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Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry For Your...Brains by Ryan Mecum
 PSH Editor says: Sorry folks, I couldn't resist.
What you are looking at is a document from the early days of the zombie plague. Little is known about the author before his infection--only that he was a poet. This facsimile of his actual journal recounts the events of humanity's darkest hours through the intimate poetry of haiku. Inside you'll find increasingly disjointed and terrifying three-line poems (all in the classic 5-7-5 syllable structure), and follow the undead poet on a journey through deserted streets and barricaded doors. Experience every eye-popping, gut-wrenching, flesh-eating moment of the eventual downfall of the human race from the point of view of a zombie, and gain insight to help you survive--if you can.
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Paperback, 160 Pages, Published by How (July, 2008)
The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin
 AIn his best book in a decade—and one of the best outright—Merwin points his oracular, unpunctuated poems toward his own past, admitting, I have only what I remember, and offering what may be his most personal, generous and empathic collection. Somehow, he manages to dissolve the boundaries between one time and another, seeming to look forward to the past or remember what has yet to happen, as in a recollection of traveling to Europe by boat and seeing a warship I recognized/ from a model of it I had made/ when I was a child/ and beyond it/ there was a road down the cliff/ that I would descend some years later/ and recognize it/ there we were all together/ one time. The poems show the marks of having weathered ...the complete course/ of life, but also feel fresh and awake with a simplicity that can only be called wisdom: the morning is too/ beautiful to be anything else. Gorgeous poems about enduring love melt time as well, looking toward a moment when we will be no older than we ever were. These are among Merwin's best poems, because, as he says, it is the late poems/ that are made of words/ that have come the whole way/ they have been there. (Sept.)
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Paperback, 130 Pages, Published by Copper Canyon Press (October, 2009)
Gerald Locklin: New and Selected Poems by Gerald Locklin
 A career-spanning retrospective from the Bard of Long Beach, full of wit, wisdom, and warmth--no one writes Southern California like Gerald Locklin.
Gerald Locklin is the author of over 100 books of poetry, fiction, and criticism. His works include "Go West, Young Toad," "The Life-Force Poems," and "Candy Bars."
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Paperback, 172 Pages, Published by World Parade Books (January, 2010)
Living Dolls: A Photo-Poetic Paper Doll Project by 14 L.A. Poets illustrated by Rannie Rodil
 With fourteen beautiful live models, Living Dolls: A Photo-Poetic Paper Doll Project is a celebration of the diversity of women, the physical natural beauty that they were born with as well as their individual self-expressions through fashion. Using photography and graphic design, photographer Rannie Rodil has created a paper doll book that is playful as well as provocative. Included in this book are 14 captivating poems with themes such as love, lust, beauty, self-expression, female power, the idea of a modern living doll, etc. Written by some of LA's most notorious underground poets! Published by Ink Pen Mutations Press.
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Paperback, 42 Pages, Published by Ink Pen Mutations Press (July, 2008)
Rise of the Trust Fall
by Mindy Nettifee
 "Mindy Nettifee's Rise of The Trust Fall is an intimate cartography of the poet that is at once lush with emotion and sharp with a bright, raw edge. This beautiful collection of poems will make you rise, rise up." - PANK Magazine "
Mindy Nettifee poems inspire and fulfill. Rise of the Trust Fall has become a necessary book for me." -Beau Sia, Def Poetry Jam On Broadway
"Mindy Nettifee is destined to be the next Dorothy Parker." -Poetic Diversity
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Paperback, 120 Pages, Published by Write Bloody Publishing (May, 2010)
Following Richard Brautigan by Corey Mesler
 Following Richard Brautigan concerns a young writer of bad poetry living in Oklahoma City in the late 80s, who is visited by the ghost of the hippie writer Richard Brautigan. Jack, when the visitation occurs, is recovering from an aborted love affair, which coincidentally happened in San Francisco. That city becomes the focal point of the story, the place where magic can happen, a place seemingly out of time and between-worlds. The novel is a whimsical recounting of Jack s feckless life, his friends and lovers, his struggles with writing, and, then out of the blue, his singular haunting. Stylistically, it attempts to borrow some of Brautigan s goofball surrealism while establishing its own integrity. What begins as an off-center love story becomes for a while a road novel, as Jack and his ghost take to the highway and travel back to the scene, not only of Jack s affair but of the last days of Richard s life. Along the way they encounter lovely, loving women and an assemblage of Richard s friends, dead, alive, both. In San Francisco a transformative denouement awaits both of the novel s central figures. A portion of this novel won the Plan B Press Beat Writing Contest and was published by them as a chapbook.
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Paperback, 160 Pages, Published by Livingston Press, (March, 2010)
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The Ravenous Audience
by Kate Durbin
 "Christianity or cuisine, cinema or sex manuals, Eros or Thanatos, Artaud or Marilyn Monroe? Marry or suture or eat all of them and you are close to Ravenous. A brutal tour de force."
--Juan Felipe Herrera, author of Half of the World in Light
"Durbin's debut volume sizzles . . . Throughout this deeply feminist, groundbreaking collection, she employs both the elemental forces of her intellect and a vigorous intensity of startling imagery to implode or explode conventional notions of sexuality and womanhood."
--Maurya Simon, author of Cartographies
"Durbin writes first-rate traditional lyric poems, while at other times she writes poems that push the limits of the avant-garde and, most amazingly, at other times, she makes a loving marriage of the two! This is an exceptional debut by a young poet burning with talent."
--Thomas Lux, author of God Particles
Kate Durbin's debut volume is not for the weak of gut. Cum, blood, vomit, and other bodily juices slop off the page in a grotesque reanimation of history and art's female villains and s/heroes. Unlike other feminist revisionist texts, The Ravenous Audience refuses to rescue the "misunderstood" bitches of our cultural past, instead viscerally imposing the scope of their bodily and existential horrors--including each woman's culpability. Durbin even throws the reader, and the poet, into the cauldron. Complicating all easy notions of responsibility, she points the finger in every direction possible--before biting it clean off!
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Paperback, 144 Pages, Published by Akashic Books, (October, 2009)
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Empty Shoes: Poems on the Hungry and the Homeless edited by Patrick T. Randolph
 151 poems about hunger and homelessness, from 80 poets, many with direct experience, such as: Dori Appel, a Red Cross disaster volunteer; Mary L. Downs, a volunteer at LEAVEN; Barbara Flaherty, former treatment center supervisor; Nancy Gauquier, formerly homeless in NY; Randall Horton, a Ph.D. candidate who advocates for the homeless and prison reform, having been homeless and in prison; Michele Leavitt, a teenage runaway in the 1970s, who later worked as a public defender; John J. Quirk, a member of Chicago's Homeless Action Committee; Nancy Scott, a social worker who helps find housing; and Julian I. Taber, who treated homeless veterans in the V.A. Also includes: Ellen Kort, Wisconsin's first Poet Laureate; Linda Aschbrenner, publisher of the first 100 issues of Free Verse; Pushcart nominees Sharmagne Leland-St. John and Ellaraine Lockie; and Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets presidents Jeri McCormick and Lester Smith. All profits go to programs helping the hungry and homeless.
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Paperback, 246 Pages, Published by CreateSpace, (September, 2009)
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The Black Automaton by Douglas Kearney
"First, you have to see Douglas Kearney's visual poems, which cheekily diagram cultural memes as if they were parts of speech (as they are). The Black Automaton has its share of sharp, tender lyrics, too... these exploit the political possibilities of puns and the way meanings hinge on inexact resemblance. Kearney's poems tweak and skewer pop culture and literary sources from Paul Laurence Dunbar to T. S. Eliot to traditional ballads and blues... Kearney's work turns poetic and cultural conventions disquietingly inside out."
..............- CATHERINE WAGNER
From ambivalent animals thriving after Katrina to party chants echoing in a burning city, The Black Automaton troubles rubble, cobbling a kind of life. In this collection, bodies at risk seek renewal through violence and fertility, history and myth, flesh and radios.
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Paperback, 72 Pages, Published by Fence, (December, 2009)
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Best New Poets 2009: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers edited by Kim Addonizio and Jeb Livingstone
Entering its fourth year, Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of its kind, this annual anthology is made up exclusively of work by writers who have not yet published a full-length book. The poems included in this eclectic sampling represent the best from the many that have been nominated by the country's top literary magazines and writing programs, as well as some two thousand additional poems submitted through an open online competition. The work of the fifty writers represented here provides the best perspective available on the continuing vitality of poetry as it's being practiced today.
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Paperback, 144 Pages, Published by University of Virginia Press, (November, 2009)
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Rodeo for the Sheepish (Audio CD) by Ellyn Maybe
Rodeo for the Sheepish - Ellyn Maybe is an irresistible force. To read or listen to her poetry is to be gently and completely crushed while simultaneously inspired and charmed. The honesty with which she so exquisitely reveals her vulnerabilities, desires and pain is beautiful and rare.
Rodeo for the Sheepish has so many great moments. The first time I listened to it, I was reminded of when I first met her many years ago and how much I liked her and her poetry. One of the stand out tracks on the album, There Were Two Girls Who Looked A Lot The Same, is a perfect example of why one becomes a fan of Ellyn s immediately. I can t understand how anyone could not find an aspect of themselves in that piece. This is what Ellyn does so well and so often in her work and on this album.
Reading Ellyn's poems from the page is one thing but hearing her read them just the way she meant them to be heard is something else altogether. Ellyn has a great sense of humor and reads wonderfully. The musical accompaniment on the album is not mere background filler but a true collaborative effort between Ellyn and the musicians that really works.
Ellyn is a very gifted writer and a true gem.
...........................- Henry Rollins
Audio CD, 10 Tracks, Published by Hen House Studios, (October, 2009)
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The Best American Poetry 2009 edited by David Wagoner and David Lehman
David Wagoner writes about regular lives with plain grace and transcendent humanity, and the seventy-five poems he has chosen for the 2009 edition of The Best American Poetry grapple with life, celebrate freedom, and teem with imaginative energy. With engaging notes from the poets, Wagoner's superb introductory essay, series editor David Lehman's astute foreword about the current state of poetry and criticism, and cover art from the beloved poet John Ashbery, The Best American Poetry 2009 is a memorable and delightful addition to a series dedicated to showcasing the work of poets at their best.
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published by Scribner, (September, 2009)
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The Last Time As We Are by Taylor Mali
A new collection of poems from the author of "What Teachers Make," the Most Forwarded poem in the world! Taylor Mali captures in his irresistible persona and highly engaging poetry the experience of the independent school teacher that he once was: part inspiration, part nag, part coach and friend, part disciplinarian. Kids love him and his poetry...and so do adults, a combination of approbation that is unusual in today's world.
Paperback, 120 Pages, Published by write bloody publishing, (September, 2009)
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Bang Ditto by Amber Tamblyn
We'd all love to stop eating
the poisonous parts of our wildness.
Ever wondered what it's like to be a celebrated Hollywood actor from the age of eleven? With insightful, no BS, cards-on-the-table poetry that is quite serious yet has fun with metaphor, imagery, and language itself, author Amber Tamblyn gives readers a backstage pass to the show inside her mind. Whether she's describing real life info-gathering for a new prime time TV drama ("Role Research") or addressing the crossroads of public perception and private life ("Fell Off"), Amber Tamblyn reveals questions, answers, and more in Bang Ditto, wielding metaphors mercilessly in a wry and talented voice.
“Punchy, spiky, and flush with a young writer's love of language, the collection often deglamourizes the acting business. A great find...”—Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal
Amber Tamblyn is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award–nominated actor and poet. She came to fame on the soap opera General Hospital followed by starring roles on the television series Joan of Arcadia and The Unusuals. She has branched out into film roles, appearing in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and many other films. Winner of a Borders Choice Award for Breakout Writing, the author currently resides in New York.
