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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
      

 

 
Reviewed in
this issue by 
A. M. Juster

   
             

    
Richard  

  
 Wilbur 

  
Mayflies: New Poems and Translations

The first volume of poetry in a decade by the Pulitzer Prize-winning past Poet Laureate of the United States.
 
This is the work of a master.
 — Ray Olson, Booklist

 

 

 
Reviewed in
this issue by 
Leslie Monsour

   
     
             

Diane 

Thiel 

Echolocations

Winner of the 2000
Nicholas Roerich
Poetry Prize 
 

 
 "Diane Thiel is the real thing  — a genuinely memorable lyric poet whose intuitive music strikes the difficult balance between the mythic and the real, the personal and the historical, the familiar and the unknown." 
     — Dana Gioia
 

   
             

R. S.  

Gwynn 

Poetry : A Longman Pocket Anthology

 
  Texas Poets in Concert: A Quartet
   
   


 
New Expansive Poetry

This revised edition of Story Line Press's first controversial and influential anthology contains 16 essays by leading poet-critics on the New Narrative and the New Formalism.
 

   
Fiction : A Longman Pocket Anthology

 
   
     
 
No Word of Farewell : Selected Poems, 1970-2000 


 
 
The Advocates of Poetry : A Reader of American Poet-Critics of the Modernist Era
 
   
             

Rachel  

Hadas

Living in Time

"...A long poem, preceded and followed by essay-length memoirs exploring a lifetime of literary activity. The poem the role of the imagination in a small child and in the writer herself..."
   Booknews
  
  Halfway Down the Hall: New and Selected Poems

"...Hadas stakes a small claim for art's place in our lives....witty, elegant poems..."
 
The Progressive
   
     
Other Worlds Than This: Translations

Translations of Tibullus, Seneca, Hugo, Baudelaire, Mallarme, Rimbaud, LaForgue, Valery, and the modern Greek poet Konstantine Karyotakis, and  others.
 
   
The Empty Bed

". . . Hadas writes about death in a time of AIDS and violence, discussing the persistence of memories despite the need for oblivion and the permanence of friendship that transcends the mortal coil." 
 Booklist
   
      
Merrill, Cavafy, Poems and Dreams (Poets on Poetry)
 
 
   
             

Mark 

Jarman

Questions for
Ecclesiastes: 
Poems

Questions for Ecclesiastes: Poems
Winner of the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.Contains 
the "Unholy Sonnets,"
sequence of poems.
  
  Unholy Sonnets: Poems 
50 sonnets on questions of (largely Christian) religious faith and doubt.
 
   
 

  
Other books:

 
  The Reaper Essays
  The Black Riviera (Wesleyan Poetry)
  Iris
    

   
Rebel Angels:
 25 Poets of the
 New Formalism 

Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism
The first anthology
of new formalism.
 
   
   

            

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
   
             

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!
  

  Avian

This collection of poems
with avian themes won
Second Prize in the 1996
Anamnesis Poetry
Chapbook Award
competition.
 
   
           

Dennis 

 Must  

Banjo Grease

 

"Dennis Must's first collection of short stories is no ordinary debut but the mature work of a fully accomplished literary artist ... originality ... deep irreverence ... compassion for working-class men and women..."
Tom Jenks, Editor (with Raymond Carver) of "American Short Story Masterpieces."
  

   
           

Linda  

 Spencer 

Heal Abuse and Trauma Through Art : Increasing Self-Worth, Healing of Initial Wounds, and Creating a Sense of Connectivity

     
 

 

   
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Gardner's Art Through the Ages 

"The most successful art history book every written."
  

   

 
...An Explanation of Meter and Versification ...

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

Missing Measures: Modern
Poetry and the Revolt 
Against Meter
by Timothy Steele
  
 
         
    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 2000 by Rita Dove (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

 
   
 
   
 

2001 Poet's Market : 1,800 Places
to Publish Your Poetry

 


 
       
   

 
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Internet Edition (Book & CD) 8000 Editors! 
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