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Subject Area: Poetry-Collections of Poems
O’Riley, Jade1999 0-7734-3103-9
The poems in this volume are concerned with wholeness and are a deliberate and conscious passage toward healing. The poems rise up boldly and speak in the voice of renewal. The reader begins as if having stumbled upon the private correspondence of lovers, only to find the thread of their – and a common – story woven into the lines.
Privitera, Joseph F.
1999 0-7734-3106-3 88 pages
These poems are vigorous and of firm rhythm and sound, meant to appeal to the eye, the ear, the mind and the heart. The poet makes unequivocal statements about old age and the family, and the love poems are sensual, with the intensity and feeling of young love. The section entitled ‘And Other Tongues’ displays his unusual mastery of foreign languages, with poems in French, Italian, Portuguese, and Sicilian (with English translations).
Pessoa, Fernando
2003 0-7734-6586-3 172 pages
Fernando Pessoa is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. This dual-language format makes Quadras ao Gôsto Popular/Quatrains in the Popular Style accessible to scholars who do not read Portuguese, and the preface and notes add a voice to the important, fruitful, ongoing debates about the role of the translator and the principles that should guide literary translation. Fernando Pessoa was himself a translator as well as a poet, translating Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese, and Poe’s The Raven and Annabel Lee, among others. Most of the 325 quatrains were written in the last two years of Pessoa’s too-short life. They are not readily available now even in Portuguese, and this is the first English translation to appear, making this edition valuable to all literary scholars.
Rogal, Samuel J.
2013 0-7734-4355-X 900 pages
These fresh volumes complemented by thousands of the current editor’s detailed historical, biographical, linguistic, and critical notations, will provide researchers with the necessary background information (substantially neglected by George Osborn) to allow for thorough critical examinations, discussions and analyses of the Wesl
Broome, Peter
2008 0-7734-5194-3 376 pages
André Frénaud is a massive presence in the French poetry of the second half of the twentieth century, a poet immersed in the dilemmas of his age: the collapse of values, the conflicts of conscience, the moral and political disorientation, the splintering of identity. The translations of the present anthology, which is the first wide-ranging presentation of Frénaud’s work in English, seek to convey the multi-colored nuances, the vigorous antitheses, the passionate to-and-fro, and the startling imaginative excursions of this adventurous and highly original poet.
Schaedler, Brad
1994 0-7734-2730-9
Poems which articulate the author's ongoing concern about humanity's role in and the relational plight of the natural world.
Carter, Nancy Corson
1993 0-7734-2768-6
Christo, Cyril
1990 0-88946-846-X
Desy, Peter
1992 0-7734-9617-3
Kirby, Anna
1989 0-88946-897-4
Peters, Patricia Claire
1996 0-7734-0001-X
Merzlak, Regina
1994 0-7734-2722-8
A book of poems that explores the mysterious connections between body and spirit. The unseen world often displays itself in what we call the real world, from sources that surprise us.
Shirinian, Lorne
1991 0-7734-9785-4
Heberlein, L. A.
1993 0-7734-2779-1
Days after the earthquake that devastated Mexico City in 1985, rescuers found infants somehow alive although buried beneath rubble. This series of short narrative poems follows equally miraculous babies through other earthquakes.
Pwu, Jean Lee
1997 0-7734-2709-0 104 pages
Poems with backgrounds of Buddhism and Christianity, Taoism and Eastern and Western mysticism.
Brown, Harry
2001 0-7734-3583-2 68 pages
Ego’s Eye ridicules snobbery, conformity, and opportunism, takes a humorous look at birds and cats including Jett the castrate, Cat Cool Hand, and Mrs. Robin and concludes with poems of irony, the real ‘spice of life’.
Chaffin, C. E.
1997 0-7734-2832-1
Poems concerning Nature, both as metaphor and experience, divided into the four elements (earth, air, water, fire).
O'Hear, Michael David
1990 0-88946-893-1
Amoss, Lindsay S.
1994 0-7734-2800-3
Albert, Floyd
1995 0-7734-2743-0
Biffar, Donna
2000 0-7734-2794-5 92 pages
Forshaw, I.
1997 0-7734-2848-8
The destruction of compassion - 6th of August 1945: Hiroshima. A free-form verse play.
Schoeck, R. J.
1993 0-7734-0036-2
Meditative, conversational, or sometimes lyrical, this collection of poems is about landscapes and seascapes. The sense of the poetry of place is crystallized in the final poems of the volume that deal with the metaphors of travel.
Blair, Carroll
1999 0-7734-3094-6 88 pages
Addresses the circle in which man and all of life exists in a variety of expressions, exploring what man is, what he does; the absurdity of much of his ambitions and what he values in light of this circle. . . his illusions of progress and self-importance
Cosma, Flavia
2003 0-7734-3482-8
Eshleman, Harry D.
1995 0-7734-2785-6
Leonardi, Rosarius Roy
1996 0-7734-2686-8
A collection of poems which examines the unstable social conditions of late 20th-century America. The poems are insights into a society which seems to have lost its compassion. These are poems which tell the story of a fading American dream.
Folks, Jeffrey
1991 0-7734-9615-7
This first collection contains poems focused on social and domestic themes, as well as verse addressed to such traditional topics as the seasonal changes of nature. In tight, sparse stanzas the poems address a laconic voice to the everyday world of social existence. Impinging on the personal realm of the poet, however, is the larger political arena, with its issues of human justice and ethics.
James, J.W.
2004 0-7734-3545-X 124 pages
Special Mention for Mellen Poetry Press Contest
While the Christian myth of St. Anthony’s sermon to the fish is at the core of this visionary poem, it is the mystical exploration of dreaming that St. Anthony is concerned with. His sermon is an invocation in a world that is fluid, ambiguous, discontinuous and yet whole.
A Book-Length Poem.
Cook, Albert
2000 0-7734-2712-0 132 pages
Poems on diverse subjects.
Scheideman, Rick
1996 0-7734-2749-X
This collection integrates around the theme of wonder, sometimes buoyant and hopeful, sometimes somber. The subject may be the first day in fall or a climb up Long's Peak or the intrusion of a Down's Syndrome individual in the midst of one's hurry, but there is wonder in the ordinary.
Meek, Ed
1992 0-7734-0040-0
Stockwell, Elsie Wear
1994 0-7734-2728-7
Watterson, William Collins
1992 0-7734-0006-0
Steiner, Adele L.
1997 0-7734-2840-2
This is a collection of the author's intimate reflections on family, friends and the world around her. Each one has been distilled through the senses of the child within, thoughtfully reexamined by the adult poet, and lovingly crafted into this volume of poems that reveals the author's constant struggle with love and loss.
Chapman, William P.