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published by Manic D Press, Inc., (September, 2009)
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American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry edited by David St. John and Cole Swensen
This spirited anthology of contemporary American poetry focuses on the new poem--the hybrid--a synthesis of traditional and experimental styles. As Cole Swensen argues in the introduction to this comprehensive new anthology, the long-acknowledged "fundamental division" between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in favor of hybrid approaches that blend trends from accessible lyricism to linguistic exploration. The focus in American Hybrid is on the blend; the more than seventy poets featured here--including Jorie Graham, Albert Goldbarth, and Lyn Hejinian--have found new and often unique ways to reconfigure the innumerable and sometimes conflicting voices of the past thirty years. The editors have crafted short introductory essays on each of the poets in the anthology, providing biographical backgrounds and positioning them within the current of contemporary poetry. This new anthology is essential reading for those who care about the present moment--and the future--of American verse
Paperback, 560 pages Published by W.W. Norton & Co., (March, 2009)
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Sleepyhead Assassins by Mindy Nettifee
"Sleepyhead Assassins" is an extremely satisfying read, the culmination of an escalating potential that is only now beginning to come into its own. --OC Weekly
Her words show a severe understanding of life's alternating current of harshness and sweetness. The voice that writes Nettifee's poetry is partially formed from her life experience and partially retrieved from the life experience of many brilliant but broken women before her. --Poetix
Mindy Nettifee's new book "Sleepyhead Assassins" has the usual earmarks of a well-crafted collection; a provocative title; the customary themes of love, loss, and self-discovery; and an abundance of humor. ... I do believe that Ms. Nettifee is destined to be the next Dorothy Parker. --Poetic Diversity
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If you doubt that Mindy Nettifee is a tough cookie, just browse some of her titles here: "The College Girls Are Trying The 1960s On For Size And Express Indignation Because I Shave," "Island Of Lost High Horses" and the ever-popular "An American Political Awakening, Set To Six Popular Stages Of A Porn Scene." To show off her sensitive side, she also includes a poem about Dr. Seuss. Nettifee's first collection, "Sleepyhead Assassins" is as searing and provocative as its title.
Paperback, 60 pages Published by Moon Tide Press, (September, 2006)
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Listening to Richard Brautigan (Audio CD) by Richard Brautigan
This early-'70s cult classic doesn't just feature hippie/beatnik writer Richard Brautigan reading from his novels "Trout Fishing in America," "A Confederate General from Big Sur" and "In Watermelon Sugar," as well as his short story collection "A Revenge of the Lawn" and various poems; it also has such tracks as "Here Are Some More Sounds of My Life," which features the sounds of the author brushing his teeth, taking off his clothes and shaving. In other words, you really are "listening to Richard Brautigan," and if those mundane sounds don't pique your interest, then there are the disarming, poetic moments, like when you hear phones ringing while Brautigan explains why he won't answer the phone, or when he shares the actual sound of the stream he wrote about in "Trout Fishing in America." Special guests include Michael McClure, Imogen Cunningham and Bruce Conner, but for 52 minutes this is pretty much pure Brautigan, as whimsical and searching as ever.
Audio CD, 12 Tracks, Released by Collector's Choice, (July, 2005)
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A Poet's Haggadah: Passover Through the Eyes of Poets edited by Rick Lupert
36 Poets reinterpret the traditional themes and text of the Passover Haggadah through their own unique lenses. Guaranteed to add something different to your own seders and a great read! Edited by Los Angeles Poet Rick Lupert (Creator of the Poetry Super Highway) Includes work from Helen Bar-Lev, Lynne Bronstein, Salvatore Buttaci, Howard Camner, Larry Colker, devin davis, Barbara Elovic, Robert Klein Engler, David Gershator, Leslie Halpern, Claudia Handler, Daniel Y. Harris, Elizabeth Iannaci, Marc Jampole, Rachel Kann, Beth Kanter, Peggy Landsman, Michael Levy, Jake Marmer, Ellyn Maybe, Heather McNaugher, Daniel Olivas, Judith Pacht, Jaimes Palacio, Jonathan Penton, Joan Pond, Lanie Shanzyra P. Rebancos, Richard Schiffman, G. David Schwartz, Adam Shechter, Diana Sher, Scott Alixander Sonders, Julia Stein, S. Thomas Summers, Pam Ward and Misha Weidman.
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Paperback, 106 Pages, published by Ain't Got No Press, (April, 2008)
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The Good Things About America edited by Derrick Brown and Kevin Staniec
"We are not who we were..." The Good Things About America is a book that, above all else, celebrates the enduring awesomeness of the United States of America. This is not meant to sound glib, ironic, or superior. Rather, what we imply is that despite every blind, deaf, and dumb thing America has done in its long and strange history - every misstep, unpunished crime, and lingering bias - there is still something honest, beautiful and hopeful about who we are as a country and as a people. This book serves as a historical document that uses poetry and prose to explore some of the visions for change, the modern glory, albeit broken or majestic, of this unbeatable rising landscape.
Paperback, 192 pages, published by Write Bloody Publishing, (January, 2009)
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Graffiti Verite' 6 (GV6) The Odyssey: - Poets, Passion & Poetry - DVD
An innovative, energetic approach to poetry. Suitable for students, established poets or those who are just curious, this is an inspiring documentary. It's fun enough to be entertaining and informative enough to educate. These talented poets offer excerpts of their work, and insights into their personal life, which cover a variety of topics. These include their reasons for writing, the force that drives them, their love of language and freedom of expression. As they share their artistic struggles, frustrations, the discipline required and even the stigma that comes with being a poet, this reviewer sensed their collective creativity and honesty just leap from the screen! I found this DVD akin to a feel good movie, even though it was a documentary it had a celebratory, yet down to earth feel. These multi-ethnic characters all have diverse backgrounds but share one common goal to express themselves with a passion and excitement. And it's catching. To be honest, I never thought a documentary on poetry could be so visually pleasing and stimulating. Special features include 'What is Contextual Poetry?' by Dr. Thea Iberall, Poet, 'What is a chapbook?' by Brendan Constantine, Poet and also the contact information for all 31 published and respected poets. Please take a moment to click on the link below to read about each author.
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DVD, 366 pages, published by Bryan World Productions, LLC., (December, 2006) |
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Scandalabra by Derrick Brown
Derrick Brown's newest collection of award winning prose and poetry, Scandalabra, has been receiving critical acclaim:
"I wish I had written, "Patience". I mean written it down on paper. I've thought it to myself several times in different countries, but now Derrick has re-earned my trust after initially losing it by titling his book with a pun." -Comedian David Cross
Derrick C. Brown basically rules. I want to read this book over and over again. - Elizabeth Kiefer, UR Chicago
Drenched in a spotlight and alone onstage, Derrick wooed huge venues of drunken hecklers, college kids, and hipsters alike into listening to poetry at a rock show. Quite the accomplishment. Brown is leading a revolution to inject poetry, both written and spoken, with the raucous and booze-infused spirit of rocknroll. - Sara Graham, Venuszine
"He is one of America's greatest unknown literary talents. Derrick has blown honesty and humor into the darkness and has somehow made poetry cool again." -Nylon Magazine
Paperback, 224 pages, published by Write Bloody Publishing (January 2009) |
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2009 Poetry Speaks boxed calendar
A year of poets and poetry based on the bestselling book with audio, bringing you short poetry from the greatest poets past and present, along with their thoughts and reflections on their craft and fascinating biographical information. Includes much-loved favorites and little-known works by well-known as well as new poets, and introduces the reader to many new talents working today.
Paperback, 320 pages, published by Sourcebooks, Inc., (June, 2008) |
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti Live At the Poetry Center (MP3 Download) by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Origninal poetry from the father of the beat poetry movement. 22 Tracks from Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 2003 reading at the Poetry Center in San Francisco California. Ferlinghetti was named San Francisco's Poet Laureate in August 1998, and he used his post as a bully-pulpit from which he articulated the "voice of the people." Download individual tracks or the entire album
MP3 Album (or 22 Individual Tracks), 224 Pages, published by The Poetry Center (March 2004)
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The Best American Poetry 2008 edited by David Lehman and Charles Wright
The Best American Poetry series is a beloved mainstay of American poetry. This year's edition was edited by one of the most admired and acclaimed poets of his generation, Charles Wright. Known for his meditative and beautiful observations of landscape, change, and time,Wright brings his particular sensibility to this year's anthology, which contains an ecumenical slant that is unprecedented for the series. He has gathered an astonishing selection of work that includes new poems by Carolyn Forché, Jorie Graham, Louise Glück, Frank Bidart, Frederick Seidel, Patti Smith, and Kevin Young and showcases a dazzling array of rising stars like Joshua Beckman, Erica Dawson, and Alex Lemon. With captivating and revelatory notes from the poets on their works and sage and erudite introductory essays by Wright and series editor David Lehman, The Best American Poetry 2008 will be read, discussed, debated, and prized for years to come.
Hardcover, 224 Pages, published by Scribner (September 2008)
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Ballistics: Poems by Billy Collins
A Billy Collins poem is instantly recognizable. “Using simple, understandable language,” notes USA Today, the two-term U.S. Poet Laureate “captures ordinary life–its pleasure, its discontents, its moments of sadness and of joy.” His everyman approach to writing resonates with readers everywhere and generates fans who would otherwise never give a poem a second glance.
Now, in this stunning new collection, Collins touches on a greater array of subjects–love, death, solitude, youth, and aging–delving deeper than ever before. Ballistics comes at the reader full force with moving and playful takes on life. Drawing inspiration from the world around him and from such poetic forebears as Robert Frost, Paul Valéry, and eleventh-century poet Liu Yung, Collins drolly captures the essence of an ordinary afternoon:
All I do these drawn-out days
is sit in my kitchen at Pheasant Ridge
where there are no pheasants to be seen
and, last time I looked, no ridge.
Hardcover, 128 Pages, published by Random House, (September 2008)
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Free Stallion: Poems by Amber Tamblyn
"A fine fruitful gestation of throbbingly nascent sexuality awakened in young new language."
-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Here's a poet with the courage and liveliness to speak for her generation -- and for mine. She is not afraid of politics or anti-politics of either the government or of her body, including the twists of emotional beauty and deep rage. To paraphrase Emerson, these poems are as old as the rock and as new as the foam."
-- Michael McClure
Hardcover, 96 pages, published by Simon & Schuster, (August, 2005)
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The Endarkenment by Jeffrey McDaniel
"Known for his commanding stage presence as a reader, McDaniel trades hard in his fourth book on his rough-and-tumble persona--a recovering addict from the working class streets--while also showing softer sides. McDaniel's sometimes awkward, if earnest searching might just be what allows him to find moments of great beauty, humor and stillness." --Publishers Weekly
“Even if you count yourself among the unredeemed who claim they don't like poetry, buy this book anyway. It will convert you and install a skylight in your brain. Alive and kicking in these pages is the voice of a brilliantly comic consciousness. McDaniel is a candid, frisky survivor: hyperalert, conversant with drugs and sobriety, obscene phone call addicts, 'boner etiquette,’ fatherhood, the special hell of family, being an ‘emotional warrior’ and so much more. He's an urban wordsmith of the first order. You hold in your hands his anguished autobiography, a smorgasbord of famished compassion, tenderness, luminous surprises, and armor-piercing humor.” —Amy Gerstler
"McDaniel zings metaphors across the page like he's the Robin Williams of poetry. This collection in frequently moving and inventive with enough lightheartedness and whimsy to balance the heaviness of the darker moments." --hipbooksterclub.com
Paperback, 80 pages, published by University of Pittsburgh Press, (April, 2008)
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Def Poetry - Season 6 DVD
directed by Stan Lathan
Experience the passion and fire of tomorrows hottest poets! This acclaimed series showcases practitioners of one of the countrys fastest-rising performing-art forms def poetry in an intimate uncensored format. Taped as always before a live audience at The Supper Club in NYC each installment of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry is hosted by popular rap artist/actor Mos Def and spotlights original material performed by contemporary poets and well-known music/comedy artists.
DVD, 180 Minutes, released by HBO Home Video, (April, 2008)
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The Last American Valentine edited by Derrick Brown
This collection features 24 poets, musicians and barflys, all paired up with brilliant American illustrators for a collection of gorgeous and striking love poetry. Brendan Constantine, Bucky Sinister, Buddy Wakefield, Cristin Aptowicz, Derrick Brown, Jack Hirschman, Jeffrey Mcdaniel, John Gardiner, Lynne Procope, Michael C. Ford, Micael Cirelli, Michael Mcclure, Michael Roberts, Mindy Nettifee, Nathan Willet of Cold War Kids, Richard Swift, Rick Lupert, Roger Bonair Agard, Shappy Seasholtz, Stephen Latty, Victor Infante, Beau Sia, Amber Tamblyn, Agneta Falk, Anis Mojgani.
