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Jones, Rodney. Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985-2005. Houghton. Mar. 2006. c.256p. ISBN 0-618-62430-9. $25. POETRY Jones (Elegy for a Southern Drawl) writes of novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer's visit to [...]

Gray, Patricia. Rupture. Red Hen. 2005. 88p. ISBN 1-888996-94-3. pap. $12.95. POETRY 'Step onto the deck. Push off./ This vessel is made of intelligence--/ yours and mine.' These opening lines [...]

CASSELLS, CYRUS. More Than Peace and Cypresses. Copper Canyon. Oct. 2004. c.99p. ISBN 1-55659-214-0. pap. $15. POETRY In what the poet calls his 'book of heroes' Cassells returns to Italy, […]

LEE, DAVID. So Quietly the Earth. Copper Canyon. Jun. 2004. c.127p. ISBN 1-55659-204-3. pap. $15. POETRY Those familiar with Lee (e.g., Driving and Drinking) are used to his conjuring of […]

Tanning, Dorothea. A Table of Content. Graywolf. Jan. 2004. c.72p. ISBN 1-55597 402-3. pap. $14. POETRY Internationally acclaimed for her paintings and sculptures, Tanning has turned to writing late in […]

Toby. 2003. c.104p. tr. from Dutch by David Colmer. ISBN 1-902881-81-8. $17.95. POETRY A psychoanalyst, classically trained musician, and acclaimed novelist as well as Holland's best selling poet, Enquist has [...]

Princeton Univ. Feb. 2004. c.105p. tr. from Dutch by J.M. Coetzee. illus. ISBN 0-691-117-36-5. $19.95. POETRY The Dutch language may be considered 'minor,' spoken, as it is, by only 15 [...]

Coffee House, dist. by Consortium. Feb. 2004. c.64p, 1 56689-148-5. pap. $15. POETRY 'My language has its own world/ where it doesn't know how to live,' and so Taniguchi learns [...]

These five books admirably demonstrate the diversity of international poetry; they have no common ground, except, perhaps, that they share an American publisher. Transtromer and Enzensberger are translated (from Swedish [...]

These five books admirably demonstrate the diversity of international poetry; they have no common ground, except, perhaps, that they share an American publisher. Transtromer and Enzensberger are translated (from Swedish [...]

These five books admirably demonstrate the diversity of international poetry; they have no common ground, except, perhaps, that they share an American publisher. Transtromer and Enzensberger are translated (from Swedish [...]

These five books admirably demonstrate the diversity of international poetry; they have no common ground, except, perhaps, that they share an American publisher. Transtromer and Enzensberger are translated (from Swedish [...]

These five books admirably demonstrate the diversity of international poetry; they have no common ground, except, perhaps, that they share an American publisher. Transtromer and Enzensberger are translated (from Swedish [...]

Morley, Hilda. Asphodel: Moyer Bell, dist. by Publishers Group West. Dec. 1997. c.247p. LC 96-44931. ISBN 1-55921-202-0. $19.95. POETRY We get the feeling reading a Morley poem that it is [...]

These three volumes bring to five number of titles in the publisher's 'Bird Woman' series. The unifying factor here is gender and perhaps a skillful use of words, but little [...]

These three volumes bring to five number of titles in the publisher's [...]

These three volumes bring to five number of titles in the publisher's 'Bird Woman' series. The unifying factor here is gender and perhaps a skillful use of words, but little [...]

Bottoms, David. We Almost Disappear. Copper Canyon. Aug. 2011. c.65p. ISBN 9761556593314. pap. $16. POETRY Bottoms (Waltzing Through the Endtime) fits comfortably into the grand Southern literary tradition, with a [...]

Moore, Jim. Invisible Strings: Poems. Graywolf. 2011. c.104p. ISBN 9781555975814. pap. $15. POETRY 'I remember my mother toward the end.' With simple ease, Moore (Lightning at Dinner) brings the reader [...]

Walker, Alice. Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems. New World Library, dist. by PGW. Oct. 2010. c.176p. ISBN 9781577319306. $18. POETRY 'Love, if it is love, never goes away./ [...]

