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In Thomas Mitchell's collection, Crow Genesis, poems emerge with a musicality, a precision, that offers a persuasive affirmation of what it means to know ourselves, and to recognize the magic that appears all around us.

Virlana Tkacz's Three Wooden Trunks is a collection of poems about memory, the poet's Ukrainian roots, and the poet's family's pursuit of a sweeter, easier life in America.

Selected Poems.

Poems of the Outside World 19852022.

Masquerade is a jazz-inflected, lyric-narrative sequence of poems, a "memoir in poetry" set principally in pre-Katrina New Orleans and in Seattle, involving an interracial couple who are artists and writers. Moved by mutual fascination, shared ideals and aspirations, and the passion they discover in each other, the two are challenged to find a place together in the cultures of both races and families, amid personal and political dislocations as well as questions of trust--all against the backdrop of America's racism and painful social history. The twentieth century's global problem, the color line, as W. E. B. du Bois named it, is enacted here in microcosm between these lovers and fellow artists, who must face their own fears and unresolved conflicts in each other. Similar stories have been told from the male protagonist's point of view; Masquerade is unique in foregrounding the female perspective.

Seed Wheel is a lyric grown from the taut, ardent beauty of simple speech that seeks a way through the broken places in the ground of our imagination. The past and the present abide in these poems, as intimate as breath: migrations and altars, silence and wonderment, miseries and mysteries, and the stubborn cargo of our collective and personal histories. Here is the testimony of ancestors--and of the land itself--moments outside of time in which the living and the dead dwell in common, listening to the blow of northern wind. In a world drenched in harm and limbic quarrel, these poems testify to the power of language to reach across imposing and imposed boundaries, enter the public square, and sing.

Apricots of Donbas is a bilingual collection by award-winning contemporary Ukrainian poet Lyuba Yakimchuk. Born and raised in a small coal-mining town in Ukraine's industrial east, Yakimchuk lost her family home in 2014 when the region was occupied by Russian-backed militants and her parents and sister were forced to flee as refugees. Reflecting her complex emotional experiences, Yakimchuk's poetry is versatile, ranging from sumptuous verses about the urgency of erotic desire in a war-torn city to imitations of childlike babbling about the tools and toys of military combat. Playfulness in the face of catastrophe is a distinctive feature of Yakimchuk's voice, evoking the legacy of the Ukrainian Futurists of the 1920s. The poems' artfulness go hand in hand with their authenticity, offering intimate glimpses into the story of a woman affected by a life-altering situation beyond her control.

The poems in Polly Buckingham's debut collection, The River People, move through both dream and natural landscapes exploring connection and loss, abundance and degradation, the personal and the political. The speaker in these poems is often in a state of not knowing that can be both terrifying and revelatory. It is a state in which windows and doors connect the living and the dead and the inner and outer worlds. Organized in four sections that move from Florida to the Pacific Northwest, the poems are heavily imagistic and reminiscent of deep image poetry and Spanish surrealism.

Receipt is a collaboration between artist Andy Buck and Carl Adamshick. It is a book that loves names and dialog. Andy Buck's carved, wooden figures alongside Carl Adamshick's poems begin a conversation about friendships and their sometimes peculiar behavior.

An anthology of Palestinian and Jewish poems that strives for understanding

A New Orthography by Serhiy Zhadan is the fifth volume in Lost Horse Press's Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series. In these poems, the poet focuses on daily life during the Russo-Ukrainian war, rendering intimate portraits of the country's residents as they respond to crisis. Zhadan revives and revises the role of the nineteenth-century Romantic bard, one who portrays his community with clarity, preserving its most precious aspects and darkest nuances. The poems investigate questions of home, exile, solitude, love, and religious faith, making vivid the experiences of noncombatants, refugees, soldiers, and veterans. This collection will be of interest to those who study how poetry observes and mirrors the shifts within a country during wartime, and it offers solace as well.

Winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry 2019. Rich in detail, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach's Don't Touch the Bones is a compelling collection that examines the pain of the world's, a nation's, and a family's history.

"Albert Goldbarth's new collection is a community of poems that makes room for other voices than the autobiographical 'I': some fantastical, some historical/celebrity, some the neighbors down the block. The poems themselves offer a rich spectrum of possibilities, from the comic to the grievous, from a poem of five lines to a poem of six pages, but all presented by a poet whose broad understanding of history and of a wide range of character types allows him to people his writing with everyone from presidents to prostitutes, and from ancient mythmakers to contemporary celebrities--all the while remaining present as a smart and earnest voice."--Stephen Corey, editor of the Georgia Review

Though the Walls Are Lit considers the Irish tradition of hunger strikes and vocal lament. Weaving together hymns, canticles, and blues riffs, Holt configures the page as a threshold where poet and stranger may meet in protest and supplication.

The poems in Derek Annis's debut collection, Neighborhood of Gray Houses, wander through a landscape darkened by childhood abandonment and loss, before coming to rest in a home illuminated by new life and cautious optimism. The speaker comes to consciousness at a time when parental contracts have been breached and in a world falling apart, and as it falls apart, the poems become increasingly surreal, increasingly sure of the world's uncertainty. Ultimately, the birth of the speaker's daughters provides direction, a way out of the neighborhood of gray houses, to a place with more solid footing.

"Joseph Gastiger's new book is a loving, outrageous, krazy kat biography of the Vietnam generation hooked to the poet's imagination and his lifelong pursuit of the marvelous. Everything happens in these poems: the dead walk (or swim), Muammar Qaddafi says he did it all for love, the long lost political turmoil of the Nixon years reappears bristling with subtexts, Astro Boy is sold to a robotic circus, the poet/speaker wanders among his early loves and experiences like a burglar with flashlights taped to his shoes. Yet the poems, sweet and half comic as many of them are, are also deadly serious in their critique of the violence, ignorance, and anger that haunt every human community. The language throughout is quick, supple, heartbreaking and original in every way possible and provides a menu of startling possibilities for the prose poem form. Gastiger has given us a very fine gift."--Christopher Howell, author of Dreamless and Possible

Habitation collects the best poetry from a career spanning more than forty years by the distinguished northwest poet-editor-translator, Sam Hamill. Drawn from fifteen volumes of celebrated poetry, whether in brief haiku-like poems or long-ranging narratives, Habitation presents a lyrical voice is unique in American poetry today. Jim Harrison has declared, "Hamill has reached the category of a National Treasure," and Hayden Carruth has written, "[His] poetry is no less than essential."

An anthology that explores the world of student and mentor creative writing relationships. It invites men and women from various backgrounds to articulate the intricacies, injuries, and rewards of the often bizarre, but always human, complicity that is the creative writing mentorship.

Written by an award-winning author of three books of poems, including "Lucifer: A Hagiography", "Threat of Pleasure", and "Sweetheart, Baby, Darling". He lives in upstate New York.

The author grew up in Westbury, a working-class town on Long Island, where many of these ruminations hitchhike back to. He has been a pastor at First Congregational United Church of Christ in DeKalb, Illinois.

Offers a lyrical and sometimes surreal vision of our world. This title represents a departure from author's earlier work, but the omnibus quality of this book includes something's for everyone.

Presents poetry from the perspective of a Dakota speaker: words echo a relative Lakota dialect. In this book, the author's narratives are personal and descriptive of a life lived as a Dakota on the Fort Peck reservation.