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An essential collection that struggles to understand our human and spiritual selves

These elegiac poems trace the toll war takes on America while hoping for the future

An unflinching account of human interaction with daunting landscapes and inescapable memories

This collection seeks to resuscitate the concept of love amid modern-day landscapes that undercut the possibilities of genuine emotion

A dangerous thunder, living is.

It is true when a girl sinks, her hair spreads like a flower / across water

Black Blossoms offers a sustained exploration into the private lives of working class women of color and their difficult journeys. In surreal fairytales and magical biographies, Black Blossoms travels the U.S. and abroad: a daughter in Baja California tends to her sick father and watches for the prince in his storybook tights, The Unsung Story of the Invisible Woman in Phoenix, Arizona, the infamous New England spinster Lizzie Borden. A follow...

I could / Carry myself like a tune / Into the chorus of the city.

Out of the deepest / wound, a new bloom.

America is a lot more countries than she thought it was. And even within those countries, there are other, smaller countries...

Every word is essential. . .With a writer as meticulous as this one, what seems to be accidental is part of the plan. . ."--American Book Review

This first book, chosen by Stephen Dobyns for the Four Way Books Intro Series in Poetry, chronicles a Dantesque journey. Over the course of the poems, the poet/narrator poses variously as Charon, Virgil, and Dante -- visitor to the region where the dead and tormented lament. The quest here, too, is for a transformative love. In Domina's world, 'Only the woman with the oars / is real and she is the only one / who recognizes the other figures / ...

Short-some under a page-stories that explore memory, gay coming-of-age, and the inner life

With a voice that is rooted in the lush, immediate present, Victoria Redel explores the necessity to live and love deeply in her third collection of poems, Woman Without Umbrella.

A Stahlecker series selection"--P. [4] of series.

Poems can weave together a dark, quirky fairy tale--and these do--that blends childish passion and adult sensibility

Centred on the adoption of a gay couple's first child, The Foundling Wheel employs apt imagery to create an emotional mosaic that explores the complicated bond between father and son.

Twelve bell towers with twelve clocks with twenty-four spindly hands telling the time.

Poems that give voice to the voiceless in the face of poverty, addiction, war, and consumerism

The one gone thing goes on being gone.