Product Description: This new volume of Kurt Brown's poems collects the best of his many past books, and the best of the new poems, as well as his most prevalent themes, and his "wonderment," that he was always anxious to share with his readers. I've Come This Far to Say Hello is the achievement that will send Brown to that place where he was always heading: among the best poets of recent years, whose work continues to surprise and astonish...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "In TIME-BOUND, Kurt Brown engages with the world he inhabits, questioning it, taking nothing for granted, prizing a broad and deep knowledge of it, both past and present, local and cosmic. The condition indicated by the book's title is one the poet does not accept resignedly but challenges by means of his art; confronting history's long amnesia, he would reclaim much of what has been lost—people, events, places, whole epochs—and serving him in this reclamation project are two weapons in particular: his appetitive intellect, never satisfied with easy answers, and his impressive command of language, which allows him a wide range of modes from the virtuosic to the plain-spoken...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Group 18 is a poetry workshop meeting in Northampton, MA, since 1985. Numerous poets, many of whom are now scattered across the country, have participated in its regular weekly sessions. This volume celebrates 25 yrs of vigorous exchange...read more

Product Description:  The poems in Future Ship are largely autobiographical in the sense that they are based on personal experiences from childhood and adolescence when the personality is still in a molten form and being shaped by events and experiences that leave a lasting mark on the adult sensibility...read more

Product Description: The first in the new Tupelo Press Masters seriesIn this collection, Kurt Brown pays tribute to twenty-four leading poets through a masterful act of literary ventriloquism. Channeling the personas of luminaries Robert Bly, Mary Oliver, Charles Simic, and others, the author's razor wit playfully illumines each poet's style and celebrates their voice...read more

An unusual collection of poetry offers a series of poetic responses to other poems, including Raleigh's answer to Marlowe's 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,' Ogden Nash's send up of Byron, and Mona van Duyn's portrait of Leda's reflections on the swan. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: Herman de Coninck, Belgium’s leading poet for many decades, appears in English in a single volume for the first time. Witty, tender, trenchant, wise, de Coninck’s poems range from playful, terse love lyrics to darkly ironic, somberly truthful observations about human experience...read more

Product Description: Verb is the ancient oral tradition and the venerable literary magazine combined into a fresh new package: the audioquarterly. The best writers in the country reading their own work--new stories and poems you won’t find anywhere else--and an innovative format with an eye-catching design all come together in this exciting quarterly series...read more

Product Description: Kurt Brown muses acerbically on nostaligia for a prior pop culture, as well as on the new fixations of aging Americans: gods have names like Metamucil, Zantac, / Rogaine, Viagra, and Perhaps it's our irrepressible American spirit, / the soul of P...read more

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Product Description: This is a book of poems about Americans and their cars.

Product Description: Poetry. "Few poets love the world. It exists as a source of their complaint. But Kurt Brown is a true celebrator of earthly experience. He loves the world in all its vast peculiarity and he loves it with a clear eye. His poems exist to bear witness to this love and rarely has the world come across so well...read more

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An anthology of poetry containing the work of 125 noted American poets evokes the nightspots, hotels, bars, greasy spoons, and similar refuges from the demands of daily life and the feelings, thoughts, and sensations they bring out in us. Original. IP. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Now writers or would-be writers can read the most provocative and the most useful lectures on life and craft presented at such select conferences as Bread Loaf, the Wesleyan Writers' Conference, and the Napa Valley Writers' Conference...read more

Poems define America's experiences, dreams, escapes, and obsessions with the automobile

A collection of the best lectures from writers' conferences on the art and craft of finding and using artistic inspiration features the work of Jane Smiley, Gary Snyder, Miroslav Holub, and Mary Clearman Blew. Original.