"Poems of romantic power and humor...A gorgeously successful union."
..........................New York Times Book Review
Paperback, 212 pages, published by Write Bloody Press, (January, 2008)
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Across My Silence by Jack Cooper
Stephen D. Chandler, author of "The Story of You," writes about "Across My Silence, "One need not be a passionate conservationist or lover of animals to be charmed by Cooper's admiration of them. The awe he feels in "The Turtles of La Escobilla" for the turtles' unstoppable life force in the face of human cruelty runs deeper than an environmentalist's tantrum. And that, in the end, is the deep place where only poetry can go. Beyond the topical and beyond the political into the eternal. Cooper's poems are all tickets to that deep place."
Paperback, 144 pages, published by World Audience, Inc., (January, 2007)
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Alarm by Mike Daily (Book and Double CD Set)
This double CD and accompanying 212 page novel is a package, a gripping excursion of spoken word and experimental sounds that delves deeply into the broken mess of a society that is all-consuming but seems to need nothing. Told from two different but simultaneously engaged perspectives, this lyrically dense and aurally compelling collection of songs is a soundtrack abstract, a cohesive yet jagged splicing of stark voices, flits, buzzes, instruments and found sounds that evoke time and place, while instinctively reflecting the ever-changing perspective of the narrator(s). The first CD is studio recordings, offering a more controlled environment that allows the density of the words to run free on the palate, jutting in and out while matching inflexion with the various percussive background elements. The second disc is a field recording, a live semi-improvised set that adds a raw element to the songs and provides ever ascending levels of grit and intensity. Filled with humor, wit, and a frightening comfort, this multifaceted collection is a spot-on dedication to modern life and its charmingly fastidious tendencies.
Paperback/Double CD Set, 212 pages, published by Stovepiper Books Media, (June, 2007)
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The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings by Richard Brautigan
How fitting it is that the earliest writings of one of the most quirky and enduringly popular voices of the 1960s, Richard Brautigan of Trout Fishing in America fame, emerge in the year that marks the thirtieth anniversaries of Woodstock and the first moon landing. When Brautigan left Eugene, Oregon, for the artistic mecca of San Francisco at age 21 in 1955, he bequeathed to Edna Webster, the mother of both his best buddy and his first girlfriend, a set of blithely agile poems and slyly funny short stories. Webster kept her gift until 1992, when she stunned a rare-book collector by describing her treasure and expressing her interest in selling it, a boon for Brautigan fans. Every selection in this slender volume bespeaks his wry affection for life and his love of literature. Brautigan's debt to e. e. cummings and the Beats is palpable, but so are his unique sense of irony and humor, flair for surrealism, earthiness, and juggler's ease in handling words, traits brought to piquant fruition in his celebrated later works.
.........-Donna Seaman
Paperback, 160 pages, published by Mariner Books, (August 1999)
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2008 Poetry Speaks boxed calendar
A year of poets and poetry based on the bestselling book with audio, bringing you short poetry from the greatest poets past and present, along with their thoughts and reflections on their craft and fascinating biographical information. Includes much-loved favorites and little-known works by well-known as well as new poets, and introduces the reader to many new talents working today.
Paperback, 366 pages, published by Sourcebooks, Inc., (May, 2007) |
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The Best American Poetry 2007 edited by Heather McHugh and David Lehman
The 20th volume in America's most popular annual poetry anthology series is perhaps the most esoteric. McHugh, an unusual poet herself, who says she is Fond of the textures of a text, the matter of a letter, has tried to assemble what she feels is a cohesive anthology rather than simply a gathering of favorite poems from this past year's literary magazines. As ever, some familiar names—former editors and famous poets--appear: John Ashbery, Billy Collins (Who has time for sunlight falling on the city), Robert Creeley, Louise Glück Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, Galway Kinnell. But there are also a number of representatives, such as Rae Armantrout and Christian Bök (selves we woo/ we lose// losses we levee/ we owe), from off-center traditions. A few of the newbies tend toward the experimental, such as Ben Lerner and Danielle Pafunda: Do he & he have a big muscle in the arm from the aiming? All and all, this is a riskier than usual volume, though also full of familiar pleasures. Certainly it attests to poetry's continuing vitality. (Sept.)
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Paperback, 192 pages, published by Scribner, (September, 2007) |
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If Lovin' You Is Wrong then I Don't Want To Be Wrong by Derrick Brown
OC Weekly
"Sincere, twisted and violently romantic, one of the best poets in Southern California."
Next Magazine
"(Derrick) summons up an experience reminiscent of radio theatre at it's most engaging moments."
Book Description
A Compilation of Derrick Brown's best poetry. This book of poetry is complete with illustrations by Matthew Carver.
"In one moment (Derrick) can have his audience snorting beer through their nostrils ("I left my wallet in the afterlife",) and in the next have girls swooning ("I feel like a cloud she says/ and i know this is true/ for i know the terrible things that go on inside of clouds.")
Paperback, 125 Pages, published by Mood Organ Distributors (January, 2002)
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His Rib: Stories, Poems & Essays by Her edited by Mahogany L. Browne with a foreword by Patricia Smith
A collection of poems, stories and essays about the fallible woman, the sensitive girl-child and the fearless warrior, His Rib, offers an inside look at her story. The written works featured in this project includes women from both the literary field and the performance poetry circuit, creating a symbiotic kinship between the two art forms. After combing several continents, the women within these pages were found scribing folk tales in California, sonnets in New York, producing prose in London and breaking stereotypes with each stanza in Colorado, Texas and Canada. The result, a quilt weaved perfectly of compassion, self-respect, discipline, lust and hunger. Enjoy the crack and thunder of His Rib.
Paperback, published by Penmanship Books (June 2007) |
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10 for everything by Rachel Kann
Rachel Kann has crafted an addictive parallel universe, where funky little worlds shift and shudder, and characters are deftly etched and blessed with her gleefully skewed perspective. The sharp lyricism of these stories, which practically beg to be read aloud, unmask Ms. Kann for the poet she is, and that unpredictability of language is nothing less than a revelation. These are stories that twist with no warning, shock you with their insight, and make your head hurt--in a good way. In a very, very good way.
Paperback, 76 pages, published by Sybaratic Press (May 2007) |
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Def Poetry - Season 5 featuring Dave Chappelle, Mos Def, Russell Simmons and more.
Experience the passion and fire of the hottest musicians, comedians and contemporary poets in each installment of Russell Simmons' Presents Def Poetry Season 5. Taped in front of a live audience at The Super Club in New York City, Season 5 of the improvisational, uninhibited series features the hottest talent lineup like DAVE CHAPPELLE (The Chappelle Show), WYCLEF JEAN (Member of The Fugees, The Carnival), ALICIA KEYS (Grammy Award-winner), and KANYE WEST (Grammy Award-winner). Each episode is hosted by the highly regarded hip-hop artist and actor MOS DEF (hit album Black on Both Sides).
DVD, published by HBO Home Video (May 2007) |
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In Danger by Suzanne Lummis
"Suzanne Lummis's breathtaking new collection of poems, In Danger, unveils all of the levels of loneliness we assuage with the consolations of poetry. With candor, power and poignancy, Suzanne Lummis illuminates the glorious absurdities of our lives, especially the pride and paranoia that arise from living in an urban landscape. Nobody can ride a metaphor better than this poet, and nobody delivers her work to the page with as much sass and wry humor. If Los Angeles were to have its own poet laureate, my choice would be Suzanne Lummis."
.......................................David St. John
Paperback, 73 Pages, published by Roundhouse Press (August, 1999) |
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Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Season 4 (2002)
Def Poetry is one of the country's fastest rising performing-art forms, and recognizing the power of urban poetry on modern culture, rap impressario Russell Simmons teamed up with HBO to create Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry. Season four of the improvisational, uninhibited late-night series features the spoken words of the biggest and most stellar talent lineup like KANYE WEST (6 time Grammy Award-winner), TRACY MORGAN (30 Rock) and MIKE EPPS (Host of Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam). Each episode is hosted by the highly regarded hip hop artist and actor Mos Def (hit album Black on Both Sides).
DVD, published by HBO Home Video (February 2007) |
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High Desert Voices: The 2005 National Poetry Slam Anthology edited by Scott Woods, Debora Marsh, Don McIver, Jeremy Richards and Jamie Kennedy
The fourth anthology in the series from The National Poetry Slam. This is the biggest and best collection yet. Poems from Christian Drake, Beverly Wilkinson, Stephen Meads, Todd Bannon, Aaron Enskat, Michael Cirelli, Ansel Appleton, Buddy Wakefield, Corbet Dean, Alvin Lau and many more. Fifty poems from 41 poets covering the widest range imaginable of performance poetry on a wide selection of topics and styles. Something for every performance poetry lover on the planet...a LOT of something!
Paperback, 137 pages, published by The Wordsmith Press, (2006) |
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Best New Poets 2006 edited by Eric Pankey and Jeb Livingood
A new annual anthology of fifty poems from emerging writers selected from nominations by literary magazines, writing programs, and an open Internet competition.
Paperback, 144 pages, published by Samovar Press and Meridian, (October, 2006) |
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2007 Poetry Speaks box calendar: A Year of Great Poems and Poets (Calendar)
A year of poets and poetry based on the bestselling book with audio, bringing you short poetry from the greatest historical and contemporary poets, along with poets' thoughts and reflections on their craft and fascinating biographical information. Includes much-loved favorites and little-known works by well-known poets, and introduces the reader to many new talents working today.
Calendar, 365 pages, published by Sourcebooks, Inc.; Page/Day edition, (July, 2006) |
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 Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006) [CD - BOX SET]
Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006) is an engrossing collection of poems read by the people who wrote them, from the dawn of sound recording to the current day. Over the course of four CDs and an info-packed book, it tells the story of the past 120 years of poetry in English, from Romanticism (Dylan Thomas) to Modernism (T.S. Eliot), from the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes) to Black Arts (Amiri Baraka), from rhyme and meter (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) to free verse (Adrienne Rich) and beyond. Equally important, it allows listeners to understand exactly how poets intended their poems to be read aloud. With 128 poems read by 98 poets, Poetry On Record is the most comprehensive collection of its kind, covering such famous poets as Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, Dorothy Parker, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsburg, and Sylvia Plath, as well as a plethora of lesser-known but highly regarded poets. Poetry On Record is a must-have for any fan of poetry, or for anyone who wants an expertly chosen overview as a starting point. Produced and compiled by noted poetry expert Rebekah Presson Mosby
Audio CD Boxed Sed
Published by Shout! Factory
Publication date: April, 2006
ISBN: B000EU1PGO.................... order now or more info.
 Paroles: by Jacques Prévert translated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A masterpiece of simplicity. Prevert's words leave you spinning as if you know where he is, what he looks at, what he's thinking. He describes his world in such a manner...that the reader has no choice. Moving vignettes of people's lives in simple French poetry. The poet Jacques Prevert is a master at describing people's emotional life in simple language. His French is easy, the vocabulary familiar, the voice compelling.
Paperback
Published by City Lights Books
Publication date: December, 1958
ISBN: 0872860426.................... order now or more info.
 The Best American Poetry 2005 edited by David Lehman and Paul Muldoon
"Each year, a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh and memorable: and over the years, as good a comprehensive overview of contemporary poetry as there can be."
.........-Robert Pinsky
This eagerly awaited volume in the celebrated Best American Poetry series reflects the latest developments and represents the state of the art today. Paul Muldoon, the distinguished poet and international literary eminence, has selected -- from a pool of several thousand published candidates -- the top seventy-five poems of the year.
With insightful comments from the poets illuminating their work, and series editor David Lehman's perspicacious foreword, The Best American Poetry 2005 is indispensable for every poetry enthusiast.
Paperback, 224 pages
Published by Scribner
Publication date: September 2005
ISBN: 0743257588.................... order now or more info.
