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Poems look at the ironies of modern life, music, the past, families, and nature

Reviewing Mairi MacInnes's Elsewhere & Back, Helen Dunmore praised her 'restless, ranging poems', noting how her poems 'hint at rather than state in order to create a powerful sense of the identity of place. Place always seems more important than the...

A collection of two hundred poems by twenty-one native Americans--including Laguna, Sioux, Cheyenne, Pueblo, Chippewa, Oneida, Seneca/Seminole, Mohawk, and Blackfoot--features the work of Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Lance Henson, and Ray A...

In his newest collection of poetry, Laurence Leiberman widens the scope of his previous Caribbean collections by drawing attention to the small enchanting islands of the Grenadines, a chain running between Grenada and St. Vincent. These outposts, often...

Laurence Lieberman writes poems that successfully utilize techniques from every possible form of literature—including histories, travelogues, short stories, and epics. All the while, his lines maintain a deft balance of lyrical intensity, clear,...

Book by Young, David

The Regatta in the Skies is a wonderful, complex collection of the best long poems from each phase of Laurence Lieberman's distinguished but still developing career, from his midwestern American childhood to his travels to the exotic landscapes of the...

Kent Wascom is one of the most exciting and ambitious emerging voices in American fiction. Envisaging a quartet of books telling the story of America through a single family and region, the Gulf Coast of the United States, Wascom began with his...

Book by Finkel, Donald

"He is one of our finest poets, " Anthony Hecht has said of Donald Justice. Winner most recently of a 1996 Lannan Literary Award, Justice has been the recipient of almost every contemporary grant and prize for poetry, from the Lamont to the Bollingen and...

Text: English, Russian (translation)

This new translation brings to English-speaking readers an intense and brooding work by the greatest poet of the Italian Renaissance, Ludovico Ariosto. Begun as a sequel to his epic masterpiece Orlando Furioso (1516), the unfinished Cinque Canti are a...

Text: English, Russian (translation)

Poems deal with gardens, the cycle of nature, religious paintings, and family experiences

Book by Gibbons, Reginald.

This new translation of a leading contemporary Russian poet confronts English excavating its muteness, stutter, and curse.Translated by Valzhyna Mort. The Siege of Leningrad began in 1941 and lasted 872 days, resulting in the most destructive blockade in...

A sharp-witted investigation of love, work, and human responsibility in the age of consumption and hyperexposure. "[Moschovakis'] poems illuminate, amuse, and provoke. Plato would have loved them."--Ann Lauterbach In a world where we find "everything...