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Becker, Priscilla

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William Ralph Pr

The Love-Suicides at Sonezaki: And Other Poems

von Reis, Siri

Philokalia

Cairns, Scott

"With its high spirits, its love of textures of different kinds of writing, its search for ways to frame ambitious energies. . ."From L'Hotel Terminus Notebooks" (a poem within Open House ) advances with a determination to keep the author interested and alive to her materials; in places, amused with itself and hopscotching, in places veering into unexpected depths, it is an immensely lively performance." _____- Robert Hass, former US Poet Laureate, in The Kenyon Review 
Open House is the year 2001 winner of the Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry for a First Book. We at Zoo are eminently pleased to have such a fine book of verse for our inaugural Kenyon Review Prize volume. Fennelly's poems are well poised in their witty and sometime sassy ruminations, often "maximalist" in their scope (see "From L' HÙtel Terminus Notebooks") and the pleasure one takes within them is of the rarest breed: it is the pleasure of unexpected revelation. Open House comes introduced by series judge and Kenyon Review poetry editor, David Baker.

Open House: Poems

Fennelly, Beth Ann

Treason, Terese Svoboda's fourth book of poetry, is about betrayal: child to parent, wife to husband, a nation to its people. Short, sometimes gnomic or comic, many of the poems circle the subject of the mother as betrayer, creator and destroyer, seductive and maternal, the tie that terrorizes while it comforts. 
Terese Svoboda, like Denis Johnson, publishes both fiction and poetry, and, also like Denis Johnson, is one of the best in both genres. In Treason, she is at the height of her powers where her style is becoming more identifiable (one thinks of Keats, Dickinson, James, Yeats, Plath, Ashbury), meaning this collection is political, highly poised, grand and intensely lyrical - a collection like none other. Sit back and let Treason work its terrible magic as its lines and images lead to each epiphany, each horror, and moment after moment of beauty.

Treason: Poems

Svoboda, Terese

"I have felt [elation] with Don Share's versions of Miguel Hernandez: but this is also because he is a fine poet in his own right, one who surrenders his sensibilities to the task of transference."-Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott on Don Share's translation of I Have Lots of Heart: Selected Poems, by Miguel Hernandez. Don Share's debut collection, Union, is comprised of unsympathetic portraits from his life. Unflinchingly severe and brutally honest, these poems consider the experience of divorce, among a host of other subjects. For all of its darkness, however, Union refuses to be bleak. Share is the curator of the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University and is the poetry editor at the Partisan Review.

Union: Poems

SHARE, DON

Elena Karina Byrne's poetry is found in earnest and in exaltation, in her love for language and its lushness. Each poem in her debut collection, The Flammable Bird, is an occasion for wonder, pathos and human intensity, and these observations, collectively, offer an opulent and florid document of our modernity. These poems are rich, and revel in the risks they take with metaphor and image. The beauty created is dazzling.

The Flammable Bird

Byrne, Elena Karina

Radiance, Joe Osterhaus's second collection of verse, is a startlingly unique volume of poems. Graceful and formal, lyric and meditative, Osterhaus's poems employ the rigors of traditional English-language poetic form and, in doing so, display an extraordinary sophistication, reveal the beauty of his mastery and capture the essence of our human integrity. These poems are imaginative in their treatment of their subjects, which are often common and mundane, and thereby reveal, illuminate and surprise us into knowing something new (or something we already knew) about our American lives. A poet's poet, Osterhaus's Radiance is a superb addition to the American canon.

Radiance: Poems

Osterhaus, Joe

In her second book, "Open Slowly", Kate Light carries on her standard of wise, witty poems on living, loving, and making sense of the two. She takes a pragmatic approach to relationships, attractions, and the bodies that contain them. A classically trained violinist, Light brings an understanding of rhythm and lyricism to her work that resonates in her formal yet accessible poems. Her poems open slowly and bloom on the page as beautiful creations. "Open Slowly": someone may be standing on the other side. Open slowly so you know you're swinging wide of them, and then step through. Kate Light is a violinist with the New York City Opera. Her first book, "The Laws of Falling Bodies", which was published by Story Line Press, won the Nicolas O'Rourke Prize. Her poems have appeared in a number of publications, including "The Paris Review", "The Christian Science Monitor", "Western Humanities Review", "Wisconsin Review", "Hellas", "Sparrow", "Feminist Studies", and "Janus".

Open Slowly

Light, Kate

Praise for Ansel's My Shining Archipelago:

Jetty and Other Poems

Ansel, Talvikki

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