Robert Phillips is a prominent figure in what has been called America's neglected -transition generation---poets born in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Spinach Days is his sixth full-length collection, following his critically acclaimed Breakdown Lane (Johns Hopkins, 1994), named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. In content and in its various use of forms, Spinach Days is Phillips' most innovative book yet. There are long narratives and short lyrics, villanelles and somonkas, haiku and found poems, free verse and eclogues, on subjects ranging...
Robert Phillips is a prominent figure in what has been called America's neglected -transition generation---poets born in the late 1930s and early 1...
Accessible and wry, at times comic, and often mournful, Daniel Anderson's poetry is relentlessly attentive to the splendors of the natural world. But the poems collected here--previously published in such leading literary journals as Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, New England Review, and Southwest Review--are not relegated simply to the realm of pastoral meditation. They give voice to the sorrowful and sometimes unfortunate things we say and think. They chronicle, with both precision and care, the many ways in which jubilation and lament...
Accessible and wry, at times comic, and often mournful, Daniel Anderson's poetry is relentlessly attentive to the splendors of the natural world. B...
-I was born in a land of bayous, raised between rivers, - writes Glenn Blake in his latest collection of short stories. -There is a place in Southeast Texas where two rivers meet and become one. There is a long bridge over these waters, and as you drive across, you can look to the south and see where the Old River and the Lost River become the Old and the Lost. You can look out as far as you can see and watch this wide water become the bay.-
The stories in Return Fire are set in the swamps, bayous, and sloughs of Southeast Texas, a region that is subsiding--sinking inches...
-I was born in a land of bayous, raised between rivers, - writes Glenn Blake in his latest collection of short stories. -There is a place in Southe...
A collection of stories in which a federal agent quits his job after his warning about a terrorist attack goes unheeded; a woman fleeing her abusive lover realizes her safety will forever be out of reach; and, an American visitor to Ireland learns that he will always be too much of an outsider to understand the country's politics and cultures.
A collection of stories in which a federal agent quits his job after his warning about a terrorist attack goes unheeded; a woman fleeing her abusive l...
In the pivotal poem -Marking Time, - which appears almost exactly halfway through Peter Filkins's fourth collection of poetry, the speaker reflects on the death of a sibling and how time is marked by our memories. These memories, these moments--whether spent contemplating a painting by Vermeer or the simple toss of a bean bag--ultimately shape who we are. -Yet you are with me here, with me here again, / where neither that moon nor you exist, but live / tethered to this memory composed of words.-
These are poems unafraid to be graceful and engaging. They attain an assurance and...
In the pivotal poem -Marking Time, - which appears almost exactly halfway through Peter Filkins's fourth collection of poetry, the speaker reflects...
-I was born in a land of bayous, raised between rivers, - Glenn Blake writes. -There is a place in Southeast Texas where two rivers meet and become one. There is a long bridge over these waters, and as you drive across, you can look to the south and see where the Old River and the Lost River become the Old and the Lost. You can look out as far as you can see and watch this wide water become the bay.-
These fourteen stories are set in the swamps, bayous, and sloughs of Southeast Texas, a region that is subsiding--sinking inches every year. The characters who inhabit Blake's haunting...
-I was born in a land of bayous, raised between rivers, - Glenn Blake writes. -There is a place in Southeast Texas where two rivers meet and become...
The poems in The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel navigate the evanescent boundaries between the public and the private self. Daniel Anderson's settings are often social but never fail to turn inward, drowning out the chatter of conversation to quietly observe the truths that we simultaneously share and withhold from one another--even as we visit friends, celebrate a young couple's union, or eavesdrop on the conversations of others. These twenty poems include meditations on teaching hungover undergraduates, wine tasting among snobs, and engaging the war on terror from the...
The poems in The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel navigate the evanescent boundaries between the public and the private self. Daniel And...
