Finalist for Griffin International Poetry Prize, given by The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry, 2022Award-winning poet Ed Roberson confronts the realities of an era in which the fate of humanity and the very survival of our planet are uncertain. Departing from the traditional nature poem, Roberson's work reclaims a much older tradition, drawing into poetry's orbit what the physical and human sciences reveal about the state of a changing world. These ...

A Black ecopoet observes the changing world from a high-rise window, " ever alert to affinities between the small and the vast, the fleeting and the cosmic" (James Gibbons, Hyperallergic).Award-winning poet Ed Roberson confronts the realities of an era in which the fate of humanity and the very survival of our planet are uncertain. Departing from the traditional nature poem, Roberson's work reclaims a much older tradition, drawing into poe...

Winner of the Voelcker Award (PEN America) (2016)In To See the Earth Before the End of the World Ed Roberson presents us with 120 new poems, each speaking in his unique voice and seen through his unique eye. Earth and sky, neighborhood life and ancient myths, the art of seeing and the architecture of the imagination are all among the subjects of these poems. Recurring images and ideas construct a complex picture of our world, ourselves, and the manifold connections...

Scripture portrays Jesus as both perfect and exceptional in character. Born into humble beginnings, he showed the power of words and their ability to speak things which aren’t as though they already existed. His mission was to transform the world with words. He demonstrated his perfection in framing words throughout his earthly ministry, and he’s the prime example of how to live a victorious life and invoke mastery over Satan by confession of faith. In Adopt the Jesus Mindset, author M. R....

“Pekar has proven that comics can address the ambiguities of daily living, that like the finest fiction, they can hold a mirror up to life.”–The New York TimesFor years Heather Roberson, a passionate peace activist, has argued that war can always be avoided. But she has repeatedly faced counterarguments that fighting is an inescapable consequence of world conflicts. Indeed, Heather finds proving her point to be a little tricky without examples to bolster her case. So she doe...

Collecting Old Man Logan (2016) #46-50 and Annual #1. When a mysterious unidentified flying object crash-lands in the Yukon, Old Man Logan is called to investigate! What lies within? What does it want with Logan? The Marvel Universe’s newest alien menace is on the loose and ready to start a rampage — beware the creature from the blackness of space! Then, Logan’s declining health takes a turn for the worse — which is especially bad timing when the Maestro returns! It’s a Wolverine vs. Hulk ...

In this extraordinary collection from one of our most celebrated poets, Don McKay walks the strike-slip fault between poetry and landscape, sticks its strange nose into the cold silence of geologic time, meditates on marble, quartz and gneiss, and attends to the songs of ravens and thrushes and to the clamour of the industrialized bush. Behind these poems lies the urge to engage the tectonics of planetary dwelling with the rickety contraption of language, and to register the stress, sheer ...

"Charming, melancholy, hip."-Publishers Weekly, starred review"Zapruder's innovative style is provocative in its unusual juxtapositions of line, image and enjambments. . . . Highly recommended."-Library JournalMatthew Zapruder's third book mixes humor and invention with love and loss, as when the breath of a lover is compared to "a field of titanium gravestones / growing warmer in the sun." The title poem is an elegy for the heroes and mentors in the poet'...

In this mesmerizing debut collection, chosen by Mary Oliver for the National Poetry Series, we’re witness to an expansive travelogue of the human spirit that moves throughtfully through multiples ages, cultures, and beings. Each poem explores in depth, through pensive, evocative images, aspects of the human condition and their place within the rich continuum of animal existence. W.B. Keckler presents these poems in a fugal form, uniting the individual works in what he describes as a “holis...

"[McKay's] exuberantly musical and shrewd poems are ecological in the fullest sense of the word: they seek to elucidate our relationships with our fragile dwelling places both on the earth and in our own skins." --New York Times Book ReviewE.J. Pratt Family Poetry Award, WinnerAn extraordinary collection of poems from Griffin Poetry Prize winner Don McKay.Old joke: “What’s the difference between a lurch and a dance step?”

"Perillo's poetic persona is funny, tough, bold, smart, and righteous. A spellbinding storyteller and a poet who makes the demands of the form seem as natural as a handshake, she pulls readers into the beat and whirl of her slyly devastating descriptions."-Booklist"Whoever told you poetry isn't for everyone hasn't read Lucia Perillo. She writes accessible, often funny poems that border on the profane."-Time Out New YorkThe poetry of Lucia Perillo is fierce...

Multi-award-winning poet Don McKay returns with a startling collection of new poems, his first since his Griffin Poetry Prize winning book, Strike/SlipDon McKay is known, among other things, as Canada's foremost poet of the natural world. Readers have come to expect a playful extravagance in his poetry. Most recently, he has opened himself to the mysteries of geologic wonder. "Who needs ghosts when matter /nonchalantly haunts us," he writes. In his new book, perhaps his mo...