 Poetry Speaks to Children edited by Elise Paschen and Dominique Raccah
Grade 3-8–A fine, basic collection. Approximately half of the 97 selections are read or performed on the accompanying CD. The book provides a mix of adult writers (Rita Dove, Seamus Heaney, and Billy Collins, among others) and those whose work is specifically for children, such as X. J. Kennedy and Mary Ann Hoberman. Topics include childhood, animals, nonsense poems, and humor (including C. K. Williams's Gas, which dwells on the fact that FARTING IS FORBIDDEN!). The three illustrators have captured the different tones of the selections, from a comic portrait of the Jabberwock slayer wearing a colander and wielding a plunger and the wailing children in William Stafford's First Grade, to the moving paintings of a girl with flowers echoing the natural images of James Berry's Okay, Brown Girl, Okay. The CD gives children the opportunity to hear several of the poets, such as Robert Frost reading Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and Langston Hughes reading The Negro Speaks of Rivers. They hear a variety of accents and dialects–an Irish lilt, New England inflections, or James Berry's lilting Jamaican-British voice. Readers of Roald Dahl's books will enjoy hearing him read The Dentist and the Crocodile, and fans of The Lord of the Rings books and movies will appreciate hearing Tolkien read Frodo's Song in Bree. Joy Harjo frames her Eagle Poem with a haunting vocalization that echoes its serious tone.–Barbara Chatton, College of Education, University of Wyoming, Laramie
(Oct.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Hardcover Book and CD, 128 pages
Published by: Sourcebooks MediaFusion
Publication date: October 2005
ISBN: 1402203292.................... order now or more info.
 The Trouble with Poetry : And Other Poems by Billy Collins
Two years after his very visible stint as U.S. poet laureate, Collins (Sailing Alone Around the Room) remains one of the nation's most popular poets. His light touch, his self-deprecating pathos and his unerring sense of his audience (nothing too difficult, but nothing too lowbrow) explain much of that popularity and remain evident in this eighth collection. "The birds are in their trees,/ the toast is in the toaster,/ and the poets are at their windows," the volume begins: the poet as sensitive everyman, moved if not baffled by literary legacies, and attracted to simple pleasures, constructs a series of similar days and scenes. "In the Moment" depicts "a day in June," "the kind that gives you no choice/ but to unbutton your shirt/ and sit outside in a rough wooden chair"; "I Ask You" opens on "an ordinary night at the kitchen table." Collins's comic gifts are also much in evidence: "Special Glasses" describes spectacles that "filter out the harmful sight of you"; "The Introduction" makes fun of footnotes and obscurities in other poets' poems. The dominant note, however, is a gentle sadness, accomplished with care and skill, sometimes (as in "The Lanyard") garnished by autobiographical wisdom.
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Paperback, 112 pages
Published by: Random House
Publication date: October 2005
ISBN: 037550382X.................... order now or more info.
 Poetry After 9-11: An Anthology of New York Poets edited by Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians.
This collection features the work of some of New York's preeminent poets, including Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn and National Book Award finalist Alicia Ostriker, at a pivotal moment in America's history-one year after the World Trade Center and Pentagon terrorist attacks. The poems, including many that have never been published before, cover an extraordinary variety of responses to the experience of writing and living in the aftermath of September 11. Some pieces offer eyewitness accounts of poets at the scene; others touch more indirectly upon the events and reflect the somber resonance of the tragedy's impact upon life in the city. All reflect a gravitation toward the healing powers of self-expression, which were visible everywhere in the days after the attacks: on the walls of the firehouses, in letters to the editor at local newspapers, even scrawled in the dusty ash covering lower Manhattan.
Paperback, 160 pages
Published by: Melville House Publishing
Publication date: September 2002
ISBN: 0971865914.................... order now or more info.
 You Can't Catch Death : A Daughter's Memoir: by Ianthe Brautigan
His daughter was 24 when quintessential '60s author Richard Brautigan (Trout Fishing in America) killed himself in 1984, and the obituaries were almost as painful for her as his tragic act. "I did not recognize the dignified, brilliant, hysterically funny, and sometimes difficult man who was my father in anything they wrote," says Ianthe Brautigan, who makes it her business to capture those qualities in this poignant memoir. Her recollections of an unsettled childhood bouncing between two free-spirited parents' bohemian homes (in San Francisco, Montana, Hawaii, and Japan) are remarkably free from bitterness, even when she chronicles drunken phone calls from her suicidal father. Alcohol was Richard Brautigan's fatal weakness, prompted by severe depressions rooted in an impoverished, unhappy childhood. But Ianthe also depicts his tenderness and warmth, the magical sessions of impromptu storytelling with writer buddies like Tom McGuane and Jim Harrison, the glamour of meeting movie stars Peter Fonda and Margot Kidder. She comes to terms with the past that always haunted her father when she makes a trip to Oregon to see her grandmother, estranged from Richard for 25 years. Without presuming to solve the mystery of his death, the author reclaims the values of Brautigan's life and work in her touching, sensitively written book. --Wendy Smith
Paperback, 240 pages
Published by St. Martin's Griffin
Publication date: July, 2001
ISBN: 0312264186.................... order now or more info.
 Def Poetry - Season 2 - DVD
From the makers of Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam, HBO presents the first of seven new half-hour editions of the acclaimed late-night series that showcases practitioners of one of the country's fastest-rising performing-art forms - def poetry - in an intimate, uncensored format. Taped live at The Supper Club in New York, each installment of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry is hosted by popular rap artist Mos Def, and spotlights original material performed by contemporary urban poets and well-known music/comedy artists, including Jamie Foxx, Danny Hoch, Taylor Mali, Black Ice, Erykah Badu, Malcolm Jamal Warner and others.
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Published by: Warner Home Video
Publication date: April 2005
ASIN: B0007GP5WA .................... order now or more info.
 Valley by Mike Daily
"Valley" is a humorously visual story narrated by main character, writer/student, Mick O'Grady, as he ambles through his days in a sort of haze attempting to make sense of the numerous mysteries unraveling before him-from the odd-ball people he meets and associates with (a giant poet, drunken ex-linebacker, lost master journalist, wired meth-head, etc.), to the margin scribblings, receipts and photos he happens upon in used books by his favorite authors. O'Grady's literary inclinations result in curious over analyzation-a practically itemized account of everything around him, the ordinary included. At one point he notes that a vending machine in the lobby has no "Q" button on it. Not 26, but 25 letters. Lost in his wonderment after buying the drink, he forgets it on top of the machine... With "Valley," Mike Daily has created a style-crushing work of fiction, a true genre-bending boilermaker of prose and poetry.
Paperback, 222 pages
Published by: Bend Press
Publication date: December 1998
ISBN: 0964359820.................... order now or more info.
 What Use Am I a Hungry Ghost? by Marc Olmsted
Olmsted's sinuous poetry moves on the page... thoughts at the instant they become muscular movements.
.......Michael McClure
This book is a fierce and honest portrayal of the struggle toward realization...
.......Diane di Prima
Paperback, 100 pages
Published by: Valley Contemporary Press
Publication date: February, 2001
ISBN: 0967071585.................... order now or more info.
 180 More : Extraordinary Poems for Every Day edited by Billy Collins
Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry was a gathering of clear, contemporary poems aimed at a wide audience. In 180 More, Collins continues his ambitious mission of exposing readers of all ages to the best of today’s poetry. Here are another 180 hospitable, engaging, reader-friendly poems, offering surprise and delight in a wide range of literary voices–comic, melancholy, reflective, irreverent. If poetry is the original travel literature, this anthology contains 180 vehicles ready to carry you away to unexpected places.
With poems by: Robert Bly, Carol Ann Duffy, Eamon Grennan, Mark Halliday, Jane Kenyon, David Kirby, Thomas Lux, Donna Masini, W. S. Merwin, Paul Muldoon, Carol Muske-Dukes, Vijay Seshadri, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gerald Stern, Ron Padgett, Linda Pastan, Victoria Redel, Franz Wright, Robert Wrigley, and many more...
Paperback, 400 pages
Published by: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Publication date: March, 2005
ISBN: 0812972961.................... order now or more info.
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Some They Can't Contain by Buddy Wakefield
"This book contains almost all of Buddy's most popular performance pieces [through 2004] with intros on the creative process, biographical material that helps us understand what instigated some of the poems and how his thought process has evolved over time. It is always full of Buddy's warm sense of humor, his biting criticism and his big, big heart. As much as those who know Buddy love him, that doesn't stop him from making us really mad in one poem, making us laugh really hard in a dozen others, and it doesn't stop us from alternately laughing and crying in a few more. To read Buddy's book is to sit with him in the front car of the roller coaster. And you'll hear him taunt you for holding onto the bar when he throws his hands in the air."
....................- Steve Marsh, The Wordsmith Press, Executive
......................Director of Poetry Slam International
Paperback, 104 pages Published by Write Bloody Publishing, (Jnuary, 2004)
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Letters to Guns by Brendan Constantine
"Constantine delivers a collection that is sophisticated, complex and shows us all that surrealism is not dead, but alive, well and especially relevant. This is an original collection, unlike any other poetry today. He makes quiet observations and stark emotional confessions, painting with broad strokes the whole while. The reader laughs often, but is continuously surprised by facts, taking many poems far into his day. This book will make the reader think, but not in way he has done before. There aren't many poets out there who own as distinctive a voice. Do you know how many letters the gun has received since its invention? Peruse such history and learn about the state of humanity today. This book is a glimpse of the future of poetry."
...Kim Lohs
Paperback, 80 pages, published by Red Hen Press, (February, 2009)
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The Pushcart Book of Poetry edited by Joan Murray and the Pushcart Prize Poetry Editors (Editor).
What a wealth of brilliance has appeared in over a quarter-century of The Pushcart Prize, and much of that brilliance has been evident in the poetry.
From the start of the series in 1976, the editors of The Pushcart Prize have celebrated all sorts of poetry, from the traditional to the experimental, by both known and unknown poets. More than 750 poems have appeared, selected by new poetry editors for most of the twenty-five editions.
Under the general editorship of Joan Murray, herself a distinguished poet, all of the past poetry editors were asked to select their favorite poems; the result is a poetry anthology like no other. The list of editors alone reads like a Who's Who of American poetry: Billy Collins, Grace Schulman, Carolyn Forché, Gerald Stern, Stanley Plumly, Philip Levine, Jorie Graham, Robert Hass, Philip Booth, William Heyen, Elizabeth Spires, Marvine Bell, Carolyn Kizer, Lynn Emanuel, David St. John, Hether McHugh, and many others.
Hardcover, 275 Pages, published by Pushcart Press (February, 2007)
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 The Splinter Factory by Jeffrey McDaniel
Whether Jeffrey McDaniel is denouncing insomnia ("4,000 A.M."), exploring family tragedy ("Ghost Townhouse"), or celebrating love and lust ("The Biology of Numbers"), his writing is original and provocative. A noted poet, McDaniel has appeared on ABC’s Nightline and NPR’s Talk of the Nation. "Wild, fierce, irreverent, full of praise and lament, and deeply, intensely human.
..............— Thomas Lux
Paperback, 128 pages
Published by: Manic D. Press
Publication date: September 2002
ISBN: 0916397793.................... order now or more info.
 The Poetry of Arab Women edited by Nathalie Handel
The anthology was prepared to eradicate invisibility," writes Nathalie Handal (The Never Field) of Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology. With research help from groups like RAWI (Radius of Arab-American Writers, Inc.) and from Arab-American newspapers and journals like Al Jadid, Handal has gathered work from "most of the older and newer contemporary voices" of the Arab diaspora over 80 poets writing in Arabic, French, English and other languages, and living in Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Yemen, Gaza and the U.S. Handal's introduction, along with biographical notes on the poets and many translators, helps to place them. .....From Publishers Weekly
.....Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Paperback, 352 pages
Published by Interlink Pub Group
Publication date: October 2000
ISBN: 1566563747.................... order now or more info.
 The Forgiveness Parade by Jeffrey McDaniel
"In these wonderful new poems by Jeffrey McDaniel it is hard to separate the humor from the pain. Both qualities are omnipresent and are presented in fresh and original ways. This book is heartbreaking and hilarious simultaneously. And McDaniel's love of language is everywhere eveident making images you won't soon forget." - James TatePaperback, 80 pages
Published by Manic D Press
Publication date: August 1998
ISBN: 0916397556.................... order now or more info.
