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I gripped my strangeness hard/ to feel the pulse in it.

We are so harmed we are beautiful...

. . .Stephen Berg's Shaving is the first book of prose poems I have read that has made me re-examine the function and power of that branch of our poetry. It is a book of strenuous and often dangerous self-witness, an astounding overview of American urban life at the apex and turning point of a major civilization. . .most importantly, it is brilliantly written. . .In reading Berg you will be reading the master of the prose poem." (Jorie Graham)

Meditations on nature cohabit with explorations of family entanglements giving insight, empathy, and wit to our experiences

An examination of how we live lives built by films, television, songs, and commercials

All Pilgrim examines the push and pull between seeking and settling

Bastards of the Reagan Era is a challenge, confronting realities that frame an America often made invisible. Within these poems, we see the city as distant lover, we hear the sound that comes from all / the hurt & want that leads a man to turn his back to the world. We see that and we see each reason why we return to what pains us.

Titled after the sequential patterns of shape-shifting clouds, The Cumulus Effect explores geography, desire, and memory

The book is concerned with the multiple complex emotions of love

Longevity is a book-length narrative prose poem that explores the nature of sisterhood through an unreliable narrator's view

An intimate and lyrical meditation on a life through the shifting lens of memory

Clean explores the disorder of life--love, addiction, sex, pain, religion--and discovers a tarnished grace

The formally diverse and intellectually acute sixth poetry collection from award-winning poet Daniel Tobin

These poems investigate the delicacy of human relationships and the hopeful relentlessness with which we pursue them

In this debut collection of lyric poems, self-doubt becomes sacrificial offering

This long poem enacts the restless mind at work, which becomes the ground for action, for critique and for re-imagining America

The Meaning of If explores what might be, what could have been, and that strange, lovely place in between called reality

Churches is a book about the way we create our knowledge of the divine, of mortality and of the past through story

A book of poetry named the 1995 co-winner of Four Way Books Award Series. "..(I) celebrate the sharp sense of humor in this book. There's considerable sweetness to it, but the marinades are regularly and robustly spiced: this is sweetness in a pickle... With Funeral Pie you expect dessert and get a duel, or vice versa--either way, you'll probably want seconds." -- Heather McHugh, judge, Four Way Books Award Series

Of Pimone Triplett's The Price of Light, David St. John, judge for the Levis Poetry Prize, writes "[this is] a collection of astonishing scope and power. Her poems are linguistically electric and each of her delicate meditations reflects an enviable intellectual ease. This is a volume of poetry that can travel from Beato Angelico to Robert Schumann with passion and vision, from Bangkok to rural America with a truly natural eloquence. Lyrically...