"Night Watch on the Chesapeake" is Peter Meinke s third collection of poetry. The poems traverse a wide landscape of topics from playing baseball, the death of a friend, divorce, and even poetry itself."
"Night Watch on the Chesapeake" is Peter Meinke s third collection of poetry. The poems traverse a wide landscape of topics from playing baseball, the...
Denise Duhamel's much anticipated new collection begins with a revisionist tale--Noah is married to Joan of Arc--in a poem about America's often flawed sense of history. Throughout "Two and Two," doubles abound: Noah's animals; Duhamel's parents as Jack and Jill in a near-fatal accident; an incestuous double sestina; a male/female pantoum; a dream and its interpretation; and translations of advertisements from English to Spanish. In two Mobius strip poems (shaped like the Twin Towers), Duhamel invites her readers to get out their scissors and tape and transform her poems into 3-D...
Denise Duhamel's much anticipated new collection begins with a revisionist tale--Noah is married to Joan of Arc--in a poem about America's often fl...
Named U.S. Poet Laureate for 2004-2006, Ted Kooser is one of America's masters of the short metaphorical poem. Dana Gioia has remarked that Kooser has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation. In Flying at Night: Poems 1965-1985, Kooser has selected poems from two of his earlier works, Sure Signs and One World at a Time (1985). Taken together or read one at a time, these poems clearly show why William Cole, writing in the Saturday Review, called Ted Kooser "a wonderful poet," and why Peter Stitt, writing in the Georgia Review,...
Named U.S. Poet Laureate for 2004-2006, Ted Kooser is one of America's masters of the short metaphorical poem. Dana Gioia has remarked that Kooser has...
In "Domain of Perfect Affection, "Robin Becker explores the conditions under which we experience and resist pleasure: in beauty salon, summer camp, beach, backyard, or museum; New York or New Mexico. The Mosaic injunction against / the graven image inspires meditations on drawings by Durer, Evans, Klee, Marin, and del Sarto. To the consolations of art and human intimacy, Becker brings playfulness Worry stole the kayaks and soured the milk suffused with self-knowledge: Worry wraps her long legs / around me, promises to be mine forever. In The New Egypt, the narrator mines her family s legacy:...
In "Domain of Perfect Affection, "Robin Becker explores the conditions under which we experience and resist pleasure: in beauty salon, summer camp, be...
"Grace" is John Hodgen s third book of poetry. He is a poet of extreme contrasts, offering us the dregs of despair, yet instantly recalling hope in the beauty of nature or in a moment in time when all is right, when we realize grace. In For the Leapers the narrator relates, We will fall past the angels, / we will fall from such height, / our tears will lift up from our eyes. / We will fall straight through hell. / And then we will rise. Hodgen s poems roam through history, religion, man-made disasters, baseball, pop culture, and Wal-Marts,...
Winner of the 2005 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry.
"Grace" is John Hodgen s third book of poetry. He is a poet of extreme contrasts, offering us th...
The name of the title poem Brother Salvage: a genizah, provides a skeleton key to unlock the powerful forces that bind Rick Hilles s collection. A genizah is a depository, or hiding place, for sacred texts. It performs a double function: to keep hallowed objects safe and to prevent more destructive forces from circulating and causing further harm. Brother Salvage serves exactly this purpose. The poems are heartrending and incisive, preserving stories and lives that should not be forgotten. Yet, through the poet s eloquent craft, painful histories and images are beautifully and...
The name of the title poem Brother Salvage: a genizah, provides a skeleton key to unlock the powerful forces that bind Rick Hilles s collection...
"Fata Morgana" mingles personal experience, history, mythology, politics, and natural science to explore the relationships of conception and perception, the self finding its way through a physical and social world not of its own making, but changing the world by its presence.
"Fata Morgana" mingles personal experience, history, mythology, politics, and natural science to explore the relationships of conception and perceptio...
Winner of the 2008 Bobbit National Poetry Prize. Few others in contemporary poetry are so brilliantly able to combine wit and weight, to charge the language so it virtually glows in the dark. Hicok's poems just plain rock. They rock because they are gorgeous. They rock because they are sad and turn on the radio. They dance our 'clumsy living' with our shadows and our isolations to a music that always, always remembers the original delight in which 'the feel of things, if we] cherish, helps us] live / more like a minute than a clock.' --Beckian Fritz Goldberg"
Winner of the 2008 Bobbit National Poetry Prize. Few others in contemporary poetry are so brilliantly able to combine wit and weight, to charge th...
"American Poetry Now" is a comprehensive collection of the best work from the renowned Pitt Poetry Series. Since its inception in 1967, the series has been a vehicle for America's finest contemporary poets. The series list includes Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Denise Duhamel, Lynn Emanuel, Bob Hicok, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser, Larry Levis, Sharon Olds, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Virgil Suarez, Afaa Michael Weaver, David Wojahn, Dean Young, and many others.
Throughout its forty-year history, the Pitt Poetry Series has provided a voice for the...
"American Poetry Now" is a comprehensive collection of the best work from the renowned Pitt Poetry Series. Since its inception in 1967, the series ...
The torso facing east, the head nearly west, as if she couldn't take in the sight of her own skin and its failings, its parts spilling. D. A. Powell What is it about the poems in Red Sugar, Jan Beatty's astonishing third collection, that brings to mind the incomparable music of Miles Davis? 'It's just that I can't play like anybody else... I can't do anything like anybody else, ' Davis insisted. These poems go their own sure way, making their own fierce music, charting 'the fluid stages of / empire & slavery' in the human body, yours and mine, as we rehearse our sometimes sorry but always...
The torso facing east, the head nearly west, as if she couldn't take in the sight of her own skin and its failings, its parts spilling. D. A. Powell W...