1996 0-7734-2754-6
Poetry, classically steeped, restrained, elegiac and powerful.
Peters, Patricia Claire
2000 0-7734-3479-8
Kofler, Silvia
2003 0-7734-3484-4 80 pages
These poems represent an personal and literary voyage written over a period of about 10 years. Original German with facing English translation.
Cook, Albert
1997 0-7734-2816-X
Poems in which the collage method aims at psychological "historical" widenings and intensifications.
Ferrara, Judith M.
2000 0-7734-1242-5 76 pages
This collection of poems presents themes of death, friendship, longing, responsibility, fear, anticipation and reconciliation, frequently looking through the lens of visual and performing arts. Organized in three sections, Mulling, Impasto, and Movement and Sinking, the subjects of her poems are found in the home and neighborhood, in the past and present, in nature, in events experienced vicariously through newspapers and books, or directly by wandering through museums and attending performances. Moods range widely from meditative t turbulent, from connected to detached, from sorrowful to joyful; the poems move from celebrations and observations of the commonplace and the extraordinary to illuminations of the dark and violent.
Nieto, John Francis
2003 0-7734-3459-3 112 pages
Each poem attempts to draw from a particular character or image passions and rhythms that, although found through all human history, touch the modern heart with a peculiar poignancy. They should be read aloud to capture the sounds, images, and passions.
Beggs, Marck L.
1995 0-7734-0023-0
Gomez, Antonio S.
1999 0-7734-3108-X
Antonio Simon Gomez captures the essence of people and the majesty of the surrounding beauty in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He paints scenes with his words with the mastery of a painter’s brush. His New Mexico poems capture its magic as only a native among distinct cultures can capture them. Poems resonate real human emotions and speak about life’s realities, of greed, sorrows, human burden, and the healing that is required for living.
Gordon, G. Timothy
2000 0-7734-1252-2 64 pages
In broad and nuanced trompe l’oeil brushstrokes, this quiescent spiritual odyssey of witness and withness celebrates people and place, psychic polis, evokes primal ch’i, desert geomancy, and intensifies and merges oil-to-pastel visceral landscape of vision into what Ghostwalk whispers: The ‘long tao of dawn’ where all interiors call.
Cook, Albert
1998 0-7734-2825-9
With Illustrations by Ann Cheetham Colley. Haiku form verse on various topics.
Liveson, Jay
2000 0-7734-3096-2
Moore, George B.
2002 0-7734-3473-9 84 pages
The ancient practice of headhunting becomes a metaphor among these poems for the search for human essence. The headhunter finds in his prize the physical equivalent of the holy chalice or sacred icon. And if today our talismans are less gruesome, they nonetheless reflect the same desire for an understanding of human life. In this, his third collection of poems, George Moore explores the ever-present relationship between violence and the sacred. At times edgy in their lyricism, these poems ask hard questions of a harsh reality, while they struggle to make sense of the nature of human relationships.
Lunde, David
1994 0-7734-0008-7
Mendoza, Miguel (Michael Kip)
1999 0-7734-3109-8
These poems (Spanish/English on alternating lines) reflect a cross-pollination between languages, and reflect the influence of Neruda, Diario, and others.
Breeden, David
1990 0-88946-847-8
Keith, Thomas
1993 0-7734-0033-8
Rosario-Sievert, Heather
1995 0-7734-2736-8
Poignant poems dedicated to the memory of the author's father.
Pope, Ingrid Bloomquist
1998 0-7734-2841-0
Meditative and inspirational poetry on coping with bereavement.
Gomez, Iris
2003 0-7734-3478-X 68 pages
Hayes, Jana
1995 0-7734-2755-4
Many of the poems in The Hunger deal with childhood trauma and its lifelong effects. These words and images show both the child's struggle to make sense of human evil and the adult's retrospective pondering of darkness in an attempt to achieve understanding. The tone is elegiac, suggested the mourning process that leads to healing. Ultimately, The Hunger is about the mind's ability to transform suffering through the language of poetry.
Möller, Susann
1993 0-7734-2793-7
Leer, Norman
1992 0-7734-9453-7 52 pages
Crawford, John W.
1995 0-7734-2762-7
Batienon, Albert
1997 0-7734-2690-6
Poetry of pain, joy, and sorrow of a son's remembrance of his family, his people, his native land in Africa.
Christo, Cyril
1990 0-88946-845-1
Gilbert, Jeremiah
2003 0-7734-3494-1 80 pages
This collection of poems originated in the poet’s experience of going to church for the first time at the age of twenty-six. The first section, entitled “Church” is about the early times, observations, feelings, questions. The second section, “State” is about the state of religion in the world today, addressing televangelists, homophobia based in Scripture, and other areas where religion affects daily life. The segue between the two is a long poem entitled “Chronicles” which is composed of the first and last verses of books of the Old Testament, pieced together to tell their own story much as believers use passages, often out of context, to support their beliefs.
Steadman, John
1998 0-7734-2829-1
Sections include Mythologies; Satires and Lighter Verses; Meditations, East and West.
Howard, H. Wendell
1999 0-7734-3104-7 84 pages
Poems focus on the variety of qualities, capabilities, and attitudes of women, emphasizing the respect and appreciation due them but not always given.
Weeks, Daniel J.
1999 0-7734-3091-1
Poems deal with interconnected themes: death of someone from cancer in the prime of life; someone suffering from anorexia nervosa; change and metamorphosis as the path to meaningful life, moving from tragic themes to one of hope.
Jennerman, Donald L.
1999 0-7734-3123-3
The poems linger over details of the moment, and evoke a sense of place with a range of notes as of a cello.
Friedman, Norman
1992 0-7734-9522-3
Scheideman, Rick
1993 0-7734-2778-3
Attah-Poku, Agyeman
1999 0-7734-3102-2 88 pages
This book presents prolific poetic imagery of African and Africans in past, present and future. Sections include Africa and World Peace and Security; African History and Culture in the Olden Days; Africa and Colonization; Africa in More Contemporary Times; and Miscellaneous.
Rhodes, James R.
1990 0-88946-999-7
McAllister, Ray
1999 0-7734-3120-9
Journey of Passion is McAllister’s spiritual walk as described in poetry, telling of the passion of falling in love with God, the beauty of Christian friendship, and how, in God, one will find hope and comfort amid today’s many struggles. As a member of Generation X, McAllister has poems dealing with dating, chastity, racism, and substance abuse. Since Ray is totally blind, he has also been able to include many fresh insights about life and reality. Also, several poems include word puzzles that will challenge the reader to search for hidden messages and meanings.
Branon, R. Frost Jr.
1994 0-7734-2714-7
The poems here possess a unity - way stations of a pilgrim discovering love, beauty, death, frustration, and locked doors. As a symbol, roses have over the ages embodied these insights into the soul.