 Mother Said by Hal Sirowitz
Hilarious poems detailing the relationship between the author and his neurotic mother. Hal Sirowitz is a nationally known writer and performer who has been featured in the Bob Holman produced PBS series "The United States of Poetry". Hardcover, 128 pages
Published by Crown Pub
Publication date: May 1996
ISBN: 0517704978............ order now or more info.
 My Therapist Said by Hal Sirowitz
These poems have the same deadpan hysteria and ring of truth to them as Hal's Mother Said poems; and Hal's therapist does not seem much more sane than Mom. Also included are some "Mother Said," "Father Said," and "My Girlfriend Said" poems, providing plenty of material for the patient on the couch. My Therapist Said is full of advice, some of it sage, some of it absurd. Hardcover, 144 pages
Published by Crown Pub
Publication date: April 1998
ISBN: 060960130X.................... order now or more info.
Beyond the Valley of the Contemporary Poets edited by Robert Arroyo Jr., Brendan Constantin, Nicole Harvey, and Robert Wynne
An anthology of readers who participated in this San Fernando Valley based reading series featuring the work of Eloise Klein Healy, Suzanne Lummis, Laurel Ann Bogen, Ken Kuta, Jack Grapes, Pleasant Gehman, Gerald Locklin and many more. Paperback, 86 pages
Published by The Sacred Beverage Press
Publication date: April 1997
ISBN: 0965204847.................... order now or more info.
 Cowardice of Amnesia by Ellyn Maybe
Ellyn Maybe is the premiere poet of the new beat generation. Hailing from Los Angeles she has performed at Lollapalooza and the MTV Spoken Word tour. Cowardice of Amnesia is her first major publisher release and is edited by Exene Cervenkova on Henry Rollins 2:13:61 press. Paperback, 140 pages
Published by Two Thirteen Sixty-One Publications
Publication date: May 1998
ISBN: 1880985586.................... order now or more info.
The Ellyn Maybe Coloring Book by Ellyn Maybe
Poems by Ellyn Maybe would be enough for any book. Illustrations by, Randee Z., Suz Kaplan, Eric Erdman, and Amélie Frank would be enough for any book. An introduction by Scott Wannberg and SA Griffin of the Carma Bums would be enough for any book. But this book has it all, the poems, the colorable drawed delights and to boot it comes with Crayons. This is an absolute must have collectable edited and designed by Matthew Niblock and Amélie Frank of Sacred Beverage Press. Spiral-bound, 50 pages (1 Edition)
Published by The Sacred Beverage Press
Publication date: July 1997
ISBN: 0965204855.................... order now or more info
 3 Books by Richard
Brautigan, referred to as the last of the beat writers, commited suicide leaving a legacy of absurd, hilarious, and surreal poetry and novels. This collection contains his somewhat famous novel "Trout Fishing in America", a collection of poetry "The Pill Versus The Springhill Mine Disaster", and one of his more beautiful works "In Watermelon Sugar." Paperback, 138 pages
Published by Houghton Mifflin Co
Publication date: March 1989
ISBN: 0395500761 ................... order now or more info.
 Alibi School by Jeffrey McDaniel
Los Angeles Poet Jeffrey McDaniel is one of the few performance poets who has had work appear in major literary publications such as Ploughshares, and The Best American Poetry 1994. He has performed all over the world , works at Venice High School teaching poetry, and organized the Venice Slam Team which is on it's way to this years National Slam Competition in Austin Texas. Paperback, 76 pages
Published by Manic D Press
Publication date: May 1995
ISBN: 0916397386.................... order now or more info.
 United States of Poetry: produced by Bob Holman
"A film crew of fifteen traveling over 13,000 miles to record poets in flight..." The United States of Poetry is the groundbreaking five-part PBS/Washington Square Films television series of the same featuring an unlikely but combustible mixture of Nobel Laureates, Beat godfathers, famous rockers and unknown geniuses. (Featuring Allen Ginsburg, Hal Sirowitz, Maggie Estep, Leonard Cohen, Czeslaw Milosz, and lots more.)
2 VHS Tapes (NTS US and Canada only)
ASIN: 6304827881.................... order now or more info.
 Night Without Armour II: The Revenge by Beau Sia
Beau Sia, inspired by Jewel's book of similar title and design spent an evening writing the ultimate sequel and companion to Jewel's book. Each poem in this collection is titled after each poem in Jewel's book, the difference being that turning pages is not a chore in this version. It's hilarious. It must be read. You must read it. Paperback, 128 pages - 2nd edition
Published by Mouth Almighty Press
Publication date: September 1998
ISBN: 0966204298.................... order now or more info.
Upside Brown by Derrick Brown
You need this book if you are a twisted romantic. good independent books are hard to find. when you do find them, it's far greater than buried treasure. forget the weird clip art cover of this book and the picture on the back of the author being a total goofball. the interior of this will wash you with electricity. upside brown seemed flawed to me at first. rarely do you find poets who are serious and hilarious and sexual and childlike and explosively weird. This is a ride into the mind of an author who has tapped into beauty and loss. they are more fantastical imaginary trips than autobiographical.
Paperback, 58 pages
Published by FarStarFire Press
Publication date: January 1999
ISBN: 1929250002.................... order now or more info.
 In Our Own Words: Generation X Poetry edited by Marlow Peerse WeaverA generation burdened with labels like "slackers" and "Lost Youth" speaks out - 214 poems from 145 poets from around the world, celebrating the rich diversity of their generation, "in their own words". This book, compiled from over 4500 submissions, portrays a colorful rainbow of views, joys, angst - a generational chorus of voices. A generation asking to be heard. A generation deserving much more than narrow, negating stereotypes.
Paperback, 128 pages
Published by: MW Enterprises
Publication date: February 1999
ISBN: 0965413624.................. order now or more info.
 World Without Dogs by Fuzzy DoodahFuzzy doodah is poetry blown off its pedestal. It's the shotgun marriage of music and spoken word producing a new breed of expression. But it's mostly Rich Ferguson, storyteller and lead singer who the Austin Chronicle characterized as "marked by a histrionic intensity and dangerous voice." Fuzzy doodah's "World Without Dogs," is a dark tapestry of a half-dozen monologues and rants as well as some of Ferguson's pop songs spanning a spectrum of styles. The music is enhanced by sounds from lap steel guitarist Jett Soto, bassist Chris Camacho, lead guitarist Royce Craft, and other musicians.
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Published by: Sugar Fix Recordings
Publication date: March 1999..................... order now or more info.
 What Book: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop edited by Gary Gach with forword by Peter Coyote A major, lively anthology of modern mindful poetry featuring over 330 selections from over 125 contributors including Allen Ginsberg, Diane di Prima, Jack Kerouac, Czeslaw Milosz, Yoko Ono, Yusef Komunyaka, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and lots more. "What a book 'What Book!?' truly is! Finally the humor, the quickness, the diversity, all the insistent, mundane" humanness get a place in this terrific collection of poems.
Paperback, 248 pages Second Printing
Published by: Parallax Press
Publication date: July 1998
ISBN: 0938077929.................... order now or more info.
 She by Saul Williams
Hailed as "a dreadlocked dervish of words...the Bob Marley of American poets" (Esquire), Saul Williams is a gifted young poet who is opening up this literary art form to a new generation of readers. Like his writing -- a fearless mix of connecting rhythms and vibrant images -- Saul Williams is unstoppable. He received raves for his performance as an imprisoned street poet in the Trimark Pictures release Slam, winner of the Camera d'Or at Cannes and the Grand Jury prize at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. The consummate spoken-word performance artist, Williams has also been signed by producer Rick Rubin to record a CD of his poetry.
She is a fascinating and unique collection of interconnected poems by this multi-talented star -- and marks the beginning of an incredible and totally original artistic career.
Paperback, 160 pages
Published by: Houghtin Mifflin
Publication date: September 1999
ISBN: 0671035304.................... order now or more info.
 The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings by Richard Brautigan by Richard Brautigan, John Brautigan with an introduction by Keith Abbot On the eve of his departure from Eugene, Oregon, to San Francisco and worldly success, a twenty-one-year-old unpublished write named Richard Brautigan gave these funny, buoyant stories and poems as a gift to Edna Webster, the beloved mother of both his best fried and his first "real" girlfriend. "When I am rich and famous, Edna," he told her, "this will be your social security.' The stories and poems show Brautigan as hopelessly lovestruck, cheerily goofy, and at his most disarmingly innocent. We see not only a young man and young artist about to bloom, but also the whole literary sensibility of the 1960s counterculture about to spread its wings and fly. Published 15 years after his suicide, this all-new, youthful work by Brautigan, was written a decade before he found sudden fame with "Trout Fishing in America".
Paperback, 160 pages
Published by: Houghtin Mifflin
Publication date: September 1999
ISBN: 0395974690.................... order now or more info.
 Listen Up! : Spoken Word Poetry edited by Zoe Angelsey, with an introduction by Yusef Komunyakaa Spoken word poetry is a cross-cultural phenomenon. Here for the first time in one volume are poems from the nation's top spoken word artists. Listen Up! features nine brilliant award-winning scribes who have ignited audiences worldwide with their soulful verse, bold alliterations, and sultry fusion of rhythm and rhyme--electrifying audiences as they chant, sing, recite, and improvise their poetry and powerful point of view. Among these nine literary luminaries are Carl Hancock Rux, named by The New York Times as one of thirty young artists "most likely to change the culture in the next thirty years"; Jessica Care Moore, a record-breaking five-time winner of the Apollo competition; and Saul Williams, co-scriptwriter and star of the feature film Slam, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the prestigious Camera D'Or at Cannes. Packed with penetrating interviews on the craft of writing poetry, insight into the art of performance, and on-target, off-guard photos of the poets in action at history-making poetry slams, this unforgettable collection is the next best thing to being there live.
Paperback, 224 pages
Published by: One World
Publication date: April 1999
ISBN: 0345428978.................... order now or more info.
 Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs edited by Amy Hempel and Jim Shepard. Dog lovers and other discriminating readers won't be able to resist this warm and winning collection of poems, written from the dog's point of view, by the celebrated writers and poets whose love of woofs and words has inspired a wonderful book. Includes photos of dogs and their poet owners including Stephen Dobyns, John Irving, Mark Doty, Gordon Lish, Stephen Dunn, Lynda Barry, Arthur Miller, Gerald Stern, Edward Albee and lots more.
Paperback, 176 pages
Published by: Three Rovers Press
Publication date: April 1999
ISBN: 0609803794.................... order now or more info.
 In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself (Volume 2) edited by Marlow Peerse Weaver
Volume 2 of "a generation defining itself". 173 new voices from around the world, all born 1961-1982. Through verse, poetry, and lyric, this series is refuting all narrow stereotypes about this generation. A generation alive with its own wide spectrum of perspectives, insights, aspirations, and angst.
Paperback, 160 pages
Publication date: March 2000
ISBN: 0965413632 .................... order now or more info.
 An Unfortunate Woman by Richard Brautigan
In this posthumously released novel, Richard Brautigan's voice--quipping, punning, strewn with non sequiturs--comes like a rattling of chains. Brautigan took his own life in 1984; An Unfortunate Woman was written in the years immediately preceding, and the writer's imminent death haunts the book. It bears the subtitle A Journey, and Brautigan means this quite literally. We follow the first-person narrator in his peregrinations from Montana to San Francisco to New York to Alaska to Honolulu and back to San Francisco, with a detour across the bay to Berkeley--and that's leaving out Canada altogether. Pulling him like a wispy thread throughout is the hanging death of a San Francisco housemate who had cancer. We never learn her story, just that his book's "main theme is an unfortunate woman." She's a constant glancing reference.
Paperback, 110 pages
Published by St. Martin's Press
Publication date: May 2000
ISBN: 0312262434 .................... order now or more info.
