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A Cartography of Home (Redux)Author: Hayden Saunier, Diane LockwardPublisher: Terrapin BooksPublication Date: February 15, 2021Number of Pages: 98 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

In this inspired collection, poet and editor Diane Lockward has assembled over 100 poems about kisses written by many of our best contemporary poets. You'll find kisses longed for, kisses auditioned,...

A Kinship with AshAuthor: Heather SwanPublisher: Terrapin BooksPublication Date: Oct 01, 2020Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1947896318ISBN-13: 9781947896314

???The arresting poems of J.L. Conrad mesmerize as they turn on dislocation and disjunction, the spaces in which we lose footing.Author: J L ConradPublisher: Terrapin BooksPublication Date: Apr 04,...

So much of the sensuous world settles into these poems: lizards, starlings, quail, a chestnut "polished as a mahogany piano." Connolly's brilliant images are backlit with emotions that resemble acute...

Hollander has a way of writing that travels a parallel track with ordinary conversational language. -Ted Kooser, US Poet Laureate, 2004-2006Author: Andrea HollanderPublisher: Terrapin...

Bluewords Greening is a book about motherhood--love and family and fear and failure and mini-ninjas. We observe a mother's bewildering experiences with her son as the poems detail his diagnosis with...

The poems in Neil Carpathios' new book, though much concerned with death, are very much alive: intelligent, tender, humorous, entertaining, and even profound-sometimes all at the same time.Author:...

Anything superfluous or easy has been dispensed with in the cutting room, and the scenes that Jessica de Koninck summons for what she calls "the movie of my life" are the urgent ones that seem to...

In beautifully lyrical language, Heather Swan evokes both the broken human world of self-inflicted damage and the healing natural world of replenishment and repair.Author: Heather SwanPublisher:...

These poems touch, caress, ponder, and probe myriad facets of the world's body, that tangible, earthy presence that sustains and enlivens us. A daughter in her fashion of all-encompassing Walt,...

In Saba Husain's Elegy for My Tongue, the everyday is always in conversation with the enormous-with the complexities of immigration, national identity, mortality, language and faith. The simplicity...

Rachel Custer's Flatback Sally Country is hard-hitting and harrowing and almost hypnotically beautiful in its deft singing of the stories of America's vast middle, of the flyover land pinned beneath...

Ghost DogsAuthor: Dion O'ReillyPublisher: Terrapin BooksPublication Date: February 17, 2020Number of Pages: 106 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1947896237ISBN-13: 9781947896239

Horse Not Zebra, we learn in the title poem of this collection, refers to advice given to medical students-to look first to "the common, not the exotic" when diagnosing patients. Eric Nelson embraces...

House BirdAuthor: Robert FillmanPublisher: Terrapin BooksPublication Date: Feb 22, 2022Number of Pages: 98 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1947896520ISBN-13: 9781947896529

A collection of poems fom Bucks County, PA poet Hayden Saunier.Author: Hayden SaunierPublisher: Terrapin BooksPublication Date: Jun 17, 2017Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

In a Field of Hallowed Be combines traditions of prayer and calendar with wild, earthly invention..Author: Timothy GeigerPublisher: Terrapin BooksPublication Date: Sep 09, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Kissing the Long Face of the GreyhoundAuthor: Yvonne ZipterPublisher: Terrapin BooksPublication Date: Aug 03, 2020Number of Pages: 92 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Leave Me A Little WantAuthor: Beverly BurchPublisher: Terrapin BooksPublication Date: Oct 17, 2022Number of Pages: 94 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Paperback/PoetryISBN-10: 194789658XISBN-13:...

Although the poems in this fifth book by Jacqueline Berger grapple with such subjects as sex, sorrow, and shame, there are also celebrations of delight and joy. Together they provide abundant...

Kirsten Shu-ying Chen's searing debut collection offers a poignant exploration of the liminal space between what is holy and what is prosaic. Formalistically rich and varied, these poems do not blink...

What marvelous poems these are, and how complete a collection. Like a circus aerialist who makes us gasp one moment and laugh the next, the poet takes us from her immigrant father's Macedonian roots...

Drexler weaves a tapestry of love, loss, grief, and acceptance-an elaborate kaddish in which she celebrates and sanctifies the names of the things, events, and persons she remembers.Author: Wendy...

Ann Fisher-Wirth looks levelly at mortality, grief, and memory, and reckons with what it is to be urgently alive...Author: Ann Fisher-WirthPublisher: Terrapin BooksPublication Date: Feb 01,...

Self-Portrait with a Million DollarsAuthor: Patricia ClarkPublisher: Terrapin BooksPublication Date: Oct 14, 2020Number of Pages: 106 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

SomaticAuthor: Ann KenistonPublisher: Terrapin BooksPublication Date: Mar 30, 2020Number of Pages: 104 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1947896253ISBN-13: 9781947896253

Here is a keen eye for the lyric sweep of a poem braided with a narrative propulsion. Whitehead never averts his gaze, whether in service to beauty or in witness to the painful. He says, "Let me...

With a clear eye, Kory Wells confronts the paradoxes that gender, race, and heritage present. She writes from a rootedness in her homeland that reaches down generations. She writes as a citizen of...

Suspension is that rare book of poetry, as much a narrative as a collection of individually successful lyrics. We follow here the extraordinary events of a life and the visions of the one/the many...