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New for Spring 2008

   Jonathan Aaron
Journey to the Lost City

Julie Agoos
Property

Pamela Alexander
Slow Fire

Keith Althaus
Ladder of Hours

Adrian Blevins
The Brass Girl Brouhaha

Laure-Anne Bosselaar
A New Hunger

Robert Boyers
A Book of Common Praise

Julianne Buchsbaum
Slowly, Slowly, Horses

Hayden Carruth
Letters to Jane

Patrick Donnelly
The Charge

Lilah Hegnauer
Dark Under Kiganda Stars

Tung-Hui Hu
Mine

Linton Kwesi Johnson
Mi Revalueshanary Fren

Laura Kasischke
Gardening in the Dark

Laura Kasischke
Lilies Without

Gary Lilley
Alpha Zulu

Khaled Mattawa
Zodiac of Echoes

William Matthews
The Satires of Horace

Steve Orlen
The Elephant's Child

Steve Orlen
This Particular Eternity

Eric Pankey
Oracle Figures

Eric Pankey
Reliquaries

Eric Pankey
The Pear As One Example

Kathleen Peirce
The Ardors

Josh Rathkamp
Some Nights No Cars At All

James Richardson
Vectors

James Richardson
Interglacial

Jeffrey Skinner
Salt Water Amnesia

Sam Taylor
Body of the World

Bruce Weigl
Declension in the Village
of Chung Luong


Karen Whalley
The Rented Violin

C.K. Williams
Love About Love

          
Property by Julie Agoos

Julie Agoos
Property
“Her language is simple, sensuous, and concrete, with a quiet lyricism that approaches radiance.” —Partisan Review

Alpha Zulu by Gary Lilley

Gary Lilley
Alpha Zulu
“Lilley’s characters… are presences to haunt and instruct us in the myriad ways of being human….”
—Kim Addonzio

The Pear As One Example by Eric Pankey

Eric Pankey
The Pear As One Example: New & Selected Poems
"Pankey… bring(s) together his abstract intensities with his desire to live in the here and now…. ”
—Publishers Weekly

Complete List:

     

Journey to the Lost City by Jonathan Aaron

Jonathan Aaron
Journey to the Lost City
"Elegant and quietly dangerous"
—Rosanna Warren

Property by Julie Agoos

Julie Agoos
Property
“Her language is simple, sensuous, and concrete, with a quiet lyricism that approaches radiance.” —Partisan Review

Slow Fire by Pamela Alexander

Pamela Alexander
Slow Fire
"[a] profound dialog with the earth itself"
—Martha Collins

Ladder of Hours by Keith Althaus

Keith Althaus
Ladder of Hours:
Poems 1969-2005

Four decades of work from an American master.

The Brass Girl Brouhaha by Adrian Blevins

Adrian Blevins
The Brass Girl Brouhaha
Wild, zany, truth-telling poems. Winner of the 2004 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.

A New Hunger by Laure-Anne Bosselaar

Laure-Anne Bosselaar
A New Hunger
"An occasion to mark and to celebrate."
—Stephen Dunn

A Book of Common Praise by Robert Boyers

Robert Boyers
A Book of Common Praise
Very short essays first written as introductions to poetry and fiction readings.

Slowly, Slowly Horses by Julianne Buchsbaum

Julianne Buchsbaum
Slowly, Slowly Horses
The first book by a poet of unsettling imagination and immaculate diction.

Letters To Jane by Hayden Carruth

Hayden Carruth
Letters To Jane
Carruth‘s letters to Jane Kenyon the year she was dying of cancer.

The Charge by Patrick Donnelly

Patrick Donnelly
The Charge
Intense, pristine lyrics by a poet living in the age of AIDS. Donnelly‘s first book.

Dark Under Kiganda Stars by Lilah Hegnauer

Lilah Hegnauer
Dark Under Kiganda Stars
The first book by a young poet who writes about time spent in a remote Ugandan village.

Mine by Tung-Hui Hu

Tung-Hui Hu
Mine
"a poetry composed of figments of reality."
—Eisner Prize Citation

Mi Revalueshanary Fren

Linton Kwesi Johnson
Mi Revalueshanary Fren
"…as redemptive and life-ffirming as the blues."
—Russell Banks

Gardening in the Dark by Laura Kasischke

Laura Kasischke
Gardening in the Dark
Visionary leaps from the everyday to brilliant, surprising epiphanies.

Lilies Without by Laura Kasischke

Laura Kasischke
Lilies Without
"…gives us a taste for the unmedicated nerve” 
Jonathan Weinert in Pleiades"

Alpha Zulu by Gary Lilley

Gary Lilley
Alpha Zulu
“Lilley’s characters… are presences to haunt and instruct us in the myriad ways of being human….”
—Kim Addonzio

Zodiac of Echoes by Kaled Mattawa

Kaled Mattawa
Zodiac of Echoes
Mattawa‘s long-awaited second book. A marvelous linguistic fusion of diverse cultures and geographies.

The Satires of Horace by William Matthews

William Matthews
The Satires of Horace
Fresh, colloquial translations, at once contemporary and timeless.

The Elephant's Child by Steve Orlen

Steve Orlen
The Elephant's Child
"Like all good story-tellers, he is the best of company."
—Mark Jarman

This Particular Eternity by Steve Orlen

Steve Orlen
This Particular Eternity
Frontal, darkly funny poems as sweet-tempered as they are unflinching.

Oracle Figures by Eric Pankey

Eric Pankey
Oracle Figures
An elegant linguistic adventure of mind. Pankey‘s sixth book.

Reliquaries by Eric Pankey

Eric Pankey
Reliquaries
A book-length sequence of dazzling lyric meditation. The companion volume to Oracle Figures.

The Pear As One Example by Eric Pankey

Eric Pankey
The Pear As One Example: New & Selected Poems
"Pankey… bring(s) together his abstract intensities with his desire to live in the here and now…. "
—Publishers Weekly

The Ardors by Kathleen Peirce

Kathleen Peirce
The Ardors
The fourth book by a poet of profound emotional and religious feeling.

Some Nights No Cars At All by Josh Rathkamp

Josh Rathkamp
Some Nights No Cars At All
"…minutely observant, tender, grave, and true…."
Carol Frost

Vectors by James Richardson

James Richardson
Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays
Wise, witty, serious and playful aphorisms that delight us with their insights.

Interglacial by James Richardson

James Richardson
Interglacial: New and Selected Poems & Aphorisms
Contains the newest book by a poet of fierce and probing intelligence.

Salt Water Amnesia by Jeffrey Skinner

Jeffrey Skinner
Salt Water Amnesia
Brilliant, heartbreaking and very funny poems from the vantage of mid-life.

Body of the World by Sam Taylor

Sam Taylor
Body of the World
The first book by a poet who sees the earth as an integral part of human consciousness.

Declension in the Village of Chung Luong by Bruce Weigl

   Bruce Weigl
Declension in the Village of Chung Luong
"a deeply spiritual book"
—Carolyn Forché

The Rented Violin by Karen Whalley

Karen Whalley
The Rented Violin
Rare clarity of thought and emotion in luminous, beautiful language. Whalley's first book.

Love About Love by C.K. Williams

C.K. Williams
Love About Love
A complex and surprising self-portrait-as lover from earliest childhood longings to mature experience.