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This omnibus collection of poetry richly reflects the experience of its already legendary author, invoking myth and history, tragedy and comedy, narrative and lyric, nightmare and the clear light of day. Allen works in a great tradition of storytelling and education, delight-making and argumentative to bring a multitude of people, places and situations before us. Particularly compelling is the variety of her poetic skill: her rich references, her lyrical flights, and always her earnest and compassionate voice.
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• The man with the big general notions
• Zoo sign
• [Wake up Jack]
• Circus
• The circus of the sun
• The juggler
• Jerusalem
• Question
• [The port was longing]
• [One stone]
• Andalusian proverb
• [Maximum capacity]
• [Basic forms]
• [Goodbye]
• [One bird, two birds]
• [River]
• [In the dark]
• Shorter history of western civilization
• [Are you a visitor]
• [The watcher]
• [Every night]
• The bomb
• Sea & sky
• Abstract poem
• Able Charlie Baker dance
• A problem in design
• The angel and the little old lady
• Shepherd's calendar
• Seven episodes
• Tractatus I-II
• One island
• Tiger
• 21 pages.

"The American poet Robert Lax belongs to the generation of Thomas Merton, Beat poetry, Abstract Expressionism, and the compositions of John Cage. Yet he stands out as this era's most intriguing minimalist poet, gaining this reputation through a constant questioning of the universe and our idea about it. His poetry varies from fables and parables to clear-cut columns of words, from his account of a day at the circus as a vision of creation to his own insistent and mystical search for truth. 33 Poems presents the quintessential gathering of Lax's work, including Sea & Sky and The Circus of the Sun, 'perhaps the greatest English-language poem of this century' (The New York Times)"-- Provided by publisher.

• Declaration of inter-dependence
• Election year
• Dreaming a wall
• Complaint of El Rio Grande
• Como tú/Like you/Like me
• Staring at Aspens: a history lesson
• Letter from Yí Cheung
• Leaving in the rain: Limerick, Ireland
• Island body
• What we didn't know about Cuba
• Matters of the sea
• Mother country
• My father in English
• El Americano in the mirror
• Using country in a sentence
• American wandersong
• Imaginary exile
• November eyes
• Let's remake America great
• Easy lynching on Herndon Avenue
• Poetry assignment #4: what do you miss most?
• St. Louis: prayer before dawn
• Until we could
• Between [another door]
• One Pulse-one poem
• Seventeen funerals
• Remembering Boston Strong
• America the beautiful again
• What I know of country
• St. Louis: prayer at dawn
• Now without me
• And so we all fall down
• Cloud anthem.

"The diverse poems in this collection form a mosaic of seemingly varied topics: the Pulse Nightclub massacre; an unexpected encounter on a visit to Cuba; the forced exile of 8,500 Navajos in 1868; the arrival of a young Chinese woman at Angel Island in 1938; the incarceration of a gifted writer; and the poet's abiding love for his partner, who he is finally allowed to wed. But despite each poem's unique subject matter or occasion, all are fundamentally asking one overwhelming question: how to love this country? Seeking answers, Blanco digs deep into the very marrow of our nation--our cities and towns--with poems that interrogate our past and present, grieve our injustices and note our flaws, yet remember to celebrate our ideals and cling to our hopes. Blanco unravels the very fabric of the American narrative, pursuing a resolution to the inherent contradiction of our nation's psyche and mandate: e pluribus unum (out of many, one), charged with the utopian idea that no single narrative is more important than another, and that America could and ought someday to be a county where all narratives converge into one. A country in which we can all truly thrive and truly love"-- Provided by publisher.

• Economy of miracles
• The torturer's wife
• Lost leaves of earth
• Marriage in dog years.

"Wild Honey, Tough Salt gathers citizen poems for tough times--with testaments for world community, spells for peace, earth blessings, and family consolations"-- Provided by publisher.

In his fifth collection of poetry, Deer at Twilight, Paul J. Willis offers a vividly imagistic insight into the depths of nature within and around the state of Washington. Walking on Water, Pyramid Lake These particular bugs can do it, dimpling the surface with their feet, and no one has built a church in their name. Other bugs swim underwater with abandon, with no blue ribbons to show for it. That leaves the rest of us to perform our daily miracles without applause. This rock, forexample, sheared flat by who knows what torturous force, left to host its lime-green share of crustose lichen, that concoction of algae and fungi which long ago, not even listening to Rodney King, decided we can get along if we just try.
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The Desert Mothers was first published by a small press in Mississippi in 1984, and contained several important poems from Nathaniel Tarn's early '80s period. This new edition revives the original chapbook, adding to it three other long sequences from the same period, as part of the Shearsman Library series, which is devoted to recovering significant out-of-print, or hard-to-find editions of modern poetry.
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