The third collection by the prize-winning Asian American poet Jon Pineda, Little Anodynes is a sequence of lyrical, personal narratives that continue Pineda's exploration of his biracial identity, the haunting loss of his sister, and the joys - and fears - of fatherhood. With its title inspired by Emily Dickinson, Little Anodynes offers its poems as "respites," as breaks in the reader's life that serve as opportunities for discovery and healing. Pineda deftly uses shortened lines and natural pau...
Girls Growing In Grace (Girls Growing in Grace, #1)
by Patricia Middleton
In My Brother Running, Wesley McNair draws his inspiration from such seemingly commonplace fixtures as a local eccentric, a neighbor's dog, and a small-town Maine landscape, investing them with a mystery and stature beyond the reach of everyday experience. But the centerpiece of the book is the extended, thirteen-part title poem, a memorial to a brother dead too soon. Haunting, elegiac, and deeply affecting, this collection is also now included in The Town of No & My Brother Running, also publis...