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Honey with Tobacco

21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Peg Boyers

$35.00 21 Aug 2008 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

In familiar tableaux drawn from the Bible that have inspired great works of art - the "Annunciation", the "Pieta", and "Judgment Day" - this book explores what it means in contemporary America to be "blessed among women" and whether and how art can contain grief.

Coney Island of the Mind

19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

$100.00 19 Aug 2008 Hardback New Directions Publishing Corporation

Women Reading to the Sea

19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems

By Lisa Williams

$24.95 19 Aug 2008 Hardback W W Norton & Co Ltd

A new volume from the winner of the 2007 Barnard Women Poets Prize.
"Poems of arresting intelligence, precision, and beauty. In wonderfully crafted language, with the startling subtlety of certain of Emily Dickinson's poems, Lisa Williams takes us into eerily imagined worlds--the interior of a jellyfish, and the interior of a glacier; she beguiles us with the most seductive of poetic possibilities....This slender volume constitutes a journey of sorts, a pilgrimage 'out' that returns the questing poet, imagined as a companion 'you, ' to her own life."--Joyce Carol Oates, prize citation.

Unmentionables

19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems

By Beth Ann Fennelly

$23.95 19 Aug 2008 Hardback W W Norton & Co Ltd

A new collection by a poet declared "one of the most exciting poets of her generation" ("Harvard Review").
With elegant wordplay and her usual subversive wit, Beth Ann Fennelly explores the "unmentionable"--not only what is considered too bold but also what can't be said because words are insufficient. In sections of short narratives, she questions our everyday human foibles. Three longer sequences display her admirable reach and fierce intelligence: One, "The Kudzu Chronicles," is a rollicking piece about the transplanted weed. Another, "Bertha Morisot: Retrospective," conjures up a complex life portrait of the French impressionist painter. The third presents fifteen dream songs that virtually out-Berryman Berryman.

Blue Guide

19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stephen Yenser

$36.00 19 Aug 2008 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

Takes readers on a heady trip through a world full of promise yet compromised by human weakness. Set in sunny southern California and Greece, the poems of this work cast the shadow of mortality, and the tones are elegiac. It offers a quatrain written to name a painting by Dorothea Tanning.

As When, in Season

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jim Schley

$14.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Marick Press

Offers a collection of poetry which comprises four sequences that turn upon phases of life - child and youthful traveler; apprentice to a group of uniquely challenging and insightful teachers; husband, homesteader, and new parent; and troubled but still engaged citizen of a village and the world.

The Fire Landscape

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems

By Gary Fincke

$16.00 15 Aug 2008 Paperback University of Arkansas Press

Coming of age in post-fifties America.

A Necklace of Bees

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems

By Dannye Romine Powell

$16.00 15 Aug 2008 Paperback University of Arkansas Press

Probes the nature of loss - actual and feared.

Troubled

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By R.M. Vaughan

$14.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Coach House Books

Everyone falls in love with his or her therapist at least a little. But what happens when the therapist not only loves you back but also acts upon it? This is the poetic account of the true story of a patient/psychiatrist relationship gone horribly wrong.

Box of Light - Caja de Luz

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems in English and Spanish

By Susan Gardner

$16.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Red Mountain Press

A collection of poems that illuminates relationships.

Salt Lick

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Retrospective of Poetry

By Glenna Luschei

$14.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback West End Press

With forty years worth of poems from nineteen collections, this title contains the themes and treatments that have moved Glenna Luschei all her life: sympathetic understanding, wry judgment, the experience of sensation and of loss, the act of witness, the love of nature and its processes, and longing for peace and harmony.

Refusing Despair

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Selected Poems and Journal Writings

By Teresa Anderson

$12.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback West End Press

Teresa Anderson died January 9, 2006, after waging a decade-long battle against cancer. After her cancer diagnosis in 1995, Terri's subject matter expanded from the land and people she loved to include her own fight with the disease. Written in the hospital, this work presents her poems that took on a new dignity and clarity as a result.

