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In his fifth collection, Simmerman creates an elegy-in-verse with technical mastery, wit and passion.

A new collection by the National Book Award winner and one of America's most beloved poets.

Urbane, ribald, melancholic and wry, Koestenbaum puts a memorable spin on the status quo notion of domestic arrangements.

A new poetry collection propelled by fable, time travel and wild, imaginative leaps.

An ambitious new collection by the Yale Younger Poets Prize and Lamont Poetry Award winner.

Poetry that illuminates nature's weather and the weather of the human spirit.

Mary Crow uses refined perception to tell of a mature woman's personal experiences.

This collection of poems explores the collision between a civilization of western time and one of primal timelessness.

A new collection of narrative poems and dramatic monologues that dissolve the boundaries of poetry and prose fiction.

Poet, teacher, essayist, anthologist, songwriter and singer, Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the country's most acclaimed writers. Her voice is generous; her vision true; her subjects ordinary people, and ordinary situations which, when rendered through her language, become remarkable. In this, her fourth full collection of poetry, we see with new eyes-a grandmother's scarf, an alarm clock, a man carrying his son on his shoulders. Valentine for Ernest Mann You can't order a poem like you order a taco.Walk up to the counter and say, "I'll take two"and expect it to handed back to youon a shiny plate. Still, I like you spirit.Anyone who says, "Here's my address, write me a poem," deserves something in reply.So I'll tell a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadowsdrifting across our ceilings the momentbefore we wake up. What we have to dois live in a way that lets us find them. Once I knew a man who gave his wifetwo skunks for a valentine.He couldn't understand why she was crying."I thought they had such beautiful eyes."And he was serious. He was a serious manwho lived in a serious way. Nothing was uglyjust because the world said so. He really"liked" those skunks. So, he re-invented themas valentines and they became beautiful.At least, to him. And the poems that had been hidingin the eyes of skunks for centuriescrawled out and curled up at his feet. Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give uswe find poems. Check your garage, the odd sockin your drawer, the person you almost like, but not quite.And let me know.

Winner of the 1994 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry. Barton Sutter's poetry is earthy and muscular, chiseled from his native Midwestern landscape. Drawing from the narrative, formal tradition of Robert Frost and E. A. Robinson, Sutter's poems are full of the grist of rural life--old farms, old shops, wild mushrooms, beaver dams, roadside bars and eccentric, vital people.