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  • A Scrap in the Blessings Jar

    New and Selected Poems

    by David Bottoms, Dave Smith ...
    Series series Southern Messenger Poets
    A Scrap in the Blessings Jar, a volume of newand selected poems by David Bottoms, captures the evolution of the poet’s spiritual quest over the past fifty years. A native and longtime resident of Georgia, Bottoms draws inspiration from the American South, and his work examines themes related to family dynamics, the woods, animals, fishing, and music in an effort to, as he once told an interviewer, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Armored Hearts

    Selected & New Poems

    by David Bottoms ...
    Armored Hearts, combining new poems and a selection from previous volumes, offers the power of idiomatic narrative at its naked best. "It is refreshing to read a poet who is not obliquely vague, who tells a story cleanly and convincingly, and yet who will not close down mysterious and complicated things about life that simply defy such closure."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • We Almost Disappear

    by David Bottoms ...
    "An exquisite storyteller."-The Southern Review"David Bottoms's poems just get better and better."-The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"One finds here what one expects in a book of good Southern poems: clear narratives . . . evocative images, searching irony, and meditative poise." -Library JournalRooted in the customs of Southern families and peopled with undertakers, bluegrass musicians, daughters ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch

    by David Bottoms ...
    “[Bottoms] makes astounding leaps of both faith and doubt, and does so with insight, honesty, and flashes of anger—all characteristic elements of his work.” —The Southern Review“One finds here what one expects in a book of good Southern poems: clear narratives . . . evocative images, searching irony, and meditative poise.” —Library Journal“Bottoms’ poems do what the best poems have always done: ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • Delights & Shadows

    by Ted Kooser ...
    Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry“Kooser documents the dignities, habits and small griefs of daily life, our hunger for connection, our struggle to find balance.”—Poetry"[Kooser] brushes poems over ordinary objects, revealing metaphysical themes that way an investigator dusts for fingerprints. His language is so controlled and convincing that one can't help but feel significant truths ... Read more

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  • The Wheeling Year

    A Poet's Field Book

    by Ted Kooser ...
    Ted Kooser sees a writer’s workbooks as the stepping-stones on which a poet makes his way across the stream of experience toward a poem. Because those wobbly stones are only inches above the quotidian rush, what’s jotted there has an immediacy that is intimate and close to life.Kooser, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a former U.S. poet laureate, has filled scores of workbooks. The Wheeling Year ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Search and Rescue

    Poems

    by Michael Chitwood ...
    In Search and Rescue, Michael Chitwood seeks what the pagan Celts called the thin places, the spots where otherworldliness bleeds into the everyday. Beginning with childhood, the poet meditates on the intersection of the sacred and secular, on those luminous moments we can only partially understand. Water anchors the collection with the title poem, which explores the history of a large manmade ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Smoke

    by Dorianne Laux ...
    Dorianne Laux’s long-awaited third book of poetry follows her collection, What We Carry, a finalist for the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. In Smoke, Laux revisits familiar themes of family, working class lives and the pleasures of the body in poetry that is vital and artfully crafted-poetry that "gets hard in the face of aloofness," in the words of one reviewer. In Smoke, as ... Read more

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  • Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones

    Selected and New Poems

    by Lucia Perillo ...
    "Perillo's poetic persona is funny, tough, bold, smart, and righteous. A spellbinding storyteller and a poet who makes the demands of the form seem as natural as a handshake."—Booklist"The poems [are] taut, lucid, lyric, filled with complex emotional reflection while avoiding the usual difficulties of highbrow poetry."—The New York Times Book ReviewMacArthur Genius Award winner Lucia Perillo is a ... Read more

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  • Next Door to the Butcher Shop

    by Rodney DeCroo ...
    Acclaimed singer-songwriter Rodney DeCroo's second poetry collection, Next Door to the Butcher Shop, explores the permeability of memory and uncovers heart-wrenching beauty from shadowy grit.How quickly agedescends on us. Our memories are mapsto places that don't exist. I was an emperoron a green lawn wearing a white sheetand a paper crown. The birds sang my praisesfrom the hedges and the ... Read more

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  • Errata

    by Lisa Fay Coutley ...
    Series series Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
    COR series Open Competition winnerFinalist, INDIEFAB Book of the YearLisa Fay Coutley’s lyrical debut collection, Errata, investigates the delicate balance between parent and child, love and loss, hope and grief. Errata’s narrator reflects on struggles and fears that span generations in compositions that are at once musical and bleak. Coutley’s narrative journey is often a dark one, exploring not ... Read more

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