Phillis, Randy
2000 0-7734-1268-9 68 pages
Poems that capture the voices and concerns of the new American West, placed in an imaginary Colorado town.
Williams, Linda Paglierani
1993 0-7734-0021-4
Schulte, Rainer
1999 0-7734-3083-0
Rainer Schulte’s poems create vivid, unexpected images that cast a fresh and original light on the events and scenes of everyday life. His eye observes the phenomena of human existence with crystal clarity and reinterprets them in startlingly unusual ways. Through paradoxical juxtapositions his mind glimpses the dynamic realms of our inner world. Concise in language, yet not obscure, his poems lead the reader from sensuous experience to abstraction. His vision of the world becomes transparent through chains of metaphorical associations that reflect the violence and hypocrisy of the contemporary world we inhabit. And at the same time, his metaphors and images project moments of silence that flicker with a light of hope.
Sutton, James H.
1997 0-7734-2828-3
Winner of the 1996 Mellen Poetry Prize Epic poem in sonnet form on WWII and the destruction of Hiroshima, as seen through the eyes of a Japanese naval officer.
Thompson, Peter S.
1999 0-7734-3112-8
‘The defilements’ are meditations, personal but universal, too. They are the product of many years’ reflection on the Dharma, and long struggle with the forces (needs, passions) that thwart transcendent peace. ‘The road’ is a physical reflection of this journey, and complements the other poems with quiet, incantatory moments from scattered parts of the world.
Marek, Ludwig J.
1999 0-7734-3086-5 68 pages
Presents an accumulated representation of a four-year voyage through the author’s experiences in the United States. Poems range from ordinary and slant rhyme to organized Italian quatrains, and free verse.
Stockwell, Elsie Wear
1993 0-7734-2804-6
These poems are about you and me. They ask Gaugin's questions: "Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?"
Rhodes, James R.
1990 0-88946-049-3
Stryk, Dan
1990 0-88946-890-7
Aspenberg, Gary
1996 0-7734-2683-3
Warren, Nagueyalti
1992 0-7734-9573-8
These poems catch transient moments in the African-American experience and hold them up for poetic scrutiny. Capturing both past and present, rural and urban experiences, they spin a gossamer web of memories of youth and old age, creating a voice that is at once ancient and contemporary, African and American.
Martin, Herbert Woodward
2001 0-7734-3422-4 124 pages
Co-Winner of the 1998 Mellen Poetry Press Contest Prize This epic poems shows some of the minute details of the slavery period: the voyage, the sometimes suicides of the captives, the attempts to escape and the rewards advertised by the slaveholders. The is able to capture different voices and tones, in accord with his different subjects. Past, present, and future converge, with the slave ship as symbol.
Will, Frederic
2011 0-7734-1603-X 360 pages
A monograph concerning the state of epic poetry in an age of shorter attention spans.
Kirschten, Robert
2001 0-7734-3458-5 76 pages
Comic poems commenting on everything from Looney Tunes characters such as Yogi Bear, quick Draw McGraw and Wiley E. Coyote, to Jimmy Durante, comic paintings, and soap operas. About the poet: Robert Kirschten is the author of James Dickey and the Gentle Ecstasy of Earth: A Reading of the Poems; “Approaching Prayer”: Ritual and the Shape of Myth in A. R. Ammons and James Dickey; and three earlier books of poems, Old Family Movies, Nighthawks and Irises, and Chicago Poems.
Waters, William
2001 0-7734-3430-5 96 pages
Personal poems on circumstances springing from the poet’s life. John Waterfield studied Classics and English literature at Christ Church, Oxford, receiving a doctorate in 1979. He published his translation of Rilke’s Duino Elegies with Mellen in 1999. He lives and teaches in England.
Minock, Mary
1995 0-7734-2729-5 92 pages
Larson, Rustin
1996 0-7734-3493-3 68 pages
Williams, Robert Carl
2003 0-7734-3542-5 84 pages
Many of these poems in mood and content are inspired buy the poet’s reverence for the sea and sky and the changing seasons in the mountains of Vermont. His work draws heavily from his life’s considerable experiences, both his early years on a farm and his observations of human frailty and renewal. About the poet: Robert Carl Williams spent his formative years on a small farm in East Tennessee, at the foothills of Appalachia. He holds a BS in civil engineering from the University of Tennessee, trained as a jet fighter pilot toward the end of the Korean War, received a BA in architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and moved to Vermont in the early ‘60s. He is an avid sailor, spending six months each winter sailing westward around the world with his wife Annabelle. During the summer and fall he works in his ongoing practice of architecture as senior partner.
Soldati, Joseph A.
1992 0-7734-9525-8
A kaleidoscope of longing, love, death, sorrow, memory, and joy, the poems are lyrical journeys into and from the remote past, the recent past, and the immediate present in Africa, Europe, and the United States.
Crawford, John W.
1989 0-88946-887-7
McKernan, Llewellyn
1993 0-88946-568-1
Water images abound in this book. Water drowns people. Raises them up. Water pours from the sky, springs from earth. Water nourishes life. Destroys land and property. It is everywhere in these poems: the same, yet different. Each poem comes from a different moment in one woman's life - a woman who evolved in the poet's imagination from the many years of living in a state where floods are constant as the power of human emotions and the belief that "love is stern as death ... many waters cannot quench it, neither can the floods drown it." -- Song of Solomon 8:6,7.
Kaufmann, U. Milo
2004 0-7734-3586-7 92 pages
Measures of Breath is a loosely autobiographical collection of poems focusing on the strangeness of the ordinary and the resonance of the most private and personal. Memories and intimations are offered which suggest a framing reality larger than that described in the standard scientific model. Questions recalled from childhood are addressed, along with early experience that rarely finds its way into language. While the poems canvass the five stages of life, the structure is loose enough to accommodate a variety of speculations on the mystery of lived time as it resists any easy understanding.
Brown, Harry
1989 0-88946-888-5
Poems on disparate topics, several of which take their subject from Biblical literature.
Ulisse, Peter
1995 0-7734-2733-3
Dealing with subjects related to time, memory, perception, illusion, love, death, and the imagination, these poems strive to reach the emotional center of our deepest joys and fears. They delve into and question the very heart of what we call real.
McKee, Glenn
1999 0-7734-3089-X
Cook, Albert
1993 0-7734-2788-0 364 pages
Cook, Albert
1992 0-7734-9564-9 112 pages
Modulars offers five poems, each written on a different pattern according to the principle of "the syllabic module," a sound system developed by the author. The sense of contemporary verse is often organized on variable axes, and this book aims to organize sound patterns in a corresponding way. It offers metrical modes somewhat analogous to the structure of serial music, in which the randomness of instances in free verse is subordinated to audible patterns, without returning to the simple recursions of meter. In the poems of Modulars, the line unit is bound both horizontally by syllable-count in the line and vertically by recursive series from line to line. At the same time, the line, within its limited number of syllabic alternatives, remains free, as free verse is free, to choose, at every point, the particular alternative for the particular line.
