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Drake, Terri

Poetry

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The Orphan Conducts the Dovehouse Orchestra

Woodard, Deborah

On John Muir's trail

Thompson, Gary

Part Song

Nelson, Muriel

<p>Poetry. New to SPD. Previous winner of The Theodore Roethke Prize and Young Poets prize from Poetry Northwest, Joseph Di Prisco adds to his laurels with this new volume that won the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize. POEMS IN WHICH, both the title and beginning of every poem in the volume, claims for the form subjects as seemingly disparate as a spa and a white wolf, John F. Kennedy and Paris. Everything particular becomes the subject and domain of verse. This is a joyous book. Even addresssing unquenchable longing and the shadows of death and failure, the lyric engines of these poems propel us with vital combustions. Operatic, in that suffering and sadness are sung with the same gusto and octave-expanse as triumph and discovery, this work is proof of the presence of a large, funny and indefatigable spirit -- Dean Young.</p>

Poems in Which

Prisco, Joseph Di

<p>Poetry.New to SPD. These poems capture wonderfully the complex and rich interconnection between the human mind and heart and nature. A moving and beautiful collection -- Susan Griffin. Melissa Kwasny is the author of two novels Modern Daughters and the Outlaw West and Trees Call for What They Need. She makes her home in Montana.</p>

The Archival Birds

Kwasny, Melissa

Poetry. "This woman can flat-out write. Her work is so fresh and full of energy, the smoke's still rising from the page. She takes the grit of our daily lives and shapes it into wonder and surprise" - Jim Daniels. "I'm drawn to the voice of this butcher's daughter wrapping pork chops and steaks alongside the men, meditating on Yeats and Mother Jones; where the Alaskan winter stumbles onto the cutting floor in his white coat, hating his job. These are tough poems of toil and kin and Arlitia Jones is a poet. It's in her bones and blood. She takes the language of that place and uses it, like a tool, to chisel deep and lasting marks" - Dorianne Laux.

The Bandsaw Riots

Jones, Arlitia

Poetry. The intensely lyrical poems in Deborah Woodard's first full-length collection collapse the usual boundaries between dream and so-called reality to explore varieties of loss and the resonance of myth, classical as well as personal. Sure-footed, precise, and gorgeously intelligent, they are both solace and cause for celebration.

Plato's Bad Horse

History & Criticism

Poetry. Lynne Knight's first book won a Quarterly Review of Literature prize in 1996. Her second full-length collection has won the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize for 2002. In it Knight explores the idea that betrayal, whether a violation of trust or an unwitting revelation, is part of our inheritance as humans. "In poems fueled by a combination of passion and panic, Knight disarms us only to expand our vision. She turns the inner world outward and exposes what we've kept secret-sometimes even from ourselves. . . . These are driven poems uttered in the heart's vernacular"-Andrea Hollander Budy.

The Book of Common Betrayals

Knight, Lynne

Poetry. The obsessions that enkindle PARTICULATE issue from a simple paradox: matter assumes definition by the force of our attention, and yet what attention most keenly illumines is the disintegration of the defined. In such a world, where any resting point is "blown sand, a landscape adrift," loss is a dominant geography. How to live and love against a backdrop of impermanence and devastation is a principal inquiry of Joanne Allred's poems. Their investigations, whether mythic, philosophic, iconoclastic, or romantic, are always grounded in the particular: a seal placenta, a father-in-law's murder, a sprig of Indian paintbrush. In these poems, grace and revelation-from improbable, often homely, sources-are less transcendent than by-products of deep seeing by a poet enraptured of the natural world.

Particulate

Allred, Joanne Harris

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