Gaudy, serious, sharp-eyed, and far-flung, Karen Swenson's lyrics engage contrasts. She inhabits Tibet, New York, and points in between--not a tourist but a voyager. Her mindfulness is both political and personal, and entirely memorable.--Marie Ponsot

A Pilgrim into Silence: Poems

Karen Swenson

Tiger Bark Press

In The Solvay Process, Marin Walls explores all manner of human and animal endeavor, fascinated equally by the industry of a city, a factory, or a garden. Revealing particular wonder in "disgarded, common objects," Walls reminds us that "even in the most ordinary life is a story God must write." --Claudia Emerson

The Solvay Process

Martin Walls

Poetry. "Estha Weiner's sensibility is beautifully unique—a blend of Beckett and Dorothy Parker, Maine and New York City, loss and evocation. The poems have gnomic quality; their conclusion is the habit of someone who bravely shapes retorts to the breezy slanders of time."—Baron Wormser

Transfiguration Begins at Home

Literature & Fiction

Weiner, Estha

Poetry

Inside Such Darkness: Poems

Virginia Slachman

Love and loss and wide-eyed wonder. Ann McGovern sees so much and speaks volumes ---Jules Feiffer Ann McGovern is a writer who keeps her eyes open in every direction, letting in equally the light of lived-through grief and lived-through joy. --Jane Hirshfield

River of Glass: Poems

Ann, McGovern

Poetry. LGBT Studies. "In this remarkable second collection, Kate Lynn Hibbard has brilliantly created a lexicon of arguing and art, religion and women's lives. In precise language and varying forms, Hibbard digs into the meaning of words, loss, and love in he keen observations of flowers, neighbors, birds, condoms, snow, and parents. Not afraid of traditional forms, the detritus of sex, or a stray pantless Barbie, Hibbard's poems shimmer with heat like a car stalled on the side of a summer freeway, surprise with their fresh images, such as comparing an artichoke to Marilyn Monroe. Spontaneous and researched, pruned yet wild, edited but honest, wise but playful, this book celebrated the generosity of the female body, our joyous but flawed gardens, our unresolved and naked pasts."—Katherine Kysar

Sweet Weight

Hibbard, Kate

Poetry. "In TIME-BOUND, Kurt Brown engages with the world he inhabits, questioning it, taking nothing for granted, prizing a broad and deep knowledge of it, both past and present, local and cosmic. The condition indicated by the book's title is one the poet does not accept resignedly but challenges by means of his art; confronting history's long amnesia, he would reclaim much of what has been lost—people, events, places, whole epochs—and serving him in this reclamation project are two weapons in particular: his appetitive intellect, never satisfied with easy answers, and his impressive command of language, which allows him a wide range of modes from the virtuosic to the plain-spoken. TIME-BOUND offers poetry for grown-ups, who face unblinkingly the world as it is and do so with existential courage."—Philip Dacey

Time-Bound: Poems

Brown, Kurt

Poetry. "Judith Harris creates tableaux of memory and shines a keen light on the particulars of the natural world in these poignant, carefully observed, and scrupulously written poems that ache with mortality. NIGHT GARDEN is an illuminating book."—Edward Hirsch "In her exquisitely disquieting third book, Judith Harris addresses the most ordinary matters and events with a brooding clarity that leaves the reader with shivery recognitions. Memories of youth, stark yet appreciative observations of garden and nature, and the trials of the body are combined to form a complete vision of a life in middle age. She remembers her mother 'tucking children into bed, / stroking a forehead / or a cheek, / then, closing the door / on what will keep.' In NIGHT GARDEN, the daughter now asks and praises what will keep in a world of anguish and struggle. While peering at mortality and tracing evanescence, these poems create the sound of yearning for life, and speak with both modesty and candor. The poetry is a victory over its most imposing adversaries."—Ron Slate

Night Garden

Harris, Judith

Poetry. East Asia Studies. Translation. This is a new and revised edition, originally published by BOA Editions in 2000. "In Crossing the Yellow River, Sam Hamill remaps Chinese poetry for our time. Anyone who writes poetry, or who cares about it, must have this book. It is one of the essential works of our time."—Jim Harrison

Crossing the Yellow River: Three Hundred Poems from the Chinese

Hamill, Sam

History & Criticism

In poem after poem...the poet tongues his way into pools of rhythmic and storied music, into poems that become smarter than he is, that have protected their stores against a future when the poet and you and I will hopefully submerge into primal sound again... --William Heyen, from the Foreword

Miracle Atlas: Poems

Jay Leeming

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