Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> Subjects & Themes - Places

A two week vacation in Ohio provided inspiration for this book of poetry. Adventures and imaginings along the great lake and surrounding landscapes became a travel guide of poems, illustrated with drawings and photographs by the author.

Written over the past quarter century, this collection of poems reflects the way our understanding of life evolves as we age.

Midway through his career as an academician, LELjr began to write the poetry in this collection. The poems reflect his primal love of words and the sounds of language itself. In expressive formats that differ in meter, rhythm, and sound, he captures the emotions and sensations of particular moments, places, and loves in a maturing life. By writing about what has most affected him, the poet allows readers to experience vicariously their own changing awareness...

You can move from city to city, but escape from one place doesn't solve old problems, it sounds new alarms. These poems--which range from suburban Long Island and the barstools of New Orleans to rural Thailand and the reef bottoms of the Philippines--remind us that places can be fled, but the impact of experience remains. Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire is a coming to terms with a scorched earth policy toward the past. It bears witness to the struggle, perhaps the futility, of traveling the world to find the self.

In her stunning ninth collection of poetry, In June the Labyrinth, Cynthia Hogue tells a deeply personal lyric of love and loss through a mythic story. This book-length serial poem follows Elle, a dying woman, as she travels a trans-historical, trans-geographical terrain on a quest to investigate the labyrinth not only as myth and symbol, but something akin to the -labyrinth of the broken heart.- At the heart of Elle's individual story is the earnest female pilgrim's journey, full of disappointment but also hard-won wisdom and courage--inspired by Hogue's own composited experience...

JV Brummels' latest collection is frontpew@paradise is Brummels' best work to date; while the poems--as in his earlier collections, 614 Pearl, Cheyenne Line, City at War, Book of Grass, among others--focus upon the daily and particular concerns of the Great Plains and of ranch life, frontpew places Brummels' readers up close and personal into the sermon that a long life may be. The poems are not didactic by any means, but they are wise and contemplative, as the long road to paradise may be paved.

The haunting poetry of The Ghosts of Babylon is as near to the crucible of war as you can get without wearing Kevlar and camouflage.

Every war triggers the question--what's war like? The Ghosts of Babylon offers eyewitness accounts of warriors who lost their innocence dueling in the sands of the Iraqi inferno or fighting in the chilling Afghan mountains or on the khaki-colored plains. Wounds enshrouded under the bandages of headlines and sound bites will never bridge the gap between soldier and civilian.

Every war triggers the question--what's war...