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A Stahlecker Series Selection.

Rich in intertextuality, Digest improvises form and contemplates the canon while pushing us to question the identities we create

In this striking debut, Leigh's poems seek again and again to reconcile faith and beauty with the violent realities of trauma

In Wunderkammer, Cynthia Cruz collects and chronicles "glam and gloom, " the darling and the damaged

A survival guide that shows how bigotry and redemption are mapped on the psyche and on the body

This collection maps an intimate, dislocated route across human and nonhuman bodies, forming a concert of emotional intensities

These poems plumb the depths of elegy yet offer an upward gesture by the volume's end

A searing, inventive, darkly funny collection preoccupied with the beginnings and endings of life

An exploration of the life of Belgian physicist and priest Georges Lemaître, known as "the father of the Big Bang

A dark, psychological profile of a man/monster's maturation from adolescence to adulthood

A chronicle of the struggle between the opposing worlds of the material and the unseen

These poems offer consolation and authenticity in the multiplying possibilities of transformation, nature, and eroticism

Cuban-born New York poet Pablo Medina's bilingual fulcros are six-line poems that, as he writes, "combine the dialectic of the sonnet with the imagistic power of the haiku... shaping language and silence into a point of balance floating in the ocean of time." These short poems, which are not translations of each other, draw us into an intellectual condition: Spanish and English, visual and theoretical, intimate and abstract, where "the thrush ...

With a blend of power and delicacy, Twenty Shadows scorches the reader. One by one these poems strip away veils until what is laid bare is the grief at the molten core of the poet's life. In a breathless Oriental calm, Stephen Knauth loiters at the edges of his loss-a child, after all-cocking an ear, reaching to retrieve whatever is left unconsumed. The imagery is spare and precise, devoid of the maudlin. . .A magnificent achievement, proof th...

This new book of poems, a Stahlecker Series selection from Four Way Books, contains works that first appeared in The Arts Journal, AWP Newsletter, Green Mountains Review, Greensboro Review, Mississippi Review, The North American Review, The Pacific Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review.

Lee Briccetti is the daughter of Keats, of Maria Callas, of a mother who read to her first in Italy, and then in America. She is both schooled and artisan-like as a maker of poems and also a bit of a provocateuse, an experimentalist. In her company we maneuver alongside of someone full of wisdom and experience who is nonetheless continually curious, thirsty, lusty, out on a limb in search of more knowledge, more understanding, and more visiona...

In Cammy Thomas's poems we are immediately thrust into the ice-crack of family legacy, guided by Thomas's chilling unsurprise in the face of violence or violent austerity. The simplicity of her language suggests that this austerity is fundamental, irrevocable, and yet something in Thomas's fierceness also suggests it can be faced down.

A memoir of grief after a father's death set in Paris, New York, and Berlin

The stories in Listen demand readers do just that, as the book crosses the country--and decades--to uncover secrets characters never thought they'd share

The Names of Birds is a book of connected poems about birds, names, and perception