Never Night

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Derick Burleson

$14.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Marick Press

Offers a collection poems based on themes such as: investigating a derailed train, a two-headed moose fetus or a melting glacier. This work reveals wounded earth giving birth to shimmering form and death held at bay without artifice in the meditations of a child's new words.

Last Scattering Surfaces

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gil McElroy

$16.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Talon Books,Canada

Engages the matter and light scattering surfaces of what words mean; from framing abstract and representational takes on life and death with a calendar system that is cumulative rather than cyclical, to poems that respond to the auras of the visual and the aural that envelope language.

Zong!

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Marlene Nourbese-Philip

$22.95 15 Aug 2008 Hardback University Press of New England

In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship's owners could collect insurance monies. This book tells that story.

Grave of Light

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

New and Selected Poems, 1970-2005

By Alice Notley

$22.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback University Press of New England

Includes selected poems from a visionary feminist poet.

The Outernationale

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter Gizzi

$13.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback University Press of New England

A collection of poems, which fuse documentary truth with imaginative force.

The Alphabet

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ron Silliman

$39.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback The University of Alabama Press

A work of American ethnography, a cultural collage of artifacts, moments, episodes, and voices - historical and private - that capture the dizzying evolution of America's social, cultural, and literary consciousness.

The Alphabet

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ron Silliman

$85.00 15 Aug 2008 Hardback The University of Alabama Press

Active boundaries : selected essays and talks

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Palmer, Michael, 1943-

$19.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback New Directions/W W Norton

The Modern Dilemma

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, and Humanism

By Leon Surette

$49.95 15 Aug 2008 Hardback McGill-Queen's University Press

Puts T S Eliot and Wallace Stevens in juxtaposition and attempts to highlight the differences and similarities of their responses to the same issues or the same works. This book examines issues such as the nature and status of poetry, religious belief or disbelief, and political engagement or the lack thereof.

You Work Tomorrow

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41

By John Marsh

$22.95 15 Aug 2008 Paperback The University of Michigan Press

An anthology of American labor poetry of the Great Depression. This work provides a glimpse into the remarkable but largely forgotten poems published in union newspapers during the turbulent 1930s. It offers an opportunity for you to learn how an earlier generation of workers confronted and challenged injustice and inequality.

Drunk in Sunlight

11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Daniel Anderson

$16.95 11 Aug 2008 Paperback Johns Hopkins University Press

Not relegated simply to the realm of pastoral meditation, this book gives voice to the sorrowful and sometimes unfortunate things we say and think. It chronicles the many ways in which jubilation and lament frequently reverse themselves. It crystallizes moments that articulate an experience that reaches beyond the poet's own time and place.

The Gift of an Angel

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Marianne Richmond

$17.95 01 Aug 2008 Hardback Marianne Richmond Studios, Inc

This book includes a lullabye CD on the inside front cover

City of Corners

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Godfrey, John

$14.00 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Wave Books

"While others are busy catching their own reflection in the storefront of poetry, [John] Godfrey goes to work on the damage and squalor of the overlooked. His genius rings true."-Peter Gizzi

"With an enemy"
"like daylight who needs"
"the psychology dime"
"Hips do the work"
"and I cross the world"

A longtime resident of Manhattan's Lower East Side, John Godfrey works as a registered nurse in New York City, where he cares for homebound AIDS patients in Brooklyn and Queens. "City of Corners" is his sixth collection of poetry.

All That's Left

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jack Hirschman

$10.95 01 Aug 2008 Paperback City Lights Books

The fourth volume of the San Francisco Poet Laureate Series, "All That's Left" is a powerful collection of poems for social justice by street-poet-turned- laureate Jack Hirschman. The volume opens with Hirschman's autobiographical inaugural address, which vividly traces his career as poet, translator, and agitator.

Included are several of Hirschman's earlier poems, marking successive stages of his poetic development. The poems following the address were composed during his tenure as poet laureate, covering contemporary outrages like post-Katrina New Orleans and the Virginia Tech tragedy, paying homage to fallen poetic comrades like Jack Kerouac and Bob Kaufman, and exploring more personal dimensions of love.

