Thievery (Akron series in poetry)

Nearly every poem in How We Spent Our Time flies at its mast a title in the form of a gerund or ground phrase, that humble verbal noun. Haunted by work and its wasted hours, the book offers a glimpse of self-rendered as subtext beneath the sheen of productivity. But as its title suggests, it does so according to the polar opposite of convention. In Big Muddy River of Stars, her second full-length collection of poems, Alison Pelegrin continues her celebration of the quirks and characters of south Louisiana, tempered now by the devastations of hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

Modern Poems of Ohio gathers together poems by 85 poets for a fresh perspective on the Buckeye State.

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Not since has there been a comprehensive collection of poems written about Ohio. And this anthology is especially relevant as Ohio celebrates its th year as a state.

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It could be called Ohio's bicentennial gift to itself. Vasectomania In his third collection, Matthew Guenette continues to explore work and class, this time from the perspective of a narrator who is perpetually—and outrageously—on the run. Pictures at an Exhibition Wrestling with the questions of travel, memory, and perception, Pictures at an Exhibition: Twice Told The poems in Twice Told roam through Midwest and western landscapes haunted by shards of nineteenth-century gothic novels, war stories, warnings, and the ghosts of known and imagined lovers, mothers, soldiers, trainmates, and mistresses.

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Waters of Forgetting In The Waters of Forgetting , Seiler brings together poems that spring from the tensions between memory and forgetting, the past and the present, the daily and the eternal. Never Be the Horse Winner of the Akron Poetry Prize Never Be the Horse depicts the world of a postmodern Dark Dorothy whose attempts to return home are foiled when she falls into the Garden of Eden, into the underworld with Walt Whitman, into mysterious versions of her own childhood. Nothing Fatal What happens when love is replaced by romance?

Other Latitudes Winner of the Akron Poetry Prize Attempting to repair the fissures of everyday life, Brian Brodeur negotiates the psychological distances between desire and disgust, humor and catastrophe, banality and dream. Good Kiss Winner of the Akron Poetry Prize The Good Kiss is a collection of poems dealing loosely with the subjects of divorce, sexuality, and American culture from the 's to today. Simmer Dim Simmer Dim is a book of roots and epiphanies, of travels that become an inward journey as the poet searches for origins familial and literary, finally discovering what Eliot found in his Four Quartets: American Busboy When Matthew Guenette says your mother is a busboy, it sounds like an insult.

Ascending Order Ascending Order is the work of a poet who has thought hard about the circumstances of his past and present, and found an attitude, part concerned and part amused, that serves him well in both his life and his art. Black Leaf Out of our endgame of giddy chaos, Black Leaf sustains and deepens the themes and images first confronted in Seiler's book, The Waters of Forgetting.

Blues for Bill Blues for Bill celebrates the life and work of poet William Matthews through his own language, that of poetry. Book of Accident In her latest collection of poems, The Book of Accident , Beckian Fritz Goldberg invites the reader into a shadowy atmosphere where her language prowls among strange images; hummingbirds become a "fistful of violet amphetamines" and desire gnaws away like a "live rat sewed up inside us.

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Cage of Water The poems in Dennis Hinrichsen's Cage of Water explore collisions of spirit and matter, that thorn-and-thistle bath as he states in the book's final poem, where the limitations and entanglements of the flesh give over to a provisional and sometimes fractured radiance and everlasting. Circle Routes Winner of the Akron Poetry Prize In Circle Routes , a navigational term, John Minczeski transports the reader to a series of places that often interconnect, whether they are as close as the poet's back yard or as distant, in history and geography, as a Japanese concentration camp and the pungent streets of Rome.

Comma after Love From more than nine hundred poems left behind at the poet's death, Donald Justice has chosen the seventy-four representative works that comprise The Comma After Love. Zones of Paradise Lynn Powell's earlier work has deservedly brought her prestigious prizes and a loyal following. Private Hunger Private Hunger , Melody Lacina's first collection of poetry, begins as a book of snapshots from a family album, becomes a carousel of colorslides from travels in Europe, and concludes as a gallery of poems celebrating the vitality of the body and its enormous appetite for life.

Delicate Bait Winner of the Akron Poetry Prize In Delicate Bait , Roger Mitchell explores the small histories of the self in the larger world, intent on giving everything its just place and name. Frozen Falls Frozen Falls , Barry Seiler's fourth full-length collection of poems, extends the range of his themes and poetic strategies. Lingo In "Foreword," the opening poem of Clare Rossini's new book, the poet exclaims: Internal Strategies In a daring first book that challenges contemporary poetic practice and pieties, Anita Feng speaks in a voice completely different from her own, submerging her gender, race, and nationality in these powerful and sensitive poems.

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Hurricane Party Hurricane Party is a collection of larger-than-life poems that capture the cadence of New Orleans speech, and the indomitable spirit of its speakers and its culture. Map of the Folded World Map of the Folded World , John Gallaher's third full-length collection, examines the eros and desperation of suburban America with the precision of a cartographer's eye. Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields Winner of the Akron Poetry Prize In her first book, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields , Ashley Capps sounds like the voice of a fresh generation of poets, where the familiar turns suddenly elliptical, straight talk goes engagingly crooked, and the lyric negotiates with the matter-of-fact.

Big Muddy River of Stars Winner of the Akron Poetry Prize In Big Muddy River of Stars, her second full-length collection of poems, Alison Pelegrin continues her celebration of the quirks and characters of south Louisiana, tempered now by the devastations of hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. How the Dead Bury the Dead With reverence and exasperation and good humor, the poems in William Greenway's book, H ow the Dead Bury the Dead , evoke the pain of loss and celebrate the ways we transform our losses into strength.

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