Underlife represents the wilderness of thought and emotion hidden away from the external world. This title explores the dynamics of race, family, motherhood, career, sex and ultimately, transformation.
In this collection of linked poems, Andrews describes a childhood during the Vietnam War era on a farm in a divided household with a southern father and northern mother. The memories and trials of childhood come from a fabled place where whiskey and story were shared by children, and superstitions and mythmaking were a way of life.
Laurie Lamon is professor of English at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. A widly published poet, she was awarded a Witter Bynner fellowship at the Library of Congress by Poet Laureate Donald Hall.
Walking with Ruskin looks at the difficulty of perception, of just how hard it is to simply "see" without asserting our own self-importance, self-needs, and self-justifications
Wiler explores a fundamental dilemma of human experience: How to enjoy life when you are acutely aware the Angel of Death could come to visit at any moment.