 Situational Reality by Michael McNeilley
Come closer and you'll understand the insignificance of the handwringer who, bored with himself, pulls apart another's handiwork in hopes of revealing the missed stitch. Situational Reality is a book of poems to which the poet and non-poet, academic and non-academic alike can relate. Michael McNeilley writes in an incredibly intelligent yet easy to read style, and on topics of such universal experience, that he may even sway the "I don't understand poetry" protester to try, try again. This poet is one of the few who bridges the gaps between 'underground' and 'academic' poetry -- he is able to keep the interest of both types. Between the lines of these poems rest their writer's humanity and longing for a stronger sense of that humanity in connection with and between others.
Paperback, 80 pages
Published by Dancing Bear Press
Publication date: May 1999
ISBN: 096593070X .................... order now or more info.
 Cider Press Review edited by Caron Andregg and Robert Wynne Cider Press Review is an annual journal featuring the best of new poetry and translations from contemporary writers. This collection is edited by the winner of the 1999 Poetry Super Highway contest and one of the 2000 Contest Judges, Caron Andregg, and also by the winner of the 1998 PSH Contest, Robert Wynne. Contributors to Volume 1 include Naomi, Shihab Nye, W. D. Snodgrass, Robert Nazarene, Janet Holmes, Jill McDonough, Robert Arroyo, Simon Perchik, Jackson Wheeler and many more.
Paperback, 144 pages
Published by: Cider Press
Publication date: March 2000
ISBN: 0966139925.................... order now or more info.
 Cows on the Freeway: Selected Poems by G. Murray ThomasCows on the Freeway is a collection of poems inspired by the ocean and freeways of Southern California. These poems were polished in performances on stages as diverse as Lollapalooza, The Whiskey, National Poetry Slams, and coffeehouse open mikes. They combine a sharp critique of modern life with an absurd sense of humor.
Paperback, 119 pages
Published by: iUniverse.com
Publication date: July 2000
ISBN: 059509743X.................... order now or more info.
 Princess Freak by Nancy Agabian
"She pays close attention to what most of us overlook - in her hands the ordinary explodes into beauty and complexity" ~ Holly Hughes, Performance Artist
Princess Freak is a collection of poems and performance texts from L.A. based writer Nancy Agabian. It documents the coming-of-age of a shy, funny, bisexual Armenian-American woman who flees the small town of Walpole, Massachusetts to tell the stories of her family. Agabian's paternal grandmother was a survivor of the Armenian Genocide in Turkey in 1915, and much of the work in Princess Freak carries the impact of this devastating event.
Paperback, 121 pages
Published by: Beyond Baroque Foundation
Publication date: February 2000
ISBN: 1892184079.................... order now or more info.
 Gypsies by Angélique Jamail
Collection of original poetry by Houston based poet Angélique Jamail. Gypsies is a loosely plot-driven collection of poems about jumping off from traditional toeholds and clinging to the air around you until you find a new niche.
Paperback, 56 pages
Published by: PHUI Productions
Publication date: December 1998
ISBN: 0967007704.................... order now or more info.
 Jew Boy by Alan Kaufman
...an abundance of suspense, curiosity, wonder and awe.... I want to congratulate and thank Alan Kaufman for enriching my life...
.....-Hubert Selby, Jr., author of Last Exit to Brooklyn Alan Kaufman grew up in the Bronx, the son of a Jewish mother who had survived the Holocaust, her mind badly scarred by her trauma. Growing up under the shadow of his mother's demons, he struggles uncomprehendingly with his Jewish identity, vowing never to become a victim like his mother. In a great bid for freedom from her legacy, he hitchhikes across the U.S. only to summon the phantoms he had sought to escape. His flight, after taking him to a kibbutz in Israel and the Israeli army, returns him to the streets of New York, homeless and an alcoholic, until at last he finds redemption in poetry, the gift that is true to his being. Hardcover, 400 pages
Publication date: September 2000
ISBN: 0880642521.................... order now or more info.
 The Best Cigarette by Billy Collins
The selected poems of Billy Collins read by the author. 33 poems, over 70 minutes, very high quality recording on cassette or CD.
"Luring his readers into the poem with humor, Mr. Collins leads them unwittingly into deeper, more serious places, a kind of journey from the familiar or quirky to unexpected territory, sometimes tender, often profound"
.....(The New York Times 11/30/97) Compact Disc
Publication date: May, 1997
Published by Cielo Publishing;
ISBN: 0965887308.................... order now or more info.
 The Best American Poetry 2000 edited by Rita Dove and David Lehman.
A mid an "explosion in the interest of poetry nationwide" (The New York Times), The Best American Poetry 2000 delivers one of the finest volumes yet in this renowned series. Guest editor Rita Dove, a distinguished figure in the poetry world and the second African-American poet ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, brings all of her dynamism and well-honed acumen to bear on this project. Dove used a simple yet exacting method to make her selections: "The final criterion," she writes in her introduction, "was Emily Dickinson's famed description -- if I felt that the top of my head had been taken off, the poem was in." The result is a marvelous collection of consistently high-quality poems diverse in form, tone, style, stance, and subject matter. With comments from the poets themselves illuminating their poems and a foreword by series editor David Lehman, The Best American Poetry 2000 is this year's must-have book for all poetry lovers. Paperback, 320 pages
Publication date: September 2000
ISBN: 0743200330.................... order now or more info.
 In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself - volume 3 edited by Marlow Peerse Weaver
Volume 3 of the book series that is voicing the realities of the generation born 1960 to 1982. Song lyrics, poetry, essays and short stories. A generation telling it like it really is, "in its own words".
This series now includes 440 voices from more than 40 countries. Songwriters, recording artists, poets, journalists, academics, individuals from all walks of life, the person next door, the one that works with you. Every hue of the rainbow. All the complexities and nuances that make up a most interesting generation.
Paperback, 160 pages
Published by: MW Enterprises
Publication date: January 2001
ISBN: 0965413640.................. order now or more info.
 Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
edited by Donald Allen
introuduction by John Ashbery
Available for the first time in paperback, this collection reflects the poet's growth as an artist from the earliest dazzling, experimental verses that he began writing in the late 1940's to the years before his accidental death at forty, when his poems became increasingly individual and reflective.
Paperback - 586 pages
Univ California Press;
Publication Date: March 1995 (paperbackedition)
ISBN: 0520201663.................... order now or more info.
 The Best American Poetry 2001 edited by Robert Hass and David Lehman.
The Best American Poetry series returns with a volume that is sure to dazzle seasoned fans and newcomers alike. Guest editor Robert Hass, a former Poet Laureate and a central figure in the poetry world, brings his passionate intelligence to The Best American Poetry 2001. In his engaging introduction, Hass writes that after sifting through dozens of literary magazines, he "found that there were large numbers of poems that gave me pleasure, seemed to have inventive force, or intellectual passion or surprise." The works he selected are diverse in every way with only their excellence in common. With comments from the poets illuminating their work, and series editor David Lehman's always entertaining foreword assessing the current state of the art, The Best American Poetry 2001 presents the richness and originality of this exciting moment in the history of American poetry.
Paperback, 288 pages
Published by Scribner
Publication date: September 2001
ISBN: 0743203844.................... order now or more info.
 Sailing Alone Around The Room: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins
"Billy Collins writes lovely poems--lovely in a way almost nobody's since Roethke's are. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides."
..........--John Updike
"Luring his readers into the poem with humor, Mr. Collins leads them unwittingly into deeper, more serious places, a kind of journey from the familiar or quirky to unexpected territory, sometimes tender, often profound."
.......... --The New York Times
"What Collins does best is turn an apparently simple phrase into a numinous moment. . . . A poet of plenitude, irony, and Augustan grace."
..........
--The New Yorker
Billy Collins has published six collections of poetry, including Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. He teaches at Lehman College of the City University of New York and at Sarah Lawrence College and was recently appointed named the U.S. Poet Laureate.
Hardcover - 192 pages
Publication date: September, 2001
Random House
ISBN: 0375503803.................... order now or more info
 Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read From Their Work edited by Elise Paschen and Rebekah Presson Mosby, narrated by Charles Osgood
Poetry Speaks features the work of the most influential writers in modern poetry—written and performed—from 1892 to 1997. This book combines their most significant poems in print with the authors themselves reading their poetry on audio CD. Poets range from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot and Dorothy Parker to Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath and Gwendolyn Brooks.
The power of spoken poetry is at the heart of Poetry Speaks. Poetry is a vocal art, an art meant to be read aloud. Listening to a poem read aloud can be a transforming experience. Poetry Speaks not only introduces the finest work from some of the greatest poets who ever lived, it reintroduces the oral tradition of poetry.
Poetry Speaks—combining the talents of great poets past and living, their words written and spoken—is the most ambitious, comprehensive and innovative poetry project to be published in years, and is sure to be the model for collections to come.
Book, 352 pages, and 3 Audio CDs
Published by: Sourcebook Trade
Publication date: October 2001
ISBN: 1570717206.................... order now or more info.
 Talking Dirty to the Gods by Yusef Komunyakaa
Komunyakaa, a much-awarded poet treasured for his jazzy inventiveness, empathy, and the resonance of his language, has written a remarkable set of 132 four-quatrain poems that erase the distinctions between nature, humanity, and the divine, and meld the past with the present. Life in all its spectacular variations inspires quirky ruminations on such earthy creatures as slime molds and hyenas, and such mythological beings as the centaur and Janus, the two-faced god. A priapic romp around an ancient Greek vase and a rollerblader grabbing a bumper of a Yellow Cab to glide through Central Park ignite Komunyakaa's imagination with equal force, just as banged-up objects in a junk shop speak as eloquently as a skull extracted from a violated tomb. Insects go about their business as they always have, and so do we, the poet observes, in spite of permutations in spiritual beliefs and technology. Like our ancestors, we suffer for love, look for cures, and torment each other, trying to forget that the maggot awaits, patient and voracious.
..........Donna Seaman
..........Copyright © American Library Association.
Paperback, 144 pages
Publication date: September 2001
ISBN: 0374527938 .................... order now or more info.
 New and Collected Poems 1931 - 2001 by Csezlaw Milosz
New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 celebrates the exceptional career of Czeslaw Milosz, from his first work, written when he was twenty, to his newest poems, published for the first time in English in this volume.Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Czeslaw Milosz is a master of probing inquiry and graceful expression. From his early poems, in which he declares, "I, a faithful son of the black earth, shall return to the black earth" ("Hymn"), to his newest work, in which he sees himself as a lofty, gray-headed spirit "Saved by his amazement, eternal and divine" ("For My Eighty-eighth Birthday"), Milosz's poetry is infused with a tireless spirit and penetrating insight into fundamental human dilemmas. In "Report," he arrives at the staggering yet simple truth that "to exist on the earth is beyond any power to name." in "Craftsman," he looks back over a life that was difficult to lead, but in the end he is nonetheless "Praising, renewing, healing. Grateful because the sun rose for you and will rise for others.""With its clarity, historical awareness and moral vision," writes Don Began in The Nation, Milosz's work proves that "poetry can define and address the concerns of an age." Milosz himself describes poetry as "the passionate pursuit of the Real," "a witness and participant in one of mankind's major transformations." A defector to France in 1951 after having lived under Communism and National Socialism in Eastern Europe, he brings to bear the political awareness of an exile -- most notably in A Treatise on Poetry, a sixty-page exploration of the world wars that rocked the first half of the twentieth century. His newer poems, such as "Sarajevo," "Zdziechowski," and "On the Inequality of Men," also reflect the sharp political focus through which he continues to bear witness to the events that stir the world.Unflinching, outspoken, and unsentimental, Milosz digs among the rubble of the past, choosing from the bad as well as the good, forging a vision that encompasses pain as well as joy. His work is "one of the monumental splendors of poetry in our age" (Edward Hirsch, The New York Times Book Review). New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 is an essential collection from one of the most important voices in contemporary poetry.
Paperback, 800 pages
Published by Ecco Press
Publication date: October 2001
ISBN: 006019667X .................... order now or more info.
 Scream When You Burn edited by Rob Cohen
"A Pound of Seared Flesh from the Lap of The Coffee Culture" . . . an anthology of some of the best material from the 4 year run of Los Angeles based Caffeine Magazine featuring the work of Charles Bukowski, plus work from Michele T. Clinton, Pam Ward, Lyn Lifshin, Dave Alvin, Eloise Klein Healy, Scott Wannberg, David Kendrick, Jo H. Scott, Rick Lupert, Roland X, Chris Gordon, David Ulin, Charles H. Webb, Joan Eyles Johnson, Guillermo Reyes, and dozens more.
