 | 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. ...
 |  | MACNOLIA: Poems
Publication Date: December 5, 2005"Jordan is a wizard at capturing vernacular in both conventional forms and his own invention." --Black Issues Book ReviewIn 1936, teenager MacNolia Cox became the first African American finalist in the National Spelling Bee Competition. Supposedly prevented from winning, the precocious child who dreamed of becoming a doctor was changed irrevocably. Her story, told in a poignant nonlinear narrative, illustrates the power of a pivotal moment in a life. ...
|  | 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,...
|  | Ignatz (Stahlecker Selections)
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|  | 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. ...
|  | Please (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
Publication Date: October 20, 2008| Series: New Issues Poetry & Prose Please explores the points in our lives at which love and violence intersect. Drunk on its own rhythms and full of imaginative and often frightening imagery, Please is the album playing in the background of the history and culture that surround African American/male identity and sexuality. Just as radio favorites like Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway, and Pink Floyd characterize loss, loneliness, addiction, and denial with their voices, these poems chorus of speakers transform moments of intimacy and humor into spontaneous musi...
|  | Wolf's Coming! (Carolrhoda Picture Books)
Publication Date: January 10, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Further Adventures in Monochrome
Publication Date: July 3, 2012"Yau tweaks and twists language to express a painful comic vision in which sensual vividness combines with fierce despair."—BooklistJohn Yau engages art criticism, social theory, and syntactical dexterity to confront the problems of aging, meaning, and identity. Insisting that "True poets and artists know where language ends, which is why they go there," Yau presses against the limits of language, creating poems that are at once cryptic, playful, and insightful. Included in its entirety is his groundbreaking serial poem, "Genghis Chan: Private Eye," and a n...
|  | 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...
|  | 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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