A cryptic collection of poems & songs Scribbled concisely as Time moves along To hope to find solace in a line or verse Surgical stanzas dissecting your worth

“Immediate, sensual, unrelentingly intense.” —NPRA breathtaking volume about the violence of desire and the peace of love from celebrated poet Li-Young Lee, The Undressing is a tonic for spiritual anemia; it attempts to uncover things hidden since the dawn of the world. Short of achieving that end, these mysterious, unassuming poems investigate the human violence and dispossession increasingly prevalent around the world, and the horrors the poet grew up wi...

A collection of poetry and prose, this book travels through stages of love and healing, shedding a burden of unspoken words, raw and unfiltered. A ballad of romantic experience, intentionally reliving the passionate highs and lows of relationship experiences in hopes of finding solace in everyday words.

"... [Annie Hwang's] poetry sings for every aching soul....talks about every loving heart....Speaks of the unflinching reality of life....Cries for the dreams that we all are craving for....." -Munia Khan

"If McHugh is serious, she's anything but grim; with all her punning, bantering, and mock scolding of herself . . . she brightens the shadowy corners of her world with verbal pyrotechnics."-The New York Times Book Review"Her poems are open, resilient, invisibly twisted: part safety net, part trampoline."-Voice Literary SupplementThis fast-paced, verbally dexterous book-honored as a "Book of the Year" by Publishers Weekly-"boils up and boils over" ...

Gloria Ausubel (1948- ) is a baby boomer who has tasted the palatable and unpalatable fare served up in the culture of the 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's. Her poetry becomes a way of identification with the generation of alienation. In terms of skittish dabbling, vicarious participation, and prophetic yearning she takes a poetic stance to that generation. Her poems emanate from a specific time and place but have levels of meaning that can strike listeners from different generations. Her poems ...

This awe-inspiring collection of poetry, guides readers down familiar roads of life, love and heartache. The author intertwines personal life experience with an intriguing intensity of passion and multitude of deep human emotion.In Veronica's words: "Poetry to me, is an inaudible voice crying out to be heard, the connection between the heart and soul more so than the head.Poetry is beauty, sadness, pain, hope, glory, defeat, inspiration and motivation, all tied in together w...

“A striking meditation on art’s free-standing place in the natural world.”—Cortland ReviewFrom the acclaimed American poet whose work the San Francisco Review called “mystical, carnal, reflective, wry” come three gorgeous poetic sequences. In the first, “Eden and After,” Gregory Orr retells the story of Adam and Eve. The second sequence, “The City of Poetry,” evokes and explores a visionary metropolis where “every poem is a house, and every house a poem.” ...

Reel to Reel, Alan Shapiro’s twelfth collection of poetry, moves outward from the intimate spaces of family and romantic life to embrace not only the human realm of politics and culture but also the natural world, and even the outer spaces of the cosmos itself. In language richly nuanced yet accessible, these poems inhabit and explore fundamental questions of existence, such as time, mortality, consciousness, and matter. How did we get here? Why is there something rather than noth...

Home Going is the first print collection of poetry from award winning author Carolyn Weber. She weaves together an affinity for place, nature and journey, and takes her readers on a diverse path of both landscapes as well as several topical spiritual journeys in the daily life of Christian faith.This volume includes all of the poems from previous digital-only collections, True North and Summering, along with 13 new poems.The poetry in this collection echoes the signature st...

Often without rhyme and sometimes even without reason, these poems seek to capture the sameness in the pattern of lives we live everywhere, throughout time and space, and attempt to effectively articulate the anguish born from the mad desire of every rose for peace, love and permanence in a fast-changing world plagued by the thorns of greed and chaos.But above all else, the book is intended to be a question, to every reader who cares enough to listen, for every ear that hears the gr...