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John Smith's words are stepping stones into the natural world, bridging it and drawing from it insights that resonate in the human mind and soul. His empathetic accord with the environment, coupled with his imagery and word play, make each and every one of his poems as enticing as April woodlands and as honest as December sunlight. Pete Dunne, VP of Natural History, New Jersey Audubon Society

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This is a collection of thirty-two essays, memoirs, and poems about tumultuous times. Universities were under attack and free speech was in question. The byword of the culture rang out, "Question authority." It was also a time to come together and discuss such things as the worth of a word in a poem. The young writers who started The Berkeley Poets Cooperative decided to have a say-so about what was important in literature and in the culture. ...

Ex Vivo (out of the body) is a crazy quilt of a poetry book. What could unify such a varied collection of narrators -- inebriated monks, famous painters, suicides, bad girls, and a woman who feels no pain? What could stitch together subjects as disparate as organ donors, middle names, anonymous corpses, keyholes, the "suspicious grieving, " pocket knives, and trees? In this collection, the binding thread is language itself, which functions not...

A three-decade romance captured in poetry.

Modern, playful and accessible, these poems fuse nature and the mundane clutter of the world. Broad range demonstrates both poignancy - as in the poems of his father's decline and death - and outright hilarity ('Platonic Love, ' 'The Auto Body Shop'). Original, fresh, funny and poignant, Anderson anthropomorphizes objects and emotions so that you read the lines and think "Yes! Ha!

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This highly stylized, intelligent and witty debut collection of poems is at times humorous, at times insightful, always fresh and sophisticated. Betsy Scholl has said of Keith, "His poems are both skeptical and grateful, full of wonder and irony." Keith has been on the poetry scene for years and formerly co-edited both the Columbia Review and Cutbank while earning his MFA at Montana. He has been a member of the avant-garde theatre group, New Y...

Editor: Gail Rudd Entrekin. Poetry by six Northern California Poets: Kirsten Casey, Gary Cooke, Cheryl Dumesnil, Judy Halebsky, Iven Lourie, Scott Young. Another anthology put together by the fiercely independent Hip Pocket Press, this book, according to poet Molly Fisk, ., ."includes poems of childhood, love, travel, myth, reminiscence and landscape. But its essential nature is commitment -- to experience, sensation and language -- beautifull...

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The More Difficult Beauty" returns emotion to the American poem with its supple lines, tempering the difficult--death and love--with the zinnias of bright, ebullient imagery. Fisk is luminous and loud, lucid and soft, driven and wandering.--Molly Peacock.