The Devil Take a Crooked House, Tom O'Leary's long-awaited second book, is like Fool at the Funeral, awash with ribaldry, blarney, and winning Irish formality which references the tragic. It cannot be mistaken for the work of any other writer.

The Devil Take a Crooked House

Literature & Fiction

O'Leary, Tomas

Poetry

Lynx House Press

"The deftly drawn settings and sensitively rendered landscapes that were created with such sensual prose in the early work became more challenging in the later work, as if testing his reader's tolerance for following him into ever more technically demanding altitudes of prose. If only the most supple of readers reached the pole, those were the readers he wanted. But you were also rewarded for getting there. If he laid down his prose like a gauntlet, you were a more agile reader than when you began the course if you survived it." - Roger L. Conover, from the Introduction

Beautiful Daughter: A Hendrie Reader

Hendrie Jr., Don

"At the heart of this poignant book is grief, is, as Lynne Burris Butler writes, 'the enormity / of what we know too late.' These poems have been distilled in the crucible of hard experience; they sparkle with life's ironies, with the contention between an image of order and a chaotic violence ready to erupt just at the edge of vision."

Sunday Afternoons with Tolstoy

Butler, Lynne Burris

In Sympathetic Systems, Carole Simmons Oles explores with great poignancy and precision the landscape of parenthood where it is most difficult to know one's own heart and mind, that is, where independence collides with love and concern. These are beautiful, necessary poems.

Sympathetic Systems (Lynx House Books)

Oles, Carole Simmons

Winner of the 2000 Blue Lynx Prize

Driving Face Down: Poems (Lynx House Press)

Robbins, Doren

History & Criticism

This winner of the Balcones Prize for Poetry contains poems of family, love, betrayal, belief, and profound speculation. It is a poetry of long, musical lines, astonishingly original metaphor, and clear and direct voice. This is a remarkably intimate and moving work.

Bread Without Sorrow (Lynx House Press)

Hodgen, John

An Indigo Scent After the Rain (Lynx House Press)

Grabill, James

Winner of the Blue Lynx Prize Recipient of a Swarthout Award and an Academy of American Poets Prize, as well as the Blue Lynx Prize,

A Book Called Rats: Poems (Lynx House Press)

Murphy, Miguel

The poems in this first collection by Lisa Beskin explore the elastic, chancy nature of the self, the whims and slippages of narrative, and the mysteries of language - flawed, glorious, limited, illimitable. With great wit, humor, and naked grace, the poems compile a fresh lexicon of human emotion and appetite.

My Work Among the Faithful (Lynx House Press)

Beskin, Lisa

A third generation Japanese American, Kitano writes with an eerie, clarified composure of her family's struggles--immigration, culture shock, internment--and of her own private struggle to understand them and herself. Her confident, beautifully crafted poems are suggestive of a mature poet at the top of her form; but, amazingly, this is her first book.

Birds of Paradise: Poems

Kitano, Christine

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