The Fever of Being is a series of poems, some written entirely or partly in Spanish, ranging in mood from comic to tragic and dealing with Urrea's life within the Hispanic-Anglo border culture.
Understanding William Stafford (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
by Judith Kitchen
The Price of Scarlet (University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose)
by Brianna Noll
A honeycomb long vacated by honeybees still possesses an "echo of the swarm, / a lingering song ." Living things are made and make themselves: "My bones came first. / Like long needles, / they knitted muscle / and tendon / and tissue and skin. / Filled themselves / with marrow." In her debut collection, Brianna Noll fuses the scientific and fantastic, posing probing questions that explore the paradoxes of experience. Interweaving themes of creation, art, and nature, the poet gives voice to anima...
The theme developed in this book is that friendship is a seed to be nurtured to form a precious bloom. The volume combines poems with floral decoration and quotations from renowned writers and historical figures. The volume is arranged into chapters according to flowers such as forget-me-nots, lillies and roses. Each chapter begins with a vignette on the background of the flower, enhanced by a watercolour picture.