The Cancer Chronicles

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hirst, Damien

$40.00 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Other Criteria/White Cube

"Not so much poems, more titles gone mad." "The Cancer Chronicles" is a collection of thirteen poems by the artist Damien Hirst. Hirst wrote the book to accompany his work "Romance in the Age of Uncertainty - Jesus & His Disciples (Death, Martyrdom, Suicide & Ascension)," (not illustrated). Each poem shares a title with the installed elements of the piece, which include thirteen steel and glass cabinets each alluding to the life and death of the Apostles.
In his first published book of writing Hirst explores in written form some of the motifs that have endured in his work: death, decay, disease and belief. The poems provide further insight into Hirst's sculptural works, but please do not read this publication whilst listening to the music.

Revolver

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Schiff, Robyn

$16.00 01 Aug 2008 Paperback University of Iowa Press

As restless, reckless, and precise as the Colt revolver for which it is named, Robyn Schiff's "Revolver ""repeats fire without reloading" as it reckons with the array of foreboding objects displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the traces of their ghosts one hundred years later. A dirge on the Singer Sewing Machine, an exuberant and unnerving rumination on multipurpose campaign furniture, and a breathless account of Ralph Lauren's silver Porsche 550 Spyder are among the collection's exhilarating corporate histories, urgent fantasias, and agonizing love poems.

Silently You Taught Me Much: And Other Poems

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Zamvil, Stella

$12.00 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Daniel & Daniel Publishers

These poems represent over three decades of writing from the author of the fine story collections "In the Time of the Russias" and "My Father Hunts Zulus." Highly charged emotionally, Zamvil's poems show both the light and dark side of marriage and motherhood. They deal with politics and social issues, and they are influenced by the writer's Ashkenazic Jewish roots.

Parents from a Different Alphabet

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Raptosh, Diane

$13.00 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Guernica Editions

The Twilight of the Sioux

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Neihardt, John G.

$14.95 01 Aug 2008 Paperback State University of New York Press

The Twilight of the Sioux is essential reading for understanding the unforgettable world and majestic sweep of events and people in Black Elk Speaks. The magnificence and tragedy of the Old West is here, as told by the brilliant epic poet John G. Neihardt: the courage of settlers in the American West; the valiant resistance by the Native peoples who called it home. In these pages, the legendary warriors Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, and Sitting Bull ride forth again; the ghost dance is performed once more; the 7th cavalry is annihilated at the Little Bighorn only to rise again and participate in a horrific massacre at Wounded Knee. This is the second volume in Neihardt's acclaimed A Cycle of the West, containing The Song of the Indian Wars and The Song of the Messiah. While interviewing those who took part in and remembered this long-ago time, John G. Neihardt met the Lakota healer, Nicholas Black Elk.

The Mountain Men

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Neihardt, John G.

$14.95 01 Aug 2008 Paperback State University of New York Press

The Mountain Men celebrates the brave men and women who explored, trapped, and traded across the Old West during the early decades of the nineteenth century. From the Missouri River to the Great Salt Lake, the Yellowstone River to Spanish California, their moving and inspiring stories are deftly told by the brilliant epic poet John G. Neihardt. It was the age of individualism, a time when a person's own character and fortitude more than the collective ensured survival and success. Neihardt himself traversed the same waterways and rugged country as the early trappers and traders in order to better understand them and their world. This is the first volume in John G. Neihardt's acclaimed A Cycle of the West, containing The Song of Three Friends, The Song of Hugh Glass, and The Song of Jed Smith.

