An exciting new collection of in-depth interviews with seven important American poets. Interviewees include Ashbery, Hall, Hecht, Justice, Simic, Snodgrass, and Wilbur. An informative, entertaining, candid and occasionally surprising panopticon of a book.

Seven American Poets in Conversation: John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Anthony Hecht, Donald Justice, Charles Simic, W. D. Snodgrass, Richard Wilbur

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Germs: A Memoir Of Childhood

'This is a book like no other. It is the work of a philosopher who was also an imaginative writer, and whose philosophy was sustained by a devotion to aesthetics and psychoanalysis. Richard Wollheim died in 2003, not long after the completion of the book, which he felt to be his 'best piece of work'. An earlier book, A Family Romance, the portrait of a terrified manhood, shares some of its concerns. Germs, which traces a passage from childhood to youth, is a recovery of the past that is rich in sensation and in exposure to the world. It opens with the anxious somnambulism of a child's exploring steps, pierced by a thorn, the child is placed against the starched apron of a woman's breast. Soon he is the boy who brushes against the 'horse-like' bodies of back-stage ballerinas: further brushes of the kind were to be long deferred. His father is a fastidious impresario, a friend of Diaghilev's and the incarnation of an Old Europe. His mother is a figure commandingly comic in her absurdities: a vexation and a fascination. Wollheim's 'Confessions' tells the story of a wrestle for meaning with an environment wonderfully evoked, of an ordeal in the dark wood of experience which is both moving and funny, and which has the origins of an adult sexuality and of adult encounters with works of art. Hypersensitivity, and idiosyncrasy, are made a pleasure, and a version of the human condition. Once read Germs will not be forgotten.' - Karl Miller

Wollheim, Richard

It took Waywiser Press' screening panel two months of careful reading, deliberation and discussion to narrow the field, first to twenty semi-finalists, and then to ten finalists. The latter (stripped of all identifying references) were then sent to the 2007 judge, Richard Wilbur. Joe Harrison rang Ms Kelleher with Mr Wilbur's decision in March. Rose Kelleher (b. 1964) grew up in Massachusetts and earned her B.A. in English at UMass Boston. She has worked as a technical writer and programmer, and authored four computer books and numerous technical articles. Since rediscovering poetry in recent years, Rose has published poems and essays in a variety of magazines, including Anon, Atlanta Review, The Dark Horse, First Things, iota, Measure, The Shit Creek Review, Snakeskin and Verse Daily, and been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize.

Bundle o' Tinder

Kelleher, Rose

A collection of poetry compiled by Christopher Ricks, Oxford Professor of Poetry between 2004 and 2009, who during his tenure arranged for 29 poets - a roughly equal mixture of British and American, established and new - to read from their work. This book brings together a generous selection of work by all of those poets and also contains a coda, which features poems by five Oxford poets of the 1950s.

Joining Music With Reason: 34 Poets, British and American: Oxford 2004-2009

Christopher Ricks

A Few of Her Secrets is George Bradley's first collection of poems in ten years, and Bradley's many admirers will be sure to think that it was well worth the wait. The collection's high-spirited and adroit poems aim to entertain in the best sense of the word, and they range widely in subject and tone. The book includes amused and occasionally caustic observations regarding America's ""culture wars""; enthusiastic and witty renderings of Italian food recipes; and heartfelt yet unsentimental meditations occasioned by the deaths of relatives. As poet and critic Eric Ormsby puts it (see below), ""Each of this poet's previous collections has been an event. A Few of Her Secrets may be his finest achievement yet."" ""`A Few of Her Secrets' is well worth considering for any literary poetry lover.""-Midwest Book Review

A Few of Her Secrets

Bradley, George

The Book of Emblems takes its title from the devotional genre, popular throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, whose allegorical illustrations were meant to focus the mind on the divine. Using a variety of narrative voices, a taut lyricism, and an array of imageries culled from the author's travels in the United States and abroad, The Book of Emblems celebrates the mind's aspiration to a deeper understanding of its own mysteries: the literary and visual arts, sexuality, familial love, and the dark, connective wonder of death. Matthew Ladd was born in Los Angeles and raised in the Texas Panhandle. His poems have appeared in such journals as the Paris Review, Yale Review, Virginia Quarterly, and Antioch Review. He currently lives in New York. ""I have found T.S. Eliot's love-grandchild.Ladd's poetry is well crafted and precise""--New Poetry ""The Book of Emblems is a grade-A poetry collection""--The Midwest Book Review ""`The Book of Emblems' . is a collection with substance, one that is well-worth the read.""-NewPages Book Reviews

