United States Army shoulder sleeve insignia from the years 1946 to 1976 are displayed . Useful for identification for the collector.

Shoulder sleeve insignia of the U.S. Army, 1946-1976

Smith, Richard Wells

University of Evansville Press

Winter Light by Alfred Nicol, recipient of the 2004 Richard Wilbur Award, is a remarkable new collection of poems by a sure and steady hand in an astonishing variety of forms and voices. As Rhina Espaillat remarks, Winter Light contains a "flawless ballade, a sestina, sonnets, and nonce forms that make this book a delight to read. The syntax everywhere is unobtrusively elegant; the vocabulary fresh without self-consciousness; the imagery gorgeous, precise, and persuasive; and the rhymes surprising, unforced, and 'right.'" Ranging from the quiet lyric to the pitch-perfect dramatic monologue, Nicol transforms ordinary experiences into intriguing meditations on time, memory, loss, and the magic one finds in daily life. Contributing to those meditations are the various characters that Nicol conjures: Cocteau's Beast, a man who believes he wills the sun across the sky each day, a magician's daughter, a tattooed couple, and even an ibis. Yet, as Espaillat points out, "under that surface stir unquiet questions, tensions, challenges to faith, startling confessional hints, troubled memories, the sense of love gone sour and hope betrayed: a view of life not entirely sunny or simple." These are hard-earned poems, ones that question life and, ultimately, transform our vision.

Winter Light

Literature & Fiction

Nicol, Alfred

Poetry

The Shifting Line: Poems

Chelsea Rathburn

Although it often seems that liberals and the radical Left have assumed complete hegemony over the arts, especially the literary arts, there exists a remnant of very talented American poets who create beautiful, serious, witty, moving, and diverse poetry from a conservative point of view. This unique anthology illustrates the wide range of these determined and sometimes defiant artists, who hope that their work will encourage more like-minded Americans to learn the poetic craft adn pursue the literary endeavor.

The Conservative Poets A Contemporary Anthology

WILLIAM

Editor Baer

From ancient times to the present, poets have used the power of rhyme to enhance their poetry, and all the great poets in the English tradition -- from Chaucer to Wilbur -- have written in rhyme. Unfortunately, in the twentieth century, rhyme was generally dismissed by most of the vers libre writers, but the tradition was kept vigorously alive by our best poets: Yeats, Frost, Auden, Millay, Larkin, Nemerov, Wilbur, and many others. At the present time, as a result of the formalist revival of the past two decades, rhyme is reasserting its rightful place at the center of the English literary tradition. Rhyming Poems: A Contemporary Anthology is a unique collection of 100 contemporary poems that showcase the marvelous variety, power, and pleasure of rhyme.

Rhyming Poems: A Contemporary Anthology

BAER

Dream with Flowers and Bowl of Fruit by Deborah Warren, recipient of the 2008 Richard Wilbur Award, is a collection of poems that are, as Rhina Espaillat notes, "out to capture the seen, the unseen peripherals, and the incalculable possibilities behind them." In each of these delicate yet unsentimental poems, Warren shows her mastery of a variety of forms and approaches, yet she always makes certain that her reader hears a discernibly human voice and the music of everyday speech at the center of each piece. "In poem after poem," Espaillat writes, "Warren's subjects are caught in a light that stops time -- or makes it race -- or breaks through the normal edges of the possible"; just as her poem "The Glassblower" does: "He should have stopped before the music, cooling, / hardened; he should have held the bright balloon / tremolo on the thin pipe where it hung / unfinished -- when there was nothing yet to shatter, / only possibility and prism...." In this and other remarkable poems like "The Rider," Warren explores the shifting boundaries between hope and an often painful reality, between action and intellect, and between that "edgeless wood dividing / thought and dream."

Dream with Flowers and Bowl of Fruit

Deborah Warren

From Homeric times to the present, the dramatic monologue has always occupied an esteemed place in the art of poetry, but not until now has there been an anthology devoted exclusively to the contemporary practice of this unique genre. With contributions by many of the most distinguished poets of recent decades--including a Nobel laureate and several Pulitzer Prize recipients--and an introduction discussing how these poets have continued the great tradition made prominent by Robert Browning, Dramatic Monologues: A Contemporary Anthology; marks a significant contribution to contemporary literature.

Dramatic Monologues: A Contemporary Anthology

Samuel Maio

The Empty Chair by Robert W. Crawford, recipient of the 2011 Richard Wilbur Award, is a remarkably powerful collection of exquisitely-crafted poetry. As David Middleton has pointed out, "The poems in this book range widely over many themes including the mysteries of family relationships and of nature; philosophical questions relating to the laws of chemistry and physics; the likenesses of things revealed by metaphor as compared to things in and of themselves; and moral questions extending from the sophistic language of assisted suicide websites to the fall of great civilizations." But most of these memorable poems are set within the realities of the New England landscape, and they affect the heart, mind, and soul with a poignancy and poetic maturity that reminds us of the genius of Robert Frost.

The Empty Chair

Robert W. Crawford

An original collection of poems by William F. Bell.

The Picnic in the Rain

William F. Bell

The Selected Poems of Wilmer Mills is a collection of the very best poetry written by an exceptional poetic talent who died much too young. Carefully chosen and edited by his wife Kathryn Mills, Selected Poems is a celebration of Wil s thoughtful, deeply-felt, and powerful poetry.

Selected Poems

Wilmer Mills

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