Always Got My Feet: Poems about Transportation

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Salas, Laura Purdie

$21.26 01 Aug 2008 Hardback Capstone Press

Chatter, Sing, Roar, Buzz: Poems about the Rain Forest

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Salas, Laura Purdie

$23.93 01 Aug 2008 Hardback Capstone Press

A Fuzzy-Fast Blur: Poems about Pets

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Salas, Laura Purdie

$23.93 01 Aug 2008 Hardback Capstone Press

Lettuce Introduce You: Poems about Food

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Salas, Laura Purdie

$23.93 01 Aug 2008 Hardback Capstone Press

First Food Fight This Fall and Other School Poems

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Singer, Marilyn

$14.95 01 Aug 2008 Hardback Sterling

Acclaimed poet Singer serves up a helping of wit and humor with this collection of school-themed poems sure to get children in the mood for back to school. Full color.

Duet with Hummingbird

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Callan, Ana

$19.95 01 Aug 2008 Hardback Ink & Paper Group

Ana Callans poems are a celebration of the intimacy of humanity and the desire to be swaddled in the divine and sensual world of nature. A collision with a logging truck left the poet crushed in her car, suffering from extensive head injuries. After a near-impossible recovery, she awakened with a newfound sense of wonder for life and the natural world. Duet with Hummingbird is the result.

The Gift of a Memory

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Keepsake to Commemorate the Loss of a Loved One

By Marianne Richmond

$15.95 01 Aug 2008 Hardback Marianne Richmond Studios, Inc

A one-of-a-kind keepsake, the Gift of a Memory commemorates the loss of a special life. Through a heartfelt poem and beautiful illustrations, the book recounts the emotional journey of loss and offers the reader a wish for comfort and for hope in life again. A fill-in-the-blank format allows recipients to personalize the story. A journal in the back of the book lets family and friends preserve special memories and photos to create a truly precious memento.

Household Words: Art & Poetry

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stevens, Elisabeth

$11.95 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Syracuse University Press

Vertebrae, Poems 19781994

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems 1978-1994

By Green, Samuel

$15.95 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Ewu Press

"Here is an account of life on an island, close to the earth and sea the things and creatures of a specific place, with the soul and sense of a remarkably gifted poet enriching every line, every page". -- Denise Levertov

Warhol-O-Rama

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Oresick, Peter

$16.95 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Carnegie-Mellon University Press

Published on the occasion of Andy Warhol's 80th birthday, Warhol-o-rama surveys the extraordinary life?and robust afterlife?of AndyWarhol (1928-1987). In this rollicking poetic sequence Peter Oresick reads Warhol through the eyes and words of others?from critics to Catholics to Carpatho-Rusyns. The result is an unorthodox and entertaining serial portrait of an American artist whose 15 minutes of fame seem to have no end in sight.

Tau and Journey to the End

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Number 59

By Philip Lamantia, John Hoffman

$12.95 01 Aug 2008 Paperback City Lights Books

Two long-lost volumes from the classic Beat period. "Tau" is Philip Lamantia's mystical second collection of poems, originally slated for publication in 1955, but suppressed by the poet due to his evolving religious beliefs. "Journey to the End" contains the poems of the legendary John Hoffman (19281952), whose poems were read by Lamantia in 1955 at the 6 Gallery reading where Allen Ginsberg debuted "Howl."

Lamantia's closest friend, a character in Jack Kerouac's "Dharma Bums," and the inspiration for two lines of "Howl," Hoffman moved between San Francisco and New York before his death in Mexico at the age of twenty-four. This volume includes biographical notes and Lamantia's commentaries on Hoff man's poetry.

If I Were Writing This

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Creeley, Robert

$14.95 01 Aug 2008 Paperback New Directions Publishing Corporation

"Robert Creeley has created a noble life body of poetry that extends the work of predecessors Pound, Williams, Zukofsky, and Olson and that provides like them a method for his successors in exploring our new American poetic consciousness."--Allen Ginsberg
"If I were writing this" was the last book of poems completed by Robert Creeley and published during his lifetime (New Directions, 2003). The words that he wrote to describe this book are oddly prophetic: "Age brings experience, not wisdom; age makes time actual--each day another--until there is no more. These poems have been my company, my solace, my feelings, my heart. When they cannot speak it will all be silence." Though Creeley died in 2005, his poems are not silent--they vibrantly continue to embrace life while acknowledging, with no self-pity, the inevitability of death. The message (as he always ended his letters) is "Onward!"

