 | Averno: Poems
Release Date: February 6, 2007| ISBN-10: 0374530742 | ISBN-13: 978-0374530747| Edition: Reprint Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glück’s tenth collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the same time resisting their reconciliation. Averno is an extended lamentation, its long, restless poems no less spellbinding for being without conventional resoltution or consolat...
 |  | 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. ...
|  | 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,...
|  | 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...
|  | Wolf's Coming! (Carolrhoda Picture Books)
Publication Date: January 10, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry In Traditional Form
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|  | Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems
Release Date: February 2, 2010The new poetry collection by Tony Hoagland, the award-winning author of What Narcissim Means To Me and Donkey GospelIn Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, Tony Hoagland is deep inside a republic that no longer offers reliable signage, in which comfort and suffering are intimately entwined, and whose citizens gasp for oxygen without knowing why. With Hoagland’s trademark humor and social commentary, these poems are exhilarating for their fierce moral curiosity, their desire to name the truth, and their celebration of the resilience of hu...
|  | The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (Oxford Handbooks)
Publication Date: January 6, 2012| ISBN-10: 0195398777 | ISBN-13: 978-0195398779The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry gives readers a cutting-edge introduction to the kaleidoscopic world of American poetry over the last century. Offering a comprehensive approach to the debates that have defined the study of American verse the twenty-five original essays contained herein take up a wide array of topics: the influence of jazz on the Beats and beyond; European and surrealist influences on style; poetics of the disenfranchised; religion and the national epic; antiwar ...
|  | Emma Dilemma: Big Sister Poems (This book won the Claudia Lewis Award)
Publication Date: February 22, 2011| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Emma is Jess's little sister . . . and her dilemma. How can one small girl be sweet, funny, imaginative, playful, and affectionate as well as a clinging vine, brat, tattletale, and nuisance–all at the same time? Why is Jess supposed to be a good big sister while Emma doesn't have to be a good little sister? The highlights and low points of this sibling relationship are insightfully evoked in short and simple poems, some funny, some touching, and all resonant with emotional truth. Every child with a you...
|  | The Cow
Publication Date: November 1, 2006This text is filthy and fertilized, filling and emptying, filling and emptying, atrocious and politic with meaning. The Cow is a mother, a lover, and a murdered lump of meat, rendered in the strongest of languages. "I cannot count the altering that happens in the very large rooms that are the guts of her." ...
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