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Report copyright infringementby William Packard (Editor)Since its founding in 1969 by William Packard, The New York Quarterly has been devoted to excellence in the publication of a unique and fervent cross-section of contemporary American poetry regardless of school of thought, style, or genre. Our only concern is to focus on the craft that underlies effective poetry writing. The New York Quarterly features works by both known and emerging poets. The NYQ Craft Interviews present the views of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Brent Armendinger (Author)"Brent Armendinger's poems are smart, elegiac, and wonderful, filled with formal play, the vapor between rainfall, skies full of knives, and the memories of breath. Undetectable celebrates and makes visible the body's perforations, the openings between the body and the world, and manifests them in the fracture evident everywhere in this book. These poems pose questions of loveliness and loneliness: Where do syllables take us? and What ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ander Monson (Editor)DIAGRAM.4 is the fourth print installment of the journal DIAGRAM . These texts are selected from years 7 to 9 of the journal, and are joined here by a great many found & recovered diagrams. Contributors: Marcia Aldrich, Steve Barbaro, Douglas Basford, Lindsay Bell, Samantha Bell, Elisabeth Benjamin, Ash Bowen, Jason Bredle, Nickole Brown, Stephen Burt, Blake Butler, Edmond Caldwell, Kate Hill Cantrill, Jimmy Chen, Nolan Chessman, Adam C...

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Report copyright infringementby Deborah Bernhardt (Author)Deborah Bernhardt's DRIFTOLOGY, the 2013 winner of the New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM chapbook contest, is a thrilling linguistic ride. We'd almost say dizzying, since she shifts so quickly between registers and textures, except that the result's more electrified Van Gogh than vertigo. These poems show--and venerate--their seams. Throw a whole lot of smart and lovely in the "Will It Blend" blender, which shows up in one of Bernhardt's poem...

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Report copyright infringementby Joshua Poteat (Author)In a litany that is both a grand introduction and the mournful aftermath, Joshua Poteat celebrates, serenades, and grieves the animal passing through the frame in an accident and a perfection of timing. Using a rigid formal principle--9 fully-stopped lines per stanza, each opening with "For the animal"--Poteat carves a multi-faceted crystal prism, taking in the white light of anaphora and scattering out unpredictable bands of composite col...

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Report copyright infringementby Khaty Xiong (Author)Luminous and feral, DEER HOUR is part creation documentary of the worlds we build for ourselves with language, part elegy for the fact that it is impossible to generate closure without enclosure. In a world where humanity is bound to "red cedars whose secrets keep us logging" as well as "childhood / writing from the front lines," Xiong would guide us through the anxieties of being "bound in sore action, / unable to reconcile / the wild &...

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Bylenok (Author)"a/0 is a glorious, terrifying, tender enchantment--an immersion in a world made strange through the alchemy of metaphor--where approaching noon might become a horse, breathing hard, glowering. Here, it is always noon, falling snow forever filthy. Only the body is new: gaining a tooth, losing a vertebra, suddenly old at the wrist where brittle bone too easily crumbles. Through the magical confabulations of language, Laura Bylenok unconceal...

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Report copyright infringementby Karyna McGlynn (Author)These are dark and playful, sometimes brutal, seemingly confessional poems. Here you will find: long electric hair, death by tetherball rope, sex, termite-infested houses, potato salads, prehistoric birds, body of missing teen found in family shed, a cousin's slender curling neck, and suburban barbarism, among much more. (2nd Edition) Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: J...

My Magnolia Memories and Musings- In Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia E. Neely-Dorsey (Author)In Magnolia Memories and Musings, Patricia Neely-Dorsey continues to "Celebrate the South and Things Southern". Her first collection of poems, Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia was called by one reviewer, a "love letter to the South". With Magnolia Memories and Musings, the love affair contiues. Using personal thoughts, obsrvations, and childhood memories, the author attempts to give a upclose and positive view into the sout...

