"For a Limited TIme Only, "Ronald Wallace's eighth collection of poems, is perhaps his darkest and most meditative to date, focusing his experiences with illness, old age, and mortality; his father-in-law's death after a long bout with Alzheimer's; his step-father's death after a painful struggle with esophageal cancer, his own bout with prostate cancer. These personal experiences form the core of the first three sections of the book, but are mediated by theological and philosophical speculations that find further voice in the character of a Mr. Grim, whose angry, self-pitying, gruff, comic,...
"For a Limited TIme Only, "Ronald Wallace's eighth collection of poems, is perhaps his darkest and most meditative to date, focusing his experiences w...
This title is part anthology and part commentary wherein Bly seeks to rejuvenate modern Western poetry through his revelations of 'leaping' as found in the works of poets from around the world.
This title is part anthology and part commentary wherein Bly seeks to rejuvenate modern Western poetry through his revelations of 'leaping' as found i...
WINNER OF THE 2007 DONALD HALL PRIZE IN POETRY Selected by Bob Hicok
"Burn and Dodge" is part serious/part serious play and opens with a frank and occasionally antic exploration of contemporary vices, such as Guilt, Envy, and Regret. Some poems dodge such preoccupations by playing with a nonce form called sonnet/ghazal. The collection contains a sequence of poems called Current Events, based on newspaper stories. that is also a playful meditation on the nature of the interrogative pronouns (Who, What, Where, When . . . ) as well as another series of homophonic sonnets called...
WINNER OF THE 2007 DONALD HALL PRIZE IN POETRY Selected by Bob Hicok
"Burn and Dodge" is part serious/part serious play and opens with a frank...
WINNER OF THE 2007 AGNES LYNCH STARRETT POETRY PRIZE
"Dismantling the Hills" is a testament to working-class, rural American life. In a world of machinists, loggers, mill workers, and hairdressers, the poems collected here bear witness to a landscape, an industry, and a people teetering on the edge of ruin. From tightly constructed narratives to expansive and surreal meditations, the various styles in this book not only reflect the poet's range, but his willingness to delve into his obsessions from countless angles Full of despair yet never self-loathing, full of praise yet never...
WINNER OF THE 2007 AGNES LYNCH STARRETT POETRY PRIZE
"Dismantling the Hills" is a testament to working-class, rural American life. In a world of ...
"Love on the Streets" is a selection from two of Doubiago's book-length poems, "Hard Country" and "South America Mi Hija" and from the collections "Psyche Drives the Coast" and "Body and Soul," plus new poems. "Hard Country" takes place in 1976, on a journey across the U.S. with a lover, climaxing on the lake where his mother drowned herself when he was ten. "South America Mi Hija" is a journey the poet made with her 15 year-old daughter to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. "Psyche Drives the Coast" are poems written while Doubiago lived mainly on the road, and in diverse, passionate communities of...
"Love on the Streets" is a selection from two of Doubiago's book-length poems, "Hard Country" and "South America Mi Hija" and from the collections "Ps...
WINNER OF THE 2007 CAVE CANEM POETRY PRIZE Selected by Claudia Rankine Prose poems that profile the interrelationship of the two central characters, looking deeply into their psyches and thoughts of race, class, and identity.
WINNER OF THE 2007 CAVE CANEM POETRY PRIZE Selected by Claudia Rankine Prose poems that profile the interrelationship of the two central char...
In 1970, as the war in Vietnam was heating up, Ostriker was awaiting the birth of her son. On April 30, President Nixon announced the bombing of Cambodia. On May 14, four students were shot and killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State University. The poems in this collection confront Ostriker s personal tumult as she considered the world she had brought her son into."
In 1970, as the war in Vietnam was heating up, Ostriker was awaiting the birth of her son. On April 30, President Nixon announced the bombing of Cambo...
Alicia Ostriker seizes the opportunity to take us where too few poets have been able to take us: into a domain of what our fabulists like to call the -golden years.- as we live longer, we become inevitably curious about the actual texture of these late years, curious about what happens in the soul. Out of that curiosity is a new kind of poetry born, an elderstile that has passion and irony, wisdom, folly, clarity and tenderness. In her keen engagement with the self and the world, Ostriker offers us a voice and a perspective that explore the territory of seventy and beyond.
Alicia Ostriker seizes the opportunity to take us where too few poets have been able to take us: into a domain of what our fabulists like to call the ...
