Dick Hague's Earnest Occupations digs into the rich, complex soil of place, time, and rootedness. Like Frost, Hague seeks to make his avocation and vocation one and the same, so the work of teaching,
"Truth is Justice's drunken sister./ She jaywalks, spits on the sidewalk,/ burns books in the courtyard,/ pulls tongues from the root." And the truth we get in Craig Paulenich's OLD BROWN is no easy t
This book combines fiction and fact in telling the story of a Chinese immigrant to America around 2008. It reads like a novel yet is poetry. "Tu Fu left his world. In Larry Smith's fine narrative, he
In 1971-72, Kathleen Burgess hitchhiked through Mexico, Central and South America with a lover. These poems tell the story. They are hip, astute, sumptuous, simultaneously accessible and cultured , th
In this new expanded edition, here are poems as dramatic projections of the character and spirit of American author and naturalist, Henry David Thoreau. In Smith's poems we get inside the mind and hea
These poems made me smile and appreciate the simplicity and quiet urgency of things just as they are. Like Kosho the toad, I lost myself in the doing and the spirituality of things The Record of Kosho
Charlene Fix--in her poems' animal subjects--finds lessons for humanity, though her poems are light, delightful, effervescent, quick-on-their-feet, fleet-footed, with a wit and wonder worthy of Marian
