"At its best, original, flat, urgent, the voice stays with us… an awkward, restless, honest presence, that won't sit down and talk, and won't go away." —Jean Valentine

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Literature & Fiction

Fletcher, Marjorie

Poetry

Alice James Books

"Lee's poems are like places. I enter them and he talks to me there. I hear his voice. The rare quality is how full these places seem of things and feelings but without crowding me. Rather they make me believe I'm really there. I like Lees poems a lot."—Dick Lourie

Curses

Rudolph, Lee

Falling off the Roof

Lindsey, Karen

A collection of poems by Kinereth Gensler, Jeannine Dobbs, and Elizabeth Knies.

Three Some Poems

Gensler, Kinereth

Dobbs, Jeannine

Knies, Elizabeth

"Pati Hill is always doing extraordinary things, quite unlike anything anyone else is doing, full of wit and ingenuity and imagination. Impossible Dreams combines all of these…"—George Plimpton

Impossible Dreams

Hill, Pati

Making the House Fall Down

Hawley, Beatrice

Ruth Whitman has recreated the journal that Tamsen Donner lost on her nightmarish journey to California in 1846. With a grant from the National Endowment, Whitman traveled along the route of the Donner party, keeping her own diary and watching the American landscape unfold as it did to the eyes of a ninteenth-century New Englander. The journal, transforming historical fact into poetic insight, is a testimony to the optimism, dogged survival, integrity and courage of a woman pioneer. --Janet Falon, The Boston Globe

Tamsen Donner: A Woman's Journey

WHITMAN, Ruth

"A remarkable celebration of life as it is lived This is an intelligent, mature, unique voice in American poetry, one that speaks directly and piercingly to important universals.” —Choice

Appalachian Winter

Sholl, Betsy

The poems in Jane Kenyon’s first book are full of respect for a life deeply felt. Her vision apprehends the mystery beneath everyday circumstances and objects, from the thimble to the edges of the map. The final section is translations of six poems by Anna Akhmatova.

From Room to Room: Poems

Kenyon, Jane

[Schneberg] will speak for us, hear us, know our secret trouble, our intimate imagery and behavior. She has the life-strength, curiosity, perception, language. To read her is to learn that we survive by caring for strangers. Willa Schneberg is a poet with healing power. I read her with gratitude.”—Milton KesslerThis is the other side of the lullabyequal parts reassurance and warning—the night world where the woman sleeps alone on old sheets, listening as the child listens, for the new and terrifying inflection of familiar sounds, foot-tap, pipe knock and something else: the enormous insistent music of her own waking, the aubade of her own voice.”—Carol Muske

Box Poems/Old Sheets

Schneberg, Willa

Warren, Larkin

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