Active Boundaries: Selected Essays and Talks

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Palmer, Michael

$19.95 01 Aug 2008 Paperback New Directions Publishing Corporation

Charles Wright in Conversation: Interviews, 19792006

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Denham, Robert D. Wright, Charles

$39.95 01 Aug 2008 Paperback McFarland & Company

Bikeman

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Flynn, Thomas F.

$12.99 01 Aug 2008 Hardback Andrews McMeel Publishing

On September 11, 2001, journalist Tom Flynn set off on his bike toward the World Trade Towers not knowing what he was riding into. "Bikeman" is one man's journey back to the horrors of that day and to the humanity that somehow emerged from the dust and the death. Both heartbreaking and haunting, his words will stay with you like that 'forever September morning.'" --Meredith Vieira, NBC's "Today"

"Tom Flynn brings to his subject three invaluable attributes: the eye of a seasoned journalist, the soul of a poet, and his stunning, first-hand experience of that horrific day.

Book!

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By George, Kristine O'Connell

$5.95 01 Aug 2008 Board Book Clarion Books

A small child discovers the magic of books for the first time in this exuberant ode to book appreciation. Illustrations.

The Border Kingdom

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Nurkse, D.

$26.00 01 Aug 2008 Hardback Knopf Publishing Group

The Earth in the Attic

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Fady Joudah

$16.00 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Yale University Press

A collection of poems which are varied, coherent, fierce and tender.

The Earth in the Attic

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Fady Joudah

$30.00 01 Aug 2008 Hardback Yale University Press

A collection of poems which are varied, coherent, fierce and tender.

Immortal Sofa

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stanton, Maura

$40.00 01 Aug 2008 Hardback University of Illinois Press

A collection of poems that explore the power of human imagination.

Doveglion: Collected Poems

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Garcia Villa, Jose Villa, Jose Garcia

$17.00 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Penguin Books

The centennial edition of major Filipino writer JosA(c) Garcia Villaas collected poetry
Known as the aPope of Greenwich Village, a JosA(c) Garcia Villa had a special status as the only Asian poet among a group of modern literary giants in 1940s New York that included W. H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, and a young Gore Vidal. But beyond his exotic ethnicity, Villa was a global poet who was admired for athe reverence, the raptness, the depth of concentration in [his] bravely deep poemsa (Marianne Moore). "Doveglion" (Villaas pen nameafor dove, eagle, and lion) contains Villaas collected poetry, including rare and previously unpublished material.

The Collected Poems

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Plath, Sylvia

$17.95 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Finding the Gossamer

31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Patrick Hicks

$23.95 31 Jul 2008 Paperback Salmon Publishing Ltd

A Tour of Your Country

31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Eamonn Wall

$23.95 31 Jul 2008 Paperback Salmon Publishing Ltd

Mountains and Rivers without End

30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gary Snyder

$13.95 30 Jul 2008 Paperback Counterpoint,U.S.

In simple, striking verse, legendary poet Gary Snyder weaves an epic discourse on the topics of geology, prehistory, and mythology. First published in 1996, this landmark work encompasses Asian artistic traditions, as well as Native American storytelling and Zen Buddhist philosophy, and celebrates the disparate elements of the Earth -- sky, rock, water -- while exploring the human connection to nature with stunning wisdom. Winner of the Bollingen Poetry Prize, the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Orion Society's John Hay Award, among others, Gary Snyder finds his quiet brilliance celebrated in this new edition of one of his most treasured works.