Alexander, Elizabeth. Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems, 1990-2010. Graywolf. Oct. 20]0. c.270p. ISBN 9781555975685. $28. POETRY When President Obama chose Alexander to participate in his inauguration, he shone a [...]

Grennan, Eamon. Dut of Sight. Graywolf. Aug. 2010. c.272p. ISBN 978-1-55597-564-7. $26. POETRY "Although things vanish, are what mark our vanishing,/we still hold onto them--ballast against the updraft/of oblivion--as I [...]

Turner, Brian. Phantom Noise. Alice James. Apr. 2010. c.80p. ISBN 978-1-882295-80-7. pap. $16.95. POETRY 'Each night is different. Each night the same./ Sometimes I pull the trigger. Sometimes I don't.' [...]

Walcott, Derek. White Egrets. Farrar. Apr. 2010. c.80p. ISBN 978-0-374-28929-4. $24. POETRY 'We never know what memory will do--' says Nobel Prize winner Walcott, as he steps into the past [...]

* Hoagland, Tony. Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty. Graywolf. Feb. 2010. c.100p. ISBN 978-1-55597-549-4. pap. $15. POETRY 'I wanted to get the cement truck into the poem/because I [...]

Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds. Columbia Univ. 2009. c.268p. ed. by Billy Collins. illus. index. ISBN 978-0-231-15084-9. $22.95. POETRY Rare and common, real and metaphorical, from [...]

Revell, Donald. The Bitter Withy. Alice James. 2009. c.80p. ISBN 978-1-882295-76-0. pap. $15.95. POETRY In his latest work, Lenore Marshall prize winner Revell (My Mojave) seeks kinship with nature and [...]

* Alexie, Sherman. Face. Hanging Loose. Jun. 2009. c.160p. ISBN 978-1-931236-71-3. $28; pap. ISBN 978-1-931236-70-6. $18. POETRY Poet, novelist, and National Book Award-winning YA author Alexie writes 'with a ragged [...]

White, Ashanti. Razor Blades Between My Teeth. Sept. 2009. c.76p. ISBN 978-0-9821996-0-2. pap. $11.99. POETRY 'Wow! i ain't never seed a house/ so big and so preety/ and i git [...]

White, Orlando. Bone Light. Red Hen. 2009. c.64p. ISBN 978-1-59709-135-0. pap. $15.95. POETRY 'Everything I write requires this: Alphabet.' A child sees letters first, 'shape distinguishing itself from its background,' [...]

McGrath, Campbell. Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Ecco: HarperCollins. Jun. 2009. c.128p. ISBN 978-0-06-166129-7. $23.99. POETRY 'These wild, wind-torn lands flung to the horizon/Will soon enough [...]

McGriff, Michael. Dismantling the Hills. Univ. of Pittsburgh. (Pit Poetry). Oct. 2008. c.88p. ISBN 978-0-8229-6007-2. pap. $14. POETRY 'If you took this road twenty years ago/ you'd have found my [...]

Blake, Lorna Knowles. Permanent Address. Ashland Poetry. 2008. 80p. ISBN 978-0-912592-61-9. pap. $14.95. POETRY 'Oh, deliver me from the familiar,/from the old maps and their destinations/that are pre-destinations, nothing more.' [...]

* Paley, Grace. Fidelity. Farrar. Mar. 2008. c.96p. ISBN 978-0-374-29908-4. $22. POETRY 'Life is as risky/ as it is branchy/treetop and twigtip/ are only the beginning.' Just before her death [...]

Smith, R.T. Outlaw Style: Poems. Univ. of Arkansas. 2007. c.120p. ISBN 978-1-55728-853-0. pap. $16. POETRY 'Who thought this up, this reservoir/ of sorrow, tang of chrome, taste of cedar?' asks [...]

Rappleye, Greg. Figured Dark. Univ. of Arkansas. 2007. c.70p. ISBN 978-1-55728 852-3. pap. $16. poetry 'My vasectomy, for instance./ I choose a woman doctor, admiring William the Conqueror/ and his […]