 | Math Talk: Mathematical Ideas in Poems for Two Voices
Publication Date: January 25, 1993| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Presents mathematical ideas through poetic dialogues intended to be read by two people. ...
 |  | Plath: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Release Date: October 13, 1998| Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets A representative selection of verse by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who left in the wake of her personal tragedy a legacy of poems that combine terrifying intensity and dazzling artistry. With their brutally frank self-exposure and emotional immediacy, Plath's poems, from "Lady Lazarus" to "Daddy," have had an enduring influence on contemporary poetry. ...
|  | Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Publication Date: March 15, 1993| Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series An award-winning poet's testimony of the war in Vietnam. ...
|  | Left-Handed: Poems (Borzoi Books)
Release Date: March 20, 2012| Series: Borzoi Books An emotionally riveting collection that tells a powerful story of passion, loss, and transformation. Left-handed unfolds in the manner of an intense, searching novella. At its center is a one-way dialogue with an elusive character who beguiles and torments but also inspires the unnamed narrator, who at midlife is telling the tale. These poems—decisive, wrenching, exquisite—show an overpowering force, at once disruptive and creative, invading a settled existence. They take us from the streets of New York City to a house ...
|  | 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...
|  | You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake
Publication Date: January 18, 2011A sharp-witted investigation of love, work, and human responsibility in the age of consumption and hyperexposure."[Moschovakis'] poems illuminate, amuse, and provoke. Plato would have loved them."—Ann LauterbachIn a world where we find "everything helping itself / to everything else," Anna Moschovakis incorporates Craigslist ads, technobabble, twentieth-century ethics texts, scientific research, autobiographical detail, and historical anecdote to present an engaging lyric analysis of the way we live now. "It's your life," she tells the reader, "and we h...
|  | The Bones Below: Poems by Sierra DeMulder
Publication Date: March 15, 2010A clear voice of her generation, Sierra DeMulder's writing offers a gritty, sincere perspective on the subtle joys and modern pains of living. Her debut collection The Bones Below delicately carries the reader to a place of brutal, beautiful honesty. DeMulder's personal revelations complete a touching portrait of the young artist and her fearless exploration of the human experience, bare in its rawest and most tender forms. ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | Tell Me (American Poets Continuum)
Publication Date: July 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 1880238918 | ISBN-13: 978-1880238912Poems of loneliness and late nights, liquor and loss. ...
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