This is a collection of poems, translations, imitations, and parodies which range from the grief-stricken brooding to exuberant clowning around. The title is the author's Library of Congress identification, which he adopts now that it has adopted him.

A collection of poems about family, history, religion, travel and the natural world. All the poems return to the theme of performing the offices of comfort, sometimes triumphantly with joy or humour, sometimes reluctantly with an acknowledgement of incompleteness and insufficiency.

A collection of poems about family, history, religion, travel and the natural world. All the poems return to the theme of performing the offices of comfort, sometimes triumphantly with joy or humour, sometimes reluctantly with an acknowledgement of incompleteness and insufficiency.

Paula Closson Buck uses the the body as world and the world as body in this collection of poems, which journey into marriage and memory via ship or the body's furious train - to Spain, Germany, the Turkish baths or the corner store for bread.

In this collection, the poet focuses on the natural world and its creatures, about music and about human love and relationships, widening his experience from the perspective of a black man.

A collection of the poetry of John Stone. The title is both a quest and mystery: water as source and water as life. The poems follow life's eddies and flows - along the streets of Oxford, through an Atlanta neighbourhood, to experience the loss of a spouse, but also the healing of time.

Recipient of the 1997 Winthrop University Poetry Series Award, this volume contains a collection of lyrical verse. The poems feature in turn infants and adolescents; misguided adults, futilely attempting to conquer and understand the difficulties of modern life; and death.

By turns comic and poignant, the poems in Portrait in a Spoon explore the uses and abuses of language as it intersects the uses and abuses of power. Taking George Eliot's observation that even Milton, looking at himself in a spoon, would have to "submit to have the facial angle of a bumpkin," James Cummins investigates the question of identity-the illusions we sustain, the passions we conceal, and the stories that surround both. In his previous collection, The Whole Truth, Cummins rewrote to absurd and magisterial ends the Perry Mason saga. In this much-awaited second volume of poems, he...