While The Windmill Watched: A Slice Of Rural America In The 1950s

MCGREGOR

Jackie Pfeiffer; Knop

Janine Pfeiffer

CavanKerry Press

A collection of power and humor in earthy eroticism, invoking both the fever and hope in wakeful dreams. A bold work of the elegiac past and the visceral present converging in provocative imagery. There is often an undercurrent of longing in Chase’s poems―the longing of hunger, of sex, of unfinished business with the dead. Central to the collection is the title poem, a spiraling nightmare that explores the messy and terrifying commingling of religion, death and history’s unpardonable sins.

Kazimierz Square

Literature & Fiction

Chase, Karen

Poetry

Whether chronicling the Civil Rights movement in the South, the philosophical observations of a fly-fishing physician, or the extraordinary daily drama of fatherhood, the poet is always seeking the precise image with which to tell his story. The common note threading the poems is an unabashed humanity.

A Day This Lit

LEVY, HOWARD

A collection of 130 poems contributed by Frost Place residents, many of whom have risen to prominence. Some contributors' poems were written during their tenures on the farm. Such poets as Robert Hass, Gary Miranda, Mary Jo Salter, Cleopatra Mathis, Denis Johnson and Stanley Plumly explore the depth and breadth of their time spent in Frost’s New Hampshire. Eminent poet Donald Hall wrote the foreword and includes a cache of Frost’s poems from Mountain Interval.

The Breath of Parted Lips: Voices from the Robert Frost Place Volume One

Founded twenty years ago by poet, memoirist, and clinical psychologist Joan Cusack Handler, CavanKerry Press has published fine literary work by established and emerging writers focused on the pursuit of understanding what it means to be human through insightful, accessible writing. This unique collection looks back at CavanKerry's first two decades with excerpts from each of the one hundred books in its publishing catalog, featuring poems and memoirs that capture the heart of living—through life's joys, illnesses, and moments of both gratitude and challenge.\nThis collection features work by renowned writers of contemporary poetry and memoir such as David Cho, Robert Cording, Ross Gay, John Haines, Joan Cusack Handler, Marcus Jackson, Gray Jacobik, January Gill O’Neil, Jack Ridl, Mary Ruefle, Maureen Seaton, Jack Wiler, Baron Wormser, and many others. Places We Return To is the perfect introduction to CavanKerry’s catalog, representing the deeply resonant writing for which the Press is known. Several authors in the CavanKerry library have gone on to find acclaim as poets laureate, Pushcart recipients, and finalists in national prizes. Places We Return To is a collection of work of the highest caliber.

Places We Return To: A Celebration of Twenty Years Publishing Fine Literature by CavanKerry Press, 2000-2020

Writing with deceptively straightforward language, and finding much of her imagery in the equally deceptive simplicity of nature, Peggy Penn recalls those moments that can shape or shatter our comfortable perspective of life, and she transforms these encounters, finding in them both questions and answers. A late-night scavenging of a ravenous bear in “Dancing in the Dark” is about the other as intruder, invoking sexuality and fear.

So Close

Penn, Peggy

Critical essays about the poet and her work, interviews with Kizer, and poems written in her honor. Kizer’s gifts are acknowledged in this book: her humor, her mythological scope, political awareness, satirical wit, feminism, craft, lyricism, her role in shaping literary institutions and her charisma. Carolyn Kizer is a celebration of the poetry itself, of the enduring work that places Kizer in the pantheon of living American poets.

Carolyn Kizer: Perspectives on Her Life & Work

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Mary Ruefle is an observer who seeks to bring sense and order to her world. This is a world that can span continents and centuries, but in each. the poem is defined by where she is at that moment. Many of the poems in Apparition Hill were written in or about China, and Ruefle brings an eye for the universal to what she finds in the exotic, as she transcends both time and geography.

Apparition Hill

Ruefle, Mary

Martin Mooney’s poems are darkly comic, muscular, inventive and highly charged. Politics simmer beneath the surface of poems that find their energy in the everyday urban experience, be it work at the shipyards, an early morning fishing expedition, the building of houses, or a visit to the local pub. A patently Irish humor, replete with shadows and irony, informs the poet’s observations―and the second part of the collection is a kind of novella through poetry that follows the exploits of a young Irish expatriate and a cast of people on the fringe as they stumble through daily unpleasantries.

Grub

Mooney, Martin

“An anthology of work from more than 150 poets, judiciously selected from The Frost Place, a sanctuary for poets and poetry. The collected poems honor Robert Frost, himself a lifelong teacher of poetry who encouraged the creative visions of young students, and Donald Sheehan, who has nurtured the legacy of the Frost Place. An original, eye-opening lyrical compendium, flourishing with the brilliance of creative work.” ―Midwest Book Review

The Breath of Parted Lips: Voices from The Robert Frost Place, Vol. II

History & Criticism

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