 | Midwinter Day
Publication Date: May 1, 1999| Series: New Directions Paperbook (Book 876) Perhaps Bernadette Mayer's greatest work, Midwinter Day was written on December 22, 1978, at 100 Main Street, Lenox, Massachusetts."Midwinter Day," as Alice Notley noted, "is an epic poem about a daily routine." A poem in six parts, Midwinter Day takes us from awakening and emerging from dreams through the whole day-morning, afternoon, evening, night-to dreams again: ". . . a plain introduction to modes of love and reason/Then to end I guess with love, a method to this winter season/Now I've said this love it's all I ...
 |  | Home Burial (Lannan Literary Selections)
Publication Date: May 29, 2012| Series: Lannan Literary Selections "A lyricist at heart, McGriff is a masterful maker of metaphor."--Third Coast"There is majestic beauty in these descriptions, and it is clear that McGriff honors this place as a place--not as mere setting, but as a distinct element of his verse."--Gently Read LiteratureMichael McGriff's second full-length collection explores interior landscapes and illustrates life in a rural community in the Pacific Northwest. Whether tender or hard-hitting, McGriff juxtaposes natural images of deep forests, creeks, coyot...
|  | The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes (New Directions Paperbook)
Publication Date: May 17, 1997| Series: New Directions Paperbook (Book 844) Conceived as a convenience to those readers concerned with doubt and faith, Denise Levertov's 34 selected poems originally were published in seven separate volumes.The poet presents a selection of thirty-four of her own poems culled from previously published volumes, tracing her movement from agnosticism to Christian faith and her oscillation from doubt to affirmation along the way. ...
|  | The Elephant Engine High Dive Revival
Publication Date: September 1, 2009Tour Anthology of poets, teaming up for a tour of the US in a small van. Heart charging, socially active verse. ...
|  | Affrilachia: Poems by Frank X Walker
Release Date: March 1, 2000Frank X Walker is a leading black poet in Kentucky. This book brings together his finest poems of the last ten years. Walker coined the word "Affrilachia" to help make visible the experience of African-Americans living in rural areas like Appalachia. The book is a high-quality, smyth-sewn paperbook, printed on 70-lb vellum, with a tritone photograph on the cover. Kentucky author Gurney Norman writes: "The poems in Affrilachia are funny and sad, tragic and hopeful, angry and determined, and as filled with generosity and love as poetry by any American writer in a gen...
|  | This Great Unknowing
Publication Date: September 2000When Denise Levertov died on December 20, 1997, she left behind forty finished poems, which now form her last collection, This Great Unknowing.Few poets have possessed so great a gift or so great a body of work—when she died at 74, she had been a published poet for more than half a century. The poems themselves shine with the artistry of a writer at the height of her powers. ...
|  | Ignatz (Stahlecker Selections)
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|  | The Singer: A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict (Singer Trilogy the Singer Trilogy)
Publication Date: January 18, 2001| Series: Singer Trilogy the Singer Trilogy The Singer quickly became a favorite of evangelists, pastors, artists, students, teachers and readers of all sorts when it was originally published in 1975. Retelling the story of Christ through an allegorical and poetic narrative of a Singer whose Song could not be silenced, Miller's work reinvigorated Christian literature and offered believers and seekers the world over a deeply personal encounter with the gospel.Now available in hardcover for the first time in many years, this edition features a new cover illust...
|  | Eunoia: The Upgraded Edition
Publication Date: October 14, 2005The word ‘eunoia,’ which literally means ‘beautiful thinking,’ is the shortest word in English that contains all five vowels. Directly inspired by the Oulipo (l’Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle), a French writers’ group interested in experimenting with different forms of literary constraint, Eunoia is a five-chapter book in which each chapter is a univocal lipogram – the first chapter has A as its only vowel, the second chapter E, etc. Each vowel takes on a distinct personality: the I is egotistical and romantic,...
|  | Phantom Noise
Publication Date: April 1, 2010In the aftermath of best-selling Here, Bullet, Brian Turner deftly illuminates existence as both easily extinguishable and ultimately enduring. These prophetic, osmotic poems wage a daily battle for normalcy, seeking structure in the quotidian while grappling with the absence of forgetting. ...
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