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we are the boat / returning to dock / we are the footprints / on the northern trail / we are the iron / coloring the soil / we cannot / be erased—from “Refugee"Remi Kanazi's poetry presents an unflinching look at the lives of Palestinians under...

Review Approximation The Awakening Black Ice Catherine Of Aragon The Cedar Canoe Crossing Dusk Equivalent The Ferry: Woods Hole Florida The Good Return Jeanne D'arc The Lake Late August My Father Orbiting The Sun The Orchard The Prayer Safe House:...

Review "Personal, deeply human poems." --Library Journal“Wyndmere is that rare thing in poetry today -- a genuine pleasure to read."--Hudson Review Product Description Peoms consider childhood, the past, inspiration, rural life,...

The winning volume in the 1989 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Hermit with Landscape by Daniel Hall. As James Merrill, distinguished poet and judge of the competition, has said: "Daniel Hall is a patient craftsman, a weigher of each word...

The seventy-third volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets presents poems which explore every part of the self, openly inviting readers to experience as much of the poet's sensibility as can be located and revealed

"[Wolff's poems] are stylistic and tonal shapeshifters. Hip, contemplative, and dark and resistant to the hunky-dory, the New Agey, and the prescriptive, they're unnerving, funny, and occasionally subversive."—BookforumPoet, novelist, and Fence Books...

"He's a poet for our time like Ginsberg was for his."—Eileen Myles"Conrad's work shows us that the body itself is the first source of alienation and estrangement from the self, and is thus the true subject of poetry. Only by engaging this body . . . can...

A collection of new poems by the author of Before and After explores themes of desire and lost love, using heroin as a metaphor for both in the title poem.

In her remarkable Black Series, Laurie Sheck turns the ordinary world inside out and shows us its glittering seams. Her long, elegantly quizzical lines convey a haunted vision of human striving which is in part an elaboration on our daily reality, and in...

Body & Glass extends Koeneke’s experimentations in Ertruria with a tightly woven set of more compact poems that brighten and sharpen the lyric’s usual corners. The ‘anonymous’ forms of folk song and epitaph, parable and textual fragment, arrange to...

With breathtaking fervor, Sandra Simonds delivers an extended address to Orlando, which stands as both a city marked by vibrant promises fallen into betrayals and abuses and the specter of a past lover. Developing a series of recurring episodes and...

Noelle Kocot recalls a break with reality that occurred a decade and a half ago in vivid, raw language, one word per line. The resulting slender columns are sharply focused and intense. There’s a cult following for her unique imagination, self-professed...

"Like his subject matter Meister's writing is ominous, intangible and inescapable."—Publishers Weekly"The translators of Wallless Space were brave to take on Meister's dense and unusual poetry, and so far their work has been excellent. . . . Foust and...

"One might argue that nothing is sacred in Caroline Knox's work, but it would be truer to its spirit to say that everything is sacred here—and all are welcome."—Rebecca Frank, Boston Review"Caroline Knox reminds us how whangy and interesting it all is...

With a mix of political commentary and lyricism in a range of forms, Touché evokes an adrenaline rush as the reader is swept up into Rod Smith's unique blend of humor.I am no I I slightI've taught myself to unwrite& then wreathed, saturate, blankthe...

"I adore [Caples’] prescription to read widely and even perversely; and his breezy style is engaging." —Don Share"Caples’ discussions are careful, nuanced, personal, and opinionated." —Steven Fama"Caples is part of a younger generation of writers...

"Best-known for his gritty and uproarious prose poetry collection Letters to Wendy's, Wenderoth began his career with two books of gimlet-eyed, world-weary, hard-hitting poetry. Now he returns to verse, favoring (as before) relatively short poems, often...