Flynn, John
1997 0-7734-2826-7
Winner of the First Place Award in Poetry from RPCV Writers and Readers Magazine
Crump, Rebecca
2013 0-7734-4343-6 70 pages
This book of devotional poetry is designed to provide an opportunity for readers to reflect on the lives of saintly individuals who in God's view brought the presence of Jesus Christ into the situations in their own lives, and who allowed God's purpose for them to be fulfilled thereby.
Blottenberger, Mike W.
1996 0-7734-2721-X
Fifer, Kenneth
1994 0-7734-2765-1
Volková, Bronislava
1999 0-7734-3570-0 168 pages
With the assistance of Willis Barnstone, Andrew Durkin, Gregory Orr, and Lilli Parrott Poems communicating a young woman’s internal monologue. In Czech, with English translation.
Martínez, Manuel
2010 0-7734-4659-1 252 pages
This marks the first time that Gleyvis Coro Montanet’s poetry has been translated into English. The volume consists of three sections that explore poetry in different ways; prose poems, poems with rhyme schemes, and poems in free verse.
Goldman, Mark
1991 0-7734-9777-3
The five sections of the book -- Elegaic, History and Geography, Dramatis Personae, Love Songs, and Daughter -- reveal or circumscribe a journey as the poems move from childhood to maturity, generation to generation, in the archetypal search for understanding, forgiveness; and, of course, love.
Burnham, Philip E.
2003 0-7734-3453-4 84 pages
These poems encompass ordinary and extraordinary moments: history from the perspective of a teacher-scholar and traveler, routines of a one-time neighbor, Adam, the poignancy of family life, the mysteries revealed in the farthest reaches of the universe and in the backyard garden.
Nangini, Mary Angela
1995 0-7734-2726-0
Nangini's poems celebrate the richness of life in central southern Ontario. From the city to cottage-country and the roads in between, Nangini explores the changing seasons of her varied region.
Green, Faith S.
1992 0-7734-0043-5
Jacob, Emil
2000 0-7734-3467-4 80 pages
Edited by Christopher Thornton Poems focusing on existentialist struggles and dilemmas, colored with dreamlike imagery that suggests surrealistic painting and leaves a powerful impression that transcends the mere power of words.
Coulter, Page
1997 0-7734-2822-4
Feeny, Thomas
1994 0-7734-2797-X 64 pages
Conroy, James
1997 0-7734-2830-5
This collection of thirty poems is truly representative of the recurring themes in the poetry of James Conroy. Though non-religious, there is a decided spirituality running through the poems that pays tribute to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of the modern world's loss of committed values not associated with gain or notoriety.
Kirschten, Robert
2001 0-7734-3418-6
This volume’s title is taken from works by Edward Hopper and Vincent Van Gogh. Each poem navigates the visual terrain of a single picture, attempting both to appreciate the structure and value of the subject painting while recording the poet’s emotional response to each work. Artists celebrated include: Chagall, Monet, Cezanne, O’Keefe, Matisse, Degas, Goya, Manet, Corot, and Benton.
Plotnick, Harvey M.
1992 0-7734-0002-8
Notes is populated by many people -- the narrator of the title poem, a stranger to his life and language; a nameless divorcée, hiding her loneliness with small talk; a skiptracer, obsessed with tracking down debtors; an unknown messiah, whose text is the daily newspaper; an aging group of bachelors, making their weekly futile trip to a Saturday night dance; a little boy, living through a memorable summer afternoon. The poems reverberate with the Chicago neighborhoods which are their backdrop, and show a keen interest in psychology.
Benson, Jim
1999 0-7734-3115-2 72 pages
A volume of poems that explores, among other tings, the intimacy of family and the question of how to maintain a long-term love. Portraits of father, husband, wife, son, daughter, and other people in the workplace or any place.
Johnson, Richard Eric
1998 0-7734-3565-4 68 pages
Kirschten, Robert
2000 0-7734-3127-6 84 pages
Old Family Movies recalls the pain and joy in all families. It does so through personal mementos like those in the title poem, a father’s death certificate, and memories of a mother teaching in her kindergarten classroom.
Appelbaum, David
1989 0-88946-889-3
Hollister, Christopher Vance
1990 0-88946-895-8
Barnett, Snowdon
2003 0-7734-3480-1 86 pages
This is a “Millennium Poem” of 1000 lines, and some individual ‘lines’ are little poems in themselves.
Lombardo, Leigh Ann
1997 0-7734-2702-3
Poems of love, loss, loneliness, spirituality.
Adams, Barbara
2004 0-7734-3543-3 108 pages
These poems were written over a ten-year period, and tell the story of a woman’s life following the death of her husband. The strangeness of being a widow and living alone after a long marriage leads to an emotional roller-coaster. Her husband continues to be present in her inner life, haunting her with guilt and deeds that cannot be undone. Writing about him, and about her mother, father and aunt helps exorcise their ghosts. The woman rediscovers sex and desire in lovers. Yet, a feeling of displacement and alienation continues to follow her to Mexico and to New York City where she worked and where she had been born. Finally, a sense of renewal and reconciliation comes to her in art, dream and myth.
Brown, Harry
1989 0-88946-886-9
Harvey, M.L.
1994 0-7734-0027-3
Yarnold, Barbara M.
1999 0-7734-2851-8 82 pages
The author struggles with the universal striving for meaning and search for truth in a world which is often alien and cruel. She strives with the universal sense of smallness of the individual, of isolation among those who struggle with identity and isolation in a world dominated by news of movie stars and power moguls. Dr. Yarnold received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is licensed to practice law in both Florida and Illinois. She teaches at Florida International University. She has published six books in the area of Public Policy Analysis, and has been writing poetry for many years.
Lawson, Gary Michael
1994 0-7734-2789-9
Poems from the dark night of the soul on a variety of subjects from WWI to religion to Whitman.
Carpenter, Lucas
2002 0-7734-3443-7 82 pages
Kenyon, Susan
2002 0-7734-3460-7
Wilderness-entranced formal and free verse arranged in the form of a womans miniature bildungsroman. About the poet: Susan Kenyon was born and grew up in China where her parents were journalists. She studied at Art Center in Los Angeles and worked as a technical illustrator and as a director for the Great Books discussion program.
Moore, George B.