Honey with Tobacco

24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Peg Boyers

$35.00 24 Jul 2008 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

Coney Island of the Mind

22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

$100.00 22 Jul 2008 Hardback New Directions Publishing Corporation

Women Reading to the Sea

22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems

By Lisa Williams

$24.95 22 Jul 2008 Hardback W W Norton & Co Ltd

Unmentionables

22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems

By Beth Ann Fennelly

$23.95 22 Jul 2008 Hardback W W Norton & Co Ltd

Blue Guide

22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stephen Yenser

$36.00 22 Jul 2008 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

The Narrow Road to the Interior

19 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems

By Kimiko Hahn

$14.95 19 Jul 2008 Paperback W W Norton & Co Ltd

A work inspired by Japanese prose-poetry from a poet of "rigorous intelligence, fierce anger, and deep vulnerability".

19 Names for Our Band

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jibade-Khalil Huffman

$15.00 15 Jul 2008 Paperback Fence Magazine Inc, Division of Fence Books

Deals with those of the youth culture in as much as when we are young we are closer to home, to origin, to the primal disjunctions supplied by our gaps/leaps in understanding.

Troubled

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By R.M. Vaughan

$14.95 15 Jul 2008 Paperback Coach House Books

Salt Lick

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Retrospective of Poetry

By Glenna Luschei

$14.95 15 Jul 2008 Paperback West End Press

Refusing Despair

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Selected Poems and Journal Writings

By Teresa Anderson

$12.95 15 Jul 2008 Paperback West End Press

The Fortunate Islands

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Susan Kelly-DeWitt

$14.95 15 Jul 2008 Paperback Marick Press

Offers a poetry collection addressing concerns such as: personal events and childhood betrayals, and, the cruelties, mysteries and epiphanies of the natural world. It punctuates the poems with references to the visual arts.

Never Night

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Derick Burleson

$14.95 15 Jul 2008 Paperback Marick Press

Sentenced to Light

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Fred Wah

$24.95 15 Jul 2008 Paperback Talon Books,Canada

Offers readers a glimpse of the dialectic of larger conversations, the unpredictable, improvisatory bavardage that whispers between words and pictures in a space that we call culture.

Last Scattering Surfaces

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gil McElroy

$16.95 15 Jul 2008 Paperback Talon Books,Canada

A Bigger Boat

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Unlikely Success of the Albuquerque Poetry Slam Scene

By Susan McAllister, Don McIver, Mikaela Jae Renz, Daniel S. Solis

$21.95 15 Jul 2008 Paperback University of New Mexico Press

Chronicles the Albuquerque Slam Poetry scene's growth and success at the 2005 National Poetry Slam competition, which it hosted and won. This collection of poems and personal memories explores Slam from the voices of the poets who began developing the Albuquerque scene in 1990 to poets who witnessed and celebrated the 2005 hometown victory.

Zong!

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Marlene Nourbese-Philip

$22.95 15 Jul 2008 Hardback University Press of New England

In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship's owners could collect insurance monies. This book tells that story.

You Work Tomorrow

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41

By John Marsh

$22.95 15 Jul 2008 Paperback The University of Michigan Press

Drunk in Sunlight

14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Daniel Anderson

$16.95 14 Jul 2008 Paperback Johns Hopkins University Press

Polynomials and Pollen

09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Parables, Proverbs, Paradigms, and Praise for Lois

By Jay Wright

$12.95 09 Jul 2008 Paperback Dalkey Archive Press,U.S.

A gift for his wife, Jay Wright's Polynomials and Pollen explores the complementary exigencies of abstraction and physicality. In five sections, each arranged under the aegis of a tutelary concept - from the Yoruba, Akan, Bamana, and Nahuatl - the book is a constellation of protophilosophical inquiry into notions of order, disarray, evidence, flowering, and return; it is also a dynamically visceral work whose feelingtones register rage as well as devotion and whose form is masterwork.

The Presentable Art of Reading Absence

09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jay Wright

$12.95 09 Jul 2008 Paperback Dalkey Archive Press,U.S.

