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The all encompassing theme in this debut collection is how a person holds the tension of opposites-- darkness to light, from loss to reconciliation and redemption. In the middle of life with both feet on the ground, the poet wrestles with the realization that the ground is never stable and that life changes in a split second. The reader is led through two worlds, the geographic one--from Egypt to Malaysia from India to Cape Cod, and the inner ...

...in these poems, (there is) a family of 12 with the mother, father, and speaker as the prime characters....In a brilliant crown of sonnets, its most important character, the speaker's brother, who died a suicide, by drowning, fully emerges. The strictness of the form is never obtrusive--it just does its job...to give a frame, a tension, something for the powerful emotion to work off of or against, thus increasing its powerful sentiment...By ...

Explores the pushpull of received histories, of forces we can't control no matter how hard we try

Celebrates the courageous journey across boundaries, the intersections between liminal spaces, and the tenacity to endure

From the introduction: "This book, the second in the Waiting Room Reader series, grows from the belief of its visionary originators, Joan Cusack Handler, director of CavanKerry Press, and Sandra O. Gold, president of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine, that one good thing to be able to pay attention to in waiting rooms is poetry. This is a belief that I, as guest editor of this volume, emphatically share. Poems with staying...

Night Sessions is based primarily on David S. Cho's life experiences as a Chicago-born and raised child of Korean immigrants to America in the early 1970's

Impenitent Notes covers a range of subjects from Henry Kissinger and Goya in a variety of forms from free verse to sestina

A debut collection that sifts the Midwest's dwindling industrial cities, along with the lively avenues of Manhattan, for the crucial music engrained in everyday domains and the people who embody them.

Family, friendships, the fear of uncertainty and the regret and damage from the choices we make

Freedom and awakening of an adolescent, Bronx bred, Irish Catholic girl

Married life, soldiers in war, the triumph over age

The struggle and anguish in finding meaningful work in an economically depressed city

With melancholy and wit, the poems of The Bar of the Flattened Heart remind us of the sheer wonderment of life

Through verse and those mythical tales we can't stop living, our private fears and hopes are brought to life

Captures the doubts of a middle-aged man, bisexuality, the illness of his bipolar daughter, recent wars, and the body's seasons

Poet and philosopher Mark Nepo was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma in 1987. His journey back to health awakened a new life. In his latest book, Nepo explores how sacred and useful everything is. As such, this book is for everyone, not just for those facing illness or pursuing poetry. The poems affirm that surviving has more to do with our authenticity than our longevity. The sixty-eight poems gathered here are the culmination of many ye...

A collection of poetry about dislocation in an unexpectedly childless marriage. A time of wandering follows a period of exile and adjustment both within and without. The poems are both lyrical and colloquial with a fascination for invented forms that mirrors the altered circumstances of life.

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Moyra Donaldson's voice is a woman's voice--mother, daughter, wife, lover--tinged at times with anticipation, at times with regret. But always, the poet seeks the essence of life in the moment. In the title poem, she captures the wonder of emerging sexuality, as a girl finds her mother's forbidden shoes and feels "Something/you've never felt before./These shoes are live and dangerous. A thoroughly modern poet, she does not avoid traditional fo...