The waters part before her; I hear Handel¿s music.A walk through life, with attention tom inute details, marks this lovely collection by Karen Mandell. Each day is a new walk with these poems, careful and deliberate.
She seamlessly joins our conscious and unconscious perceptions of the world in fresh and surprising ways.These are poems to linger over."-Sheila Whitehouse "Find a cozy corner and open this book.
Finding Water, Holding Stone: Poems
John Bradley¿s Erotica Atomica is a theater of the absurd, and the macbre: the worst weapons of the twentieth century examined in painstaking, mad detail, becoming surreal objects of our own folly.
To Curve: Poems
Halfway Decent Sinners
Ecology II: Throat Song from the Everglades
The desert narratives in Diana Woodcock's collection become scenes of lush lyricism, color and life bursting from the arid landscapes.
The sharp edge of wit, of piercing vision, dominates the jaunty work of Steve DeFrance.
Possessing Yourself
The Century of Travel
David Galef finds character in Japanese characters, and narrative in the bridges between their definitions. The short pieces in KANJI POEMS take us on a journey to a Japan of many times and places.
The poems in Allison Creighton's DRAWING DOWN THE MOON explore the tension between the internal world of the mind and of dream, and the external world-how one pervades the other.
The fine lyric poems in TERRA INFIRMA traverse interior and exterior spaces-- from grief to joy, from Tuscany to Orkney to "the changed place we call home.
Inside Me an Island is a collection of the sediment of displacement, re-placement, and imagined arrival.
The lyric poems of Neva Herrington's OPEN SEASON, grounded in specificity, face the world, open in all seasons.
" "With fierce tenderness, with a delicate strength, Ellen Steinbaum's BRIGHTNESS FALLS maps the brave, risky journey from bereavement to the 'stunned contentment' of new love.
A collection of poems by women belonging to the New Formalism movement. One of their number, Sonia Sanchez, writes: "I say, step back sisters, we're rising from the dead, / I say, step back Johnnies, we're dancing on our heads."
"Memory, history, family, the future: these are the preoccupations of Lee Herrick's Gardening Secrets of the Dead"--Amazon.