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Emerging Views combines the author's poetry and painting. It ranges from images and verse inspired by the Hubble Telescope to those arising from intimate moments and the beauty of nature. As Barbara Bennett notes, "It conveys the Oneness of experience, from newborn babies to star systems, " being as cosmic as it is intimate. Jeffrey Dugan notes that "Marye Gail Harrison deftly weaves art and science, letting her poetry and paintings give voice...

Laura Altshul's The Shearing is a brave book. The eloquent poems in the book face Loss of all sorts head on, but through the good offices of Love, Courage, and the grace of Nature the message of the book is an uplifting one offering hope in a time of trouble.

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In Mapping a Life, Susan Moss travels widely and passionately through man-made and natural terrain and through realms of the heart. Such leaps of faith, such chances she takes! In poems whose language is vigorous and vivid, she takes us with her every inch of the way.

Mianus Village provides vivid descriptions of the people, places, and events in the author's younger years growing up in the rough and tumble atmosphere of a government housing development established for World War II veterans. The poems in this book are vigorous and compelling, always comprehensible but never simplistic. They tell a story that pulls the reader forward at breakneck speed. They are full of wit and graphic detail.

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A House of Many Rooms is a glittering memory palace filled with treasures that capture in splendid poetic words and images, "emotion recollected in tranquility". Some of the rooms echo the New England pastoral tone of Robert Frost while others contain the murmurs of William Carlos Williams and shared lives in medicine. Undergirding the whole structure is a life lived in and by the wisdom imparted by a strong religious faith. There is nostalgia...

Al Basile's poems have style, joy, and - above all - verve. Sometimes they unfold with the lyric expansiveness of great jazz solos. Sometimes they shine as beautifully jeweled miniatures. What a pleasure to read a book of poems with such unabashed energy. Al Basile's playful ease with the pentameter line bespeaks a sensibility trained in the subtleties of musical rhythm and voice. Turn almost anywhere in this rich collection from five decades ...

Casting is a moving mixture of poems that look back and poems that live in the present moment. Claps is a master of zooming in on the resonant, telling detail. In these tight, packed poems, the holy and unholy battle it out, and while he recognizes that nothing saves us entirely, he has the earned wisdom to find consolation in the small moments, the small victories that sustain us as we savor what we can while we can. - Jim Daniels, author of ...

Philip Levine has written that Don Barkin's work shows "wonderful skill." The Rail Stop at Wassaic bears out that assessment. Like the poet's previous book, Houses, it is "both domestic and fierce, accessible and resonant, including many poems that have the audacity to follow traditional patterns of rhyme and meter." Barkin's earlier volume, That Dark Lake, was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award, presented under the aegis of the Library...

The poems in John Muro's first book, In the Lilac Hour & Other Poems, move with a sure hand between closed forms (especially sonnets), invented forms, poems after writers like Keats and Frost, and free verse, and they are committed to seeing and honoring the passing of seasons, of friends and family, and to the birds and flowers that constitute the local reality of our everyday lives. Looking closely and surely at the world around him, Muro's ...

Susan King brings an array of emotions to her verse chronicles of Great Cranberry Island, "this beautiful complicated place." She pays homage to beloved neighbors and friends, their foibles and felicities, while limning the island's flora and fauna, from asters and rosa rugosa to June bugs and painted ladies. And then there's the buoy bell, "tolling all moments holy." Altogether a remarkable collection. With great heart, Susan invites the read...

Affection and gratitude are much of what readers feel while engaging with Michael Cervas's new collection, Even Here. Each poem-and the entire collection-is a rigorous act of examining a life that has been both singular and ordinary. Honesty, intelligence, plain-spoken brilliance, and a generous heart have been harnessed to poems we readers will wish to read again and again. In his fourth collection, Even Here, Michael Cervas claims not to be ...

Nancy Kline's poems speak to us compellingly of time, nature, love, and loss. Note in particular to "Prudence Island Transport" (sestina), "Stopping by Pete's Pond on a Summer Morning" (sonnet), and "Vacuuming" (a very sprightly villanelle). We should all be glad that Nancy Kline has shared her poems in this introspective, evocative, and altogether lovely collection. Whether writing with exquisite clarity about parents, a snapping turtle, or t...

One of poetry's dreams is amplitude, the book of poems that gives a sense of life's fullness, even as it depicts the losses. Nancy Meneely's Simple Absence speaks eloquently to that dream, the range of poems honoring and testifying to a host of situations-public and private. Each poem deftly enacts the drama of trammeled and untrammeled emotion. Though the poems embody essences of form and feeling, lines and stanzas moving crisply down the pag...

In his second book, Reportings, Tom Gannon has reached deep into his store of memories and historical knowledge to report on his youth, his early days as a sports fan, his life as Jesuit priest, his return to non-clerical life, his love of the natural world, his anti-war passion, his marriage and his blessed entry into grandfather-hood. These are vivid, highly readable poems introducing you to a truly Renaissance man.PRAISE FOR TOM GANNON'S FI...

We rarely see poetry like this any more: gritty, direct, burdened by what's genuine, what's human, what counts. Paul Scollan's Bagful of Bags jumps from our troubling war in Vietnam to a troubled city in Connecticut, and along the way extols the extraordinariness of ordinary lives in which love can be a Ferris wheel and falling "just a fast way of moving." It all ends with a declaration of self and a boldly simple statement of going forward: "...

Doug Hyde, with his wide lens and clear eye, draws us in through his meticulous observation of both nature and human nature. He shows us what it feels like to climb a mountain, to note bird songs or a returning nesting squirrel, or to feel the poignancy of intimate engagement with those he loves. The love poems seem lit from within. There is puckish humor here too, as when he manages to get a granddaughter to behave at table or to wear clothes...

Laura Altshul's Looking Out combines moving poems of introspection with those that offer close observation of the outer world. She is able to be at one with the natural world and also has an electric way of submerging herself in the lives of others. Adept at achieving Keatsian "negative capability, " she often projects herself into other speakers to give us insight into their struggles for survival. However, not all her portraits are entirely ...