Product Description: "Through the opening poems of loss and anguish, to the final more objective pieces where 'the moon [still] gladdens. . .in a sin-sick world,' Brooke Horvath leads us by his frayed yet resilient hope. Separation, lost love, a difficult fatherhood, death behind him and ahead, here's a man standing in his suburban garden who plants only what 'does its growing underground' because he needs to know possibility does exist, if only 'beneath me / fretfully, unseen...read more

Product Description: “We wait for baseball all winter long,” Bill Littlefield wrote in Boston Magazine a decade ago, “or rather, we remember it and anticipate it at the same time. We re-create what we have known and we imagine what we are going to do next...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A collection of essays studying the short stories of Henry James from 1843 to 1916. As a tribute to their professor, William T. Stafford, Joseph Dewey and Brooke Horrath gathered a contentious lot of essayists who take provocative stands and dare us to re-encounter Henry James. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Essays on the contemporary American novelist's most recent work (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This new volume is a collection of essays and poems on George Garrett's best-selling trilogy of Elizabethan England: Death of the Fox, The Succession, and Entered from the Sun. Contributors of the essays include Richard Betts, "'To Dream of Kings': George Garrett's The Succession"; Nicholas Delbanco, "The Succession: A Novel of Elizabeth and James"; Joseph Dewey, "'A Golden Age for Fanta-sticks': Imagination, Faith, and Mistery in Entered from the Sun"; R...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Many poems in this first collection by a poet who has found keen readers in a wide range of literary journals, anthologies, chapbooks, etc. have the tight-knit structure and emotional impact of the best short fictions; their elegaic rhythms and figurative daring lift them to poetry's highest levels...read more