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“Berlin Zoo” · Ann Hudson, The Armillary Sphere
“Equinox” · Ann Hudson, The Armillary Sphere
“Laundromat” · Ann Hudson, The Armillary Sphere
“Mother Carey’s Hen” · David Yezzi, Azores
“Edith and Woody and Nancy and Ronnie” · Turner Cassity, Devils & Islands
“Unto Temptation” · Turner Cassity, Devils & Islands
“The Last Cigarette Girl” · Turner Cassity, Devils & Islands
“Niagara Falls Postcard” · Jennifer Rose, Hometown for an Hour
“Metaphors at Low Tide” · Jennifer Rose, Hometown for an Hour
“Inheritance,” “Hoarding,” “Ska Memory” · Kwame Dawes, Midland
“The Snow Leopard” · Jason Gray, Photographing Eden
“Lake De Noon” · Lee Gerlach, Selected Poems
“At the San Francisco Airport” · R. L. Barth (ed.), The Selected Poems of Yvor Winters
“The Godless Sky,” “Razing the Woodlot,” “The Blighted Tree” · Timothy Murphy, Set the Ploughshare Deep
“The Future Perfect” · Robert B. Shaw, Solving for X
“Orpheus Watches His Daughter Blow Out Candles” and “Orpheus Fixes Himself a Cup of Tea” · James Cummins, Then & Now
“Starr Farm Beach” · Timothy Steele, Toward the Winter Solstice
“Gym Nights” · Timothy Steele, Toward the Winter Solstice
“Faustina” · Timothy Steele, Toward the Winter Solstice
“Under $6 a Bottle” · Dick Davis, A Trick of Sunlight
“Shadows,” “A Monorhyme for the Shower,” “Haydn and Hokusai” · Dick Davis, Belonging
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Azores
Poems
By David Yezzi
Like a voyage to the Portuguese islands of the title, the poems in Azores arrive at their striking and hard-won destinations over the often-treacherous waters of experience—a man mourns the fact that he cannot not mourn, a father warns his daughter about harsh contingency, an unnamed visitor violently disrupts a quiet domestic scene.…
Dear Regime
Letters to the Islamic Republic
In his provocative, brave, and sometimes brutal first book of poems, Roger Sedarat directly addresses the possibility of political change in a nation that some in America consider part of “the axis of evil.…
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The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold
The career of Matthew Arnold as an eminent poet and the preeminent critic of his generation constitutes a remarkable historical spectacle orchestrated by a host of powerful Victorian cultural institutions.…
Available November 2009 (est.)
The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets
Edited by David Yezzi
Groundbreaking anthologies of this kind come along once in a generation and, in time, define that generation. The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets identifies a group of poets who have recently begun to make an important mark on contemporary poetry, and their accomplishment and influence will only grow with time.…
Available July 2009 (est.)
On Poets and Poetry
William Pritchard’s collection of essays and reviews on poets and poetry ranges from Dryden and Milton through the major American and British poets of the last century. One of them, Philip Larkin, answered and interviewer’s question about what he had learned from his study of other poets by snapping back, “Oh, for Christ’s sake, one doesn’t study poets! You read them, and think: That’s marvelous; how is it done?” Although Pritchard has been talking with student about poets for more than fifty years, his practice in writing has Larkin’s question in mind: how to describe convincingly the way it’s done, the “marvelous” creations of Tennyson, Hardy, Yeats, Robert Lowell, or Larkin himself.…
Electric Meters
Victorian Physiological Poetics
Victorian poetry shocks with the physicality of its formal effects, linking the rhythms of the human body to the natural pulsation of the universe. In Electric Meters: Victorian Physiological Poetics Jason R.…
Photographing Eden
Poems
By Jason Gray
Photographing Eden presents the first full-length collection of poems by a major new talent. The work meditates on several ideas, the crux of which is Eden: spirituality, environmentalism, and the relationships between men and women.…
The Demon and the Damozel
Dynamics of Desire in the Works of Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Developing a perspective on Victorian culture as the breeding ground for early theories of the unconscious and the divided psyche, The Demon and the Damozel: Dynamics of Desire in the Works of Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti offers a new reading of these eminent Victorian siblings’ literature and visual arts.…
Azores
Poems
By David Yezzi