1997 0-7734-3475-5 84 pages
Poems explore the author's ongoing relationship with the American Northwest, western Canada and its northernmost regions, particularly in their dimensions as wilderness and Western landscape. The poems move through various crises in contemporary thinking in the context of human involvement with the environment, returning time and again to the vast stretches of open territory and their various inhabitants, particularly the wolves.
Michael, Aloysius
2024 1-4955-1268-1 30 pages
This is a softcover book. This book contains a collection of poems. It is one of four books focusing on self-growth, spirituality, and life's journey also written by Dr. Aloysius Michael.
O’Dell, Mary
1999 0-7734-3118-7
Chronicles one poet’s journey through the valley of grief and beyond, up the stony incline toward spiritual recovery. As she learns to live without the physical presence of her closest friend and heartmate, she finds that those we lose through death do not abandon us. Indeed, they leave us gifts and signs, points of brightness all along the way, reminding us that they are somewhere nearby, loving us still.
Pointer, Fritz
2023 1-4955-1152-9 426 pages
This is a collection of poetry by Daniel Pule Kunene edited by Fritz Pointer. (Hardcover Edition) "Beneath Kunene's wry humor and mischievous wit, we find a passionate concern for, and deep understanding of, the human condition in all its manifestations. He reflects on themes of nature, time, love and hope, life and death, dream and reality, freedom and bondage, war and peace, in their historical as well as contemporary context of anticolonial struggle and racial strife." -Fritz Pointer [Prologue]
Pointer, Fritz
2016 1-4955-1158-8 426 pages
This is a SOFTCOVER EDITION of a collection of poetry by Daniel Pule Kunene edited by Fritz Pointer. "Beneath Kunene's wry humor and mischievous wit, we find a passionate concern for, and deep understanding of, the human condition in all its manifestations. He reflects on themes of nature, time, love and hope, life and death, dream and reality, freedom and bondage, war and peace, in their historical as well as contemporary context of anticolonial struggle and racial strife." -Fritz Pointer [Prologue]
Prioli, Carmine A.
1991 0-88946-162-7 212 pages
Willett, C. A.
2000 0-7734-1248-4
This collection speaks to the poet’s special concerns for subjects such as psychological healing vs. pain and the universal images of nature vs. humanity. C. A. Willett has received awards in the Humanities and has worked at the grassroots level to promo childhood literacy. She holds a BA in Liberal Studies, and in 1997 she was honored by Regis college with the Mary Bryant Award for her collection of poetry Milkman’s Daughter.
Ronderos, Clara Eugenia
2015 1-4955-0284-8 116 pages
“This collection represents search for the past and an intellectual and sensual awareness of being in the present... Ronderos is a poet of utmost skill and sensitivity… The translations by Berg and Ronderos capture with expertise and artistry the sounds, images and ideas of the original Spanish wonderfully.” –Eileen Mary O’Connor, Professor of Spanish and English, Lesley University
Thomas, Patrick Michael
1995 0-7734-2758-9
Set within an Arthurian framework in which Merlin relates the tragic tale to his young apprentice, this story of fated passion unfolds in a stream of narrative poetry studded with islands of lyrical intensity.
Lombardi, Thomas F.
1995 0-7734-0003-6
In his verse, the physical and the metaphysical converge, a poetry profoundly intellectual yet ultimately accessible.
Wallace, Anne C.
1995 0-7734-2732-5
These poems celebrate the "honeysuckle and manure" of the Alabama landscape, conveying at once its deep sweetness and its darker undertones of poverty and pain. The poet calls us to travel with her down Peachburg Road to see the sand, the mud, red clay, the furious goldenrods, the bend of Miss Lucy's curve, the country graveyard topped with plastic valentines.
Sutton, James H.
1995 0-7734-2750-3 88 pages
Prometheus is a comic epic written as a sonnet sequence around a Greek myth. Like Hesiod's, the poem deals with enlightenment and the creation of the first woman, Pandora; but it uses stories from modern Greek oral tradition to report the revolutionary effects of Prometheus's gifts. The result is a commentary about progress as well as an etiological myth about the transformation of paganism into Christianity. Built on such themes as the paradox of free will and the effect of entropy on the moral order of the Universe, the poem is ironic, playful, humane and musical. The poem merges the Romantic and Classical elements of Anglo poetry, sundered since Blake and Milton.
Cook, William
2002 0-7734-3476-3 120 pages
Wilensky, Ben
1995 0-7734-0005-2
Ancient Jews feared the sea and people who came from the sea. Waters of the deep were dark and anarchic, and even God waded gingerly through the flood tides. There was no covenantal justice under sail, only stormy skies and beautiful nights and constant change. This cycle of poems with Judaic-Christian themes describes the thrill of a journey and the wisdom of homecoming.
Panzardi, Anthon
1993 0-7734-2774-0
Lurie, Toby
1990 0-88946-883-4
Snouck-Hurgronje, Eleanor
1990 0-88946-045-0
Lurie, Toby
1993 0-7734-9515-0
Davidson, Phebe
2000 0-7734-1264-6 72 pages
Stone, Ira F.
1999 0-7734-3113-6
To the extent that this book presents a specific theme, it is that of the inadequacy of language which both compels and confounds the possibility of poetry. Inspired by the explorations of poets as diverse as Jack Spicer, Charles Reznikoff and William Bronk, Stone attempts to reach inside of language itself, trying and failing to describe the everyday experiences of the world, yet reveling in the aesthetic and spiritual enrichment wrought by the failure.
Cook, Albert
1996 0-7734-2674-4 188 pages
Like a collage, these poems use juxtapositions and leaps to bring psychological, spiritual and rhythmic perceptions into coherent expression.
Steadman, John
1994 0-7734-2752-X
This collection of lyrics and lyric sequences ranges in subject from the decades preceding World War II to the present. Focusing successively on various facets of European and American society and culture, it explores the complex interrelationship between art and literature, and the tension between reality and myth.
Will, Frederic
1993 0-7734-0041-9
"The theme of my poetry book is the restoration of purpose and direction in private life, with concrete reference to my rediscovery of inner energy after a difficult and meaningful divorce. The mood of this poetry is argumentative and daily, presenting attitudes and opinions through the filter of diary- and journal-like segments of everyday experience." - FW
Kempher, Ruth Moon
1995 0-7734-2746-5
Blair, Carroll
1999 0-7734-3111-X
A work that moves back and froth from the abstract to the direct, expressing images and impressions from the world of an individual imagination to the world that is shared by all, the two sometimes meeting in the same poem.
Crossan, Greg
1976 0-7734-0616-6 301 pages
Swaim, Gary L.
1996 0-7734-2668-X
These poems are quiet and reflective rather than brash or hard-edged, seeking to give meaning to the difficult, joyous, and even comic realities of life.
Brooks, Cora Vail
1996 0-7734-2708-2
The diary of Noah's wife, in poetic form.
