"Kasischke's intelligence is most apparent in her syntactic control and pace, the way she gauges just when to make free verse speed up, or stop short, or slow down."—The New York Times Book Review "Kasischke's poems are powered by a skillful use of imagery and the subtle, ingenious way she turns a phrase."—Austin American-Statesman Laura Kasischke's poems have the same haunting qualities and truth as ...
"An exquisite storyteller."—The Southern Review "David Bottoms's poems just get better and better."—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "One finds here what one expects in a book of good Southern poems: clear narratives . . . evocative images, searching irony, and meditative poise." —Library Journal Rooted in the customs of Southern families and peopled with undertakers, bluegrass musicians, daughte ...
"A collection of poems that give rich drama to ordinary experience, deepening our sense of what it means to be human."—Pulitzer Prize finalist citation"There is a broad, powerful streak of independence—even disobedience—that runs through Stone's writing and has inspired a great number of women after her."—Guardian Finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, this retrospective of Ruth Stone's poetry c ...
"Charming, melancholy, hip."—Publishers Weekly, starred review"Zapruder's innovative style is provocative in its unusual juxtapositions of line, image and enjambments. . . . Highly recommended."—Library JournalMatthew Zapruder's third book mixes humor and invention with love and loss, as when the breath of a lover is compared to «a field of titanium gravestones / growing warmer in the sun.» The title poem is an e ...
National Book Award FinalistBook of the Year honors from Publishers Weekly"As if hurled from a pitching mound, James Richardson's aphorisms and images approach the reader like fastballs, only to curve at the last second, painting the corners of the reader's mind with wisdom and delight. In By the Numbers Richardson dips into an expansive repertoire of approaches and shows excellent command, as he illuminates the commute between the ord ...
• Founding editor and publisher of Ausable Press • author of six books of poetry • co-author of best-selling book about poetry, The Practice of Poetry (sold 50,000 copies) • taught at Princeton University • MFA from University of Iowa • received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and an NEA fellowship • poetry influenced by her studies of Zen Buddhism (at Zen Mountain Monastery in NY ...
“Abani . . . explores place and humor, exile and freedom with poems of experience and imagination . . . [he] enters the wound with a boldness that avoids nothing. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal “Stunning poems.” —New Humanist A self-described “zealot of optimism,” poet and novelist Chris Abani bravely travels into the charged intersections of atrocity and lo ...
“Davis is as good as DeLillo at playing off our internal hunger for meaning against surface senselessness. And Davis catches the surface brilliantly.”—American Book Review Punctuated by subversive humor, verbal theatrics, and moments of strange, luminous beauty, Davis’ clear, unsentimental poems are meditations and mediations on contemporary existence and the unreliability of language, emotions, and the m ...
• finalist for the National Book Award for his second book • Publishers Weekly described Ben Lerner as “among the most promising young poets now writing.” • Lerner is barely 30, publishing his third book • BA and MFA from Brown University • former student of C.D. Wright • teaches poetry at University of Pittsburgh • at age 23, he was the youngest poet published by ...