Like a voyage to the Portuguese islands of the title, the poems in Azores arrive at their striking and hard-won destinations over the often-treacherous waters of experience—a man mourns the fact that he cannot not mourn, a father warns his daughter about harsh contingency, an unnamed visitor violently disrupts a quiet domestic scene.…
Dear Regime
Letters to the Islamic Republic
In his provocative, brave, and sometimes brutal first book of poems, Roger Sedarat directly addresses the possibility of political change in a nation that some in America consider part of “the axis of evil.…
The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume XV
With Variant Readings and Annotations
Edited by Allan Dooley, David Ewbank, Jack W. Herring and Paul D. L. Turner
By Robert Browning
In the 1880s, the aging Browning showed once again the remarkable versatility of his lyric and narrative talents. Ranging across eras and cultures, the books here reveal his late thoughts about history, myth, legend, faith, love, and desire.…
Devils & Islands
Poems
As he approaches eighty, Turner Cassity may finally be out of control. His hatchet has never fallen more lethally, meaning if you have the stomach for him he is more enjoyable than ever. Under the blade come Martha Graham, Johann Sebastian Bach, musicologists, tree huggers, Frank Gehry, folk music, folk art of all times and all places, folk.…
Blank Verse
A Guide to Its History and Use
Blank verse—unrhymed iambic pentameter—is familiar to many as the form of Shakespeare’s plays and Milton’s Paradise Lost. Since its first use in English in the sixteenth century, it has provided poets with a powerful and versatile metrical line, enabling the creation of some of the most memorable poems of Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Frost, Stevens, Wilbur, Nemerov, Hecht, and a host of others.…
The Armillary Sphere
Poems
By Ann Hudson
Taking the warp of dream, sometimes nightmare, and weaving it with the ordinary world, the poems of The Armillary Sphere, Ann Hudson's award-winning debut collection, do not simplify the mystery but deepen it.…
A Trick of Sunlight
Poems
By Dick Davis
In his new collection of poems, Dick Davis, the acclaimed author of Belonging, addresses themes that he has long worked with—travel, the experience of being a stranger, the clash of cultures, the vagaries of love, the pleasures and epiphanies of meaning that art allows us.…
Toward the Winter Solstice
New Poems
Since the appearance of Timothy Steele’s first collection of poems in 1979, growing numbers of readers and critics have recognized him as one of the best and most significant poets of his generation.…
Hometown for an Hour
Poems
In her second collection of poems, Jennifer Rose writes primarily of places and displacement. Using the postcard’s conventions of brevity, immediacy, and, in some instances, humor, these poems are greetings from destinations as disparate as Cape Cod, Kentuckiana, and Croatia.…
Selected Poems
By Lee Gerlach
Lee Gerlach’s Selected Poems is a rigorous culling from the life's work of a remarkable and prolific poet. Written over a period of fifty years, the poetry of Lee Gerlach is a full spectrum of human expression, vision, and experience.…
The Fin-de-Siècle Poem – On Sale
English Literary Culture and the 1890s
Edited by Joseph Bristow
Featuring innovative research by emergent and established scholars, The Fin-de-Siècle Poem throws new light on the remarkable diversity of poetry produced at the close of the nineteenth century in England.…
The Optimist
Poems
In Joshua Mehigan’s award-winning poetry, one encounters a lucid, resolute vision driven by an amazing facility with the metrical line. Most of the poems in The Optimist unapologetically employ traditional poetic technique, and, in each of these, Mehigan stretches the fabric of living language over a framework of regular meter to produce a compelling sonic counterpoint.…
A Poet’s Prose
Selected Writings of Louise Bogan
By Mary Kinzie
Although best known as a master of the formal lyric poem, Louise Bogan (1897- 1970) also published fiction and what would now be called lyrical essays. A Poet’s Prose: Selected Writings of Louise Bogan showcases her devotion to compression, eloquence, and sharp truths.…
Then & Now
Poems
James Cummins’s first book of poems, The Whole Truth, became known throughout much of the poetry world as the “Perry Mason sestinas.” His second book, Portrait in a Spoon, was chosen by Richard Howard for the James Dickey Prize Contemporary Poetry Series.…
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