The Presentable Art of Reading Absence takes as impulse the act of meditation, in which the energetic relationship between a meditative body and its universe is not only the envisioning of absence by presence but also vision itself: "Here begins the revelation of a kiosk." With occult emotionality and analytic brilliance, Jay Wright has written the user's guide to evanescence: "I have become attuned / to the disappearance of all things / and of my self ..." This is not the postmodern removal of subjectivity from artistic creation, nor is it a motioning toward death or finality; it is, instead, the literal removal of a self from noisy, populated ruins and its return to being.

Morning Gothic

09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

New and Selected Poems

By George Ellenbogen

$15.95 09 Jul 2008 Paperback Vehicule Press

A collection of poems, which celebrate a voice that displays a light touch while dealing with difficult and dark subjects.

In the Time of Assignments

09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Douglas A. Martin

$17.95 09 Jul 2008 Paperback Counterpoint,U.S.

"In the Time of Assignments" transforms a decade's worth of feeling into a lyrical collection of verse. Readers familiar with Martin's work will find a repurposing and revelation of the foundations for his prior experiments in prose. The work is divided into three parts, each with a geographical marker indicating the narrator's evolving identity, from the formative, Red State landscape that colors the first section through the widening horizons, growing sexual awareness, and crush of experience found in the final two. The beautifully fragmentary narrative exhibited in Martin's novels takes hold here in long, poetic sequences and angled interludes; lyric is the steady underpinning.

The Gift of an Angel

02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Marianne Richmond

$17.95 02 Jul 2008 Hardback Marianne Richmond Studios, Inc

This book includes a lullabye CD on the inside front cover

All That's Left

02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jack Hirschman

$10.95 02 Jul 2008 Paperback City Lights Books

Tau and Journey to the End

02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Number 59

By Philip Lamantia, John Hoffman

$12.95 02 Jul 2008 Paperback City Lights Books

Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Bohince, Paula

$14.95 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Sarabande Books

"[Paula] Bohince is more naturalist than romantic, meaning that her poems above all honor their dark side, their realism, their edge."-Stanley Plumly

Spanning decades and set on a decrepit farm, "Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods" begins with a speaker invoking her dead father. As details are gradually uncovered, we learn the father was murdered by a trusted laborer.

Paula Bohince has received a "Discovery"/"The Nation" Award in 2007, the Grolier Poetry Prize, and grants from the Puffin and the Ludwig Vogelstein foundations. In 2008, Bohince will be the Amy Clampitt Resident Fellow in Massachusetts. She lives in Pennsylvania.

Property

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Agoos, Julie

$14.00 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Ausable Press

Big Pink Umbrella: Susan Millar Dumars

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Dumars, Susan Millar Dumars, Susan

$22.95 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Salmon Publishing

My Piece of the Puzzle

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Robbins, Doren

$14.95 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Eastern Washington University Press

Fire Landscape (P)

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Fincke, Gary

$16.00 01 Jul 2008 Paperback University of Arkansas Press

Shadow Architect

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Warn, Emily

$15.00 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Copper Canyon Press

Cole Porter: Piano Duet Play-Along Volume 23

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

$14.95 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation

This great series comes with a CD that features separate tracks for the Primo and Secondo parts - perfect for practice and performance! 10 tunes from the legendary composer: Another Op'nin', Another Show * Easy to Love (You'd Be So Easy to Love) * From This Moment On * I Love Paris * I Love You * I've Got You Under My Skin * In the Still of the Night * It's De-Lovely * So in Love * You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To.

Animals Anonymous

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Michelson, Rich Michelson, Richard

$14.99 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

School's in session and here's your introduction to some of the wildest, most undisciplined, and ROWDIEST students in class. They're talkative, sneaky, disgusting, and...well...a bunch of animals!

Sugar & Spice and Everything Nice: Celebrate the Wonder of Little Girls

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Howard, Chrys

$13.99 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Howard Books

There's something about the charm and sweetness of a little girl that brings a smile to the heart and joy to the soul. In this beautifully designed and heartwarming book, the wonder of girlhood is celebrated with poems, quotes, and a contemporary expansion on a beloved traditional poem. "Sugar and spice and everything nice" are undeniable characteristics of little girls; and so are "Sunshine and rainbows and ribbons for hair-bows; Tea parties, laces, and baby doll faces." Dedicated to mothers, grandmothers, and all who love little girls, this book makes a perfect gift for yourself or someone you love. Open this book and step into the beautiful world of little girls. Your heart will be touched forever by the indelible impressions of little girls.

