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Ruth Bavetta's selections of the best poems from her previously published collections: Fugitive Pigments; Embers on the Stairs; Flour, Water, Salt; No Longer At This Address; and 2022 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize winner What's Left Over. Includes a section of uncollected poems.

A selection by the author of poems from his previously published collections: Waiting for the Fire to Go Out, Backmasking, Lost in the Telling, Red Clay Journal, My Heavens (FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize winner), and A Rain Ancestral. Some new poems are also included.

"Selections by the author from formerly published books: The Hunted River, The Gravedigger's Roots, One Man's Profit, Diary of the Last Person on Earth, Developing a Photograph of God, Messages from Multiverses"--

Thoreau wrote, "...I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." As well as a writer, Randy Blythe has been a plumber, a percussionist, an editor, a teacher, and a farmer. So it's understandable that a reader will encounter, in The Wish Furnace-Blythe's second full-length collection-abundant evidence that the poems' perceiver, like Thoreau, wants to inhabit every human moment. This is difficult, the reason why a Blythe poem that celebrates belief may be followed by a poem bent on questioning belief's worth. Blythe refuses easy binary thinking when a greater challenge looms. Sometimes labeled "a religious poet," he denies that descriptor, choosing instead to explore matters of existence and spirit simultaneously, with the relentlessness of a born seeker.

WINNER OF THE 2023 FUTURECYCLE POETRY BOOK PRIZE. In a dazzling array of forms, moods, and subjects, the poems in Matthew Roth's Rains Rain explore the absurd and tender boundaries that separate desire and disaster. Again and again, the speakers in these poems discover the moment when control gives way to chaos, when the light of knowledge fails and one is left to make fateful decisions in the dark. By turns humorous, poignant, and sharply philosophical, Roth's poems blend a keen-eyed honesty with disarming imaginative leaps. These poems resonate, their presence reverberating in the wake of the silence they leave behind.

Set in a world in which pop culture and nature coexist, Never Be the Same features poems of movement and adaptation. Anxiety is personified throughout the collection and embarks on a journey of self-discovery. She re-imagines herself alongside the cast of Saturday Night Live, Donald Sutherland, and Liam Neeson. Meanwhile, a woman inspired by a rare white deer abandons her work colleagues at a rest stop, story problems and hiking intersect, horses may or may not be a form of advertising, and the fox-that ultimate shapeshifter-illuminates a path to escape from the everyday world.

"A collection of poetry by Judith O'Connell Hoyer"--

In I Think I Know You, Julie Gard explores the ways we struggle to understand each other's hearts and histories, along with our own. These prose poems speak of deep connection and tragicomic gaps in understanding, as life's pedantic, transcendent rhythms are mined for revealing moments and messages. Elements include dialogue overheard in northern Minnesota coffee shops and at the Jersey shore, personal crashes and landings in the aftermath of the Soviet Union, and queer identity in middle age. The final section of the book is a series of text messages sent by the poet to herself during a crucial election season, examining daily life, dreamscape, and the collective psyche in a time of political upheaval. Gard attempts to map out, complicate, and bridge divides, concluding that a sense of belonging, and a shared sense of home, may be the most important thing we have to offer each other.

"A volume of poetry by Tom Laichas about the streets and neighborhoods of Venice, California"--

Adrienne Rich's poem "What Kind of Times Are These" says in these times "it's necessary to talk about trees." These times are hard for many living creatures, including trees. One Bent Twig collects love poems for trees including first-loved tree, sequoias, ancient trees, towering sugar maples, Douglas firs, and red oaks. Tricia Knoll has hugged some of the best, planted dozens in her lifetime, and feels intuitively what scientists have discovered about tree sentiency and communication. As an Oregonian for over 40 years, she witnessed the decline of old-growth forest and breathed the smoke of wildfires. Now, in Vermont, ash borers threaten the trees that the first people knew as the heart of their creation story. As an eco-poet, Tricia Knoll sings tree-praises for thrivers and survivors, knowing full well how climate change endangers so many.

Seth Jani's Field Music is composed of fifty lyrical dispatches from the wilderness. Not just the wilderness as geography, but as an alternative psychological and spiritual framework outside the orderly arrangements of waking consciousness. Informed by Buddhist Metaphysics, Archetypal Psychology and the Western Romantic Tradition, the poems in this short collection seek to be a conduit for "the wonderful little ghosts of the trees and rivers."

Bearing the Body of Hector Home is the story of how King Priam of Troy fetched his son's corpse from the grief-striken, vengeance-mad Achilles, the subsequent preparations for and completion of Hector's funeral rites. The collection consists of a series of dramatic monologues from the points of view of Greek and Trojan warriors and also the citizens of Troy, that besieged, doomed city. Poems show us the grieving of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, the cynical takes of Paris and Helen (who caused the War), and the reactions of a gallery of Troy's ordinary subjects: wood cutters, prostitutes, butchers, tavern owners, beggars, pickpockets, tax collectors, security men, deserters-the whole panoply of Trojan society. The collection ends with Hector speaking one last time, bidding the only life he'll ever know goodbye

"A volume of poetry by Kristen Staby Rembold on rural themes"--

At an age when most good gray poets are content to rest on their laurels, William Greenway has had to face new challenges, not only of many losses but of becoming a father for the first time at 70, explored in this collection.