Paperback, 200 pages
Published by Incommunicado Press
Publication date: April 1998
ISBN: 1888277009.................... order now or more info.
 Satan Says by Sharon Olds
Commenting on Sharon Olds' debut, Linda Pastan wrote that Olds was "clearly a poet to be reckoned with." No kidding. Olds has gone on to create an impressively bold body of work. Notice here "The Language of the Brag," in which Olds describes the heroic deed of childbirth: "I have done what you wanted to do Walt Whitman/ . . . this glistening verb,/and I am putting my proud American boast/ right here with the others." Amen.
Paperback, 72 pages
Published by University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: April 1985
ISBN: 0822953145.................... order now or more info.
 Defiant Muse : Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Womens Series)edited by Shirley Kaufman, Galit Hasam-Rokem and Tamar Hess
This is an impressive collection of known works and newly discovered feminist pieces in their original Hebrew and in stunning translations. Biblical and rabbinic literature is culled for feminist voices; midieval literature from around the world is mined; 20th century Hebrew poets, including a good number of current writers, are represented. There are many poems that you'd expect to find in a collection like this, and many that will be new to you. Bravo to the editors, themselves poets and translators, for this landmark contribution to Hebrew feminist literature.
Paperback, 288 pages
Published by Feminist Press
Publication date: November 1999
ISBN: 1558612246.................... order now or more info.
 Poems to Read: A New Favorite Poems Project Anthology edited byRobert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz
A unique anthology by the editors of the bestseller Americans' Favorite Poems. Poems to Read is a welcoming avenue into poetry for readers new to poetry, including high school and college students. It is also meant to be a fresh, valuable collection for readers already devoted to the art. This anthology concentrates on the actual pleasures of reading poems: hearing the poem in your voice, bringing it to other people, musing about it, taking excitement or comfort from it, wandering with it or—as in the Keats letter quoted in the Introduction—having it as a starting post. Many of these 200 poems are accompanied by comments from readers of various ages, regions, and backgrounds who participated in the Favorite Poem Project. Included are poems by John Donne, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Langston Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Seamus Heaney, Allen Ginsberg, and Louise Glück, to name a few. The editors offer their own comments on some of the poems, which are arranged in thematic chapters.
Paperback, 416 pages
Published by W.W. Norton and Company
Publication date: June 2002
ISBN: 0393010740.................... order now or more info.
 Ten Poems To Change Your Life by Robert Housden
This is a dangerous book. Great poetry calls into question not less than everything. It dares us to break free from the safe strategies of the cautious mind. It opens us to pain and joy and delight. It amazes, startles, pierces, and transforms us. It can lead to communion and grace.
Through the voices of ten inspiring poets and his own reflections, the author of Sacred America shows how poetry illuminates the eternal feelings and desires that stir the human heart and soul. These poems explore such universal themes as the awakening of wonder, the longing for love, the wisdom of dreams, and the courage required to live an authentic life. In thoughtful commentary on each work, Housden offers glimpses into his personal spiritual journey and invites readers to contemplate the significance of the poet's message in their own lives.
In Ten Poems to Change Your Life, Roger Housden shows how these astonishing poems can inspire you to live what you always knew in your bones but never had the words for.
Paperback, 144 pages
Published by Crown Pub.
Publication date: June 2001
ISBN: 0609609017.................... order now or more info.
 Enter: Selected Poems 1999-2001 by Don Campbell
Enter is a collection of powerfully personal poetry, highly crafted, yet boldly direct. "That someone could literally "hemorrhage" words onto paper like a raped jugular vein...as I read, I paused to wonder just how, if he kept one, his diary would read. Then I realized, these treasures ARE his diary. Invading his privacy is delicious and raw with life."
.....-Alex Salisbury
"Wondrous, pithy, trenchant."
.....-Stephen Goldman
Don "Kingfisher" Campbell, recipient of the 2001 Charles Ferguson Prize, and a 1999 Poetry In The Windows III award. Founder of WORD-process, a program of youth writing workshops led by poets. Editor of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly. Host of the Monday Night Poetry reading series in Pasadena, California.
Paperback, 116 pages
Published by: Writer's Club Press
Publication date: April 2002
ISBN: 0595222080.................... order now or more info.
 Walking Barefoot in the Glassblowers Museum by Ellyn Maybe
Earnest and confessional in the best sense, these poems about self and vulnerability reveal Ellyn Maybe’s beliefs in family, love, idealism, and identity. Named one of the Top 10 Poets to Watch in the Millennium by Writer’s Digest, Maybe's dazzling language wraps unexpected images of beauty and purity around everyday observations and experiences. These are poems that demand rereading yet instantly pull the reader into a world at once personal and universal. "One of the coolest poets you’ll ever read — she’s magic." — Henry Rollins
Paperback, 96 pages
Published by: Manic D. Press
Publication date: September 2002
ISBN: 0916397807.................... order now or more info.
 The Best American Poetry 2002 editedby Robert Creely and David Lehman
No poetry publication is more eagerly awaited than this annual anthology. Since David Lehman launched the series in 1988, The Best American Poetry has become the standard setter as well as a bestseller. Like previous editors, this year's host, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Creeley, provides surprises and characteristic twists in his selections. Since its inception in 1988, The Best American Poetry series has achieved brand-name status in the literary world as the preeminent showcase of each year's most important contributions to American poetry. Arriving at a time when, as series editor David Lehman writes in his foreword, "the hunger for poetry and the need for elegy" is great, this year's volume demonstrates poetry's astonishing vitality, its ability to move and inspire us in a way no other medium can.
Paperback, 232 pages
Published by: Scribner
Publication date: September 2002
ISBN: 0743203860.................... order now or more info.
 Nine Horses by Billy Collins
Nine Horses, Billy Collins’s first book of new poems since Picnic, Lightning in 1998, is the latest curve in the phenomenal trajectory of this poet’s career. Already in his forties when he debuted with a full-length book, The Apple That Astonished Paris, Collins has become the first poet since Robert Frost to combine high critical acclaim with broad popular appeal. And, as if to crown this success, he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2001–2002, and reappointed for 2002–2003.
What accounts for this remarkable achievement is the poems themselves, quiet meditations grounded in everyday life that ascend effortlessly into eye-opening imaginative realms. These new poems, in which Collins continues his delicate negotiations between the clear and the mysterious, the comic and the elegiac, are sure to sustain and increase his audience of avid readers.
Hardcover, 92 pages
Publication date: September, 2002
Published by Random House
ISBN: 0375503811.................... order now or more info.
 Subhuman Redneck Poems by Les A. Murray
Derek Walcott , who numbers himself among Les Murray's fans, writes, "There is no poetry in the English language now so rooted in its sacredness, so broad-leafed in its pleasures, and yet so intimate and conversational." Subhuman Redneck Poems was recently awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize in the United Kingdom, and Murray is one of the most honored poets in Australia. I especially like "Deaf Language," which suggests themes of connection and distance at the same time it acknowledges the untranslatable wisdom of the body.
Paperback, 104 pages
Published by: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication date: July 1997
ISBN: 0374525382.................... order now or more info.
 Invisible Plane by poets from one of Cecilia Woloch's Writing Classes
including Mark Chapman, Dina Hardy, Karen Harryman, Helen Hierta, Elizabeth Iannaci, Bridget Kelley-Lossada, Kendall Leeper, Holaday Mason, Judith Pacht, Lynne Thompson, Bruce Williams and Cecilia Woloch. A collection of poems to and about saints, angels & deities; An amazing collection of poets confront the invisible plane. This evocative book covers Kali to Christ, Eve to Wonder Woman.
Paperback, 44 pages
Published by: Spout Graphic Press
Publication date: October 2002
ISBN: 0972515100.................... order now or more info.
 100 Poets Against the War edited by Todd Swift
The 21st Century's most talked-about and successful ebook has been published in book format by leading international independent literary publisher, Salt Publishing. 100 Poets Against The War started life as a trilogy of ebooks, first published online on January 27, 2003. It made news world-wide, from the LA Times to Moscow dailies. Salt Publishing’s book probably holds the record for the fastest poetry anthology ever assembled and disseminated, as it was first planned on January 20 of this year, barely 6 weeks prior to its date of publication. More significantly, the grassroots appeal of peace poetry has seen 100 Poets Against the War shared on thousands of web-sites, printed-up tens of thousands of times, and read from at peace demonstrations, from Seattle to Oxford, to the Middle East and the Hyde Park demonstration in London. It has spawned French, German and Brazilian versions, and continues to inspire those who oppose a unilateral, US-led strike against the people of Iraq.It contains a selection of some of the most powerful poems from the thousands of poems submitted by peace protesters across the world and features some of the leading contemporary poets and peace activists, including many award-winning writers. Many of the poems have been written especially for this peace project and Adrian Mitchell’s To Whom it May Concern was recited at the anti-war demonstration at Hyde Park, London, in February 2003. Salt Publishing has been delighted to support the anti-war movement with the global publication of this popular anthology. This book celebrates peaceful protest by major poets from around the world and we believe it is an historic contribution to protest literature. Profits from the sale of the book will be donated to Amnesty International.
Paperback, 204 pages
Published by: Salt Publishing
Publication date: February 2003
ISBN: 1876857986.................... order now or more info.
 Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry edited by Billy Collins
A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins. Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program with the Library of Congress, Poetry 180 is the perfect anthology for readers who appreciate engaging, thoughtful poems that are an immediate pleasure. A 180-degree turn implies a turning back—in this case, to poetry. A collection of 180 poems by the most exciting poets at work today, Poetry 180 represents the richness and diversity of the form, and is designed to beckon readers with a selection of poems that are impossible not to love at first glance. Open the anthology to any page and discover a new poem to cherish, or savor all the poems, one at a time, to feel the full measure of contemporary poetry’s vibrance and abundance. With poems by Catherine Bowman, Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Dana Gioia, Edward Hirsch, Galway Kinnell, Kenneth Koch, Philip Levine, Thomas Lux, William Matthews, Frances Mayes, Paul Muldoon, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Katha Pollitt, Mary Jo Salter, Charles Simic, David Wojahn, Paul Zimmer, and many more.
Paperback
Published by: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Publication date: March 2003
ISBN: 0812968875 .................... order now or more info.
 Learning to Speak by Victor Infante
LEARNING TO SPEAK is the work of a Southern California poet who risks. He writes about tenderness, reveals a certain vulnerability, isn't obscure for obscurity's sake. He lets his tears show. And longing...so much longing, throughout these poems. A book that belongs on your shelf beside Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Joseph Brodsky.
Paperback, 50 Pages
Published by: FarStarFire Press
Publication date: November 1999
ISBN: 1929250118 .................... order now or more info.
 So Luminous the Wildflowers: An Anthology of California Poets edited by Paul Suntup with an introduction by Michael Paul
A major new collection of California Poetry featuring 187 poets, with new work from many of the contributors. Includes a previously unpublished essay by Pulitzer Award winner Philip Levine.
Paperback, 288 Pages
Published by: Tebot Bach, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit.
Publication date: April 2003
ISBN: 1893670139 .................... order now or more info.
 The Best American Poetry 2003 edited by David Lehman and Yusef Komunyakaa
Poetry encourages us to have dialogue through the observed, the felt, and the imaginary," writes editor Yusef Komunyakaa in his thought-provoking introduction to The Best American Poetry 2003. As a black child of the American South and a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, Komunyakaa brings his singular vision to this outstanding volume. Included here is a diverse mix of senior masters, crowd-pleasing bards, rising stars, and the fresh voices of an emerging generation. With comments from the poets elucidating their work and series editor David Lehman's eloquent foreword assessing the state of the art, The Best American Poetry 2003 is a must-have for readers of contemporary poetry.
Paperback, 288 Pages
Published by: Scribner
Publication date: September, 2003
ISBN: 0743203887 .................... order now or more info.