McDonald, William C.
1990 0-88946-836-2
Inoue, Yukiko
2002 0-7734-3477-1 84 pages
Pease, Peter P.
1996 0-7734-2805-4
A brief sample of a chaotic correspondence between the author and a Siberian woman with whom he fell in love.
Peters, Patricia Claire
2000 0-7734-1256-5
1992 0-7734-9523-1
Runpoem depicts running as a metaphor of life and specifically as an experience of self awareness and investigation. It provokes readers to reflect on the relation of mind, body, and spirit through the act of running.
Steadman, John
1993 0-7734-2802-X
The poems in this volume represent diverse facets of the author's responses to his travels in Europe and Asia, and to his enjoyment of classical and Renaissance literature and art.Other poems are reactions to three decades of residence in California. Recurrent themes are the interaction between art and nature, between actuality and myth, and between the "real" world and its variable (and occasionally distorted) images and reflections in the human mind -- and in the artist's own creations and re-creations.
Whitmore, Susan M.
1993 0-7734-0018-4
Based on the religious festivals and mysteries of ancient Greece, it calls up a view of the world that has a clarity and directness of our strongest dreams.
Stewart, L. Patricia
1995 0-7734-2715-5 53 pages
Observing the city at its darkest hour, the poet works the mean streets in a loved/hated job, observing, taking notes, making it all make sense.
Appelbaum, David
1993 0-7734-9517-7
The park is where you go when you need space. It is not pretty, not well kept. Benches are broken and sawn off. Yet things happen. Under the planetrees, children play, lovers quarrel, sailors smoke, men play bocci. Trysts, mishaps, crises, illuminations take place. It is sunny or gray, quiet or noise-filled. In the park is a presence. Sit a while and it fills you. When you get up, you are different." - David
Johnson, Richard Eric
2004 0-7734-3546-8 80 pages
In Schemes of Consciousness, the poet takes full responsibility for his actions - but not for others. Covering thirty years of travels abroad and within the United States, the poems share with the reader some of the sights, sounds, characters, and sensory perceptions of his experiences.
He uses a combination of avant-garde and lyrical styles to contrast the disparities of people's thoughts and actions in places that often seem wholesome, but in fact may not be.
Throughout the collection, the poet's thematic portrayal of love and the challenges, problems and results that stem from therefrom are manifest. His subject matter embodies his admiration for old foundations and nuances of tradition. Johnson likes to smile and wink at people who think they are unique.
Herberts, Steven
1997 0-7734-2836-4
This collection of poetry is not only intended to capture the thoughts of the reader, it is meant to touch every soul in need of forgiveness and acceptance. The collection is divided into two sections: free-verse and prose, and 'With Rhyme and Reason'.
Ochs, Otto Osip
2000 0-7734-3408-9
Poems that attempt to explain the physical, emotional, and spiritual pain of those people the author knew and grew up with in Bavarian Germany, 1945-56, in several Displaced Persons Camps. The ‘sacred fool’ is anyone who survives the crucible of pain, shame, and indifference and finds him/herself victorious in often unrecognized moments and ways.
Halff, Bro
1999 0-7734-3098-9 76 pages
Leer, Norman
1997 0-7734-2824-0
Graphics by Grethe-Brix-J. Leer Winner of the Samuel Ostrosky Award for Best Creative Scholarly Work in the Humanities 1998
Lundberg, Carol Wade
1994 0-7734-2801-1
Richardson, Dorothy
2002 0-7734-3472-0 588 pages
Secure the Shadow ... ere the Substance Fade (Advertisement of a Daguerreotypist)
Why the stroke of God's hand in the prime of life? Henry Underhill's search for an answer during the summer of 1875 gives the reader the "Life and Times" this Illinois attorney, politician, and Presbyterian elder has become too handicapped to write. Major themes include Illinois politics and law circa 1840-1875, slavery and racism, the role of women, capital punishment, the Civil War, medicine, and Protestantism.
The most important secondary character is Shadrach, Henry's African-American nurse and secretary, who becomes a catalyst for change.
Woven from primary sources, interlaced with jokes and anecdotes, the narration does justice to a protagonist who love both the law and literature.
Somdah, Marie-Ange
1996 0-7734-2677-9
Here is a rich, resonant voice. Seeds & Deep Seasons offers a deep and colorful fragrance with which to embark on a quest to discover aspects of the human condition.
Stevenson, Warren
2002 0-77343439-9 80 pages
Fajardo-Acosta, Fidel
1992 0-7734-0026-5
Spence, Doyle
1996 0-7734-2703-1
Poems on a range of themes from the tragedies of Auschwitz, Rwanda, and Bosnia, to personal recollections and meditations of love and loneliness.
Mose, K. E. A.
1993 0-7734-0029-X
Shades of Darkness is an expression of a tragic vision of life. The poet of ideal longings finds life cluttered by imperfections, historic abuse and complicated human relationships. We have a poetry of questioning, a poetry of stark images of pain, suffering and anger, but also a poetry reflecting moments of joy and human closeness. The result is a contemporary Romanticism which blends nuclear bombs, lasers, T.V., computerization, superpowers and the Third World with more traditional motifs and domestic life.
Thomas, Rudy
1992 0-7734-0045-1
Schmidt, Jan Zlotnick
1999 0-7734-3099-7
Teller, Gayl
1996 0-7734-2678-7 120 pages
Illustrated by Joyce Muller Winner of the Edgar Allen Poe Poetry Prize
Davidson, Phebe
1995 0-7734-9598-3
Wry wit and lyrical reflection on the silence that lies at the center of individuals and their relationships with one another.
Towey, Augustine C.M.
1996 0-7734-2693-0
Inspirational poems
Marcello, Leo Luke
1997 0-7734-2844-5
Honorable Mention Award in the Mellen Poetry Press contest 'Hiroshima'. Poems using images from old 16-millimeter film, faded photographs, and family memories, containing the personal history of a man born the morning the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, but embracing the wider historical perspective.
Shoaf, R.A.
1991 0-7734-0010-9
Hufgard, M. Kilian
2003 0-7734-3463-1 88 pages
Inspirational poetry written by an artist who listens and communicates her love of Christ through her poetry.
Rogers, Bertha
1991 0-7734-9669-6
Bassein, Beth Ann
1996 0-7734-2753-8
Poems of laughter, nostalgia, and terror permeate these poems about family, growing up, coping in the public arena, and surviving catastrophe. Subjects range from whales and skulls to beggars, students, a sick chicken, whiskey, and Saint Theresa.
