Song at the Edge of the World

Literature & Fiction

Fred Johnston

Poetry

Salmon Poetry

Originally from Ireland, this highly praised award-winning poet has taught at Yale and been the Director of The Poetry Center, Cleveland state University.

The Hour of Pan/Ama

Nuala Archer

On the Counterscarp: Limerick Writing, 1961-91

Humor & Entertainment

Anthony O'Brien et al

Humor

Rough Landings

Ted McNulty

This collection explores territory where poems haven't dared to venture-the toxic side of the Information Age as it veers out of control. Its three-poem introduction and book-length sonnet sequence draw inspiration from the sonnet's origins to update it for the Digital Age. Linked from its earliest days with legal proceedings and a modern psychology of conflicted love, the sonnet held together what wanted to fly apart. Acknowledging this tradition of warring but tightly bound forces, Fried re-conceives the contemporary sonnet as an arena where fragments of self and samples of lingo play off against one another. And coloring these contests is a love intrigue that implicates the reader.

Cohort

Fried, Philip

Andrea Cohen's poems and stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Threepenny Review, Glimmertrain, The Iowa Review, Memorious and elsewhere. Her first poetry collection, The Cartographer's Vacation, received the Owl Creek Poetry Prize; other honors include a PEN Discovery Award and Glimmertrain's Short Fiction Award. She directs the Blacksmith House Reading Series and writes about marine research at MIT. "...an ideal and recommended introduction for those new to her poetic style, and a welcome update for those previously familiar with her work..."--Midwest Book Review. "For a poet with Cohen's gift, it must require immense control to stop once she starts. When Cohen turns to a topic like 'Current Events,' she swerves away from the expected meditation on today's headlines and begins to catalog a simpler kind of current event instead."-Rain Taxi Review Summer 2010

Long Division

Cohen, Andrea

In this lively and very readable collection; O'Brien has returned to many of her earlier themes, including dislocation - as she seeks to capture the precise moment of an event, its fulcrum. There are poems of heart and hearth and human relationships, familial, sexual, and historical: a father neglecting to teach his young daughter to swim, the trapped girls of The Chinese Chest, and poems of nature; often as closely concerned with the nature of man as the countryside they describe. Many of these poems, though serious in intent, are dealt with in a lighthearted and often witty manner, exploring a fascination with the ways of the world and its moral contradictions.                               ""An excellent collection and choice pick."" Midwest Book Review

Lovely Legs

O'Brien, Jean

Downstate, the first Irish-published poetry collection by David Gardiner, editor of the international journal, An Sionnach: A Journal of Literature, Culture, and the Arts. A writer, publisher, and professor, he divides his time between Omaha where he teaches Irish Studies at Creighton University and his duties in their Summer School Program at Trinity College Dublin. In 1995, he became founding editor of An Sionnach (Creighton University Press) and in 1996 he was made Director of Creighton University Press. "Author David Gardiner reflects wistfully on society and its reverence for its heritage; Downstate is a fine, insightful, and entertaining volume." The Midwest Book Review

Downstate

Gardiner, David

Ray Bradbury's first poetry collection to be published outside the U.S. First published by Salmon in 2002, this 2008 edition is updated with additional poems. This volume is a gift to generations who have read and loved his remarkable work. ""Most of the.poems in this collection from the unquenchable Bradbury are new, but all have his evergreen touch - accessible, humorous, quietly emotional. Bradbury can't long restrain his usual luxuriating in the sensual wonder of life. Bradbury fans, Hibernophiles, general readers, even some contemporary poetry snobs, will find this a lovely read.""-Publishers Weekly.

I Live by the Invisible: New & Selected Poems

BRADBURY,RAY

Offers frank and carefully considered information for poets, and others who are interested in knowing more about how the poetry world works. As well as exploring basic tenets for aspiring writers, the book contains personal essays by poets and publishers from Ireland, Britain, the US, Canada, Australia, and Zimbabwe.

Poetry: Reading It Writing It Publishing It

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