A 60-poem sequence inspired by the migration of the monarch butterfly is given new life in this audio CD, read by the poet herself. Originally released in print, the poems are an extended meditation, exploring the intelligence, strength, and fragility in the natural world. The poet also examines the relationship of humans with nature, considering the differences between instinct and intellect, and natural order versus societal fumbling. While addressing the chaos, the poet also seeks to create harmony, and the result is a collection of poems that are deeply inspired as well as profoundly inspiring.

The Monarchs

Hawthorne Deming, Alison

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Kore Press

Poetry. Winner of the Kore Press 2002, selected by Jane Miller. "In subjects ranging from the expulsion of the Jews in the fifteenth century to intimacies between contemporary lovers, we are made to feel our own needs and terrors expressed, our own cities left behind. These poems are transparent, yet everywhere reflect things and people darkly, in emergency."—Jane Miller

Rigging the Wind (Kore Press First Book Award for Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Barber, Jennifer

Contemporary

Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Wendy Burk. "We hear a subtle call and response in Tedi's work. Private event and history and the sensual world prompt each other and choir to suggest not predictable epiphanies, but a congeries of provocative ambiguity that only coheres between light and the trace of a gesture...the falling and rising rhythms of death and desire...I've been waiting hungrily for this moment and whether or not you know it yet, you have too"--Forrest Gander. Tedi Lopez Mills is a poet, essayist and translator who was born in Mexico City.

WHILE LIGHT IS BUILT

MILLS, TEDI LOPEZ

Poetry

As the title portends, the poems in this debut collection are mostly about the many good-byes said in any given life—to a marriage, a familiar home in a long-beloved locale, an elderly father, a threatened landscape—and despite varied subjects and lighter emotions conveyed at times, there is a seriousness in the poems that permits self-reflection. Memories and imagined fears or familial changes are fleshed out through geography, current and culturally-relevant happenings, brands, and expert knowledge of earth science and botany in poems that are at all times highly sensory and delightful.

Various Modes of Departure: Kore Press First Book Award Winner for 2003 (Kore Press First Book Award for Poetry)

Fries, Deborah

Poetry. Through the use of nuanced observation, rich language, and an original voice, Elline Lipkin explores contemporary womanhood, the concerns of travel, cross-cultural themes and family legacy. Recalling the feminist themes of Adrienne Rich, the steely resolve of Sylvia Plath, and the feeling for loss and spliced cultural heritage that Eavan Boland expresses, this work serves as the next link in a lineage of women poets. In poems such as "Response to Miss Havisham" and "Ars Poetica With Lines by Dickinson" the poet responds to her foremothers within the world of literature. Yet in poems such as "Rara Avis" and "At the Corner of Sunset and Morningside" she places herself uniquely within her own landscape, at her own desk, and in her own voice. Other poems such as "My Parents Meet at La Grande Place," or "My Grandfather's Last Bird" connect language and family as a fractured heritage, one that has allowed for "a split of words, a splice of vows," as the poet writes in "Sweet Asylum."

The Errant Thread

Lipkin, Elline

Poetry. "LOVELIEST GROTESQUE is a darkly fascinating book. It's a sweet, shape-shifting creature and a fun postmodern romp. Page after page fills with energetic surprises, keeping the reader intrigued—formal quatrains juxtaposed against prose vignettes... short-line riffs against skinny sonnets against a ballad that spreads across the page against a pantoum with the word "orient" in it. Finally, the slippery slope of too much fun might stop for a nano moment to contemplate an important existential question: "Why were there manatees at all?" Obviously, the answer is this: after 9/11, in the new millennium, all formal discourses must explode, splinter and fragment and coalesce again into a stunning, new voice."—Marilyn Chin

Loveliest Grotesque

Lim, Sandra

Allusions to the early 20th century intellectual Walter Benjamin appear throughout this book of poetry that explores such diverse topics as history, shadows, and the season of spring. Shifting through perspectives that blur gender lines and chronological boundaries, there is a darker undercurrent running through the poems that adds emotional depth to the lines and makes it all the more striking when the verse returns to spring.

Benjamin's Spectacles: 2007 Kore Press First Book Award Winner for Poetry (Kore Press First Book Award for Poetry)

Spring Ulmer

The poems presented in this collection were culled from the best by late poet Jeremy Ingalls. She was known for her use of classical, mythological, biblical, and Oriental allusions. Her inclusion of lore in her poetry adds depth as well as elements of herself, as a scholar and admirer of academia, to lines that already resonate from imagery. The collection illustrates why Ingalls has been proclaimed 'a poet of the ages.'

Selected Poems

Ingalls, Jeremy

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Women's Studies. POWDER brings us poetry and personal essays from 19 women who have served in all branches of the United States military. Contributors to POWDER have seen conflicts from Somalia to Vietnam to Desert Shield. Many are book authors and winners of writing awards and fellowships; several hold MFAs from some of the country's finest programs. The essays and poems here are inspired by an attempted rape by a Navy SEAL; an album of photos of the enemy dead; heat exhaustion in Mosul; a first jump from an airplane; fending off advances from Iraqi men; interrogating suspected terrorists; the contemplation of suicide; and a poignant connection with women and children in Bosnia. Their writing exposes the frontline intersection of women and soldiering, describing from a steely-eyed female perspective the horror, the humor, the cultural clashes and the fear.

Powder: Writing by Women in Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Poetry. "This moving mosaic of the 1904 World's Fair carries the poignancy of an old family album, a presence at once here and gone. Through the poet's pitch-perfect ear and keen eye for the voices, vantages and scraps of the actual, come souvenirs of real lives transfixed in the glare of a triumphant technology's artificial light."—Eleanor Wilner First Book Award Winner 2008, selected by Harryette Mullen

Souvenirs of a Shrunken World (Kore Press First Book Award for Poetry)

Iglesias, Holly

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