<p>Poetry. This anthology features the work of 105 poets, including work by Margaret Atwood, William Blake, Wendell Berry, Robert Bly, Billy Collins, Louise Erdrich, Martín Espada, Bill Holm, Galway Kinnell, Ted Kooser, David Lee, Denise Levertov, Pablo Neruda, Sylvia Plath, Pattiann Rogers, Gary Snyder, and Kevin Young. "This book proves that pigs DO fly"—Eric Utne, founder of Utne Reader.</p>

Low Down and Coming On: A Feast of Delicious and Dangerous Poems About Pigs

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GreatPlains: A Prairie Lovesong

David Steingass

Poetry. Environmental Studies. Joe Paddock, in DARK DREAMING, GLOBAL DIMMING, writes in apprehension of what he has come to call the Big Story. Panting along the trail of our private agendas, not so many of us care to hear this story. But its voice is insistent. It sounds now from the deep recesses of our minds. It sounds, too, as a sort of echo, from within almost everything we do. The Big Story, its plot beginning to move now at a truly rattling pace, is that our way of being here on planet Earth is reaching its limits, has brought us to an edge, to a point beyond which we had better not go.

Dark Dreaming, Global Dimming

Paddock, Joe

This book of poems contains two parts, 'Giving Birth' and 'The Lake that Whispers to Itself'; the first part celebrates family, the second, a poem sequence in four seasons, commemorates a lake.

My Only Home

Manfred, Freya

Poetry. BREAKING THE RULES is a collection of 107 ghazals and quasi-ghazals, with an introductory essay by the author on the rules of writing ghazals and his intent in breaking them. "It's wonderful to see John Rezmerski's many gifts come together in a magnificent multi-streamed confluence.... This book is the work of a master word-chef, highlighted with some of the most quotable lines I've read in some time"—Jim Heynen. "John Calvin Rezmerski explores the possibilities (and the limits) of the ghazal in every conceivable way. His poems cast their nets out over an ocean teeming with honest emotion and just as honest play"—Lola Haskins.

Breaking the Rules: Starting with Ghazals

Rezmerski, John Calvin

Poetry. Limited Edition. This anthology, selected from books published by Red Dragonfly Press over the press's first fifteen years, includes over three hundred pages of poetry and represents the work of over sixty poets. Limited to 750 copies, the dust jacket of this hardcover edition was letterpress printed at Red Dragonfly Press. Includes an introduction by the editor, as well as a bibliography of Red Dragonfly Press books.

Perfect Dragonfly: A Commonplace Book of Poems Celebrating a Decade & a Half of Printing & Publishing at Red Dragonfly Press

Poetry. The book is divided into two sections, "Tenant" and "Transit," and takes as its fundamental metaphor the fact that light from some stars reaches us long after the star itself has imploded. Poems in the first section focus on the body, on permanence, and poems in the second focus on movement, the ephemeral. These poems reflect the impressions left by all the places in which she has lived—Mexico, Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Denmark, and prairie pothole country.

Bodies of Light

Kildegaard, Athena

Yannis Ritsos was, without question, one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. This collection of essays by Peter Bien is the first book of literary criticism in English devoted entirely to the work of Yannis Ritsos. A fine and substantial introduction to this great modern Greek poet.

Yannis Ritsos: Collected Studies & Translations

Bien, Peter

History & Criticism

Poetry. DANCE WITH THE DARKER SISTER is Edith Rylander's third volume of poetry. In this poem sequence, the economic migrations of a working class family dance hand in hand with the history and myths of the American westward movement. In these tough-minded lyrics, one American woman asks herself, What does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to live a good life?

Dance with the Darker Sister

Rylander, Edith

Poems by Nancy Paddock. Two original woodcuts by Lynne Burgess.

Trust the Wild Heart

Nancy Paddock

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