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Many have heard about the devastating Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on New York City's Lower East Side in 1911, and about the important labor laws enacted in its deadly wake. But no one knows much, if anything, about the lives of the young women caught up in this tragedy. Now David Brendan Hopes beautifully imagines their lives for us, bringing us their passions, hopes, and dreams, as well as their songs and laughter, in an effervescent, mo...

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A RUNAWAY BRIDE, MYSTERIOUS VOICES IN THE FOREST, LOVE AND MURDER-THE KEENANS ANTICIPATED NONE OF THIS WHEN THEY FLED TO TWO MOUNTAINS BEFORE WASHINGTON WAS PRESIDENT. The Keenan family flees troubles in Ireland and settles in western North Carolina, under two mountains the Indians call "The Brothers." The valley brooded over by the Brothers is magical, and soon the expanding Keenan clan and other human settlers are confronted by the "first pe...

Night, Sleep, and the Dreams of Lovers revists Thomas Wolfe's Asheville 100years later. It is now a city of art and artists, and the people who see art and artists as away to become later day Medici, and put their mark on the world. What the history booksleave out is that these people are fully sexual and fully impassioned. . . and sometimestalk to their cats.

The Falls of the Wyona by David Brendan Hopes confronts friends growing up in Appalachia just after WWII not only with the material threat of the wilderness, but with the uncharted darkness of their own maturing hearts.

A New Book of Psalms - Songs of rage and desire, songs of remembrance and lament, songs begging and bargaining and growing still, above all songs of love--"love abundant, / love unspent, untarnished, rising wave-like / till the sea is drowned." - PENIEL is a modern daybook of Psalms, with all of their broken, hurt-into-vision grandeur. - Thomas Gardner - Author of "John in the Company of Poets: The Gospel in Literary Imagination"The soul in pa...

The Glacier's Daughter is the winner of the 1981 Juniper Prize, an annual poetry award sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Press. Arising from an enormous feeling for and an acute perception of nature, the poems in this collection are distinguished by unexpected imagery, unique arrangements of language, and the facility with which the natural and human worlds are described and transformed by daring new perceptions. Hopes's poems are i...