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The Ecopoetry Anthology
The Ecopoetry Anthology is a beautifully constructed, carefully planned, and intelligently framed volume. Readers looking...
$24.95Two Reviews: New Works from SplitLevel Texts
Carla Harryman...and Catherine Meng...each offer an expansive poetics, suggesting that the inherited conventions of poetry...
$12Through the Second Skin
Sheffield’s language is mined from observation and reflection. His imagination is grounded in flora and...
$21.95Under the Sign
It turns out that ordinary mortality is the only limit to this openness, and here,...
$16.40Swamp Isthmus
The beauty of this collection, formally and thematically, is the brio Wilkinson brings to the...
$14.95Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire
Hillman has a penchant for including everything: she loves the sibilance and buzz of both...
$22.95Phosphorescence of Thought
The book’s form is fluid, a central current buoys its pauses; the book unfurls, as...
$17The Poetics of Disenchantment: Buchanan and Meier
Poetry is always associated, to a certain extent, with enchantment—not necessarily magic, but a heightened...
$14.50; 15.95Armor, Amour
The poems of Armor, Amour reveal a serious mind wrestling with important subjects. The book...
$16.00Grains of the Voice
This collection is, in essence, an act of singing. Each poem lilts, echoes, trills what...
$13.99Striven, The Bright Treatise
Striven, The Bright Treatise, offers readers a graceful synthesis of art and ethics.... a point...
$25.00Companion Grasses
It is a distinct feature of [this] book that it impresses into service both logic...
$17.95A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind
You have to be fierce to write, and perhaps even read, these poems. They follow...
$18.95Road Scatter
Road Scatter, Sandra Meek’s devastating new book of poetry, aches with a sense of loss...
$15.95Imperial Nostalgias
There is a problem, however, with this Romantic undertaking: the American frontier has long been...
$14.00Small Porcelain Head
Small Porcelain Head is filled with beautifully crafted poems...which offer a thought-provoking relationship between form...
$15.95To Anacreon In Heaven and Other Poems
Meditation would be too tame a word; instead, it is more appropriate to describe To...
$15.95This Constellation Is a Name: Collected Poems 1965-2010
Michael Heller’s poems, now available in their imposing entirety in This Constellation Is a Name,...
$22.95The Final Take
In The Final Take, Susko seeks to record something that puts to rest the aftereffects...
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