“Kasischke astonishes with her lyricism and metaphorical power.” —Publishers Weekly“Every poem is exquisitely crafted, with crisp, clean lines and imagery that dazzles.”—The Washington Post“For Kasischke… poetry is a kind of revenge on the existential...

Earthshine is a book about a wife's illness and death from cancer and the aftermath of grief. It is, necessarily, painful. Yet David Young, is meditating on despair and the loss of love, has found the "day coming up again, the world enacting its own...

"If salvaging truth becomes difficult in cultures which keep rebuilding and changing their pasts or accept annually the repetitions of natural renewal, Debora Greger's Movable Islands demonstrates that it can still be done successfully."--Jerome Mazzaro,...

Here. Now. Always. is the British poet Edwin Brock’s fifth book to be published in this country in as many years. It is perhaps the most intimate work thus far by this intensely personal and often acerbic writer: a memoir in prose interlaced with...

Book by Kistler, William

From the Publisher5 1/2 x 8 1/2 trim. LC 79-90841

David Kheridian

Review After Reading Marguerite Duras, We Celebrate Electricity Arny Yells From His Front Porch, Merry Christmas Bad Daughter Poem The China Boy Horse Civic Duties: My Neighbor, Volunteer Fireman A Dead Cat Story The Drought: Hands Shelved Above Her...

Poems deal with birth, childhood, illness, love, family, faith and death

Collection of poems by T. R. Hummer. A fine softcover copy. Light wear. Tight binding. minor pencil annotation. NOT ex-library. 85pgs. Shipped Under 1 kilogram. Poetry; 0252013891. ISBN/ 9780252013898. Inventory 015623.

One of Canada's most distinguished poets and winner of the Governor General's Award in 1979 for Poems New and Selected , Patrick Lane deserves much admiration for his remarkable poetic achievement. This new volume of his verse traces the evolution of his...

The first novel by “master of mystery” (The New York Times) Walter Mosley, featuring Easy Rawlins, the most iconic African American detective in all of fiction. Named one of the “best 100 mystery novels of all time” by the Mystery Writers of America,...

A finalist for the 1994 Booker Prize, England's highest honor for works of fiction, Paradise is at once the story of an African boy's coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of African tradition by European colonialism. Sold by...

Product Description Irwin, Mark From Library Journal "I am troubled by the integrity of things," Irwin says. The poems in his first full-length collection display an attachment to objects that trouble the reader as well, and his perception...

Product description Book by Lieberman, Laurence From Library Journal With his recent books, Lieberman has become America's "tourist poet"; this time he takes us along on a Caribbean adventure. The isles of Haiti, St. Lucia, Antigua, and...

Product Description On receiving the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1990 for his third book, Transparent Gestures, Rodney Jones was hailed as "a brand-new world-class poet." This collection of poems, rich in irony, sensuousness, and pleasure,...

Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures—and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A young man journeys into Sri Lanka’s war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and the legacy of war from the author of The Story of a Brief Marriage.“A novel of tragic power and uncommon beauty.”—Anthony...