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"From observation to contemplation, into memory and back to the scorched and gorgeous present, Hoppenthaler's fourth collection voices a hard-earned weariness that acknowledges but resists resignation. As Grammy Award-winning songwriter Rosanne Cash puts it, "Hoppenthaler's attention to the specifics of nature-hummingbirds, Japanese maples, snowfall-are like embroidery, stitched through and holding together the sharp memories and images of loss, longing, regret, and hope." These subtle yet powerful poems assay aging, spirituality, contemporary political concerns, death, the struggles of a mentally ill child and related marital pressures, and the poet's odyssey ends with resiliency and purpose reinscribed"--

Rolly Kent returns to poetry with a book that explores the mysteries and comforts of the known and unknown. Phone Ringing in a Dark House is filled with the mystery of loss, love, and the restorative powers of memory and language. In these forty-eight poems, the product of an intense return to poetry after a twenty-year absence, Rolly Kent writes about ordinary moments when the known and unknown overlap. These poems are, as one of the stars in the night sky says early in the book, a response to our wish not only to live but to "live again."

"Ricardo Pau-Llosa was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1954. In 1960 his family fled the communist takeover and arrived in Chicago. In 1968, by way of Tampa, they moved to Miami. His first collection of poems, Sorting Metaphors, was selected by William Stafford for the Anhinga Prize in 1983. This was followed by Bread of the Imagined from Bilingual Press in 1992, and Cuba, the 100th title in the Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series, in 1993-the first of seven of Pau-Llosa's collections from Carnegie Mellon. Additionally, he is a noted international authority on Latin American art"--

"Ricardo Pau-Llosa was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1954. In 1960 his family fled the communist takeover and arrived in Chicago. In 1968, by way of Tampa, they moved to Miami. His first collection of poems, Sorting Metaphors, was selected by William Stafford for the Anhinga Prize in 1983. This was followed by Bread of the Imagined from Bilingual Press in 1992, and Cuba, the 100th title in the Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series, in 1993-the first of seven of Pau-Llosa's collections from Carnegie Mellon. Additionally, he is a noted international authority on Latin American art"--

A poet wrestles with faith and loss post-pandemic. In these poems, Peter Cooley encounters both the political realities of loss through the pandemic in New Orleans and personal loss through the deaths of family members and friends. Death is a constant in this book of elegies, but the redemptive power of representation is persistent as this poet of faith memorializes imagined and lived experiences.

"Karenmaria Subach's Her Breath on the Window reflects upon longing in its range of forms, moving in rich lyrical detail through history and the world of fantasy/mythos. Through formal poems, riddle, and sustained lyric contemplative expression, Subach offers her own "blue perfume flask with a gold band," the "trade" of art, hard-won through what the writer has survived. In these poems, Hadrian and Antinous, Cleopatra and Marc Antony, Snow White and the Prince, as well as a range of separated lovers and characters divided by war, death, and family trauma are explored in their often-desperate predicaments. These poems are narratively dense, voice- and image-driven, full of passion and rage, and they draw on the poet's training in literature, languages, and history"--