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A hybrid collection comprised of short stories, flash fiction, and prose poems, the works in 57 Octaves Below Middle C enact the dilemma of self-forgetting. This book is for any reader who hears the states of dissonance that are disturbing and natural aspects of the human comedy.

Dear All, is a book of moral urgency that eradicates the differences between private and public lives as it uncovers memory¿s distortions and inaccuracies. Maggie Anderson negotiates the perceptions and self-deceptions we live with and, through both humor and surprise, finds a way to bear them.

These poems run the gamut between human striving and suffering, ultimately imbued with a tenacious hope. We are making our lives up ¿here on this bridge / between starshine and clay¿ (Lucille Clifton). Addressing tough circumstances tenderly, this book is about life¿what we inherit, what we create, what shapes us, what¿s possible.

The Children Are Reading inhabits childhood spaces, physical and imaginative, through the looking-glass of grown-up longing.

This new book of poems, a Stahlecker Series selection from Four Way Books, has an Afterword by Michael Burkard, and contains works that first appeared in: Bloomsbury Review, Green Mountains Review, The Iowa Review, The Marlboro Review, TriQuarterly, and The Virginia Quarterly Review.

As described in Harvard Review, "Joan Aleshire's third collection of poetry, The Yellow Transparents, is about trust. The speaker trusts us to understand and to feel the complexities of trust, to share in her concerns. Our participation is ensured by the poet's voice, the directness of the address, the cleanness of image, as she speaks of childhood dreams extended into the present.

She Has a Name tells the story of a woman with autism and her family as they share difficulties, doubt, anger, and love

Topaz explores the immediate and lingering effects of WWII prison camps on Japanese American families and on future generations

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Built from the lives and stories of undocumented immigrants, these mournful, mystical poems are artifact, a cry for remembrance

Joy Katz regards the world with wonder and sharp insight in this new collection centered around new motherhood

Often mimicking fairy tales or ancient fables, these are poems wrought from daughterhood, motherhood, siblinghood, and the love of music

The tenth collection of poems from conservationist and current Vermont Poet Laureate, Sydney Lea

Poems of exile rooted in classic images and a distinct lyrical style

Tight, lyrical poems that reveal their "story" through images that overlay seduction and cruelty

Rich in the language of American music and New England scenery, these poems teach us about life's journey

Small Porcelain Head examines grief and coping mechanisms for loss in the aftermath of suicide

A coming-of-age debut collection from a Bulgarian immigrant as he explores desire, longing, and growing up gay in America

A brilliant debut collection that addresses human use of imagination as a means of displacement

A brave and beautiful work that navigates the complex emotional landscape of grief