Magpiety: New &amp; Selected Poems marks the return to print of one of the most celebrated American poets of her generation. "In the same way that Eliot's lantern throws the pattern of nerves on a screen, I see each of my books as connected to a psychic darkness that called out for a different articultion both in form and language," writes Melissa Green. Green's first book, The Squanicook Eclogues, published in 1987, was cheered by writers such as Joseph Brodsky, who observed: "Here, by the grace and wisdom of the language in which 'rhyme' rhymes with 'time,' comes the poet who commits everything she touches to your memory." Derek Walcott noted that "Melissa Green's reverential elations uplift and soothe the reader as naturally and as cleanly as the morning wind." About the New &amp; Selected, Pulitzer Prize Winner Tracy K. Smith wrote: "Across the span of her career, Melissa Green has rendered that which she sees-the natural world, yes, but also the surfaces of our lives: the lingering evidence of history alongside the things we do in the here and now-in language that draws readers deep into an indelible psychic space. Magpiety attests to a heart that is fearlessly attentive to the world, and exquisitely vulnerable to the great sweep of experience." And poet laureate Marie Howe noted: "Melissa Green might well be a 21st century version of Emily Dickinson, poet of ecstatic states and extremity. These are poems 'scratched in blood,' written by a survivor, a poet, a woman pulled back to life by 'savior language.' Go ahead I dare you. (Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?) 'Lift a serif, duck under and enter the world.'"

MAGPIETY Paperback Melissa Green

MELISSA GREEN

Arrowsmith Press

Having kept his writing all but secret for 40 years, Scott Harney has left behind an astounding gift to discover in his posthumous collection, The Blood of San Gennaro. One of Robert Lowell's last students, Harney's voice sings steady and true, with unforgettable wisdom and humor. From the complex streets of his youth in Charlestown, Massachusetts, to the intimate scenes set in his adopted city of Naples, Italy, the people and places in these poems feel so close that you could reach out and touch them. Lovingly collected and edited by his classmate, partner, and Pulitzer Prize winning biographer Megan Marshall, The Blood of San Gennaro will leave you wondering how such a polished gem remained hidden for so long.

The Blood of San Gennaro

Literature & Fiction

Harney, Scott

Poetry

Kythe Heller's Firebird sequence probes the capacity of the human spirit to endure under extreme conditions. Here fire is both a destructive and a unifying force, altering people and landscapes. Runaways, the sick and the poor, a forest and a smoldering mattress - these stunning images burn themselves into the reader's imagination. The female body becomes the site of trauma and myth, a place where "everything is burning, has been and is always burning."A poet, essayist, multimedia artist, and doctoral candidate at Harvard's Divinity School, Heller has published work in The American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, Tricycle, and elsewhere.Fiercely intelligent and relentlessly visceral, Firebird renders the world with singular clarity: "there were so many things that would look-nice-if they were seen through flames."Fanny Howe says: "This collection of poems is like the conference of birds, feathered angles and colors and converse. It's a beautiful unusual book you can look inside for a story, or pick a page to feel the heat. Suddenly fastened on enclosure in rooms with real people, the work is then released and let fly to the nearest summit."

Firebird

Heller, Kythe

Clytemnestra plotting her husband's murder, Ophelia criticizing her creator, and a report from Chernobyl all offer the poet occasions for reflections marked by a sophisticated wit and a philosophical probing reminiscent of Wislawa Szymborska or Adam Zagajewski. By turns urgent and ironic, Zabuzhko's poetry stands alongside the finest and most important work to emerge from Europe in the last half century.

