Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Essay. Edited by Steven Huff. Bill Knott (1940 -2014) was one of the most brilliant and iconoclastic American poets of our time, who liked to think of himself as an outsid
Poetry. Wendy Mnookin's poems are deft reports from the unkempt country of love. Her fierce lyrics, her 'choreography / of desire"' shakes us again and again with intelligence, humor, and ardency. Mno
Poetry. "In PRICKING, Cuello smoothly erases the present moment and foregrounds the terrors of sectarian conflict and religious oppression. Esclarmonde de Foix, Jeanne d'Arc, and the unfortunate victi
Poetry. "George Drew holds a high place among our lyric poets, and is a masterful storyteller besides. For evidence of his narrative skills, see Elegy for Jared, The Men, Matthew Brady Speaks, About C
Poetry. In AFTER MORNING RAIN, Sam Hamill's final book, released shortly after his death, the revered poet and translator of Chinese poetry, returns to his most constant themes, of reverence for ancie
Poetry. Women's Studies. "Lucille Clifton's wish that she hopes her poetry will 'comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable' describes the project of this ambitious new book. In Nancy White's A
Literary Nonfiction. "In this follow-up to his first book, Plato's Erotic Thought: The Tree of the Unknown, Professor Geier attempts to clarify the fundamental and intimate relationship between 'the s
Poetry. Women's Studies. Moving through losses both private and public, the poems in TOTEM: AMERICA, Debra Kang Dean's third full-length collection, sing of a "thee" who is sometimes a beloved, someti
Poetry. "Inventive, ambitious, nimble, quick-witted, Tony Leuzzi's MEDITATION ARCHIPELAGO amasses poems of technical virtuosity and capacious insight. An alert, original personality is at work in this
Poetry. "Deena Linett's high lyric sensibility shines its dark lantern upon inevitable losses. What I treasure is the way that her poems can turn with a panther-like, predatory quickness from the beau
