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Ago: New & Selected Poems
“Ago is a richly detailed and elegantly crafted exploration of mutability fine tuned to the times and places where the men and women brought to life here have loved and lived. The luminous, wise,...
My Kindred
Balancing curiosity, beauty, surprise, and the weight of mortality, this book’s kinship embraces multitudes: fir, owl, manatee, and pollen; sun, sea, lily, and snake; the poet’s parents, Paul and...
Unlooked For
Lex Runciman’s poems arise from the felt sense that experience – whatever it is – goes by too quickly, leaving little chance for real consideration or sufficient understanding. What did we just see, or hear? What happened? What do we make of it? What does it make of us?
Dawn Chorus
Like the burgeoning sounds of morning from which Dawn Chorus takes its name, these poems emerge from the darkness of urban isolation into brilliant wilderness. More than half of the world’s humans...
Corvus and Crater
“Each poem in Corvus and Crater is a lens, a tractate, the short alphabet of light, a meditation. Begun from a limitation—54 poems with 54 syllables to commemorate a birthday of the same number—these...
The Hungers of the World
"These poems are strong and full of carefully controlled feeling. They are tender and precise evocations of the moral and sensory life of man." - Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize winner"Morgan demonstrates...
Navigating the Reach
“Mary Buchinger possesses native fluency in the language of velocities. In Navigating the Reach, the speaker touches her way, poem after spare poem, along a swift corridor of exits and disappearances....
My Aunts at Twilight Poker
The rich narrative poems in My Aunts at Twilight Poker provide nuanced and many-sided explorations of Irish and Diasporic life—with particular focus on Eamonn Wall’s hometown of Enniscorthy, Co....
My Blazing World
This is the third collection from New York City poet and two-time Pushcart nominee, Patricia Brody.