Product Description: Recently revised for the current millennium, this beautiful new edition of Richard Grossman's 400-poem pastoral, The Animals, invites us to enter a world where all the inhabitants speak the same language, creating a powerful literary work that voices the concerns of the entire global community...read more

Take Three PoetsTake Thomas Sayers Ellis: Ellis's fractured syntax, his spasmodic, staccato utterance suggest a defiant sensibility. Indeed, at the center of Ellis's work is the figure of an aggressive father, taunting his son into song. Thomas Sayers Ellis was a founding member of Boston's Dark Room Collective and coeditor of AGNI's successful poetry anthology, On the VergeTake Larissa Szporluk: This poet stalks a landscape that is humid, stylized, Southern. The poet Gregory Orr says of her work: "Faced with such rending beauty, such ravished lucidity, all we can do is stand back and gaze with gratitude and awe." Larissa Szporluk studied at the Iows Writers' Workshop, has taught at Bowling Green State University, and now resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Take Joe Osterhaus: Unabashedly intellectual and demanding, Osterhaus's verse displays a rare elegance. According to David St. John, "these precise meditations are dazzling for their ability to touch the seemingly ordinary moments of a life and find in them the materials of both miracle and change." Joe Osterhaus has published in such places as the Antioch Review, the Boston Review, and the Nebraska Review, and he currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Edited by Askold Melnyczuk and the poetry panel of AGNI magazine, Take Three is the first in an important annual series designed to launch the work of new poets.

Product Description: The 10th anniversary edition of this classic of Asian America and experimental poetry features a Preface by Juliana Spahr and an Afterword by Stephen Hong Sohn.

Product Description: "Readers should be prepared for weeping, laughing, and awe."―Harvard Review A definitive anthology of the best United States Latino and Latina poets from diverse origins in the Latin world: Cuba, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Puerto Rico: Julia Alvarez, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Juan Felipe Herrera, Pat Mora, Alberto Alvaro Ríos, Luis J...read more

Product Description: "Readers should be prepared for weeping, laughing, and awe."―Harvard Review A definitive anthology of the best United States Latino and Latina poets from diverse origins in the Latin world: Cuba, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Puerto Rico: Julia Alvarez, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Juan Felipe Herrera, Pat Mora, Alberto Alvaro Ríos, Luis J...read more

Product Description: Book by Robbins, Anthony

Product Description: About When Sky Lets Go: "Just as one feels the density, the pressure of the earth in the hope of the diamond 'waiting in its blue haze' one hundred and fifty miles down, so these poems flare with light precisely because their vision is sharpened by the impediments, the irony of 'Marie Antoinette moving her jewels aside for the blade...read more

Product Description: Book by Junkins, Donald, Hendrie, Don

Product Description: Nightmarks contains poems of work, community, and love, all told with the sharp, rapid line of which

Product Description: In this, his first full collection of poetry, Rodrigo Toscano explores "how things wouldn't happen." The Disparities brings together official and unofficial histories that view one another to expose new meanings that are created between "the gaps...read more

Product Description: Lake Nora Arms skillfully navigates the "blue hallways" of memory and longing, drawing on tastes and touches as if for the first time. It immerses and envelops us in a mythical place that readers have wanted to return to ever since the book was first published...read more

Product Description: Book by McMorris, Mark

Product Description: Linda Gregg's first two books - Too Bright to See & Alma - are, at long last, available again-this time in a single volume. In this book, we witness the awakening of one of the finest American poets of her generation. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Collects two decades of political verse by thirty poets, including Tomas Borge, Clemente Soto Velez, and Marianne Larson (view table of contents)

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Product Description: poetry, Voices Over Water is the record of the lives of a married couple who emigrate from Estonia to Canada during the first half of this century. The woman, a preacher's daughter and musician from coastal Estonia, is the narrator for the first five poems of Part One, Leaving Estonia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This delicately shaped series of poems chronicles a mother's days of grief following the death of a child. The poems fathom her inner dialogue as she tries both to comfort her family, and to escape from the reality of tragedy. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A collection of poems addresses such topics as the working man, parent and child, small-town isolation, the arts, and ball games (view table of contents)