Poetry | Poetry
Feb.08.2010
Episodes of the Norm is an assorted delight of donated short stories on life, essays on the F word, and no not that one, poems on love and loss, political slams, and rants on others, from new and veteran authors across the states. Part of the proceeds are donated to the Autism Society of America.
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Feb.05.2010
The poems in "Bottle Tree" can be considered meditations on the history and culture of the author's native South, as well as her individual family history, with often ambivalent responses to both. The characters in these poems find solace in nature but return again and again to the...
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Jan.20.2010
"I kept coming back to these poems--the tough lyric voice that got under my skin. Clear, intent, this poet doesn't want to fool herself or anybody else. Desire pushes defeat against the wall, and the spirit climbs up from underground." --Marie Howe, prize citation
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Jan.20.2010
“These poems are fresh, crisp, and muscular. They are decisive and fearless. Every object, icon, or historical moment has a soul with a voice. In these poems these soulful ones elbow their way to the surface of the page, smartly into the contemporary now.” —Joy Harjo, prize citation
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Dec.20.2009
Formal and free verse lyric and narrative poems about 19th and 20th century writers, Roman history, gay writers, 19th and 20th century composers
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Dec.03.2009
A woman, late in life, explores the boundaries between the natural and human world, between waking life and dream, between life and death, so as to approach finding answers to life's most important questions.
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Nov.25.2009
This comprehensive collection allows insight into the mind of this young artist. These works range from heartbreak, redemption, and self-esteem, just to name a few.
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Oct.27.2009
From Publishers Weekly
Di Prima's feminist epic, here augmented and reissued, was compared to Allen Ginsberg's Howl by critics when it was first released in 1978. And Loba does resemble Howl?both books can be formless, vatic and breast-beating. But di Prima's lupine protagonist hasn't held up as...
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