The journey author Capildeo describes with ferocity and an ebullient, unexpected sense of fun is also emotional, and she entices the reader into traveling with her.

Features "Life Policy."

Sacco and Vanzetti, the Rosenbergs, and Aileen Wuornos. A witch, a pirate, a slave who poisoned her master. A serial killer, a Quaker, a case of mistaken identity. The earliest to be electrocuted, gassed, and lethally injected; the last to be publicly hanged. In her first book, Habeas Corpus, acclaimed poet Jill McDonough gives us fifty sonnets, each about a legal execution in American history. From four hundred years of documentation she conjures - and honors - a chorus of the dead.The sonnets, headed meticulously by name, date, and place, are poignant with the factual, with words and...

A road poem of the American mid-West, an epic of migration, an examination of borders, and a meteorological tour of the energy crises.

"A Brief History of Time," Beers' first collection of poetry, is at once an exploration of what it is to grow up in rural America and a treatise for social justice. These poems, many of them award-winning, span a wide range of styles-from plainsong free verse to sestinas to nearly epic works. The characters/speakers in Beers' poems range from the rural working class to mythological characters. These poems look at the world with an honest, unflinching eye. She is one of the up-and-coming poets from Generation X we will be hearing a great deal from in the future.

A combination of verse and prose poetry. This work is sequel to "The Harbour Beyond the Movie".

'Sills' gathers together poems from four of O'Brien's early books and combines them with later work, forming a selection from 1960-1999.

From the depths of longing to the London Bombings "Recital" offers a poet's journey looking at our world over the space of a year. Taking the lunar cycle as its central theme, Siddique's book surveys our doubts, desires and dislocations and unites us in a celebration of love.

"Pitch" is a skeptical monument, tracking an encounter with an edge we might pitch over, with the pitch dark of our time, with our lurching desires to do the necessary work of seeing and understanding. This book manifests one of the more distinctive ethical-aesthetic practices in contemporary poetry.

Contains poems that are direct and emotional. This title includes poems that do not hide behind imagery. They deal head on with the heart of shame, with parenting, illness, loss, regret and falling in love with the wrong people.