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Dixmont (o.p.) by Rick Campbell |
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Dixmont is more than a blip on the Doppler screen of American poetry; it measures the weather of our times. Against a background of wars past and present, Rick Campbell wages his own personal battles on several fronts. With an alchemist’s magic, he mixes his “artifacts of impermanence” — humor with history, intelligent design with the toss of a coin, the muse with the scalpel, his daughter’s swing set with his father’s troublesome legacy, finding his own “reference points” in the daily obligations of family life. Because life is literally at stake, somewhere beyond metaphor, Dixmont brings us all “home.”– Judith Kitchen
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Just Once: New and Previous Poems (o.p.) by Samuel Hazo |
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“One relishes his jauntiness, his ever-varied grammatical attack, and the wiry suppleness of his phrasing.”– Richard Wilbur
This title is currently out of print; however, many of the poems from Just Once are reprinted in The Song of the Horse, New and Selected Poems 1958-2008 by Samuel Hazo.
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A Flight to Elsewhere (o.p.) by Samuel Hazo |
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“To encounter Samuel Hazo’s voice anywhere is to feel grounded and recharged with the vigor of life.”– Naomi Shihab Nye
This title is currently out of print; however, many of the poems from A Flight to Elsewhere are reprinted in The Song of the Horse, New and Selected Poems 1958-2008 by Samuel Hazo.
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Fire in the Orchard (o.p.) by Gary Margolis |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that poetry is “what will and must be spoken,” and in his new book — his best yet — Gary Margolis speaks in a deceptively quiet but nonetheless urgent voice of what usually goes unspoken, of the spaces between people, the distance we keep, the mortality we bear. Fire in the Orchard is carefully crafted and psychologically astute, a work of emotional attainment, necessary speech. –Edward Hirsch This title is currently out of print.
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The Working Poet: 75 Writing Exercises and a Poetry Anthology [o.p.] Edited by Scott Minar |
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A compendium of writing exercises, discussions of craft and form, writing prompts, and sample poems, intended to help practicing poets sharpen their skills. Over 100 poets and teachers have contributed to this volume, including Sheryl St. Germain, Philip Terman, Anne Marie Macari, Richard Jackson, Pen Pearson, Andrea Hollander Budy, Terrance Hayes, Sue Ellen Thompson, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Robert Gibb, Jo McDougall, Martha Silano, Elizabeth Robinson, Susan Ludvigson, Robin Becker, Lawrence Raab, Ilya Kaminsky, Ed Ochester, and Ada Limón.
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OneOnOne (o.p.) by Jack Myers |
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“Myers’ main strength is providing order and clarity for powerful emotions through a deceptively plain-speaking style…. These well-crafted poems arrive through varied and circuitous routes at moments of true feeling.”– New York Times Book Review
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Snow White Horses (o.p.) by Ed Ochester |
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What a joy it is for me to see these poems of Ed Ochester. I have been singing his praises for years. He is in a magic place, this poet, whether he is giving his attention to the great past or to the immediate present… He is sane, decent, practical – wise – one of our very best poets.–Gerald Stern
This title is currently out of print; however, the entire text of Snow White Horses is included in Unreconstructed: Poems Selected and New along with selections from Land of Cockaigne and a generous selection of new poems.
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The Dark Takes Aim by Julie Suk |
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Who would have thought that any writer so acutely beset by what Emily Dickinson called ‘Heavenly Hurt’ could find so many ways to transform lamentation to consolation and leave us ‘singing / heedless of the dark taking aim’? The poetry of Julie Suk is at once deceptively spare and metaphorically rich, and the sensual mystery of her perfectly pitched and etched lines is haunting, elemental, and wild.–R. T. Smith
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The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (o.p.) Edited by Sue Ellen Thompson |
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Over 300 poems by 94 of the best poets in America including:Philip Levine, Rita Dove, Wendell Berry, Maxine Kumin, Billy Collins, Sharon Olds, Denise Duhamel, Gerald Stern, Stephen Dunn, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Robert Hass, Jane Hirshfield, Tony Hoagland, Charles Harper Webb, Jane Kenyon, Li-Young Lee, William Matthews, Linda Pastan, Campbell McGrath, Alicia Ostriker, Larry Levis, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Tim Seibles, Naomi Shihab Nye, B.H. Fairchild, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Jean Valentine, and Dean Young.The collection includes a photograph and a brief biographical sketch of each poet.
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The Leaving: New and Selected Poems (o.p.) by Sue Ellen Thompson |
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Sue Ellen Thompson’s poems are wondrous creations of the real world of love and loss and desire — full of humor, full of tender precision. A single poem can meticulously and vividly contain the collapse of a marital or family history, or recreate a long desire. Her work is a delight.–Michael OndaatjeSue Ellen Thompson, while delineating the personal, never forgets that it’s arrangement, pacing, attention to sonics, that makes a poem a poem. Thus we are as engaged by the interplay of her language as we are by what it conveys. The vagaries of a love affair are offered from just the right distance, permitting insight to mingle with artfulness of narrative timing and the framing of effects. The Leaving is a pleasure and an achievement.–Stephen Dunn
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