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Report copyright infringementby Homer (Author) Number of Pages: 330 Dimensions: 0.74 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 10, 2010

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Report copyright infringementby Regina Derieva (Author), J. Kates (Translator)Poetry. Translated from the Russian by J. Kates. "Intimate variety. Regina Derieva is remarkable for the range of voices she deploys" Les Murray. "Regina Derieva's best poems are simultaneously elusive and immediate, striking and understated, personal and distanced. Few poets attempt such transformation in so few words" Tim Liardet." Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Robin Fulton (Author), Robin Fulton MacPherson (Author), Mariela Griffor (Editor)In the 1960s and 1970s Robin Fulton Macpherson was active in Scottish literary life as a poet, reviewer and essayist, for many years editing Lines Review. His home base since 1973 has been Norway, and in the decades since then he has built a solid reputation as a translator of Scandinavian poets, such as Tomas Tranströmer, Kjell Espmark and Harry Martinson from Swedish, and Olav H....

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Report copyright infringementby Fartema Mae Fagin (Author), Karen Paul Stone (Designed by)A collection of 46 poems reflected through the eyes of the author that describes layers of emotions based on interpersonal relationships. The poems are inspirational and hopeful, and they paint vivid pictures of some life experiences that helped develop, grow and shape the author's character Number of Pages: 58 Dimensions: 0.14 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: June 14, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ann Lauinger (Author)Little Red Tree is proud to present "Against Butterflies" by Ann Lauinger, Winner of the Vernice Quebodeaux "Pathways" Poetry Prize. The book also contains 25 full color images taken from the "Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta" by the Renaissance artist Joris Hoefnagel. Richard Harteis [Judge of the prize] describes her work: ..".I can only say how much I admire it: It is refreshing today to find a poet who is at once accessible and yet challeng...

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Report copyright infringementby Jean-Yves Solinga (Author)"Impressions of Reality" is Jean-Yves' 6th book of poetry, and in the words of W.F. Lantry, "Jean-Yves Solinga embraces the world with clear-eyed enthusiasm. There is a kind of joy in these poems, tempered by hard-edged vision. The laughter of women, the art of ship building, music and philosophy, all find their natural place within Solinga's lines. Solinga casts a cold eye on the past, and uses it as a prism for outlining an absolutel...

Eating the Pure Light: Homage to Thomas McGrath

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Report copyright infringementby John Bradley (Editor)An moving tribute in poetry and some prose to one of the seminal poet-teachers of 20th Century American poetry by eighty former students and friends. Number of Pages: 156 Dimensions: 0.33 x 10 x 7 IN Publication Date: February 09, 2009

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Martin (Author)"In CLOSING DISTANCES, Paul Martin keeps alive for a little longer the people who lived in the working-class town where he grew up. Here are the old Slovak women, husbands, parents, and grandparents, brothers, the racy butcher. Here is the Slovak language that is slowly being forgotten. And here are beauty and sorrow, humor, tenderness and wisdom. In the aptly named 'The Fading Photograph, ' a poem about his paternal grandfather, we read, 'P...

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Report copyright infringementby Jean LeBlanc (Author)"How does Jean LeBlanc make her poems so comfortably alive? Her candor, yes. Images already there. Full of surprise, but amiably free of shock. She is one of us, being singular. Such a pleasure, then, to enter and re-enter her world, poem after poem, and to share in the canny play of her language, to follow the casual gambits of her agile mind as she turns the commonplace on its ear. On her ear. I laughed out loud. I'm so pleased. I ache wi...

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Report copyright infringementby Linnea Johnson (Author)Conjured from hen scratches and devil's tales, from family stories and ancestral songs, Linnea Johnson's poems migrate from a landscape of elegy to roost in the cliffs of lyric transformation. In musical lines that narrate both the natural history of birds and their folklore, as well as her family history of Swedish immigration to the Midwest, Johnson explores the darkness that leads to light. "'It is flesh which remembers, bones which ar...