Selected Poems of Oksana Zabuzhko

Zabuzhko, Oksana

The Age of Waiting by Douglas J. Penick is a personal memoir enriched by the history of Buddhism and a re-telling of foundational Buddhist tales. Penick confronts not only his own mortality, but also that of the planet. This eloquent, impassioned investigation links our contemporary reality - with its medical, economic, and ecological emergencies - to an inner landscape which may prove more constant, durable, and transformative than we realize. "In this illuminating work, Penick explores contemporary crises using the frame of a classic story from Buddhism... By reflecting on personal as well as global issues, Penick models an unflinching but also compassionate orientation toward life." - Publisher's Weekly A brilliant, compassionate, heart-breakingly written, woven, acknowledgement of the unimaginable Anthropocene rolling toward us. Douglas Penick Writes with insight and wisdom, with Buddhist stories, with the life of the Buddha, with turning points in his life with his Teacher, Trungpa Rinpoche, and with touching, telling alightings from his own life from childhood until his aging (slightly) now. Well worth anything you can give to its reading, musing, in this vast humming, in this "Ocean of Buddhas." - Zentatsu Richard Baker

The Age of Waiting

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Douglas J. Penick

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Fanny Howe's Manimal Woe maps the intersection between history and family as few books have. Through poetry, prose, and primary sources, Howe invites us on a journey with the spirit of her father, Civil Rights lawyer and professor Mark DeWolfe Howe, who died suddenly in 1967. The past, both personal and historical, is utterly present, yet just out of reach. From her ancestors' dark legacy as slave traders, to her father's work during the Civil Rights era, to her own interracial marriage and family, Fanny Howe delves deep into the heart of the mysterious and the mystical, and emerges with the questions that so rarely find their way to us.

Manimal Woe

HOWE, FANNY

Parenting & Relationships

Product Description 
The Silence Of Your Name revolves around the suicide of Marshall's charismatic and idealistic young husband, Tim Buxton, while they were in Ghana with Operation Crossroads Africa - a progenitor of the Peace Corps. Marshall weaves in her husband's hidden family history, one tied to Boston's wealthy social scene and the deaths of notorious Black Sun publisher Harry Crosby and Tim's aunt Josephine Rotch Bigelow. By allowing readers to experience these distinct periods of time in great detail, Marshall illuminates the toxic effects of denial across classes and generations.\nAs Marshall moves on with her life, now a novelist and young widow, she must navigate her way in the '70s publishing world with the guidance of her friend Philip Roth, while still processing the grief of losing her husband. Decades later, Marshall finds herself in the footprints of her past, journeying to Ghana and reuniting with a royal Queen-Mother and the steadfast community that offered her its support decades earlier. As Pulitzer Prize-winning author Megan Marshall writes, she "is relentless in her quest for understanding and release from grief and guilt [...] but wisdom comes incrementally and her readers partake eagerly at each stage until we, too, have learned that grief may be transformed into love - and brilliant, soothing prose." 
 About the Author 
Alexandra Marshall's essays and short fiction have appeared in AGNI, Five Points, Hunger Mountain, Literary Hub, Ploughshares, The American Prospect, The American Scholar, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and in several anthologies. She has published five novels (Gus in Bronze, Tender Offer, The Brass Bed, Something Borrowed, and The Court of Common Pleas) and a nonfiction book, Still Waters. With the publication of this work, earlier versions of The Silence of Your Name: The Afterlife of a Suicide have at last achieved a Beginning, a Middle, and an End.

The Silence of Your Name: The Afterlife of a Suicide

Self-Help

Marshall, Alexandra

Death & Grief

Flame in a Stable

Edmunds, Martin

Mrs. Schmetterling

Robin Davidson

Robin Davidson's Mrs. Schmetterling is a book of poems like no other. Paired with and inspired by the incredible artwork of Sarah Fisher, this book brings us into the deeply personal yet universally relatable inner world of a woman questioning herself and her world with intelligence and fearlessness. Mrs. Schmetterling thoughtfully and flawlessly hooks onto our inner world with her own, and won't let go. The second Poet Laureate of Houston, Robin Davidson is the writer you've been looking for.

Davidson, Robin

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MAGPIETY Paperback Melissa Green

The Blood of San Gennaro

Firebird

Selected Poems of Oksana Zabuzhko

The Age of Waiting

Manimal Woe

The Silence of Your Name: The Afterlife of a Suicide

Flame in a Stable

Mrs. Schmetterling

Mrs. Schmetterling