Poems deal with the relationships between gender, language, violence, and art

When Carol Snow published her first volume of poetry, Artist and Model, in 1989, poet Michael Palmer praised the "complex music [Snow] forms from our simplest words" and noted that she "reflects on the struggle toward--and limits of--representation itself. . . . Artist and Model is a first book of singular poetic intelligence and attention."In For, the first volume in the New California Poetry series, Snow continues her vast and original poetic project of defining the relationship among art, life, and the acts of perception that define and limit those terms. If there is "subject matter" --an elusive term when one is talking about Snow's writing--it is the play between memory and moment.Here is work that makes innovative use of autobiographical material, in finely wrought and highly sculpted poetry of great integrity, power, and subtlety. The kinship For has with Eastern thought and poetic forms extends to the fact that, like the poetry of Tu Fu, it has a depth charge of spare style. Among American writers, Snow's antecedents include Elizabeth Bishop and George Oppen.For synthesizes something classical and ancient--the need to observe cleanly and to represent a thing simply and with force. Snow forges new and remarkable poetry by combining traditions that once seemed incompatible--the materials of life and a purely aesthetic, experimental style. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Carol Snow's award-winning poetry has been admired and celebrated as "work of difficult beauty" (Robert Hass), "ever restless, ever re-framing the frame of reference" (Boston Review), teaching us "how brutally self-transforming a verbal action can be when undertaken in good faith" (Jorie Graham)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Poetry. PLACED: KARESANSUI POEMS is a poetic sequence that juxtaposes words, phrases, quotes, and lyric excerpts in the manner of stones in a Japanese dry-landscape Zen garden: karesansui. "Subtexts" identify sources of quotations, ranging from Matsuo Bash-o to the Marx Brothers...read more

Product Description: Josh Phillips-a former speech teacher turned pilot and mechanic-is almost killed by communist terrorists while maintaining helicopters for an oil exploration company in the jungles of Peru. Within a year he returns to Peru to maintain aircraft for the DEA as part of Operation Snowcap, where he takes part in daring rescues of missionaries, teachers, and DEA agents, where he and the crew with him have their helicopter shot out from under them and hide out in a swamp with 200 terrorists looking for them, and where he and about 90 other men face 600 terrorists, the trained forces of communists and drug traffickers, in the Battle of Santa Lucia...read more

Product Description: Madison Sabatini thought she knew who she was: an almost-sophomore with a bright future. The newest photographer on her school paper. A shopaholic with great hair and a fabulous wardrobe. Then, in a flash, everything changed.Now she's stuck in Sandyland, a gloomy beach town in the middle of nowhere, living with her parents in a crappy hotel "suite...read more

Claire Martin has some serious body issues. Not much happens in Claire's sleepy beach town, but that's okay. All she wants is to hang out with her best friend, make the high school swim team, and convince Nate, the guy of her dreams, to stop calling her "Dude." And, oh—she'd really, really like to stay in her own skin. Ever since Claire hit her teens, electrical storms have been making her switch bodies. Usually she's back to her old self in no time. But when something goes terribly wrong, she finds herself stuck as another girl. And not just any girl, but the icy beauty who has caught Nate's eye. Suddenly Claire goes from being Miss Average to Miss Gorgeous—the model-thin blonde that every girl wants to look like and every guy wants to date. Will she ever figure out how to get back to her old life? More importantly, will she want to?

Product Description: From the author of Here Today, Gone to Maui, the story of a woman who finally got a life...some else's. Ever since Veronica's husband found the love of his life-not her-she's been a walking zombie with runny mascara. It doesn't help that she keeps getting mistaken for Haley Rush-the Hollywood starlet whose dazzling life is plastered on every magazine...read more

Product Description: Plenty of thirtysomething women would be thrilled to look like a teenager. But journalist Kathy Hopkin's youthful appearance is forcing her into an undercover assignment she could do without: posing as a college freshman to get an expose on a secret prostitution ring...read more

Struggling with mounting debt and a need to become independent from her parents as her thirtieth birthday approaches, Natalie tells fantastical tales to the men she meets to cover up her undesirable traits, a practice that backfires when she meets a man she actually likes. By the author of Been There, Done That. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Who says you need a man to have a baby? Single mother and successful lawyer Laura longs to give her son a sibling--but first she must track down the sperm donor she used nine years earlier. Her search will lead her to Wendy, a scrapbooking, cookie-bingeing housewife with out-of-control twins, and Vanessa, a young woman so frustrated with her boyfriend's commitment issues that she's switched from checking out shoes on eBay to cruising men on donor sites...read more

Freesia Summers lives on the island of Agalinas, a hidden Pacific paradise somewhere off the coast of California. She has everything a girl could want: her own ocean-view balcony, a pink itty car, singing peacocks, and a magical bubble that lets her talk to her besties and keep track of her de-vicious clothes. If Freesia's life seems too good to be true, well, there's a reason for that. And when a blackout lands her in an unbeautiful place -- and in an equally unbeautiful but oddly familiar body -- reality hits her head-on. Freesia is not who she thought she was, and her world will never be the same. Reality, in her opinion, is hugely overrated.