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An odyssey for the 21st century in poems that bind family and myth.

A Stahlecher series collection"--Back cover.

A powerful narrative that follows the journey of a woman from innocence to empowerment.

In Nightshade, Andrea Cohen assembles gems of poems into a formidable necklace of wit, wisdom, and profound truths.

Ross's poems are at once earthy and delicate and view their subjects through a perceptive, picaresque lens.

These poems consider the history of the Americas and their uncertain future, particularly regarding the danger of climate change, and suggest a line from colonialism toward a shattering "Apocalipsixtlán.

The lush, lexically gorgeous and emotionally complex poems of Little- Known Operas guide us through the terrain of love, sex, same-sex marriage, illness, death, and art.

A novel. Winner of the Kimbilio National Fiction Prize. Selected by Edwidge Danticat"--Cover.

Conway's spare, imagistic poems concern the implications of eternity: which offers no past or future but rather an ever-present now.

The collection deals with injury and recovery from Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, and aims in part to offer the reader a kind of immersion in the inner world of brain injury, an injury that is invisible and an experience that can be difficult or impossible to convey fully in ordinary daily language"--

With the speaker of Bosselaar's poems, we move through dark rooms of grief, finding our way into the light of quiet solitude.

A memoir-in-poems about coming of age in sultry Florida and navigating a complex lesbian relationship grounded in the daily world.

A Stahlecker Series Selection"--Back cover.

Brutal and tender, Adamshick's spare poems recount a son's unsentimental and powerful love for his mother, while contemplating, in the wake of her death, what it is to be truly alive.

When the author turned to Saenz¿s Homenaje, wondering if the poems would shed any insight into his son¿s experience of Absence Epilepsy, he had as little access to Spanish as to his son¿s experience and began homophonic translations as a way into the work, and into discovering what was happening to his son.

The short, spare poems of The Arrangements are concerned with physical and ideological boundaries of body, mind and language, exploring where they meet and the different ways in which they bleed into and maintain one another¿s discreteness. Praise for Colby's book, I Mean:¿With verve and purpose, Colby plays trick after alluring trick to write herself in and out of meaning.¿ ¿Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Populated with ghosts from the past and contemporary victims of cruelty, these poems focus on the stories of a woman diagnosed with cancer during a divorce and a mother struggling with her daughter¿s autism and epilepsy.

A collection that explores spaces in order to probe the fraught interplay of matter and spirit, desire and monstrosity, the created and the uncreated

Like a series of slides from a film reel, the poems of Dregs reveal the ruin, remnants or dregs left over from the wars and economic and human inequalities of our world today. Praise for The Glimmering Room:¿¿an exquisite fever dream of drugs, anorexia and unwanted sex (in both senses of the word) populated by young women and men¿who have lost all sense of where the edge is¿.¿ ¿Dana Jennings, New York Times

Engaging the past and present, these poems attempt to reconcile loss and longing while also seeking to understand our own impermanence. Written in a plain-spoken voice, they are meditative, elegiac and tender.