Poetry. "In Robert Grunst's poems the city's forgotten signs rise from memory into midday light. BLUE ORANGE conveys the luster of words, revealing both an older and brightened sense of the world. These poems are at once both shrewd and true."—Stephen Kuusisto

Blue Orange

Literature & Fiction

Grunst, Robert

History & Criticism

Ashland Poetry Press

Poetry. Jan Lee Ande's INSTRUCTIONS FOR WALKING ON WATER is the year 2000 winner of the Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including New Letters, Image, Notre Dame Review, Mississippi Review, Nimrod, and Poetry International. Ande lives in La Jolla, California, and teachers at The Union Institute. "Jane Ande's well-crafted poems are like a fresh mountain stream that springs from ancient sources. They are animated by a deep reverence for the world, by a sense of mystic awe, by a feeling of transcendental plenitude. They put us in the presence of great mysteries"--Edward Hirsch.

Instructions for Walking on Water

Ande, Jan Lee

Poetry

Poetry. "This is a beautiful, bitter book. Her poems, compelling histories, local testimonies, handfuls of bees frozen, then alive, stinging like love, or the furious assaults of atomic radiation, hold our attention because, like a sharper's three shells with one pea, they reveal secrets within our grasp, which are yet never quite possessed. Poetry ought to shake us, convince us, test us. This poetry does. I love it" --Dave Smith, Editor of The Southern Review. Corrinne Clegg Hales is the author of one prior book of poetry, Underground, and two chapbooks, Out of this Place, and January Fire which is the winner of the Devil's Millhopper Chapbook Prize. She has also recieved two NEA Fellowship Grants and the River Styx International Poetry Prize and is currently the Co-Coordinator of the M.F.A. Program at California State University, Fresno.

Separate Escapes

Hales, Corrinne

Poetry. "His lines are witnesses of tremendous density and speed of the more ever powerful NOW in human history. As technology had to adapt to the godhead's voracious needs, so the poets have to eat exactly the same spot with even higher lucidity, more intelligence and compassion to mourn, to understand and to redeem. Richard Jackson does it with more inclusiveness than anybody else I know. His writing helps us to make sense. It protects us against suffocation. It bathes our lives"—Tomaž Šalamun.

Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems

Jackson, Richard

Poetry. Finalist for the 2005 National Book Award, THE MOMENT'S EQUATION also won the 2003 Richard Snyder Publication Prize. This is Vern Rutsala's eleventh collection of poetry. "There is one way in particular in which Vern Rutsala could and in my view should be an example to us all, an example of how to put to maximum use the simplest things in our lives"-Donald Justice.

The Moment's Equation

Rutsala, Vern

Poetry. "There is a fine exactness as well as a beautiful contemplative quality that informs her poems. This is work with depth to it yet she has a delightful sense of the absurd which sometimes sparks through the serious themes she addresses. She is endowed with insight and compassion. Hers is writing that clearly shows a responsible concern for the life of this world"--Ruth Stone. Christine Gelineau's REMORSELESS LOYALTY won the 2004 Snyder Publication Prize from the Ashland Poetry Press.

Remorseless Loyalty

Gelineau, Christine

Poetry. "The poems in Nathalie Anderson's CRAWLERS explore family, in its traditional sense and as a metaphor for the relationships of the world at large, mining dark and complicated truths. Anderson's imagery is densely beautiful, disarmingly rich. Hers is an expansive and generous poetry—desperately moving, meticulously crafted."—Denise Duhamel

Crawlers

Anderson, Nathalie

Poetry. "Whether confronting heavy matters close to home and family, taking in gritty facets of the urban landscape, or bringing to sympathetic light anonymous, mainly female workers in the shadows and giving each her moment of perfectly articulated presence, Maria Terrone's poems are quietly insistent, recuperative acts of imagination. At times spiced by a wry humor, at times opening to small touches of rapture ("I rise daily, a miracle"), this Secret Room in Fall suggests a world that is one "dense, resplendent cargo," of which the poet takes exacting, loving stock"-- Eamon Grennan.

A Secret Room in Fall

Terrone, Maria

Poetry. Winner of the 2006 Richard Snyder Publication Prize. "'Oh, deliver me from the familiar,/from the old maps and their destinations/that are pre-destinations, nothing more.' In this first collection, Blake has found her own way to answer her prayer: she confronts the ordinary in her life and changes its course, its importance, through keen consideration and well-chosen words. Blake's skills rest not only in her blend of colloquial and exacting diction with a sharp ear and enticing music but also in her delightful way of seeing the everyday: 'Love will pitch a tent anywhere--.../Marriage vows to build a home.' The new bride in her new Eden, shopping the aisles and naming the incidentals for house and family, is a lot like Eve, who 'knew the word fruit/but not its implications.' The answer to Blake's prayer is not as simple as it might appear, though. Daughter, wife, mother: this is a web in which it is difficult to move about. Ultimately, this collection celebrates the charm and grace that belong to domestic life, the world in which love has built its house. A smart and thoughtful collection; highly recommended"--Louis McKee, Library Journal.

Permanent Address

Blake, Lorna Knowles

Poetry. Michael Miller's THE JOYFUL DARK is the first book of poems by an accomplished American poet who is currently in the seventh decade of his life. Michael Miller's poems have been praised by such renowned poets as James Merrill, Richard Wilbur, Stephen Spender and Thom Gunn, and have appeared in such venues as The Kenyon Review, The Sewanee Review, The American Scholar, The New Republic, The Southern Review and The Yale Review. THE JOYFUL DARK is, in part, a celebration of sexuality within a life-long committed marriage. Michael Miller also writes beautifully of the natural world, with many individual poems devoted to embodying in language the spirit of individual animals--White Owl, Shark, Young Whales, Crow, Red-Wing, Mallard, Hummingbird. His poems are, in Richard Wilbur's words, a "pleasure in their seeing, their assured phrasing, their true and proportionate feeling."

The Joyful Dark

MILLER, MICHAEL

Parenting & Relationships

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