• New Poems; Eiders; Passamaquoddy Bay; Lubec, Maine; Night-Herons; At East Machias; In Waldo County, Maine; Crossing the Blueberry Barrens; A Harvard Millerite Ascends; Uncle Eli Glover Moving; The Banishment of Saint Columba; Trawl; Arnprior, Ontario; On the Empire Builder Heading West; Burial Ground; The Emperor; Broad Pass, September; Cow Parsnip; Mountain Bluebirds; Beluga Point; Cottonwood Seed; Porcupine; At the Turning of the Season; That Other World; Summer Waterfall; Butterfly Lake; Juncos; Snow Buntings; Steller's Jay; Steller's Sea Cow, 1742-1768.

• Ursus Maritimus, the Polar BearDriving Toward Nenana; Cottonwood; Mountain Lake; Walking the Marsh; Mew Gulls; Snowy Owl; Looking to the West; Brown Creeper; A Necessary Poem; A Snowy Morning in May; The Man Who Learned Dena'ina; Clear and Cold; Two Ravens in a Tree; Tugs; Under Polaris; Dawson City, Yukon Territory; Signs of Spring; Wild Swans; Saint Lucia's Day; The Kite Flyers; Redpolls; The Iris Hunters; From: Terra Incognita (1974); Terra Incognita; Uncle Paul; Astoria; At Daybreak; December; From: Late August on the Kenai River (1991); Poolshark; Anchorage; Homer; Trapper Creek.

• The Wedding of Cecelia DemidorfCompass Rose; Nikolaevsk; Saint Marys; On Reading Wang Wei; Late August on the Kenai River; Open Season; Two Poems for the Solstice; Harvest; From: A Bend Toward Asia (1993); Kodiak; Yakutat; El Dorado; Chitina; Gulkana Berry Pickers; The Princess Line; Chenega; Cygnus; -60; De Rerum Natura: or Of Nature's Things; In the Snow; Ritual; Waiting for Spring; Aleutians; Iris; Extending the Range; Springs; After the August Rains; Wolves; Pass Creek; Hurricane; Walking to the Beaver Pond with My Wife; On the Russian River; The Marsh in Spring; Sweet Spring Grasses.

• Crows on Bare BranchesWind; Muskeg; From: A Blossom of Snow (1995); Naming; Winter Landscape; Burnet; Lin He-Jing; Towns; Lament; King Island; Beluga; Pleiades; Transformations; Marsh Violets; Crows; Homage to Neidecker; Fiddlehead; From: Leaving for a Year (1998); Thinking of Tu Fu on a Summer Evening; Leaving for a Year; Crossing the Divide; At Feng-Hsiang; Poem Begun on Mother's Day; Portage La Prairie; Melting Snow; From: Autumn in the Alaska Range (2000); On the Death of a Homeless Man; Rowing Toward the Spirit World; For Art and Anna on Their Wedding Day; Spirit Houses at Tazlina.

• The Alaska RangeThe Cross Fox; Rowan Tree; A Blessing; Landscape; A Letter to Tu Fu; Touch-Me-Not; Solstice; In Glacial Light; The Bear that Visits Our Cabin; Willow Ptarmigan; Lynx; Blue Flag; Wilson's Warblers; The Mountains in Winter; Winter Solstice; The Gift of Snow; Winter Finch; Denali; Poem About the Moon; Rising from the Dark; April; Poem Written Near Hurricane; Autumn in the Alaska Range; Numen; Paradise Valley; Setosa; Epitaph; For the Sake of the Light; From: World Brimming Over (2003); By an Abandoned Railroad Line; In the Kitchen; Butcher Bird; American Dippers; Pastoral.