Estaver, Paul
2002 0-7734-3474-7 124 pages
Cook, Albert
1998 0-7734-3092-X 144 pages
Kuntz, Laurie
1999 0-7734-3085-7
Many of the poems in this book deal with personal loss, displacement and trauma. The interconnected cultural, personal and aesthetic issues in the collection explore and address experiences of the heart and spirit and encourage critical thinking and constructive social action.
Glick, G. Wayne
1998 0-7734-2847-X
MacAoidh, Hamish
2001 0-7734-3411-9 64 pages
Sonnets of love and loss. Dedicated to “the Triple Goddess is all her incarnations” this sequence of poems investigates the origin, development, and resolution of a foredoomed love.
Chambers, Antonia
1993 0-7734-0025-7 48 pages
Universal themes of courage, loyalty, and freedom (and their opposites) blend with a lyrical commentary on Scotland's past, present, and future.
Kirby, Anna
1987 0-88946-044-2
Williams, Linda Paglierani
1993 0-7734-2782-1
These poems are written documentation of the integration of Williams's philosophical, psychological, and poetic sensibility. Further, they present textual integration of her family's multi-ethnic orientation: African-American; American Indian; Italian.
Robinson, Jeffrey C.
1997 0-7734-2814-3
A book in four sequences, each sequence featuring a poetic response to some aspect of Romantic poetry in an effort to 'update' that poetry in terms of contemporary poetics and idiom.
Holmberg, Carl Bryan
1997 0-7734-2711-2
Split Rails reflects midwestern rural beginnings that will not quit. Initial struggles with sexuality, ideology and spirituality remain important in later poems, though transformed. Finding oneself in nature and living in society speak the paradoxes of the heart these poems face.
Freeman, John
2002 0-7734-3429-1 72 pages
Two themes run like intertwining threads, related at deep psychic levels: a Wordsworthian love of nature, and an abiding interest in the work of psychiatrist and psychologist Carl Jung.
Kaiser, Monica
1996 0-7734-2673-6
Illustrated by G. Warlock Vance Still Sifting is a collection of poetic images and stories capturing the complex energies of nature and people, the rawness of death, the simplicity of childhood, and the glaring truths of self discovery.
Shrier, Helene
2016 0-7734-2835-6 64 pages
McKague, Thomas
1995 0-7734-2739-2
McMullins, Hilda Lee
1995 0-7734-2772-4
Hochman, Will
1993 0-7734-2780-5
Coleman, Earl M.
2002 0-7734-3433-X
Deamer, Robert Glen
1995 0-7734-3469-0 48 pages
These poems are a celebration of place, beauty, romantic love and longing, and the inseparable inter-relationships among these things. There are two alternating and counterpointing moods: joyous and astonished contemplation of beauty, and intensity of passion, or of pain. Sugarloaf Mountain emerges as a central, unifying symbol.
Weinstein, Norman
1991 0-7734-0016-8
Davis, Frederick
1994 0-7734-2720-1
Phillips, Steve
1996 0-7734-2680-9
These poems explore the points of contact and contrast between man's nature and the landscape in which he lives. The poetry combines flights of metaphysical rapture and romantic daydreams with portraits of urban realities. Throughout, the poems' images remind us of hidden spiritual elements and charged atmospheres.
Oerke, Andrew
2000 0-7734-3119-5
Symphony Number One is the first part of a trilogy. It investigates the nature of human identity and concludes that who we really are is created by our individual, common and uncommon choices of words, and is revealed in the true equations between words and action. This book is about primal, radical cure, and it is Mozart and Mingus played by a combo in blue jeans jamming to a new millennial swing. Poet Andrew Oerke’s work has been published in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, Mademoiselle, and other leading magazines. Golden Gloves champ, football player, University professor, Peace Corps Director in Africa and the Caribbean, US Korean War veteran, and United Nations Gulf War consultant, he has lived many lives. In feature articles, The New York Times and International Herald Tribune have said that here is a poet “whose muse is a world traveler.” With Notes and Comments by James O. Allsup
De Ritis, Paul A.
2000 0-7734-3404-6 120 pages
An narrative poem attempting to express the inexpressible: the horror of the Shoah.
Johnston, Allan
1996 0-7734-0034-6
Shepard, Roy
2000 0-7734-1246-8 76 pages
These poems reflect the freedom of an autumnal perspective. They look back a long way, yet grasp the present moment. In mood they range from passionate to playful.
Zeng, Hong
2017 1-4955-0627-4 68 pages
The Bear and Other Poems is the author's first book of creative poetry, in Chinese and English bilingual versions.
Towey, Augustine C.M.
1992 0-7734-9474-X
Kleiner, Elaine Laura
1996 0-7734-2710-4
This volume of poems is derived from the poet's experience of the Pacific Northwest Coast and is characterized by a quiet precision of natural imagery, local place names, and themes drawn from the region's folklife. From the fishing villages and lumber towns south of Seaside, Oregon, and along the coast of western Washington, she draws upon a poetic langugage that is at once dreamy, evocative, and ethereal, and yet vigorous and earthy.
Duhon, Gwendolyn M.
1999 0-7734-3090-3 60 pages
Poems deal with love and sorrow, relationships and war, growth and pain, timidity and fearlessness.
Panthel, Hans
1990 0-88946-582-7 124 pages
Bi-lingual edition of poems by Hasan Dewran (Turkish/Kurdish writer living in Germany) translated into English by Hans Panthel. It also includes a poem in Zazaki - a minority language spoken on the upper Euphrates.
Saba, Mark
1996 0-7734-2704-X 196 pages
Winners of the 1995 Mellen Poetry Prizes.
Judith of the Lights by Mark Saba
The Cross-Country Run of Josephine X. Dreifus: A Tribute to Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's Journey to Sakhalin by Donald Ray Schwartz
Sally Jordan by B. E. Stock
Patterson, Lorne
1997 0-7734-2820-8
Brugaletta, John
1992 0-7734-0022-2
Burt, Paul J.
1994 0-7734-2724-4
Liveson, Jay
1997 0-7734-2707-4
Reminiscent of the tradition of Oliver Sacks and Richard Selzer, these poems reflect observations of a neurologist on personal, medical and universal problems. They include both serious and humorous material and range in style from classic format to modern free form.
Liveson, Jay
1996 0-7734-2676-0
This collection of poems reflect the observations of a neurologist. The topics range from medical problems, both patients' and personal, to questions of life and love. They range from philosophical to satirical and are written in styles spanning classic forms to modern free verse.
Kahn, Lisa
1994 0-7734-0019-2 140 pages
This collection of poems is dedicated to the author's mother. Through these poems she expresses her grief at the loss of her mother and hopes to help the reader to come to terms with the death of a loved one, overcome the sorrow, and go on with life.
