Leap is a book about not looking away. These poems focus on the hard subjects: a child s life-threatening illness, a mother s struggle with the serious illnesses of all her children, the ends of marriages, the deaths of lovers, the slow demise of parents, one s own mortality, humanity s physical and emotional frailties. But the poems in Leap are not grim. They resonate with life and survival, with richness of rhythm and language. They reach backward to embrace Primo Levi, Poe, and Berryman, and forward to anticipate a generation yet unborn. There is a keen eye observing the living and a keen...
Leap is a book about not looking away. These poems focus on the hard subjects: a child s life-threatening illness, a mother s struggle with the seriou...
Soaring across extensive terrain, from the working world of Detroit to American suburbia and pop culture, from the European landscape of World War II to the current war in Iraq, Christine Rhein opens her personal world to the world at large. In poems that explore the historical, social, and scientific as well as the poignant and humorous, Rhein relishes life s juxtapositions. FROM THE BOOK "Friday Night" and we're not perched at some neon-lit Manhattan bar, not dancing in the ballroom of the San Francisco Ritz but mixing martinis in our Michigan kitchen, a pot of...
Soaring across extensive terrain, from the working world of Detroit to American suburbia and pop culture, from the European landscape of World War II ...
This twenty-first winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry unravels the landscapes of childhood migrations and passages across oceans and continents, seasons and languages, mapping the geographies of longing, loss, grief, and conflict--Provided by publisher.
This twenty-first winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry unravels the landscapes of childhood migrations and passages across oceans an...
What Bruce Lack offers in the poems in "Service" is truthcomplex, ambiguous, paradoxical, contradictory, impossibleabout the experiences of a Marine fighting the Iraq War and the jarring transition that comes with returning home to find the war reduced to background noise for a remote civilian population. Bruce Lack s forceful, authentic poetry confronts the human cost of sending young men and women to fight a war of questionable justification against an insurgency unbound by rules of engagement. Lack s poems engage honestly with the frustration of fighting an elusive, ruthless enemy, the...
What Bruce Lack offers in the poems in "Service" is truthcomplex, ambiguous, paradoxical, contradictory, impossibleabout the experiences of a Marine f...
