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Bruce  

  
 
 Bennett 


Navigating the Distance: Poems New and Selected

   

 

  

  

 

 
Reviewed in
this issue by 
Beth Houston


    
 
 

            

Leslie  

 Monsour 

A Formal  
Feeling Comes

A Formal Feeling Comes
An anthology of
new formalism 
poetry by women poets.
                       
 

 

  
Indelibility

A fine letter press edition,
from Aralia Press

   
 
             

Timothy  

 Steele 

All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification
...An Explanation of Meter and Versification ...

  
  
  Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter

   
 
   
    Sapphics and Uncertainties: Poems 1970-1986

"...It has given me more pleasure than any other first book I have read this year." J. D. McClatchy
  The Color Wheel

"... this new book is a marvel, reminding us of how involving of thought and feeling poetry at its best can be."
Robert Shaw, Poetry
   
             

Gilbert  

 Allen

  

Commandments at Eleven

       
 

     
   

 

 

Thomas  

 Carper 

Fiddle Lane 

65 poems, all written in traditional formsmost of them sonnetstreat subjects ranging from the creation of the world to the pleasures and trials of growing up.
     



 

 

From  Nature          
This collection start at the beginningchildhoodand moves from the concrete to the more abstract problem of presenting reality through artistic expression

  
 
 
   

 

 

Robert Murray  

 Davis 

  

Mischief in the Sun: The Making and Unmaking of "The Loved One"

   

      

 

  

 

 
             
Beth

Houston 

Drive, They Said: 
Poems about Americans 
and Their Cars
 
An anthology edited
by Kurt Brown.
"Fascinating ...The results sweep past your open window at 70 mph ..." 
People.
  

 
 

  

Ars Poetica
    Ars Poetica - an electronic book of poetry Beth Houston
An Electronic Book of Poetry by Beth Houston.
   

   
             

Jerry H.  

 Jenkins 

The Weird Sonneteers




by 
Keith Allen Daniels,
Jerry H. Jenkins,
Ann K. Schwader.

   
    A collection of 120 sonnets on science-fiction, fantasy and horror themes each poet contributing 40 sonnets!
   
   
             

Robert  

 McDowell

Quiet Money

"McDowell's poems are arresting, humorous, and strangely surrealistic."
The Library Journal
   

 

Poetry After Modernism

Story Line's most successful anthology of criticism, was recognized and widely praised for raising the level of discourse on poetry.
 

   
   

Sound and Form 
in Modern Poetry

Unravels the mystery of prosody for readers of modern poetry in clear, accessible language.
    
  

  The Diviners

An ambitious narrative poem, with an introduction by Dana Gioia
   
 


The Reaper Essays

   
 

 


Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainsream : Contemporary Cowboy Writing

   
             

Charles S.  

 Ramsburg, Jr.

Songs of Myself:
Episodes from the
Edge of Adulthood

 

 


   

 
 
 
Edited by Diane Scharper collects the best memoirs by her students, and reveals a world where young people face, often for the first time, life's vital issues and big questions.
  
   
           

Bertha  

 Rogers

   
 
Sleeper, You Wake : Poems (Mellen Poetry Series, Vol 17)
  


   

  Out of the Catskills and Just Beyond : Literary and Visual Works by Catskill Writers and Artists (Catskills Arts Series)

Edited by Bertha Rogers
  
   
             

A. E.  

 Stallings

Archaic Smile

   
"...Raves are in order:  This brilliant debut immediately puts Stallings very much in the front rank of young American poets."
Dick Allen
    

   
   

Selected by Dana Gioia for the Richard Wilbur Award.
   

       
             

Alan  

 Cheuse

The Light Possessed

"Cheuse has captured in language a sense of the world that is normally expressed only in pigment on canvas."
Digby Diehl, Playboy.
      
 

The Grandmothers' Club

"a remarkably rich and resonant novel."
The Independent Publisher.
  

   
   


Lost and Old Rivers

"A collection of 10 short narratives and one semi-autobiographical....The evocative, elegiac prose is seductive, revealing Cheuse's own character."
Publishers Weekly.

 


The Tennessee Waltz 
and Other Stories

"Scarred souls move across the landscape of the American Westand South, occasionally venturing into Latin America and sometimes toward a new love."
Susan Lowell, The New York Times Book Review  
     

   
             

Thaisa  

 Frank

Sleeping in Velvet

"... occupies the shadowy land between poetry and proseat times strong in narrative, more often fantastic."
William Ferguson, The New York Times Book Review.
   
     

 

Finding Your Writer's Voice : A Guide to Creative Fiction

"Provides an excellent key to developing a writer's perspective."
The Midwest Book Review.
     
  

   
   

A Brief History of Camouflage

Short Stories about lives
that brush up against one
another, but cannot fuse.
     

       
             

Randy  

 Adams 

Eternal Prairie : 
Exploring Rural 
Cemeteries of the West

       
 

 

   
SOME FAVORITE BOOKS & TAPES  
             

Gardner's Art Through the Ages 

"The most successful art history book every written."

   
         
    The Oxford Book of Short Poems
   
   


The Caedmon Treasury of Modern Poets Reading Their Own Poetry/Cpn 2006 (2 Cassettes)

The Caedmon Treasury
of Modern Poets Reading Their Own Poetry/Cpn 2006
(2 Cassettes)

   
       
   

Robert Frost readsRobert Frost Reads : 
The Road Not Taken, 
the Pasture, Birches, 
Death of a Hired Man, 
Mending Wall and Other 
of His Poems/ Audio Cassettes
by Robert Frost

 
   
 
   

81 Famous Poems: An Audio Companion to The Norton Anthology of  Poetry, Third Edition Derek
Walcott Reads/
Audio Cassette
by Derek Walcott

  The Nobel Prize-winning poet,
  playwright, and essayist reads
  excerpts from his own works, 
  including selections from Omeros,
  Odyssey,
and Collected Poems,
  1948-1984

 
   
 
    The Best American Poetry 1999   

The Best American Poetry 1999 by Robert Bly (Editor),
David Lehman (Editor)

   
         
   

Voice of the Poet: Merrill
 
Voice of the Poet: Merrill
by James Merrill (Reader), J. D. McClatchy (Editor)

   
         
   

Best Words, Best Order
 
Best Words, Best Order : Essays on Poetry
by Stephen Dobyns

   
   
 
   

 Derek Walcott Reads 81 Famous Poems: An Audio Companion to 
The Norton Anthology of  Poetry, Third Edition

 
   
 
     

  
2000 Poet's Market : 1,800 Places to Publish Your Poetry

 
       
   

  
Writer's Market 1999 (Book & CD)
8000 Editors!
"Does everything but stamp your self-addressed envelopes"
St. Paul PioneerPress


  

 
       
       
   

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