Poetry. In Laressa Dickey's TWANG readers are offered the increasing power of the voice and the danger of one's words being used against them. As the book's speaker works with healing plants she learn
Poetry. WATCHING THE PERSEIDS: THE BACKWATERS PRESS TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY ANTHOLOGY features poems from BWP's authors from the last 20 years. Virtually every poet published by the press in its first t
Poetry. The general theme of this book, and a number of its individual poems, is that love and language create community. There is little self- reference and confession. Set in Gloucester, New York, o
Poetry. In Firer's poems, place, often the western shore of Lake Michigan, provides an imagistic and sonic landscape in which language explores the 'empire of skin' with its daily happinesses and sorr
Poetry. LGBT Studies. Young Adult. Film. Art. DRONE is a lyric meditation on modern warfare, in our technological and digital age. Written from a variety of perspectives and personas, it explores the
Poetry. "When I read Marge Saiser's poetry I feel I am in the presence of someone whose heart beats in rhythm with mine. I recognize the situations, the people, and the world she presents in these poe
Poetry. African American Studies. "Fueled with ecstatic rage and syncopated with jazzed-up pistons and B-bop timing belts, T. J. Anderson's RIVER TO CROSS is a long ride and deep plunge into the Ameri
Poetry. "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
Poetry. "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 gr
Poetry. "These are brave and mature poems, facing divorce and aging even as they revel in the natural world, particularly that of the high desert. The book encompasses the sweep of personal and geogra
Poetry. "John Clarke writes beautifully about the natural world, about marshes, orchards, blackbirds, deer, a one-footed pheasant, or the arrival of 'first snow / tapping its small canes.' His poems,
Poetry. Prose. Eighty of Thomas McGrath's former students and friends offer a moving tribute in poetry and prose to one of the seminal poet-teachers of the 20th century. "To honor the poet and his poe
Poetry. Like the crows he describes in one of his witty, wry poems, John J. Ronan casts "a cold eye on life, on death." These edgy, intelligent poems brim with emotion without ever nearing the sentime
Edited by Greg Kosmicki and Mary K. Stillwell, Nebraska Presence includes poems by more than 80 contemporary Nebraska poets, including Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United Stat
