In this nimble, turbulent collection, one of America's foremost African American poets probes the...
'One of the best books I've read in many, many years, if not in my life.'--Anderson Cooper Featur...
This witty and astute novel explores loss, desire, and moral choice, as a recession-era family an...
In a voice reminiscent of Cynthia Ozick, this Jewish Gothic novel renders the fracture and healin...
A National Book Award finalist collection of more than seventy poems on the Holocaust.
Voices chafe against circumstances of love, sex, loss, and longing with sometimes humorous, somet...
In poems that are at once formally assured and daringly inventive, Di Stefano invokes the lives o...
H. L. Hix's lines of inquiry ponder philosophic questions distilling answers with an insight intr...
A groundbreaking journey celebrating nature's diversity, family ties, and female power, and lamen...
'A young woman's fear of the living thing in the walls of her apartment. An office-based streaker...
A poetic novel: a portrait of a young woman's volatile mix of passivity and wildness.
Poems printed 'en face'--Spanish and English translation on facing pages.
The distance of Romer's climb through life is not spatial, but psychological, the acquisition of ...
Bruce Bond's trilogy of sonnet sequences explores trauma and self-alienation and the power of ima...
The sustained dramatic monologue of John Doe describes and enacts the formidable struggles of ord...
Following her big hit, American Amnesiac, Raptosh's Human Directional zigzags across consciousnes...
In dialogue between poetry and visual art, The Other Sky probes the depths of the psyche: childho...
Areas of Fog: a year-long journal of inner and outer weather, journeying through New England seas...
Reading Heyen's uncompromising lyrics you'll be struck with his spikes as they flash upward into ...
A sequence of prose poems about the ravages of love, how we desire it, and whether we care to rec...
H.L. Hix's measured crystalline particles of everyday life melt, moment by moment, into song.
Life works--1964 to present--by major living American poet, contemporary of Lowell, Wilbur, and W...
'Trio: three books of poetry -- Planet Parable, by Karen Donovan; Run, by Diane Raptosh; Endless ...
American Anger brings to light evidences of the anger at work in American civil life, reflecting ...
This memoir chronicles a young girl's journey through abuse, impoverishment, and a continuing sea...
A unique compendium of tiny stories, essays, fables, scenarios, and allegories suggested by vinta...
Make-believe Martians, talking dogs, and loony secretaries - a parade of hilarious and poignant c...
Experimental in outlook, yet gritty and streetwise, the collection renders stories of loss and re...
At stake are no less than the origins and mysteries of flesh and touch---food.
'Spring Ulmer takes, as a starting point for this essay collection, Theodor Adorno's accusation t...
Nahoonkara moves between poetry and prose, relying on the alchemy of images to open up the magic ...
The moving story of a father's bond with his autistic son embodies powerful themes of family rela...
Horvath examines scoliosis through the lens of family dynamics, feminism, folk and fairy tales, 1...
Fifty Miles is of addiction and alcoholism; recovery; grief; healing; the challenges of living wi...
The Arsonist's Song asks: in our struggle to reconcile the darkest disappointments of our pasts, ...
What would poets say about each other's poems if they were really honest?
An inspired truant from any number of poetical schools.
Surrendering Oz is about giving up the safety of emotionally zoning out - about learning to think...
Variations in the Key of K: Stories, concerning the inner lives and passions of artists, and the ...
The poems probe the contours of landscape, place-both physical and visionary-and the political.
A compilation of half a century's poetic meditation on the holocaust and its causes and consequen...
Triptych is of lyric emergencies, love, self, and rediscovering one's muse through the timelessne...
2011 Finalist for ForeWord Review's Book of the Year Award in Autobiography Memoir
'Searching for a singular voice in one owns mind must be incredibly boring, or exhausting. But, b...
The best book on Modern American poetry since Robert Hass's Twentieth Century Pleasures.
Through biblical re-tellings, narratives, and lyric poems, this young African-American poet exami...
A famous Soviet composer kills himself upon the announcement of Stalin's death, leaving behind a ...