Refusing
Heaven by Jack
Gilbert
Publisher Comments
Time slows down in these poems, as Gilbert creates an aura of curiosity and
wonder at the fact of existence itself. His work is both a rebellious
assertion of the call to clarity and a profound affirmation of the world in
all its aspects. It braces the reader in its humanity and heart. (read
more)
The
School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 by
Adrienne Rich
Publisher Comments
Throughout these fierce and musical poems, Rich traces the imprint of public
crisis upon individual experience: personal lives bent by collective
realities, language itself held to account. (read
more)
Review
"Deeply disturbing poems of original and unforgettable craft." Maureen
Seaton, Boston Review (read
more)
Early
Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest by
B. H. Fairchild
Review
"These poems are an ecstatic celebration of language — long, lavish lines
sprawling across the page as the speaker's consciousness roams the Kansas
countryside. Fairchild is a spinner of tales who writes unforgettably of
loneliness and the tenderness of the Midwest." Chicago Tribune (read
more)
Saving
Lives: Poems by
Albert Goldbarth
Review
"For all of his madcap gusto and wise-ass shtick, Goldbarth's most engaging
trait is his deep and abiding soulfulness, a generosity of spirit that
elevates clowning into eloquent feeling and places brashness at the service of
spacious passions." Poetry (read
more)
Carolina
Ghost Woods by
Judy Jordan
Review
"A startling first collection of poems — startling because of bone-crushing
violence and poverty and startling also because of the beautiful and precise
language the poet brings on these scenes, violent or not.... The genius of
these poems is that they insist on seeking the human despite devastating
circumstances. Even the most wrung-out individual must still have a soul."
James Tate, from his judge’s citation, 1999 Walt Whitman Award (read
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