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  • The Lookout Man

    by Stuart Dischell ...
    Series series Phoenix Poets
    Vivid poems full of drama and action by award-winning poet Stuart Dischell.Sometimes elegiac, sometimes deadly comic, and always transformative, The Lookout Man embodies the energy, spirit, and craft that we have come to depend upon in Stuart Dischell’s poetry. Inhabiting a mix of lyric structures, these poems are set in diverse locales from the middle of the ocean to the summit of Mont Blanc, ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Ploughshares Summer 2018 Guest-Edited by Jill McCorkle

    by Jill McCorkle, Wendell Berry, Ron Rash, Randall Kenan, Bobbie Ann Mason, Eileen Pollack, Belle Boggs, Robert Cohen, Carrie Cooperider, Ashlee Crews, Lee Clay Johnson, Louise Marburg, Lydia Martin, Dan McDermott, Erin Singer, Stuart Dischell, Serene Taleg-Agha ...
    The Summer 2018 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s four issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles; the Fall and Winter issues are staff-edited.As guest-editor Jill McCorkle writes in her introduction, “Some of the most satisfying moments in fiction are those where I might ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Children with Enemies

    by Stuart Dischell ...
    Series series Phoenix Poets
    There is a gentleness in the midst of savagery in Stuart Dischell’s fifth full-length collection of poetry. These poems are ever aware of the momentary grace of the present and the fleeting histories that precede the instants of time. Part elegist, part fabulist, part absurdist, Dischell writes at the edges of imagination, memory, and experience. By turns outwardly social and inwardly reflective, ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Dig Safe

    by Stuart Dischell ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    Stuart Dischell's poetry is passionate, darkly comic, heartbreaking, and always unpredictable. Dig Safe reaffirms why he commands high regard among poets and critics and popularity among his readers. Taking as their metaphor the markings that construction workers use to warn of utilities below street level—these new poems pierce the body politic as they evoke interconnection and misalliance, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Backwards Days

    by Stuart Dischell ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    Sly, comic, inventive, and exuberant, the brokenhearted lyrics and dark parables of Backwards Days are cast in the spirit and craft Stuart Dischell’s poetry is known for. In this, his fourth full-length collection, he revs up both music and experience and writes poems of emotional intensity that chronicle the restlessness of desire. Sometimes grim, ever buoyant and hopeful, even in the most ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    by Eve Joseph ...
    Much of this poised and luminous book is rooted in an idea of epiphany, an aesthetic of everyday incarnation; not the sudden and profound manifestation of essence or meaning, but the smaller steps taken toward it. The moments in which, as Joyce writes, “the soul of the commonest object…seems to us radiant.” If epiphanies are for theologians, perhaps the little steps towards them are for poets like ... Read more

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  • Popular Longing

    by Natalie Shapero ...
    The poems of Natalie Shapero’s third collection, Popular Longing, highlight the ever-increasing absurdity of our contemporary life. With her sharp, sardonic wit, Shapero deftly captures human meekness in all its forms: our senseless wars, our inflated egos, our constant deference to presumed higher powers—be they romantic partners, employers, institutions, or gods. “Why even / look up, when all we ... Read more

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  • Selves

    by Philip Booth ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    Booth's eighth poetry collection, with its evocations of compassion, tenderness and invading darkness, implies that redemption will come only from having loved well and wisely. Publishers Weekly remarked, "Booth is a traveler keenly, almost mystically, aware that 'how you get there is where you'll arrive.' " ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Legitimate Dangers

    American Poets of the New Century

    Edited by Cate Marvin, Michael Dumanis ...
    This groundbreaking anthology offers a broad and representative introduction to some of the most exciting, fresh voices on the contemporary poetry landscape by gathering together generous selections from the work of 85 younger American poets.The poets selected were born after 1960, published their first book within the last 10 years, and have no more than three books published. Some are the ... Read more

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  • Sanctuary

    The Preservation Issue

    by Peter Straub, Martine Bellen, Rick Moody, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Mary Caponegro, Brian Evenson, Peter Gizzi, Robert Kelly, Ann Lauterbach, Howard Norman, Karen Russell, Joanna Scott, David Shields, John Edgar Wideman, Diane Ackerman, Dinaw Mengestu ...
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    Exploring the myriad ways in which we go about preserving what might otherwise be forfeited.Whether trained specialists or lay people who care about something, preservationists come from every stratum of life. The archivist, the linguist, the local town historian. The paleontologist, the heirloom seed-saver, the family photographer, the Monuments Men. Old two-by-two Noah and taxonomist Linnaeus. ... Read more

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  • In the Salt Marsh

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    by Nancy Willard ...
    In this strong, appealing collection, Nancy Willard shares her passion for observing the mysteries of the natural world, particularly the flora and fauna of Cape Cod and the Hudson Valley, where many of these poems are set. We see, through her eyes, the coming of darkness to an empty orchard, the retreat of deer at dusk, and the breakup of a river with the onset of spring. Willard is also deeply ... Read more

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  • Someday the Plan of a Town

    Poems

    by Todd Boss ...
    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 ... Read more

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