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The Invention of the Kaleidoscope is a book of poetic elegies that discuss failures: failures of love, both sexual and spiritual; failures of nature, imagination, memory and, most importantly, the failures inherent to elegiac narratives and our formal attempt to memoralize the lost.

Once I met Borges in a crowded room with his cane over his arm, led by a friend. He was looking up and a little to the left and seemed to be listening to words from above. One does not inherit courage, he had said in an essay on blindness. His courage had grown as his eyes failed him.

Winner of the 2006 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry.Angela Ball's lyrical, wry, and rueful poems float on a river of incongruities on which we may find Ron Popeil, Lord Byron, and Rudyard Kipling sharing the same raft; they create a fascinating commerce between the sublime and the ridiculous.

Winner of the 2006 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeKrygowski's poems-often sad, sometimes humorous, always generous-are lovingly grounded in the ordinary. They are thinking poems-tightly crafted, accessible inquiries more interested in exploring stark and complicated knowledge than in proclaiming it.

In her third collection, Beatty travels inside the body to the blood that codes us, moving beyond the language of post-confessionialism into fourth-wave feminism, challenging notions of the "romantic" "and the "brutal" and how they exist within us and between us.

The Floating Bridge, David Shumate's second collection of prose poems, transports its readers over the chasm between the mundane and the enchanted. We traverse one bridge and find ourselves eavesdropping on Gertrude Stein and her gardener. Halfway across, each bridge vanishes beneath our feet. Another bridge awaits.

These poems describe the private and sometimes secret spaces of marriage, parenthood, and knowledge.

These poems, threaded by the teachings of Buddha, examine loss-the death of a loved one, the longing for a child, the yearning for another place and time-and the suffering such attempts transpire, but ultimately the poems are an affirmation that to be born into human life is our greatest opportunity to transform loss and sorrow into awakening joy.

Winner of the 2007 Donald Hall Prize in PoetrySelected by Bob HicokBurn and Dodge is a collection of poems that "burns" with contemporary vices such as: Guilt, Envy, Regret, and Indecision while also "dodging" such concerns with formal playfulness.

Love on the Streets is a selection of poems from four of Doubiago's books of poetry, two of which are book-length poems, plus new poetry. It is the culmination of thirty years of writing "on the road."

Winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Prose poems that profile the interrelationship of the two central characters, looking deeply into their psyches and thoughts of race, class, and identity. Read a press release about this book

Ka-Ching! is a book of poems that explores America's obsession with money. It also includes a crown of sonnets about e-bay, sestinas on the subjects of Sean Penn and the main characters of fairytales, a pantoum that riffs on a childhood riddle, and a villanelle inspired by bathroom grafitti.

Winner of the 2008 Donald Hall Prize in PoetrySelected by Lynn EmanuelWinner of the 2010 Kate Tufts Discovery AwardThe elegies in Temper interrogate the way grief leaves us confrontational, in a state of fracture.

The poems in this collection are the proverbial spring bulbs abandoned in the basement, growing toward a slim crack of sunlight. The characters in these poems resist the twenty-first century\u2019s prescription for a life of emotional-spiritual bankruptcy, reaching toward an ever-elusive glimmer on the horizon.

Shadow Ball gathers together in one collection the best of Charles Harper Webb's prize-winning books, as well as a selection of his newest poems.

"Joanie Mackowski's hypnotizing View from a Temporary Window is filled with Kafka-like transformations and metamorphoses and haunted by a sense of the body's strangeness. She writes in a relaxed and lucid manner that pays scrupulous attention to both the imaginary and the real, and to what is uncanny in each."-John L. Koethe

"I have long believed that Lynn Emanuel is one of the most innovative and subversive poets now writing in America. The brilliant, shattering, and disturbing poems of Noose and Hook are not only wry critiques of recent poetic and cultural activity in this country but also compelling signposts to what yet might be possible in our future.

"Sometimes we have questions that seem to defy answers or even suppositions but then we find Love and Strange Horses to help us map out a course to continue loving life. A really wonderful, thoughtful read by an intriguing new voice."-Nikki GiovanniWinner of the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Award (Poetry)

A book of contemporary poetry exploring the fine, shifting line between faith-secular and spiritual faith-and fanaticism in an insecure age, American Fanatics is a lyrical, pop-culture inflected meditation on democracy, morality, beauty, commerce, and the cost of falling dreams.

Winner of the 2010 Donald Hall Prize in PoetryQuan Barry explores the universal image of war as evidenced in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as Vietnam, the country of her birth. She also turns her signature lyricism to other topics such as the beauty of Peru or the paintings of Ana Fernandez.

WINNER OF THE 2010 AGNES LYNCH STARRETT POETRY PRIZE"Glenn Shaheen is claiming new ground for American poetry. The subjects are not happy, but Shaheen's clear vision and crisp-often witty-language offer the pleasures of surprise, discovery, and recognition."-Ed Ochester

"Poems that stick with you like a song that won't stop repeating itself in your brain, poems whose cadences burrow into your bloodstream, orchestrating your breathing long before their sense attaches its hooks to your heart."-Washington Post on Captivity

Appetite is a book of poetry that explores identity, particularly masculinity, through the lenses of popular culture, relationships, and place.

Whirlwind is one woman's heartfelt, yet mordantly witty, sexy exploration of the breakup of a marriage in poems that keep their linguistic edge while seething with a story they must tell.

This is the second volume of a trilogy (the first was The Plum Flower Dance) in which Weaver analyzes his life, striving to become the ideal poet. In The Government of Nature, Afaa Michael Weaver explores the trauma of his childhood-including sexual abuse-using a "cartography and thematic structure drawn from Chinese spiritualism."

In Translations from the Flesh, Elton Glaser's poems are driven by the powerful engines of love and desire, giving voice to those deep pressures that most move us, body and soul: "I put my native tongue / To work, open to / The dark instincts of ecstasy."

Blowout is both a celebration and mourning of romantic love-the blowout of a party, as well as the sudden rupture of a front tire. Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award

The Switching/Yard deals with the horizontal worlds of the birth table, the continuum of gender roles, and the head-on landscape of power and home as seen through the train yards of the West.