Poetry. Group 18 is a poetry workshop meeting in Northampton, MA, since 1985. Numerous poets, many of whom are now scattered across the country, have participated in its regular weekly sessions. This volume celebrates 25 yrs of vigorous exchange. Contributors are Doug Anderson, Donald Brees, Kurt Brown, Robert Coles, Trish Crapo, Theodore Deppe, Rosalyn Driscoll, Carol Edelstein, James Finnegan, Susan Bogle Finnegan, Jack Gilbert, Linda Gregg, Hilary Ince, Paul DuBois Jacobs, Joan Larkin, Timothy Liu, Margaret Lloyd, Robert Hill Long, Henry Lyman, Suzanne Mercury, Richard Michelson, Allen Miller, Missy-Marie Montgomery, Bill O'Connell, Kerry O'Keefe, Adrian Oktenberg, Carol Potter, Margaret Robinson, William Ryan, Russ Sargent, Nancy Sherman, Anne Love Woodhull, and Genie Zeiger. Poetry, for me, is a witnessing to magniture.&mdash;Jack Gilbert

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Poetry. Art. This new collection of poems by sculptor Rosalyn Driscoll includes eight photographs of details of her sculptures, seamlessly weaving word and image. This volume crosses thresholds and links intimacy and interiority with the transcendent and sacred.

Conjured from Dust

Driscoll, Rosalyn

Poetry

Poetry. This collection of seventy poems moves through the physical and metaphysical vastness of desert canyons toward the memory of the small New England farm where the author spent his childhood, follows the author's wanderings during the sixties, reflects on alienation and human cruelty, global warming and war, then offers a kind of synthesis in which the end connects with the beginning. Of the collection as a whole, poet John Freeman writes: "Each poem and each section is a discrete entity but all fit together into a single meditation; we commune with the depth of a pebble, the extensiveness of the globe and the whole inheritance of our forebears back to the earliest humans and earlier still." On the style, novelist Jeffrey Lent comments: "Henry Lyman writes a clear uncluttered line, free of the self- conscious poetics so common today, lines that shape their meaning as the body of the poem tightens and the wonder of its story reveals itself." And poet Baron Wormser notes: "The poems are so natural, so acute, so fluent, so at home with themselves, so deeply inhabited."

The Land Has Its Say

LYMAN, HENRY

Poetry. "This is a masterful, stunning collection—sharp, lyrical, wise, tender—a testament to the transformative project of poetry."—Carol Potter "In Missy-Marie Montgomery's poetry, her 'I' becomes a setting where human experience unfolds, the result an invitation to accompany the narrator as she discovers and explores eros within grief, the half-life of passion. We enter what is missing, what remains, and what rises out of loss and longing." —Jack Ridl "Missy-Marie Montgomery's HALF- LIFE OF PASSION combines the power of physical love with the force of a questioning mind that keeps the communion of the body 'feeding itself, keeping the hunger going.' Grounded in the flesh, these poems are an uncompromising encounter with reality. Yet each is underpinned with tenderness and seeks a grace that at times approaches the sacramental. Never sentimental or dogmatic, poems in HALF-LIFE OF PASSION are songs of compassion for human longing, human dreams that go unfulfilled. Montgomery explores the risk inherent in daring to love and shows in seeking succor, the heart can harm itself, but finally her poems teach the heart how to find its center."—Vivian Shipley

Half-Life of Passion

Montgomery, Missy-Marie

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Open Field: Poems from Group 18

Conjured from Dust

The Land Has Its Say

Half-Life of Passion