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The Switching/Yard deals with the horizontal worlds of the birth table, the continuum of gender roles, and the head-on landscape of power and home as seen through the train yards of the West.

"Poems that stick with you like a song that won't stop repeating itself in your brain, poems whose cadences burrow into your bloodstream, orchestrating your breathing long before their sense attaches its hooks to your heart."-Washington Post on Captivity

The first publication of a reclaimed WPA project studying Pittsburgh's black population. The book features articles on civil rights, social class, lifestyle, culture, folklore, and institutions, from colonial times through the 1930s.

A book of contemporary poetry exploring the fine, shifting line between faith-secular and spiritual faith-and fanaticism in an insecure age, American Fanatics is a lyrical, pop-culture inflected meditation on democracy, morality, beauty, commerce, and the cost of falling dreams.

Offers Nicholas Rescher's perspectives on many of the foundational concerns of philosophy. He argues that the need to inquire is an evolutionary tool for adapting to a hostile environment and shows how philosophy has developed in an evolutionary fashion,

"I have long believed that Lynn Emanuel is one of the most innovative and subversive poets now writing in America. The brilliant, shattering, and disturbing poems of Noose and Hook are not only wry critiques of recent poetic and cultural activity in this country but also compelling signposts to what yet might be possible in our future.

"Joanie Mackowski's hypnotizing View from a Temporary Window is filled with Kafka-like transformations and metamorphoses and haunted by a sense of the body's strangeness. She writes in a relaxed and lucid manner that pays scrupulous attention to both the imaginary and the real, and to what is uncanny in each."-John L. Koethe

The poems in this collection are the proverbial spring bulbs abandoned in the basement, growing toward a slim crack of sunlight. The characters in these poems resist the twenty-first century\u2019s prescription for a life of emotional-spiritual bankruptcy, reaching toward an ever-elusive glimmer on the horizon.

Winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Prose poems that profile the interrelationship of the two central characters, looking deeply into their psyches and thoughts of race, class, and identity. Read a press release about this book

WINNER OF THE 2007 AGNES LYNCH STARRETT POETRY PRIZE A book of poems that explore working-class, rural American life, in all its complication and contradiction.

These poems, threaded by the teachings of Buddha, examine loss-the death of a loved one, the longing for a child, the yearning for another place and time-and the suffering such attempts transpire, but ultimately the poems are an affirmation that to be born into human life is our greatest opportunity to transform loss and sorrow into awakening joy.

The Floating Bridge, David Shumate's second collection of prose poems, transports its readers over the chasm between the mundane and the enchanted. We traverse one bridge and find ourselves eavesdropping on Gertrude Stein and her gardener. Halfway across, each bridge vanishes beneath our feet. Another bridge awaits.

Once I met Borges in a crowded room with his cane over his arm, led by a friend. He was looking up and a little to the left and seemed to be listening to words from above. One does not inherit courage, he had said in an essay on blindness. His courage had grown as his eyes failed him.

The Invention of the Kaleidoscope is a book of poetic elegies that discuss failures: failures of love, both sexual and spiritual; failures of nature, imagination, memory and, most importantly, the failures inherent to elegiac narratives and our formal attempt to memoralize the lost.

Fata Morgana mingles personal experience, history, mythology, politics, and natural science to explore the relationships of conception and perception, the self finding its way through a physical and social world not of its own making, but changing the world by its presence.

In creating this collection Suarez creatively combines poems from six previous collections with unpublished ones to give compelling expression of what it means to live in exile.

Winner of the 2011 Drue Heinz Literature PrizeTold in precise, evocative prose that skewers the heart of the matter time after time, these memorable stories view and illuminate the human condition from a compelling, funny and entirely original perspective.

In republican Colombia, salt became an important source of revenue not just to individuals, but to the state, which levied taxes on it and in some cases controlled and profited from its production. Focusing his study on the town of La Salina, Rosenthal presents a fascinating glimpse into the workings of the early Colombian state, its institutions, and their interactions with local citizens during this formative period.

Winner of the 2009 Donald Hall Prize in PoetryA collection of lyric poems that address issues of death and personal crisis by filtering them through an obsession with monsters and animals.

Second book by an acclaimed young poet. This volume features more of Barry's refined brilliance and delicate lyricism, cast in a more meditative mode.

Full of wit, vivid language, and devastating honesty, these poems trace the timelines of Kercheval's life forward and backward, offering a moving examination of the connections that bind us together into families and communities.

Barresi's poems take the world's brutal vitality as their music, and they refuse to despair.

The journal of the Hebrew Union College, an anthology of scholarly articles concerning Jewish history, religion and culture from antiquity to the present.

A collection of ten essays which emphasize historicism, the predominant critical approach used to explicate Milton's writings. It provides an intertextual analysis of Milton's writings and those of his contemporaries. It also illuminates Milton's biography by focusing on his interaction with his two nephews.

Poetry in America offers lyric and narrative poems that function like works of social realism for our times: hard times, wartime, divorce, times of downturn and dissipated resources.