Yet Kunz’s verses are unsentimental, visceral, sprawling between oxys and Bitcoin, crossing the country restlessly. They grapple with the shame and guilt of choosing to leave the culture Kunz was born and raised in, the identity crises caused by class mobility. They pull the reader close, alternating fierce whispers and proud shouts about what working hands are capable of and the different ways a mind and body can leave a life they can no longer endure. This hungry new voice asks: after you make...
"Wesley McNair is a kind of Chekhov of American poetry."--Ted Kooser, Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet LaureateHere are two Wesley McNair's poetry collections in one volume. The Town of No and My Brother Running blend sorrow and humor to create unforgettable portraits of people, places, and rural New England life.
Just Where You Left It... and other Poems is a collection of humorous poetry about how to survive school, parents and everything else that’s unfair in life. From David Roche come these simple and charming rhymes designed to make parents and children alike fall in love with poetry again… or maybe for the first time. It all started with a poem about the agony of poetry recitation, written by David for his son. In fact, all of these poems were written for his three sons, touching on everything th...
Contest Judge X. J. Kennedy heralds Barbara Lau's The Long Surprise as ""full of unexpectedness...feeling and verve"" and ""a confident step onto the main stage of American poetry."" Adds Eleanor Wilner, ""Here is a poet of candor, vigor and daylight vision, who loves without illusion...whose ear is unerring, and whose startlingly fresh images push up like 'wild mint...through sidewalks.""' Posing questions about the making of art (""Is chaos / counterpoint to art, or instead, / its tuning fork?...