Poems of wayfaring and wayfinding, recovery and discovery, from “one of the best poets of his generation” (Elizabeth Lund, Washington Post).In 2018, reeling from marital, parental, and societal losses, acclaimed poet Todd Boss risked everything to be at one with the world. Boss sold his belongings and began to circle the globe in a series of consecutive housesits. He alternately inhabited thatched-roof farmhouses, hillside estates, urban apartments, and lu...

Inspired by the beautiful true story of a nonverbal boy moved to speech at his first Mozart concert, this picture book is a testament to the power of art and the boundless joy it can bring.When Grandfather comes to take his grandson to a concert, Ronan is quiet as they leave the house, quiet in the car, and quiet at the concert hall. But when the performance is over and the beautiful music fades out at last, Ronan opens his mouth…and lets out a great big WOW!

“Tough Luck is funny and philosophical and wry and large-hearted, and it’s our great good luck to have it.”—Beth Ann FennellyAt the center of Tough Luck is a poem about the ill-fated I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis and its disastrous collapse, which killed 13 people and injured 145. The freighted, swiftly moving poems in Tough Luck crisscross the chasm between peril and safety as if between opposing riverbanks, revealing a frequently heart-st...

**2012 Poetry Midwest Booksellers Choice Award winner"[Todd Boss] can make any rhyme feel like a concealed weapon." —Sherman Alexie**With poems about loss, home, marriage, and the inner music of our lives, Pitch is a series of variations on an overturned piano. By turns bright and dark like the keys on a keyboard, these poems demonstrate the range of one of contemporary poetry’s most musical poets, a master of internal rhyme.from “Overtures on an Overtu...

Poetry that explores how accidental voyeurism can force reconsideration and reconciliationWhite⋅out: n. a surface condition … in which no object casts a shadow, the horizon cannot be seen, and only dark objects are discernible …Whiteout: when the heavy weather of daily life establishes the measure of the measureless; when the predatory nature of the accidental conjures cowboys and the comatose; when the sickly sweet pop of life underfoot contrasts the televised ima...

Songs of Exotic Birds contains poems written over a span of sixty years, forming an arc of life and capturing moments the writers memory stubbornly cannot lose. Merle Fischlowitz also writes in the voices of others that his psychologists ear has caught at special moments or rites of passage, where irony imbues the experiences. From childhood memories to todays cyber-news, these poems invite you into a garden where the exotic and prosaic, domestic and feral, all show the writers deep faith ...

Your Father on the Train of Ghosts is one of the most extensive collaborations in American poetry. Over the course of a year, acclaimed poets G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher wrote poems back and forth, sometimes once or twice a week, sometimes five or six a day. As the collaboration deepened, a third "voice" emerged that neither poet can claim as solely their own.The poems of Your Father on the Train of Ghosts read as lyric snapshots of a culture we are all too fam...

The Tallest Tree in The Forest, is about our tingle trees. Yes they do exist! In a very tiny area in south west of W.A.,and they grow no where else in the entire world. The story is about one particular little tingle seed is so ambitious to be the tallest tree, that he is greedy, selfish, and arrogant toward every one around him. He learns some hard lessons about attitude on the way up. The young readers learn about how a forest works, why it pays to be nice, and the importance of habitat ...

The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016New York Times, Critics PickBoston Globe, Best Books listingMiami Herald, Best LGBTQ BooksSan Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the YearLibrary Journal, Best Books of 2016“There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from...

The dazzling new collection from the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.Louise Glück's work consistently draws on her own experience, looking for the common threads in it that render it universal. Her poems are not confessional, they are mythic. In Winter Recipes from the Collective, she starts with the dying and death of a near relation to create an indelible group of characters who act in poems that touch on the family romance, loss, art, and i...

The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in our lives and the natural world around us and finds a multitude of reasons to wake early.

Even if you've never heard his name, you've probably met someone with his words tattooed on their skin or heard them sung at a music concert. Atticus, the young, anonymous poetry superstar, has taken the world by storm with his beautiful poems and powerful, simple themes of love and strength of the human spirit – all while wearing a mask and keeping his identity a secret.His fourth poetry collection, LVOE., is a study into himself. Using his instantly recognizable lyrical ...