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An Otherwise Healthy WomanAuthor: Amy HaddadPublisher: The Backwaters PressPublication Date: Mar 01, 2022Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1496227859ISBN-13:...

Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, this collection teems with creatures and cosmic phenomena that vivify and reveal our common struggle toward faith and identity.Author: Laura Reece...

DRONE is a lyric meditation on modern warfare, in our technological and digital age. Written from a variety of perspectives and personas, it explores the human, animal, personal, and domestic aspects...

On the title Electric Snakes, the author states these poems can be "little creatures shot up from the electricity of the computer." The poems in this book are as quick and penetrating as lightning...

Foxlogic, Fireweed (The Backwaters Prize in Poetry)Author: Jennifer K. SweeneyPublisher: THE BACKWATERS PRESSPublication Date: Sep 01, 2020Number of Pages: 114 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Poetry. "When I read Marge Saiser's poetry I feel I am in the presence of someone whose heart beats in rhythm with mine. I recognize the situations, the people, and the world she presents in these...

Living Room imagines the lived reality of other organisms and kinds of life to explore the permeability of human and nonhuman experience, intelligence, language, and subjectivity, and to consider an...

This book-length poem in six sections takes readers to five Trappist monasteries in the southeast United States to consider the intersections of solitude, family, music, and landscape.Author:...

The poems in Mass for Shut-Ins are galloping and all-at-once pensive. There's always risk with a touch of ego and humanity. The emotional range of a single poem can go from hilarity to remorse to...

2017 Backwaters Prize Winner: The voice in Kingsley's poems mines history, explores family, sings hardships, and wanders the planet. These poems delight and explore deep attachments to others and...

This collection of poems by the State Poet of Nebraska covers significant emotional territory while remaining firmly grounded in the landscape.Author: Twyla HansenPublisher: The Backwaters...

Winner of the 2016 Backwaters Prize, Henri Cole, judge. In Stunt Heart, Mary Jo Thompson's debut collection, a female gaze locates the ironies inside the subjects of marriage and death, loneliness...

The general theme of this book, and a number of its individual poems, is that love and language create community.Author: John J. RonanPublisher: The Backwaters PressPublication Date: Jan 15,...

The Laugh We Make When We Fall (The Backwaters Prize in Poetry)Author: Susan FirerPublisher: The Backwaters PressPublication Date: Aug 15, 2021Number of Pages: 67 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Poetry. In Firer's poems, place, often the western shore of Lake Michigan, provides an imagistic and sonic landscape in which language explores the 'empire of skin' with its daily happinesses and...

Marjorie Saiser's The Woman in the Moon is her 7th book with The Backwaters Press. The poems in this collection move into the past with her mother and father and also explore the present both with...

The volume of poetry takes as its inspiration the author's grandmother, who led an unconventional life in the American South, marked by independence, education, books, and reading, and an incipient...

Through sonnets and a long sequence, the poems of Two Open Doors in a Field are constructed with deliberate limitations, restlessly exploring place, desire, and spirituality.Author: Sophie...

Watching the Perseids: The Backwaters Press Twentieth Anniversary Anthology features poems from 62 of BWP's authors from the past 20 years.Author: Cat Dixon, Michael Catherwood, Michael...