A survey of major poets and movements of American postmodern poetry includes more than four hundred poems by 103 poets

“Santos possesses an intensity akin to Rilke.”―New York Times Book ReviewThe Intricated Soul gathers poems from five previous books. Sherod Santos’s identity as a poet is based on his courageous resolve to take on the most difficult subjects. Whether writing about love, madness, or genocide, he engages “the most moving truths we can know about our shared humanity” (Washington Post). “Southern Gothic”Poor white and pining, the full moon coins Its water-buckled image on a welling tide That rakes the shingle back across the strand, A bone-clatter by which fate decides the youngest Child in a family of nine will be the first to die (The date marked by an asterisk in the family Bible That records such things) from illness, Or an overdose, or a traffic accident.

Product Description: Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to the American civil rights struggle of 1955–75...read more

A collection of two hundred poems by twenty-one Native Americans features the work of Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Lance Henson, and Ray A. Young Bear

Product Description: Dave Smith's sixteenth poetry collection chronicles the arc of almost sixty years living in the American South. From dusty sawmills to the ubiquitous Waffle House, Hawks on Wires stages both mortal and comic dramas that speak to the poet's autumnal acceptance of himself and the South...read more

Product Description: Hurricane Party is an original and rewarding work, a masterful follow-up to Big Muddy River of Stars, and a livewire, compelling contribution to American poetry. No other poet sounds like Pelegrin, and that's the sure sign of a writer at the top of her game.”Elton Glaser

The latest installment of the yearly anthology of contemporary American poetry that has achieved brand-name status in the literary world.

Product Description: In the title poem of The Swing Girl, a Greek burial relic with an image of a small child on her swing suggests the ability to move between present culture and the ghosts of history, between modern metaphor and the rhetoric of myth...read more

Product Description: Poems that ponder the conundrums of existence and religious faith in wartime. Caw I try to hold my sleep against the dawn I sleep against the outside light where crows (nuns and Sergeants priests and colonels) conspire in the brightening yard calling me from play calling me from flight back through the pillow calling me from flight beyond Saigon, beyond Hanoi, and Seoul calling me from flight I fly high beyond the call cursing God for every shattered wall I sleep against the clarifying day against a plebiscite of murdered selves forgotten relatives and mean authorities bleeding friends parents and parishioners conspiring with a squad of crows to call me back again to call me down to call me back to call and call and call “There is nothing uncertain about the art of Harry Staley...read more

Product Description: Take a journey into the heart and passion of one of the most brilliant voices of the American Counter-Culture Movement. While men took the spotlight, it was women like ruth weiss who would breathe feminine spirit into the fight for equality between the sexes, the races, and the classes...read more

Product Description: The book provides readers with a thorough and unified topical introduction to the global religious community of Islam. KEY TOPICS: The book examines is connections with Judeo-Christian morals. The integration of the doctrinal and devotional elements of Islam enables readers to see how Muslims think and live...read more