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Hunt (Author)"The strength of Tim Hunt's nature poems drew me into this book. His observation of light, rocks, a hawk, and a field mouse in 'High Desert Summer, ' a California landscape, is so intense that he seems to long to become part of it. Then come the poems honoring and loving his family, whose history is made up of men and women 'getting by, ' 'learning to make do, ' acquiring 'that tricky pride of the poor--the failing that is success.' Here is a p...

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Brennan (Author)"Matthew Brennan's impressively wide-ranging new volume marks a major imaginative breakthrough for an already fine poet. Mixing personal memory and cultural history, Brennan's poems incisively chronicle the joys, sorrows, and astonishments of a now vanished Twentieth Century America"&mdashDana Gioia. Number of Pages: 84 Dimensions: 0.2 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 29, 2009

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Report copyright infringementby Michelle Brooks (Author)"One might be forgiven for thinking that the almost universally dark subject matter of these eloquent poems--rape and its aftermath, murder, aberrant psychology, divorce, suicide--might make for gloomy reading. Banish the thought! These poems perfectly encompass both the surrounding darkness and the inextinguishable candle that is lit against it. They are not about life so much as they are the stuff of life itself. Savor them and take he...

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Report copyright infringementby Brad Maxfield (Author)Brad Maxfield's strikingly well-crafted poems are a troubled search for connection and significance in both the deteriorating and the beautiful configurations of the visible world. While many of the poems focus on the natural world, there is no romanticizing of Nature in the pastoral tradition, no reassuring or redemptive beauty intrinsic in the world's raw images. Rather, the speaker in these poems strives for an accurate assessment of ju...

The Untidy Season: An Anthology of Nebraska Women Poets

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Report copyright infringementby Heidi Hermanson (Editor), Liz Kay (Editor), Jennifer Lambert (Editor)2014 Nebraska Book Award The Untidy Season: An Anthology of Nebraska Women Poets takes its readers through the lush alphabet of Nebraska poetry--from Adkins to Zumpfe--with selections of poetry by nearly 90 native-born or transplanted Nebraska writers who write and live fearlessly and with great skill. Their topics range from the beginnings of life to the end--family relationships, loss, misun...

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Report copyright infringementby Cathy Smith Bowers (Author)Like Shining From Shook Foil: Selected Poems by Cathy Smith Bowers, award-winning Poet Laureate of North Carolina, brings together selections from four collections of poetry and 19 previously uncollected poems. The title of Ms. Smith Bowers' new collection epitomizes her way of writing from an abiding image and her ability to shine a light upon moments of intensity, joyous or painful. This light is the flaming out of an energy, a sour...

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Report copyright infringementby Amanda J. Bradley (Author)Amanda J. Bradley's debut book of poems takes the reader on an inward journey from a place of disturbance to a recovered equilibrium. These poems probe intense scenarios and emotional states then step back to inquire what sense can be made of them. Delving for a purpose becomes a purpose in itself and ultimately reaffirms a life well examined. "Hopping, skipping and dancing through the labyrinth of love and despair, Bradley creates a f...

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Report copyright infringementby Charlotte Lowe (Author)"Charlotte Lowe's Stealing the Dog's Prozac, is witty, whimsical, and oddly, wise, not something often noted in American Poetry of the moment. I deeply enjoyed it and I guarantee the same pleasure to anyone who buys it. It is never shopworn and often brilliant. It is a wonderful book." - Jim Harrison, author of Songs of Unreason (a Silver Concho Poetry Series selection, edited by Pamela Uschuk and William Pitt Root) Number of...

Sending Christmas Cards to Huck and Hamlet

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Mills (Author)"Sending Christmas Cards to Huck & Hamlet by Joseph Mills is one of the most original collections of poetry I have ever encountered-original because it treats the whole world of books, poems, stories, fairy tales not only as being somehow more real than reality itself but as our most important lifelines to reality itself. There is about this book a sense of everything happening for the first time, even those literary events that seem to...