 Memoir of the Hawk : Poems
by James Tate
Memoir of the Hawk creates a world populated by hundreds of characters, believable and strange, tugged at the edges by the unexpected. In the privacy of their homes, who can save them from themselves? In the forests and hills and on the beautiful lakes, what could possibly be wrong? Even in the sweet hometown, with its kindly police, menace lurks in a thousand disguises. Mystery and magic surround this metropolis of the imagination. Once again, James Tate has given us a world of surprising pleasures.
Paperback, 192 Pages
Published by: Ecco Press
Publication date: August 2002
ISBN: 006093543X .................... order now or more info.
 Best Jewish Writing 2003 edited by Arthur Kurzweil
For its third annual anthology of the best Jewish writing, Jossey-Bass has installed a new editor, Arthur Kurzweil. He is well qualified for this task, having served as director of the Jewish Book Club and as editor-in-chief of Jason Aronson Publishers, a company that specializes in books of Jewish interest. He casts a wide net for this judicious selection of articles, short stories, poetry and book excerpts. The material is grouped thematically, covering topics such as Israel, current issues, religious education and practice, Jewish spiritual thought, Kabbalah, the Holocaust, 9/11 and anti-Semitism. There are also sections of poetry, fiction and Jewish humor. Kurzweil presents an impressive list of prominent authors and allows them to speak for themselves. Among the better-known writers are Elie Wiesel, Alan Dershowitz, Arthur Waskow, Blu Greenberg, Carol Diament, Adin Steinsaltz, Arthur Hertzberg, Cynthia Ozick, Irving Greenberg, Avi Weiss, Edward Koch, Marge Piercy and Herbert Gold. What is remarkable about the roster is its comprehensiveness-all shades of Judaism and of political opinion can be found, thus fully demonstrating the editor's objectivity in making his choices. Yoel Jakobovits contributes an excellent essay on stem cell research, in which he considers the ethical issues arising from this cutting-edge technology. In a sprightly introduction, Kurzweil denies any claim to such objectivity, asserting that decisions about what to include were highly subjective. Objective or subjective, he has done readers a fine service by bringing together a stellar, diverse collection for their enjoyment.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Paperback, 416 Pages
Published by: Jossey-Bass Press
Publication date: August 2003
ISBN: 0787967718 .................... order now or more info.
 What Narcissism Means to Me : Poems by Tony Hoagland
An eagerly awaited new collection of poems by contemporary favorite Tony Hoagland, author of Donkey Gospel
How did I come to believe in a government called Tony Hoagland?
With an economy based on flattery and self-protection?
and a sewage system of selective forgetting?
and an extensive history of broken promises?
--from "Argentina"
In What Narcissism Means to Me, award-winning poet Tony Hoagland levels his particular brand of acute irony not only on the personal life, but also on some provinces of American culture. In playful narratives, lyrical outbursts, and overheard conversations, Hoagland cruises the milieu, exploring the spiritual vacancies of American satisfaction. With humor, rich tonal complexity, and aggressive moral intelligence, these poems bring pity to our folly and celebrate our resilience.
Paperback, 78 Pages
Published by: Graywolf Press
Publication date: November, 2003
ISBN: 1555973868 .................... order now or more info.
 Washing a Language by Laurel Ann Bogen
Praise for Washing a Language:
"Laurel Ann Bogen is an admirable poet with a distinctive voice. In this fascinating book, again and again she transforms her moments of joy, the wounds she has suffered, into a mouth, speaking her terse and immaculate poems, and often, miraculously, breaking into song.
.......--Edward Field
In Washing a Language, Laurel Ann Bogen makes an old poetry (political poetry, love poetry) new. If her themes are from the thrift store, this reader never noticed-she adds bleach an fabric softner, and carefully folds her poems so that they're ready for sale at the fanciest boutique. Bogen unearths treasure in this book.
.......--Denise Duhamel
A sturdy clarity attends these poems by Laurel Ann Bogen, along with the bright, declarative spin of her poet's fancy-an eyeful and an earful. But in the midst of these riches, at the animating core of them one might even say, there is the deep gaze of the disinterested mind, the artist's or the scientist's mind, that counts honestly as its first principle of seeing. It is this quality, above all the others I think, that makes a poem like "Vocation of the Chair" to name only one, so moving.
.......--Aram Saroyan
Paperback, 48 pages
Published by: Red Hen Press
Publication date: April, 2004
ISBN: 1888996900 .................... order now or more info.
 Whore by Sarah Maclay
Winner of the 2003 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry, Whore is haunted by intimations of love as fleeting as it is mysterious, as the poet traces an unraveling in which the sensory world, in all its lush desolation, becomes a mirror of loss. In poems of longing, rapture, heart-wreck, and self- confrontation, when both private and public worlds seem to be on the verge of disintegration, everything is up for questioning and re-examination.
Sarah Maclay walks into the shaded areas of canvas, willing to follow the play of light and dark until that which is obscure moves into focus. Even language itself, that great interlocutor of the psyche, begins to lose its stability. In the title poem, the result of a trip to the dictionary in search of another word, its etymology that shocks us into an awareness of the potential for contradiction buried in the very roots of language.
With its symbolist undertones and surrealist echoes, this is a poetry of evocation and presence at once tactile and subliminal-a poetry of night.
Paperback
Published by: University of Tampa Press
Publication date: February, 2004
ISBN: 1879852977 .................... order now or more info.
 The Book of Hope edited by Birgitta Jonsdottir
An international collection of poetry and art created in response to the tragic events of 11 September 2001. This sturdy 6.5" x 9.5" paperback includes moving and beautiful work by both celebrated and unknown artists. Poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Rita Dove, Janet I. Buck, the Dalai Lama, Ram Devineni, and many others. Originally published in Iceland by Beyond Borders Press.
Paperback, 127 pages
Published by Beyond Borders Press
Publication date: January 2002
ISBN: 9979953128.................... order now or more info.
 Before, During & After: Poems by Hal Sirowitz
With Mother Said, Hal Sirowitz introduced the world to his overprotective, overwrought mother. In My Therapist Said, he showcased his neuroses. In his new book, Before, During, and After, he explores his tumultuous (and sometimes nonexistent) sex life. In a series of witty poems, he shares the ups and downs of his romantic history from tortured adolescence to not-much-better adulthood in his poetically comic stroll through life as a beleaguered mama's boy.
Sirowitz’s poems might be the channeled voice of Philip Roth in a state of catatonic dementia.
.....-Village Voice
Paperback - 120 pages
Publication date: October, 2003
Soft Skull Press
ISBN: 188712893X.................... order now or more info
 Walking the Black Cat by Charles Simic
Simic's short, taut lines carve dark-edged images reminiscent of old folk tales. In this new collection, his 13th (The World Doesn't End earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990), he focuses on such folklore elements as chance, luck, faith and illusion at work in a quotidian world of cookouts, family life and memory. Juxtaposing disparate images, Simic jars his readers into a state of disorientation, priming them for a world where one must approach mirrors "sideways/ In rooms webbed in shadow," where "Destiny marks you early in the day/ With a knowing finger," and where a tree is "spooked/ By its own evening whispers/...Making a noise full of deep/ Misgivings,/ Like bloody razor blades/ Being shuffled." There the lucky and the nimble survive: "Death's an early riser./ You've got to be real quick/ To slip under his arm." Handling his many images like a confident juggler or a magician, in "My Magician" Simic himself is the magician's dummy: "Through a row of wooden teeth/ We spoke of God the Father./ Then we vanished in a pack of cards." Simic's poetry depicts a tricky, dangerous and unstable existence where the black cat?symbol of bad luck?is a constant, even loved, companion. "It's horror movie time,/ Says the Emperor" in "The Emperor," but with these poems Simic tames that horror some and walks it on a leash.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Paperback, 96 pages
Published by: Harvest Books
Publication date: October 1996
ISBN: 015600481X.................... order now or more info.
 Has Been by William Shatner
From pop-culture icon William Shatner comes Has Been, an album unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. Produced and arranged by Ben Folds and featuring numerous notable guest appearances, Has Been is the result of the collision of two great creative forces — a surprisingly pop-driven, lyrically potent collection of songs to enlighten and entertain. Throughout Has Been, Shatner’s own insightful lyrics are masterfully woven into perfect pop melodies written and arranged by Ben Folds. Giving Shatner and Folds a hand on the project is an incredible lineup of singers and musicians, including Jon Auer, Adrian Belew, Matt Chamberlain, Joe Jackson, Lemon Jelly, Aimee Mann, Brad Paisley, Henry Rollins and Sebastian Steinberg. Highlights include the poignant "That’s Me Trying," penned by Ben Folds with High Fidelity author Nick Hornby, a brilliant version of the Pulp Britpop classic "Common People," featuring vocals by Joe Jackson and closing track, "Real," a duet with country star Brad Paisley, written exclusively for this project.
CD, 11 tracks
Shout! Factory
Publication date: August 2004
ASIN: B0002RUPH4.................... order now or more info.
 Def Poetry - Season 1 DVD
Produced by Russell Simmons and hosted by Mos Def, this groundbreaking HBO series presents poetry for the hip-hop generation. The setting is New York's Supper Club, the performers are young men and women of every hue, and the tools are words: angry, funny--even profane--words. Taped live, each of the four 30-minute episodes from the first season features several poets and a guest or two (from the fiery Last Poets to the out-of-her-element Jewel). This isn't your grandma's traditional verse, but rather slam poetry--or spoken word--as influenced by Public Enemy as Langston Hughes and the evening news. Some are powerful (see Suheir Hammad), some clever (Sarah Jones), and some irritating (Yellow Rage), but each poem is sure to provoke some kind of reaction. Def Poetry would go on to beget a world tour, a Peabody Award and, in its Broadway incarnation, a Tony for best theatrical event. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
DVD, 120 minutes
Warner Home Video
Publication date: August 2004
ASIN: B00026L9B6.................... order now or more info.
 The Best American Poetry 2004 edited by David Lehman and Lyn Hejinian
The Best American Poetry 2004 celebrates the vitality and richness of poetry in the United States and Canada today. Guest editor Lyn Hejinian, acclaimed for her own innovative writing, has chosen seventy-five important new poems and contributed a provocative introductory essay. Through her selections, Hejinian has created an essential nexus -- a meeting place for readers to encounter an extraordinary range of poets. With illuminating comments from the writers, and series editor David Lehman's insightful foreword evaluating the current state of the art, The Best American Poetry 2004 is an indispensable addition to a series that has established itself as the first word on what's new and noteworthy in the poetry of our times.
Paperback, 288 pages
Published by Scribner
Publication date: September 2004
ISBN: 074325757X.................... order now or more info.
 The Outlaw Bible of American Literature edited by Alan Kaufman, Barney Rosset and Neil Ortenberg
The Outlaw Bible of American Literature will serve as a primer for generational revolt and an enduring document of the visionary tradition of authenticity and nonconformity in literature. This exuberant manifesto includes lives of the writers, on-the-scene testimony, seminal underground articles never before collected, photographs, cartoons, drawings, interviews, and, above all, the writings. Beat, Punk, Noir, Prison, Porn, Cyber, Queer, Anarchist, Blue Collar, Pulp, Sci-Fi, Utopian, Mobster, Political-all are represented. The Bible includes fiction, essays, letters, memoirs, journalism, lyrics, diaries, manifestoes, and selections from seminal film scripts, including Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, and Taxi Driver. The editors have brought together an extravagant, eclectic, searing, and unforgettable body of work, showcasing Hustlers, Mavericks, Contrarians, Rockers, Barbarians, Gangsters, Hedonists, Provocateurs, Hipsters, and Revolutionaries-all in one raucous cauldron of rebellion and otherness. This prose companion to the best-selling award-winning Outlaw Bible of American Poetry features selections from Hunter S. Thompson, Exene Cervenka, Patti Smith, Dennis Cooper, Malcolm X, Sonny Barger, Maggie Estep, Lenny Bruce, Henry Miller, R. Crumb, Philip K. Dick, Iceberg Slim, Gil Scott-Heron, Kathy Acker, Jim Carroll, Charles Mingus, Norman Mailer, and many others.
Paperback, 920 pages
Published by: Thunder's Mouth Press
Publication date: December, 2004
ISBN: 1560255501.................... order now or more info.
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