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Instead of Dying

Haldeman, Laurie
Instead of Dying
Invoking spiders and senators, physicists and aliens, Lauren Haldeman's second book, Instead of Dying, decodes the world of death with a powerful mix of humor, epiphany, and agonizing grief.

CHF 22.90

Hungry Moon

Goodman, Henrietta
Hungry Moon
Stunningly musical and stylistically varied, the poems in Hungry Moon have the effect of a flyover view of terrain pocked with domestic and social unease. The reconnaissance we receive -- red stuffing spilling out of a childs cheek torn by a dog, a cello cases lining exposed like a body split down the middle -- makes us think there is no safe place to land. But Goodman is expert at steering our gaze to identify landmarks in the natural world t...

CHF 22.90

Blue Heron

Robinson, Elizabeth
Blue Heron
In Blue Heron, Elizabeth Robinson unleashes her distinctive minimalism in elegy. Alert to what is partially glimpsed, piecemeal, and indirect, to the way a fragment of life can summon the transcendent, she offers a fierce lament for her father as his physical body, sometimes bird and sometimes man, hurls itself toward burial. The title sequence spins through the wild range of feelings inside grief -- fury, confusion, buoyancy, disquiet -- whil...

CHF 22.90

The Two Standards

Winterer, Heather
The Two Standards
Heather Winterer explores the intimate territory between desolation and consolation, offering a poetry that translates the distances between spiritual endings and beginnings, between an "after what it used to be" and "an arrival". The work enacts the model of St Ignatius Loyola, encouraging the collapse of lines between creation and creativity, time and space, the Christian and Christ, the self and the other. The voice of these poems moves exu...

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Frayed Escort

Garthe, Karen
Frayed Escort
Winner of the 2005 Colorado Prize for Poetry, this collection of poems by Manhattan-based poet Karen Garthe has been described as at once lean and fantastic, crisp and mobile. Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University.

CHF 22.90

Travel Among Men

Lee, Kathleen
Travel Among Men
In this remarkable collection, Kathleen Lee charts the geography of remote areas of Asia and examines the metaphorical meaning of travel itself. Whether following characters in China, Pakistan, or Egypt, Lee suggests that the quest for identity and meaning in life remain the same. Brilliantly written and beautifully observed, Lee brings to mind such writers as Graham Greene and Bruce Chatwin in her refusal to let travel be either transient or ...

CHF 35.50

A Summer Evening

Nutter, Geoffrey
A Summer Evening
Features poems that have appeared in such magazines as: "American Letters and Commentary", "Chicago Review", "Colorado Review", "Denver Quarterly", "Fine Madness", "Fence", "The Iowa Review", "Verse", "Volt", and "Best American Poetry 1997".

CHF 22.90