The Book of Emblems: Poems

Ladd, Matthew

In This Time Tomorrow, Matthew Thorburn searches for his own particular answers to some fundamental questions: Why do we travel? Why seek out new places and cultures, only to have to leave them? Whether writing about Japan, China, or Iceland, Thorburn brings his sharp eye and musical ear to the poet's work: honoring with words the mysteries and wonders - life's essential strangeness - to be found in whatever landscape we choose to wander.

This Time Tomorrow

Thorburn, Matthew

In the aftermath of an unforeseen and tragic turn of events, young Mel Seuchar strides along Longniddry Beach outside Edinburgh, trying to make sense of it all. What really happened? How did it come to this? He pictures himself and his friend Yehune; he reflects on their flight from New Zealand, the long and eventful journey which took them across Asia all the way to Europe; and he thinks about Mairi, the young woman they met on their travels and then followed to Edinburgh.Still the story refuses to come into focus. Until in a moment of wild insight, the threads connect, the story builds itself again, and the stage is set for an absorbing, bewildering, and deeply touching narrative - the narrative of The Blinding Walk.

The Blinding Walk

Ross, K. M.

Literary

In the aftermath of an unforeseen and tragic turn of events, young Mel Seuchar strides along Longniddry Beach outside Edinburgh, trying to make sense of it all. What really happened? How did it come to this? He pictures himself and his friend Yehune; he reflects on their flight from New Zealand, the long and eventful journey which took them across Asia all the way to Europe; and he thinks about Mairi, the young woman they met on their travels and then followed to Edinburgh. Still the story refuses to come into focus. Until in a moment of wild insight, the threads connect, the story builds itself again, and the stage is set for an absorbing, bewildering, and deeply touching narrative - the narrative of The Blinding Walk.

Winner of the 17th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, awarded by judge Alice Fulton. "D'Agostino's poetry is inexhaustible in the most seductive way, and I say that with confidence after rereadings that left me boggled, dazzled, smitten, amazed, wowed, charmed ... Though I can't adequately express the book's dissonant beauty, I can say it was thrilling to discover poems packed with infinite resonance that are infinitely fun to read ... Like the greatest lyric poetry, his poems ... keep ... exceeding their bounds and creating revelation. What a surprise. What a find. What a cool poet. What a feast."-- from Alice Fulton's foreword "This book is a heroic feat of observational meteorology, a rallying cry, and the now definitive handbook on Midwestern punk zazen. These poems move like David Byrne dances: they're jittery, funny, and deeply soulful all at the same time. They perfectly demonstrate the wild beauty and strangeness of our predicament. 'Just wait a minute and the bang / keeps getting bigger.' This book, too, resounds."--Dobby Gibson, author of Little Glass Planet "I'm not suggesting that D'Agostino is a seer, though he may be; I'm just saying that his poems run roughshod over the rules of our language--and in so doing they slam us headlong into genuine discovery: Instead of the epiphany of recognition, D'Agostino's book offers experiences that couldn't exist outside of their language, which makes our encounter with them not a recognition but a revelation"--Dan Rosenberg, author of Bassinet "Sui Generis: original, strange, exceptional, solitary."--Mary Ruefle, author of Dunce Poetry.

The Goldfinch Caution Tapes

D'Agostino, James

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Seven American Poets in Conversation: John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Anthony Hecht, Donald Justice, Charles Simic, W. D. Snodgrass, Richard Wilbur

Germs: A Memoir Of Childhood

Bundle o' Tinder

Joining Music With Reason: 34 Poets, British and American: Oxford 2004-2009

A Few of Her Secrets

The Book of Emblems: Poems

This Time Tomorrow

The Blinding Walk

The Blinding Walk

The Goldfinch Caution Tapes