Essential Poems and Writings of Joyce Mansour

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mansour, Joyce

$29.95 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Commonwealth Books/ Black Widow Press

The Wonderful Kindness of the Stripper's Ass and Other Poems: A Marvelous Book of Great Novelty

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Marvelous Book of Great Novelty

By Starmule, Apollo

$7.35 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Satya Yuga Books

Situations, Sings

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Collom, Jack Hejinian, Lyn

$15.00 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Adventures in Poetry

A collection of twelve formally distinct poems collaboratively written by Jack Collom and Lyn Hejinian. The two poets began working together in 1992, and over the years they have developed a repertoire of forms and procedures, all intended to extend the possibilities for invention, play, and the unfolding of unforeseeable meaning. Both poets embrace collaborative authorship as a means of challenging aesthetic preconceptions. In the process, they frequently venture across thematic limits, discovering unexpected coherences. The poems often give themselves over to pleasure, but they are governed by the logic of poetic language and they carry considerable metaphysical depth.

A Metaphorical God: Poems

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Johnson, Kimberly

$14.00 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Persea Books

"Dazzling....She writes with Milton open at her elbow but with the real dirt of a real Utah under her fingertips."--"The Yale Review"
No poet writing today confronts the perplexities of the divine with more pizzazz than Kimberly Johnson. In "A Metaphorical God," Johnson showcases her gifts for mining language for its hidden gems and its gospel ("my tongue is a fovent choir, / a cloven fire"), using what she unearths to delve deep into mysteries both epistemological and holy.

Animal Poems of the Iguazu/Animalario del Iguazu Animal Poems of the Iguazu/Animalario del Iguazu

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Alarcon, Francisco X.

$16.95 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Children's Book Press

We Meet

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Patchen, Kenneth

$18.95 01 Jul 2008 Paperback New Directions Publishing Corporation

The Walking-Away World

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Patchen, Kenneth

$18.95 01 Jul 2008 Paperback New Directions Publishing Corporation

Why Speak?

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems

By Nathaniel Bellows

$13.95 01 Jul 2008 Paperback W W Norton & Co Ltd

Music lessons, funerals, Sunday church, swimming in a quarry, a garden riddled with rot and frost, this book renders small experiences in a voice both searching and stabilised amid a world defined by loss and wonder, suffering and enlightenment. It explores the realms of memory, human emotion and the natural world.

The Wave-Maker

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Spires, Elizabeth

$23.95 01 Jul 2008 Hardback W. W. Norton & Company

A contemplative, witty new collection from a "jewel of a poet" ("Los Angeles Times").
In Elizabeth Spires's sixth collection of poetry, the pilgrim soul, in its various guises, meditates on its own slow becoming, finding humble companions in creatures as unlikely as a lowly snail, a prehistoric coelacanth, or a tiny Japanese netsuke of a badger disguised as a monk. For Spires, life is both a pilgrimage and a deepening--birth, death, and transformation all part of a seamless continuum. Possessed of a calm, crystalline sense of eternity, her poems invite fellow travelers to sit for a little while and be cleansed of the dust of existence.

A Map of the Night

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems

By Wagoner, David

$19.95 01 Jul 2008 Paperback University of Illinois Press

Catches the mixed feelings of a long drive, the sensations of walking against a current, the difficulty of writing poetry with noisily amorous neighbours, and more familiar experiences.

Honey with Tobacco

26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Peg Boyers

$35.00 26 Jun 2008 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

Chameleon Hours

25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Elise Partridge

$36.00 25 Jun 2008 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

A collection of poems themed around: North American life and landscape; love; elegies for family and friends; and, debilitating illness and the transformations it can effect.