 | Dispatch from the Future: Poems
Release Date: July 24, 2012"I love these poems." —Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine Funny, surprising and lyrical, these poems range from the deserts of the Southwest to the abysses of Facebook. From online dating to beauty pageants, Greek mythology to road trips, Leigh Stein gives us resilient young women in longing and in love. Post-confessional—like Sylvia Plath raised on MTV, or Anne Sexton on Twitter—the poems seduce with a narrative hook or startle with a pop culture reference, all the while wrestling fresh meaning out of our fantasy-saturated mod...
 |  | Coal Mountain Elementary
Publication Date: April 1, 2009A singular, genre-defying treatise from one of America’s most innovative political poets, Coal Mountain Elementary remixes verbatim testimony from the surviving Sago, West Virginia miners and rescue teams, the American Coal Foundation’s curriculum for schoolchildren, newspaper accounts of mining disasters in China, and full-color photographs of Chinese miners by renowned photojournalist Ian Teh.A poet and labor activist heralded by Adrienne Rich for “regenerating the rich tradition of working-class literature,” Mark Nowak regularly leads...
|  | The Undertaker's Daughter (Pitt Poetry Series)
Publication Date: October 24, 2011| Series: Pitt Poetry Series “Poems that stick with you like a song that won’t stop repeating itselfin your brain, poems whose cadences burrow into your bloodstream,orchestrating your breathing long before their sense attaches its hooksto your heart.”—Washington Post on Captivity ...
|  | The Father
Release Date: April 21, 1992The Father is often regarded as Sharon Olds’ most important and powerful single book. In its poems, Olds narrows her focus to a sequence of startling and provocative poems about a daughter’s final days with her dying father. It is an elegant, passionate examination of love and loss, a bittersweet, transcendent elegy. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Lichtenberg Figures (Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets)
Publication Date: September 1, 2004| Series: Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets The Lichtenberg Figures, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, is an unconventional sonnet sequence that interrogates the relationship between language and memory, violence and form. “Lichtenberg figures” are fern-like electrical patterns that can appear on (and quickly fade from) the bodies of people struck by lightning.Throughout this playful and elegiac debut—with its flashes of autobiography, intellection, comedy, and critique—the vocabulary of academic theory collides w...
|  | Plume: Poems (Pacific Northwest Poetry Series)
Publication Date: February 15, 2012| Series: Pacific Northwest Poetry Series Washington State Poet Laureate, 2012-2014The poems in Plume are nuclear-age songs of innocence and experience set in the "empty" desert West. Award-winning poet Kathleen Flenniken grew up in Richland, Washington, at the height of the Cold War, next door to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, where "every father I knew disappeared to fuel the bomb," and worked at Hanford herself as a civil engineer and hydrologist. By the late 1980s, declassified documents revealed decades of environmental contamination and deception at...
|  | Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck
Release Date: March 15, 2011Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebrado—half islander, half outsider, a broken one. Now the pirate captain Bernardino de Talavera uses Quebrado as a translator to help navigate the worlds and words between his mother’s Taíno Indian language and his father’s Spanish. But when a hurricane sinks the ship and most of its crew, it is Quebrado who escapes to safety. He learns how to live on land again, among people who treat him well. And...
|  | Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open: Poems
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|  | The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged (Owl Book)
Publication Date: March 15, 1979| Series: Owl Book The only comprehensive gathering of Frost's published poetry, this affordable volume offers the entire contents of his eleven books of verse, from A Boy's Will (1913) to In the Clearing (1962). Frost scholar Lathem, who was also a close friend of the four-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, scrupulously annotated the 350-plus poems in this collection, which has been the standard edition of Frost's work since it first appeared in 1969. ...
|  | The Spoken Word Revolution Redux (A Poetry Speaks Experience)
Release Date: April 1, 2007| Series: A Poetry Speaks Experience From its earliest days to today, poetry has always been a spoken art. On the page and out loud, poetry is the home for the brilliant, the rebellious, the artists and performers who are changing the world. Today's spoken word revolution is the literary equivalent to grabbing a culture by the collar and shaking it...hard. In the tradition of The Spoken Word Revolution, Redux brings more of the gripping, moving, innovative, often hilarious poetry in the oral tradition. This redefining collection gathers multiple forms of "spoken wo...
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