A staggeringly important book, Martha Silano’s award-winning new collection is a passionate cry on behalf of the Earth and all who dwell upon it. Very few poets have dared to show us, so clearly, the edge of peril to which we have brought our only home.
The precision and emotional clarity of Stott’s lyrical and exact poems of mother love, suffering, and exaltation offer an intimate and ultimately transcendent experience rarely provided by a book of poems.
Brings together pieces from David Axelrod’s previous nine collections along with 32 brilliant new poems--the whole a kind of symphonic effort to clarify... Læs mere
A cry of love and pain on behalf of the human race, its history, its future, its lovely possibilities that seem always out of reach. The poems of this award-winning poet declare again and again that the reaching itself defines the best in us, and he is cheering us on.
These poems are set in, or arise from, the past but, with Goldbarth’s characteristic precision, insight, and narrative intelligence, springboard into a conjunction of thought and heart that reminds readers that the core of being human has never changed.
Robert McNamara’s fourth collection of poems, features a clear, direct and considered voice reminiscent, at times, of Herrick and Marvel, but fully contemporary. In poem after poem... Læs mere