<p>Archaic Smile, by A.E. Stallings, recipient of the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award, uniquely juxtaposes poetic meditations on mythological themes with poems about the everyday occurances of contemporary life -- such as losing an umbrella or fishing with one's father. In doing so, Archaic Smile continually bridges the gap between these two distant but interrelated worlds with striking insights. James Dickey, having praised the author's accomplished critical skills, also points out that she has "the most indispensable quality that a poet must have: an original way of looking at things." A.R. Ammons aptly characterizes the power of her mythological poems in his comments on "Apollo Takes Charge of His Muses" which he chose for The Best American Poetry: "It delivers the ancient past into our present with such astonishing justness that I'm silenced with appreciation." Archaic Smile is a powerful debut collection by a provacative poet who has found strikingly original ways to personalize our myths and conjure the deep significances of our everyday life.</p>

Archaic Smile: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Stallings, A.E.

Poetry

Univ of Evansville Pr

Rehearsing Absence by Rhina P. Espaillat, recipient of the 2001 Richard Wilbur Award, is a remarkable collection of meticulously-crafted poems that take the seemingly everyday world and imbue it with startling resonance and profundity. John Frederick Nims, who chose one of the author's sonnets for The Howard Nemerov Award, accurately characterized all of the author's work when he wrote, "Her commonplace language hints at an incident of anything but common importance." This ability had not happened by accident. As Timothy Murphy explains in his comments on this "exquisite" new collection, "Rhina Espaillat writes with the measured assurance of one who has given a lifetime to the making of memorable verse." Rehearsing Absence is a truly unique and powerful collection in which Rhina P. Espaillat, with her maturity of vision, lyrical gifts, and an uncommon craftsmanship, presents poem after evocative poem that examines the world around us and helps us to see it new.

Rehearsing Absence: Poems (Richard Wilbur Award, 4)

Espaillat, Rhina P.

The Secret Language of Women by A.M. Juster, recipient of the 2002 Richard Wilbur Award, is a remarkably versatile collection of finely crafted poems and translations. Equually adept at satires, lyrics, epigrams and narratives, Juster meticulously crafts each of his poems so that they resonate uniquely and unexpectedly in his readers' minds. Mona Van Duyn, who chose Juster's sonnet "Moscow Zoo" for the Howard Nemerov Award, remarked how effortlessly "the poem drops without heaviness into its depth," and W.D. Snodgrass described another of Juster's award winning poems as "full of surprises" and "full of invention." In an era of endlessly dull and familiar lyrics, Juster's verse marks itself as strikingly different and permanent, both in its use of form and its subtlely of meaning. As Rhina P. Espaillat has commented on the wide-ranging poems in The Secret Language of Women, "Poems that work this hard in the reader's mind, and do it with such grace and wit that the work is also play, make me grateful that I can read."

The Secret Language of Women: Poems (Richard Wilbur Award, 5)

Juster, A. M.

We Face the Future Unafraid: A Narrative History of the University of Evansville

Education & Teaching

Klinger, George

Schools & Teaching

The Sonnet is one of the distinguishing cultural markers of western civilization. Throughout our literary past, the sonnet has been used by our greatest poets--from Petrarch and Shakespeare to Borges and Auden. Now, in the twenty-first century, after a period of general dismissal in the latter decades of the twentieth century, the sonnet is in the midst of an extraordinary revival and has once again returned to the center of the literary landscape. Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets is a unique collection which showcases the dazzling craft, power, variety, and beauty of the sonnet's recent resurgence by presenting the work of a wide range of authors, including many of our most revered living poets.

Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets

History & Criticism

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