Southern Messenger Poets – serie
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Open Field, Understory
New and Selected Poems
Av James Seay
Häftad, 1997
314 kr
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This superb collection of new and older work shows James Seay's sure progress from the reflection of first influences to the strongly individual voice of his later pieces. As always, Seay evokes a profound sense of history and place, the landscape, colours, scents, and musical vocal cadences of his …
Pharaoh, Pharaoh
Poems
Av Claudia Emerson, Dave Smith
Häftad, 1997
253 kr
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Written by the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Pharaoh, Pharaoh is a meditation on time, memory, inheritance, and the irony of loss, loss of one's land, of one's past, of love itself. With senses keenly attuned to every nuance of light and landscape, Claudia Emerson Andrews invests …
From a Person Sitting in Darkness
New and Selected Poems
Häftad, 1998
379 kr
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With a nod toward the grounding inspiration of Mark Twain and James Baldwin in its opening epigraphs, this lush collection of free and formal verse, turning on multiple axes of race, religion, history, politics, and social issues, soars in exploration of the dark, troublesome visions of America. …
Doing Lucretius
Poems
Häftad, 2000
251 kr
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In Doing Lucretius, Sidney Burris crosses a sensibility shaped by a classical education with a contemporary culture that finds such an education increasingly remote and forbidding. Molding his artistry and buttressing his response to modern society with the literature of the ancient world, Burris …
House of Blue Light
Poems
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 2000
268 kr
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The House of Blue Light is the second collection of autobiographical ""memory poems"" by Catholic-school-boy-gone-bad-turned-poet-made-good David Kirby, a stand-up comic of verse if ever there was one: ""in Stardust Memories . . . these wise space aliens who visit Earth . . . tell [Woody Allen] …
Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer
Poems
Häftad, 2001
253 kr
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Sometimes a fact swings down like a hammer and we are changed. The fact of loss, the fact of desire, and all the wild, unruly facts of history hammer down and sparks fly up. This, then, is a collection of facts. In a rushing, rolling style, poems sweep to the edge of falling apart, take great …
Pinion
An Elegy
Häftad, 2002
253 kr
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In this eloquent long poem, Claudia Emerson employs the voices of two family members on a small southern farm to examine the universal complexities of place, generation, memory, and identity. Alternating between the voices of Preacher and Sister, Pinion is narrated by the younger, surviving sister, …
Ha-ha
Poems
Av David Kirby
Inbunden, 2003
330 kr
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A feature of English landscape architecture, a ha-ha is a wall at the bottom of a ditch; its purpose is to allow the presence of cows and sheep on one's lawn, but at an agreeable distance and with none of the malodorous unsightliness that proximity would bring. Similarly, The Ha-Ha, the latest …
Ha-ha
Poems
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 2003
250 kr
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A feature of English landscape architecture, a ha-ha is a wall at the bottom of a ditch; its purpose is to allow the presence of cows and sheep on one's lawn, but at an agreeable distance and with none of the malodorous unsightliness that proximity would bring. Similarly, The Ha-Ha, the latest …
Grayscale
Poems
Av David Huddle
Häftad, 2004
253 kr
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In his compelling new collection, David Huddle writes, ""We think / we stand in the vivid colour of here and now / and view the past as drab black and white, / whereas the truth is , it's our future / that's the off-center, badly focused grayscale.""Spiraling between the tenses of time, David …
Infinity Sessions
Poems
Av T. R. Hummer
Häftad, 2005
282 kr
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In The Infinity Sessions, T. R. Hummer achieves a radical act of translation, creating poems that project the narrative of twentieth-century America implicit in the syncopated rhythms of jazz and blues. Hummer boldly stands up as a poet and rides with some of the obscure greats with whom he feels a …
Late Wife
Poems
Inbunden, 2005
330 kr
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In Late Wife, a woman explores her disappearance from one life and reappearance in another as she addresses her former husband, herself, and her new husband in a series of epistolary poems. Though not satisfied in her first marriage, she laments vanishing from the life she and her husband shared …
Late Wife
Poems
Av Claudia Emerson, Dave Smith
Häftad, 2005
253 kr
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In Late Wife, a woman explores her disappearance from one life and reappearance in another as she addresses her former husband, herself, and her new husband in a series of epistolary poems. Though not satisfied in her first marriage, she laments vanishing from the life she and her husband shared …
For Love of Common Words
Poems
Häftad, 2006
268 kr
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The scariest sentence in the English language is brief, threatening, and hopeful. It is deceptive, simple, and as common as water: anything is possible. This second collection by Steve Scafidi is haunted by the possible and ""the bells of the verb to be"" that ""ring-a-ding-ding calling us / to the …
Piercing
Poems
Häftad, 2006
253 kr
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The Piercing celebrates the here and now while endorsing a deep faith in the necessity of the imagination. In response to life in a literal world, Christine Garren's lyric poems ignite belief in exhilaration. Ordinary settings - a park, a pond, a littered vacant lot, an attic room - through …
House on Boulevard St.
