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Walking past a mirrored building, I think of you. The world without you in it. I wouldn't recognize my own face." How do you hold fast to another person, knowing all along you must ultimately let go? Spanning over a decade, the poems in Nighttime examine questions of mortality and the body, identity, nature, and place. Part journal, part survival notes, Nighttime is the story of a daughter and her father, a portrait in reverse. It's a lam...

Root Rot as a collection is a reckoning with the environment and histories, internal and external. It explores grief and loss, and that disruption spurs growth. This book closes with land acknowledgment, though these poems work as acknowledgment of the land itself, those interior and exterior spaces. Louisiana, Florida, and Oregon are cataloged as we learn of flood waters rising into houses, and storms blowing past, too. Much has rot, corrosio...

Fearn by Linda Dove is collection where Fear is transforming, and doesn't just become, but is a spectrum of objects, actions, and sensations. Fear is not something that's crushing a person, or destroying the world like a weapon. It is a part of nature, dynamics, and an essential creating element of the world. These are poems of moments when fear is something that's vulnerable and even evocative of a sympathy. Fearn is a force, but one that's j...

As the title of this gorgeous collection suggests, Would-Land is an adventure in wordplay and the discoveries of our heart- and hearth-truths that language (in its inevitable slippage) can reveal. And the slips of both language and self are what's at stake here. Oscillating between elegiac and epigrammatic, Essbaum's poems share at once the ecstasies of sound and syncopation of a modern-day Gerard Manley Hopkins, and the acerbic insights of a ...

Mónica Gomery's Here is the Night and the Night on the Road is here! Manuel Paul López writes that it's "a vibrant collection populated with lives 'drinking carbon out of the sky.' We confront an environmental logic here where 'each day...[is] swabbed in light.' Gomery's poetry consists of ache and wail, outrage and grief, love and tenderness, and most abundantly evident, the immense compassion that this poet delivers in a sweeping, resuscitat...

Transcript is an assemblage of lyrics pointed at domestic anxiety. It wends a way through American myths of familial tranquility and professional stability, while addressing the insularity and isolation that arise from artificial forms of community. While Transcript acknowledges its own melancholy, it also asks the reader to discover beauty in these fractures, reminding us that "[In the silence between words where / only heavy blind-spots exis...

Gary McDowell's 2009 chapbook is a collection of construction, destruction, and how the things of this world are born and ash away. This chap has poems which originally appeared in such wonderful journals as New England Review, Anti-, Copper Nickel, Bat City Review and others.

This Kind of Knowing is built of driven lines where we explore mysterious tensions, "in the cage where the heart paces." From the very beginning, in "Caving, " these poems are alive, "like something blooming, / like something you never imagined/ but realized with surprise/ that you could, actually, love." Thumb through the back issues of Bear River Review. for some of the pieces from This Kind of Knowing. Susannah Sheffer is a staff writer at ...

From Jennifer L. Knox, author of Drunk by Noon & The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway: Some poets take a lot of time mucking up the surface of their poems, turning on the smoke machine, draping silk scarves over the lamps, etc. They don't want to be too clear. The poems in Haunts are crystal clear, but that doesn't help you see what's coming. Every turn is a surprise in this funny, wicked smart, tightly-crafted book. Laura Cherry makes me happy ...

A collection to be brought into the quiet clearings, poems from Vine River Hermitage have appeared in Briar Cliff Review, Cave Wall, Guernica, Gulf Stream, Lumina, and Memorious. Enjoy "At Angles, " in Issue 9.5 over at Diagram. Read the 2008 interview with F. Daniel Rzicznek by Dr. Gary L. McDowell over at Boxcar Poetry.

Pretty, Rooster features original comics from Shannon Wheeler (Too Much Coffee Man) and Micah Farritor (White Picket Fences & Night Trippers), with other visual stimulations by Max Xiantu. Jason Schneiderman, author of Striking Surface, writes: You don't read these poems as much as you tumble through them. The pleasures of sound and sense are so perfectly calibrated that each of these sonnets wants to be read at least twice. The sonnet was inv...

The debut collection by the legendary William Matthews, in its entirety for the first time since 1970. Careening between the bleak and utterly buoyant, the poems in Ruining the New Road offer a startling open-mouthed, and openhearted honesty that is rare and exhilarating. Fierce in its recognition of both beauty and the painful, yet tender truths of the universe, these poems remind us that Matthews is a genuine master at laying bare the compli...

A long-poem chapbook from the author of Harlot (No Tell Books) and a 2013 NEA Fellow in Poetry. Listen to Jill Alexander Essbaum on the December '09 edition of the Poetry Magazine Podcast. Born in Bay City, Texas, poet and editor Jill Alexander Essbaum was educated at the University of Houston, the University of Texas, and the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest. Influenced by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Simon Armitage, and Sylvia Plath, Essbaum'...

from Tina Chang: "A fiercely feminine blood runs through these poems. Of wire, of salt, of harvest, of motherhood, of daughterhood, and all that these elements lay claim to. Gee reveals an astonishing voice that is equal parts ferocious and tender. This book builds a generous fire where origin is praised and where history shines beyond the flame.

The Book of Mankey's dramatic narratives tell the story of Les Mankey, a grief-stricken dentist who retreats to a rural cabin and encounters a collector of arcade games, a church busybody, and a girl who talks to a newt. In the legacy of epic poems and the Book of Job, Pierce brings humor, music, and the risk of spirituality to this chapbook, parts of which have been published in New South, Birmingham Poetry Review, Ninth Letter, Relief, and P...

From Shannon Tharp: "In Shore, the world begins with 'The things that happen//before the thing/ that is going to happen.' This world's attendant language then moves outward, toward everything and somewhere, much as water and memory do. At the height of its singing, the poem asks, 'Have you grieved, dear Reader?' Within the answer to this question is the sound of water running inside a three, life returning to life, the bottle and the snuff ...