Luria, Emile
1993 0-7734-2763-5
Musante, Robert J. III
2002 0-7734-3563-8 68 pages
These sonnets explore the undeniable powers of spirit in nature. Some powers are peaceful while others prove antagonistic to animal life and human life. In some cases, spirit manifests itself in revelatory or realistic experiences. The new version of the book has four additional sonnets that address visions, death and the afterlife--themes that resonate in groups of sonnets throughout the book.
Latham, John
1996 0-7734-2675-2
Themes explored in this new collection include a child's perception of the world, dislocation, loss and obsession.
Peters, Patricia Claire
1998 0-7734-2843-7
The first section of Peters' book contains references to a gifted and beloved child's childhood, close friendships bringing joy and solace, and family members from childhood continually present in fact and in mind. The second section is bleak for unexplained or implied reasons. It contains both juvenilia and current poems seeking and asking questions that no one should or can ask or answer.
Lurie, Toby
1991 0-88946-002-7
Classen, Albrecht
2010 0-7734-3747-9 200 pages
Vasbinder, Samuel H.
1995 0-7734-2737-6
The poems in this collection reflect the interests and obsessions of the author. The problems inherent in time, nostalgic recollections of a personal past, descriptions of places with magical overtones, and fanciful inventions that tease the mind are all part of this poetry. Its language presses heavily on the additional meanings that can be embodies in poetic words as they describe or suggest images. It uses the language of symbol and metaphor in new ways, asking the language to bend and curve as the poem and the ideas it suggests are revealed.
Magid, Annette M.
2003 0-7734-3455-0 80 pages
These poems offer clear observations of people and places. Annette M. Magid provides insights into relationships with a keen eye for detail and an attentive ear to the rhythm of everyday occurrences, offering a refreshing view of human nature.
Carrino, Michael
1999 0-7734-3122-5
Merzlak, Regina
1993 0-7734-2770-8
Duquette, Georges
1993 0-7734-2767-8
Cluster, Grace
1995 0-7734-2791-0
Drawing from a diverse background ranging from ranch wife to vacuum cleaner sales to purchasing assistant, Grace Cluster explores the "ups and downs" of everyday life with humor and awe.
George, Emery E.
1996 0-7734-2691-4
Poetry by the author of Blackbird, Metropolitan Icons, and Holderlin and the Golden Chain of Homer.
Vitiello, Justin
1991 0-7734-0004-4
Slade, Leonard A. Jr.
1995 0-7734-2735-X
McKague, Thomas
1996 0-7734-2689-2
This cycle of poems deals with the loss of a love, beginning with the immobilizing stages of mourning and ending with the tremulant processes of survival.
Amoss, Lindsay S.
1996 0-7734-2759-7
The quantum silence in this collection of poems carries a bright abstract of improbable joy into exclusive materialization of an implied presence.
Towey, Augustine C.M.
1990 0-88946-892-3
Lanter, Wayne
1995 0-7734-2747-3
This poetry is rigorous and honest, accessible and penetrating. Lanter explores the links between man's frail existence with the larger universe, and his place in it. These poems show the influence of Larkin, Brodsky and Walcott.
Cole, Jack
1999 0-7734-3125-X
Saul, Stephen
1999 0-7734-3095-4
This volume concentrates on the use of charged language to deliver intense imagery, following the Bergsonian philosopher, T. E. Hume, who said the language of poetry is a visual concrete one. . . Images in verse are not mere decoration, but the very essence of an intuitive language.
Sels, Robin E. van Loben
1994 0-7734-3483-6 116 pages
Holt, Rochelle Lynn
1991 0-7734-9790-0
Peters, Patricia Claire
1997 0-7734-2685-X
Thomas, Laurence W.
1993 0-7734-2761-9
This collection of 45 poems, all related to water, shows the peripatetic nature of Thomas' life. The Great Lakes of the poet's native Michigan vie for space with references to the Nile, the Mississippi, the Adriatic, Lake Victoria, the Atlantic and Pacific and many ports in between. The poems are a reflection on the poet's affinity for water; the final poem 'Water Ways, the Final Splash', gets into primal origins by cataloging the waters the poet is familiar with and noting that 'water doesn't separate; it connects.'
Biffar, Donna
1995 0-7734-2670-0
These poems form a triad of the wonders and savagery of family connections and, therefore, of human existence. These are poems of everyday Midwestern farm images and the mysteries that can be found in sunflowers opening to the sun.
Huxford, Colette L.
1996 0-7734-2692-2
Strives to capture the miracle that happens every day, focussing on the love of family, the change of seasons, and country life.
Schmidt, Jan Zlotnick
1991 0-7734-0000-1
This collection of poetry is a collage of women’s voices, a poetic vision explored within different combinations of landscapes, voices, and art.
Wright, Terry
1996 0-7734-2694-9
Shelton, Marilyn
1996 0-7734-2697-3
Brown, Bill
1992 0-7734-0035-4
Poems on diverse subjects.
Paulsen, Michelle M.
1997 0-7734-2713-9
These poems represent what wells up inside, relying heavily on imagery, and dances with the extremes, often bordering on the manic. More than anything else, they take the reader into the space of the experience.
Kirk, Juanita
1993 0-7734-2798-8
The title of this volume has been taken from a Robert Browning poem. This may account for the sticks, stones, arrows, and juxtaposed subtleties and energetic language of the poetry. Love poems elicit various reactions from readers, but the love poems of Juanita Kirk make up a volume which is closely related to an autobiography. Acting out love is a dangerous thing in these days of postmodern criticism, but Kirk joyfully speaks her mind to her many loves, and she defies any of them to find themselves on the pages.
Peters, Patricia Claire
1992 0-7734-9619-X
Slade, Leonard A. Jr.
1993 0-7734-2771
Gibbs, Sally
1996 0-7734-2696-5
Poems express life as the author has experienced it: thoughts of nature, travel, dancing, animals, loves, fears, a search for answers to the unknown.
Tookey, Mary
1989 0-88946-899-0
Moments of everyday life are captured in crystals of poetry. These lyrics uncover extraordinary bits of beauty often overlooked because they are embedded in the commonplace. The varied verse forms function like prisms to highlight and transform universal emotions.
Fish, Cheryl
1992 0-7734-9667-X
Steadman, John
1996 0-7734-2698-1
Verses arranged in five parts: Epicedia; Early Poems; Epiphanies; Period Pieces; and Themes and Variations
Hantman, Barbara
1995 0-7734-2725-2
Poems fall under thematic categories such as family relationships, romantic love, wistfulness, social criticism, humor, and craziness.
Elton, W.R.
1991 0-7734-0020-6
Carter, Robert E.
1990 0-88946-033-7
The distinguished Canadian poet draws from his early experiences exploring the great Canadian North to bring us a collection of poems that enlighten and speak to issues of values and human choices.