New and Selected Poems
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 2007
317 kr
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The poems in The House on Boulevard St. were written within earshot of David Kirby's Old World masters, Shakespeare and Dante. From the former, Kirby takes the compositional method of organizing not only the whole book but also each separate section as a dream; from the latter, a three-part scheme …
Moon Road
Poems, 1986-2005
Av Ron Smith
Häftad, 2007
253 kr
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From poems of memory and family through its extraordinary voyaging sequences ""Via Appia"" and ""To Ithaca,"" Ron Smith's Moon Road embodies the experiences and some of the more elusive lessons of marriage, fatherhood, teaching, sports, and travel. Domestic poems give way to poems of pilgrimage and …
Glory River
Poems
Av David Huddle
Inbunden, 2008
395 kr
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In Glory River, David Huddle's poems pit precise observation, extravagant language, and humor against despair in an attempt to find a way to live in a new century in which the values of the past are dissolving and those of the future are frightening. Huddle opens with a sequence of exceptional …
Glory River
Poems
Av David Huddle
Häftad, 2008
253 kr
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In Glory River, David Huddle's poems pit precise observation, extravagant language, and humor against despair in an attempt to find a way to live in a new century in which the values of the past are dissolving and those of the future are frightening. Huddle opens with a sequence of exceptional …
Figure Studies
Poems
Häftad, 2008
268 kr
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Poet Claudia Emerson begins Figure Studies with a twenty-five-poem lyric sequence called ""All Girls School,"" offering intricate views of a richly imagined boarding school for girls. Whether focused on a lesson, a teacher, or the girls themselves as they collectively ""school"" - or refuse to - …
Captive Voices
New and Selected Poems, 1960-2008
Häftad, 2009
317 kr
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Over nearly fifty years, Eleanor Ross Taylor has established herself as one of the foremost southern poets of her generation. Captive Voices gathers selections from Taylor's five previous books along with a generous helping of new poems. Scintillating, unusual, passionate, and profound, the poems …
These Extremes
Poems and Prose
Häftad, 2009
268 kr
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In his first collection of poetry and prose, award-winning fiction writer Richard Bausch proves that he is also an accomplished poet. Penned over a span of many years, the poems in These Extremes deal with a wide variety of subjects. Many focus on Bausch's own family and relationships. In one long, …
Keeper's Voice
Poems
Av Mike Carson
Häftad, 2010
268 kr
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Meeting a local woman at a service project in Appalachia, the narrator of Mike Carson's poem ""Muse"" hears from her ""Those words, iron twang of loss,"" that ""cut soft ideas of beauty out."" Carson's lean, spare collection The Keeper's Voice unflinchingly engages those hard ideas of beauty, of …
Walk in Victoria's Secret
Poems
Av Kate Daniels
Häftad, 2010
268 kr
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With A Walk in Victoria's Secret, Kate Daniels crafts a bold, brassy, yet delicate vision of a woman's growth. Imbued with a unique poetic voice that is utterly feminist, these poems possess a fiery intensity for those abuses no woman can ever quite recover from, but also reveal the loving, …
Talking About Movies with Jesus
Poems
Av David Kirby
Inbunden, 2011
524 kr
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Celebrated poet David Kirby says that when he was a boy he wanted to run away and join the circus but never found one he liked, so he invented his own. Many of the poems in his dazzling new collection, Talking about Movies with Jesus, suggest his personal carnival is still a work in progress.Much …
Talking About Movies with Jesus
Poems
Av David Kirby
Häftad, 2011
266 kr
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Celebrated poet David Kirby says that when he was a boy he wanted to run away and join the circus but never found one he liked, so he invented his own. Many of the poems in his dazzling new collection, Talking about Movies with Jesus, suggest his personal carnival is still a work in progress.Much …
Ephemeron
Poems
Av T. R. Hummer
Häftad, 2011
268 kr
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T. R. Hummer's new and characteristically pyrotechnic collection takes its title from the rare (in English) singular form of the common word ""ephemera."" In a work of startling originality, the poet presents a meditation on ephemerality from the point of view of the ephemeron itself as it passes, …
Secure the Shadow
Poems
Inbunden, 2012
524 kr
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Daringly realistic and artfully mediated by past and present, Claudia Emerson's Secure the Shadow contains historical pieces as well as poems centering on the deaths of the poet's brother and father. Emerson covers all aspects of the tragedies that, as Keats believed, contribute to our human …
Secure the Shadow
Poems
Häftad, 2012
268 kr
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Daringly realistic and artfully mediated by past and present, Claudia Emerson's Secure the Shadow contains historical pieces as well as poems centering on the deaths of the poet's brother and father. Emerson covers all aspects of the tragedies that, as Keats believed, contribute to our human …
Blacksnake at the Family Reunion
Poems
Av David Huddle
Häftad, 2012
253 kr
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David Huddle's latest collection, Blacksnake at the Family Reunion, shares intimate and amusing stories as if told by a quirky, usually reticent, great uncle. In ""Boy Story,"" a teenage romantic meeting ends abruptly when the boy's sweetheart realises they have parked near her grandmother's grave. …
