitas, and revelation.

Theodore Depp...

Scientists use the word "biogeography" for the geographical distribution of plant and animal life. Sandra Meek's Biogeography is a powerful metaphysical meditation on the connections between us humans and the larger natural world. Her elegant verse entwines public and private histories, un...

"Patricia Fargnoli . . . does not miss a stitch of beauty, neither does she avoid the darker aspects of our own human awareness of our continual aging, to which she gives sharp and poignant attention. I have been her champion since her first book Necessary Light was published, and I conti...

Central to this poetic cycle is an ethereal fugue of women's voices: old and young, remembered and forgotten. Acutely intimate and sensual verse articulates the complexity and wit of feminine consciousness and yet imbues this collection with a warmth and elegance that is irrefutably original and ...

The Us, Joan Houlihan's tantalizing third book of poetry, is a poetic sequence spoken by a chorus of nomadic hunter-gatherers. When the Us try to live with a stronger, more advanced culture ("Thems"), they are held to a lower, slave-like role and so must live outside civilization in order ...

“Halliday’s is an entire poetics of the available—a direct, often quietly comic voice capable of piercing emotional climaxes or bracingly tart cynicism.”—Ken Tucker, The New York Times Book Review

"A modern romantic poet, Halliday is wittily alert to our social interact...

This small volume is both companion to and descendant of Yakich's award-winning Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross. Each poem here shares a title with a poem in the previous book. Each expands on its namesake poem, giving the background, but a background you've never im...