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Poetry. Benjamin S. Grossberg's "is a united sensibility, the kind we usually attribute to 'The Time of Myths, ' as the poet calls it. This extraordinarily rich and entertaining first book is unique...for its eager and outrageous connections with the masters who enjoyed such mythical thinking--Shakespeare, Whitman--as well as for its daring departures from what those same masters, so lovingly ransacked, might ever have undertaken"--Richard How...

Poetry. 2014 Snyder Prize winner. "THE GENOME RHAPSODIES opens with Gregor Mendel's question: 'What is inherited, and how?' Like strands of DNA, the syntax in these brilliant and moving poems intertwines with the infinitely recombinant moments and utterances that comprise our lives, revealing that what we inherit, first and finally, is language itself... 'Try to Remember Before Language, ' one poem urges us, but of course we can't. These poems...

Poetry. "The poems in THE RATTLING WINDOW reveal an imagination caught up in the wondrous ordinariness of simply being, knowing how complicated in fact such simplicity is. Staples manages this magic by the quality of her attention, the articulate, luminous sympathy she brings to whatever her eye takes in. Whether it's a seashore, a field in winter, the 'whiplong honeycomb casing of a snake, ' or the astonishing, unforgettable thereness of a ho...

Poetry. "There is a quiet self-possession and maturity of vision in this volume that characterizes all of its poems, yet at the same time they range widely, addressing subjects as various as Neolithic customs, Whitman's career as a Civil War nurse, the physiology of cetaceans, and a Muslim's stealthy visit to an adult bookstore. The author is also capable of writing sly accounts of family history and a Cold War childhood that seem archetypal r...

Poetry. "Mark Irwin's poetry is astir with liquid light, light wind, leaves, blossoms, and the slight but weighty questions that anchor us in his trembling landscapes. 'Because every thought is either memory or desire, the world / pulls away on both sides' leaving space for our tentative living. This is a book one wants to taste again and again."--John Ashbery

Poetry. "'I think yes. I say no, ' Laura Van Prooyen declares in this book of assertions and questions where danger lives at every turn--a child threatened by disease, a love passing through uncertainty, all the what ifs and keep at it of our days on the planet. Like music, these meticulously paced poems play over and over unto dark trance their observation and grief, again and again the natural world furious and spare until all seems to stand...

Poetry. "Robin Davidson's work is deeply engendered, and she writes of ordinary women--rooted in earth, reaching for light--caught between personal, social, and historical forces. She is a learned poet--her work rings with the work of photographers, painters, and other poets--who understands the work of poetry to bring light of darkness and music out of silence. She is a poet of harsh luminosity, spiritual alertness, who has been growing into ...

Poetry. Richard Jackson's 10th collection of poems, RESONANCE, juxtaposes love and loss, often setting a transcending hope against individual tragedies in various world conflicts, or letting images drawn from science collide against our deepest emotions, to capture the conflicting, sometimes simultaneous joys and griefs of being human. Drawing deeply from contemporary American life and from the ancient myths of Western culture, Jackson's words...

Poetry. Winner of the 2007 Richard Snyder Publication Prize. "In her first book, Helen Wallace explores a range of subjects with lush language and a formal deftness that are deeply gratifying. If there is a presiding theme here, it is the tension between our struggle for precision' and the poignant fact of the imperfection all around and within us. Whether celebrating domestic life or evoking global concerns, Wallace captures the beauty in wha...

Poetry. Winner of the 2006 Richard Snyder Publication Prize. "'Oh, deliver me from the familiar, /from the old maps and their destinations/that are pre-destinations, nothing more.' In this first collection, Blake has found her own way to answer her prayer: she confronts the ordinary in her life and changes its course, its importance, through keen consideration and well-chosen words. Blake's skills rest not only in her blend of colloquial and e...

Poetry. Michael Miller's THE JOYFUL DARK is the first book of poems by an accomplished American poet who is currently in the seventh decade of his life. Michael Miller's poems have been praised by such renowned poets as James Merrill, Richard Wilbur, Stephen Spender and Thom Gunn, and have appeared in such venues as The Kenyon Review, The Sewanee Review, The American Scholar, The New Republic, The Southern Review and The Yale Review. THE JOYFU...

Poetry. "There is a fine exactness as well as a beautiful contemplative quality that informs her poems. This is work with depth to it yet she has a delightful sense of the absurd which sometimes sparks through the serious themes she addresses. She is endowed with insight and compassion. Hers is writing that clearly shows a responsible concern for the life of this world"--Ruth Stone. Christine Gelineau's REMORSELESS LOYALTY won the 2004 Snyder ...

Cultural Writing. Memoir. Modern Irish-American history is charted through the lives of four emigrant sisters and their families "in prose richer than most poetry" -John Vernon. This is a tale of wit, grief, and passage that unfolds like a series of mysteries rippling from "the long swim back through time." In this work, Philip Brady blends poetry and memory to describe the goddesses and warriors, coal miners and detectives, quarks and neutrin...

Poetry. Finalist for the 2005 National Book Award, THE MOMENT'S EQUATION also won the 2003 Richard Snyder Publication Prize. This is Vern Rutsala's eleventh collection of poetry. "There is one way in particular in which Vern Rutsala could and in my view should be an example to us all, an example of how to put to maximum use the simplest things in our lives"-Donald Justice.

Poetry. "His lines are witnesses of tremendous density and speed of the more ever powerful NOW in human history. As technology had to adapt to the godhead's voracious needs, so the poets have to eat exactly the same spot with even higher lucidity, more intelligence and compassion to mourn, to understand and to redeem. Richard Jackson does it with more inclusiveness than anybody else I know. His writing helps us to make sense. It protects us ag...

Poetry. This is the first collection of poems by the 1989 runner-up for the Yale Younger Poets Prize. AIR INTO BREATH is the winner of the 2003 Colorado Authors' League Poetry Prize, and a finalist for the 2003 Colorado Book Award in Poetry. Poems from this powerfully lyrical collection have been published in The New Yorker, The Antioch Review, The Denver Quarterly, TriQuarterly, The Ohio Review, and in many other journals. Kathryn Winograd li...

Poetry. Jan Lee Ande's INSTRUCTIONS FOR WALKING ON WATER is the year 2000 winner of the Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including New Letters, Image, Notre Dame Review, Mississippi Review, Nimrod, and Poetry International. Ande lives in La Jolla, California, and teachers at The Union Institute. "Jane Ande's well-crafted poems are like a fresh mountain stream that springs from ancient sources...

Winner of the 1998 Richard Snyder Publication Prize, this is the sixteenth book of poems by the 1994 winner of the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Prize. Formally accomplished, with a sure sense of subject matter, David Ray is one of our more important living poets. He lived and taught for years in Kansas City, and currently lives in Tucson, Arizona. "David Ray's poetry has always been radiant even though personal tragedy h...

Poetry. "These new poems are formally brilliant, playfully colloquial, and often very moving. Away from the fads and short-lived literary movements, Jerry Harp is at once technically masterful and deeply thoughtful" -- Kevin Prufer. Jerry Harp is the co-winner of the 2004 Robert McGovern Publication Prize.

Poetry. This is the first full-length collection of poems from NEA fellowship recipient Carol Barrett. Barrett has published previously the chapbook "Drawing Lessons, " and "The Unauthorized Book of Esther." Poems from CALLING IN THE BONES have been published in Earth's Daughters, Poetry Northwest, Inheritance of Light, and The Women's Review of Books. Jeffrey Skinner calls Barrett's book "generous, " "containing an abundant variety of tone, w...