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BC, POE005010, Southern Illinois University PressThis Country of Mothers
$18.95A mosaic of memories, the poems of This Country of Mothers recollect Julianna Baggott’s experiences as both mother and daughter. With wit, compassion, aggression, and anxiety, Baggott examines her maternal…
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BC, POE005010, University of Pittsburgh PressTime’s Fancy
$17.00Winner of the 1995 Banta Book Prize for a Wisconsin Author Ronald Wallace is best known for his wit and good humor, his synthesis of technical skill and strong…
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BC, POE005010, Southern Illinois University PressTrain to Agra
$15.95Calling upon two cultures, Vandana Khanna’s Train to Agra meditates on the effects of displacement and expatriation on the construction of a young Indian American woman’s identity. The physical journeys…
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BC, POE005010, Southern Illinois University PressTwenty First Century Blues
$15.95Death, fame, art, and religion become comic subjects in Twenty First Century Blues, the fourth collection from Richard Cecil.Whether elegizing his predecessors, predicting his own end, channeling Dickinson’s “corpse-eye-view of…
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BC, POE005010, University of Pittsburgh PressTwo And Two
$17.00Denise Duhamel’s much anticipated new collection begins with a revisionist tale–Noah is married to Joan of Arc–in a poem about America’s often flawed sense of history. Throughout Two and Two,…
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BC, BIO007000, BIO025000, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, HarperCollins, Paperback - Trade, POE005010Walt Whitman
$16.95“Whitman emerges from this biography alive and kicking—hugely human, enormously attractive.” —Newsweek A moving, penetrating, sharply focused portrait of America’s greatest poet—his genius, his passions, his androgynous sensibility—an exuberant life…
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BC, POE005010, University of Pittsburgh PressWeather Central
$17.00Ted Kooser’s third book in the Pitt Poetry Series is a selection of poems published in literary journals over a ten year period by a writer whose work has been…
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BC, Northwestern University Press, POE005010, Tia ChuchaWhat Yellow Sounds Like
$13.95What is most compelling about Linda Susan Jackson’s debut collection of poems, What Yellow Sounds Like, is the extraordinary self-possession of its young female narrator as she seeks to answer?who…
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BC, POE005010, Southern Illinois University PressWhite Summer
$15.95In White Summer, Joelle Biele investigates the problems of personal and cultural memory. Rich with images of flight and displacement, Biele’s poems show a love for words, their music and…
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BC, POE005010, Southern Illinois University PressWinter Amnesties
$18.95Winter Amnesties is a book of origins and endings, griefs and reconciliations. Each poem addresses the dilemma posed by G. K. Chesterton: “One must somehow find a way of loving…
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BC, POE005010, Southern Illinois University PressYear of the Snake
$16.95In her second collection of poems, Lee Ann Roripaugh probes themes of mixed-race female identities, evoking the molting processes of snakes and insects who shed their skins and shells as…
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