This collection of new and selected poems by the former poet laureate of Alaska, Tom Sexton, opens a door on the essence of life in Alaska and Maine. Sexton divides his year between the two states, and he captures here the small but powerful sensual details of day-to-day life in these contrasting, yet similar, environs. His carefully crafted verse distills the birch and aspen, lynx and ptarmigan, and the snow on high peaks. Through his poems we thrill to encounters with the wild, the seasons, and the sublime landscape. From 'At East Machais': The moon's pale light is a ghost in a white shift moving downhill past houses that mirror its whiteness as it goes. If a door opens, it will enter as it always has.
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• Our Mother Who Taught Tumbling
• Barbed Wire before Pearl Harbor
• Our Mother Who Taught Tumbling
• My Brother's Photos before Okinawa
• Uncle Howell and the Magic of Moonlight
• Oranges for My Sister When She Was Nine
• Woodworker's Saturday Nights
• Coat Collars Up like Thugs
• Gehenna and the County's Tires
• December after World War II
• Aunt Emma and the Spoils of War
• Red Sun in the West
• Rattling Past Ninety
• Jukebox Nights in Georgia
• Practice during the Cuban Missile Crisis
• One Summer before Saigon
• Dawn Outside Saigon
• Too Far from Town to Play Baseball
• Sausage in the Mess Hall
• Anniversary Waltz
• War Never Stops Even When All Vets Are Dead
• No Wonder My Wife Is Tough
• Wishing for Easter All Year Long
• Dogs Romping until Dawn
• Harvest
• Mobeetee, Where Faith and Neighbors Failed
• How Aunt Martha Handled Scandal
• How Much Time We're Promised
• Fathers and Sons
• October Compost
• Uncles on Sunday Battlegrounds
• Wishing for Easter All Year Long
• Hammering Ice to Slush
• Hammering Ice to Slush
• Hoping to Break the Chain
• Grandmother's House at Kitty Hawk
• Dusk at Kill Devil Hills
• Bulldozing the Outer Banks
• All Salty Summer
• Parties in a Heated Hall
• A Little Night Music
• Taking the Keys from Mother
• In Shallows of the Brazos
• At the Bald Men's Convention
• Turning Sixty-Five on Hardscrabble
• When the Days Dwindle Down
• Some Boys Are Born to Wander
• Opening the Cabin in March
• Ranching at Glacier
• In Arnold Schwend's Saloon.

This title is written by 2005 SPUR Award Winner. A West Texas starscape, stunning by any measure, is emblematic of Walt McDonalds plains. A lifelong celebration culminates in this, his best - and perhaps last - collection of new poems. At seventy, the poet affirms, we live by the mystery of grace even as we watch familiar stars blink out at dawn. For he believes God knows we are dust/and counts our steps. In ""Leaving the Middle Years"", he writes, At our age/every day is grace and every breath/a blessing. Life is grass, stunningly brief/but abundant in so many ways. Walt writes about heroes - a mother who taught tumbling; family and friends gone to war; the brave at home who heal or console; and, others who rescue from war zones as many children as they can. Heroes, too, are those whose fidelity and joy find faces in these poems. Watching crows at dawn in Montana, a husband thinks of his wife inside their mountain cabin: if Ursula finds more gray shell go on humming, knowing its okay, our children three thousand miles away but fine, when they called last night. She comes outside with coffee, closing the door so softly even the crows dont stop.
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• ""Cover""; ""CONTENTS""; ""WOOL SWEATERS""; ""Map""; ""Wool sweater""; ""Breakwater""; ""Before what we did""; ""Late riser""; ""Over time, over space""; ""Time delay""; ""What to think I don't know""; ""Two reasons you will hate me""; ""Espresso""; ""Mother and daughter""; ""Plums""; ""CITIES""; ""Soaps""; ""Digging graves""; ""No strings""; ""The neighbours""; ""Condensations""; ""Olives at John's""; ""Hawk""; ""The wading pool""; ""On the bike""; ""Brain surgery""; ""POLAROIDS""; ""Home court advantage""; ""The more distant limbs""; ""Pictures in what the river left""

• ""Checking up on Gould""""The new forest""; ""Brain""; ""East""; ""LANDSCAPES""; ""A new record""; ""Gold rush""; ""With open mind""; ""A new plot""; ""Tracking in mud""; ""Prison break""; ""Doubting Thomas""; ""We rattle north""

• ""Cover""; ""CONTENTS""; ""WOOL SWEATERS""; ""Map""; ""Wool sweater""; ""Breakwater""; ""Before what we did""; ""Late riser""; ""Over time, over space""; ""Time delay""; ""What to think I don't know""; ""Two reasons you will hate me""; ""Espresso""; ""Mother and daughter""; ""Plums""; ""CITIES""; ""Soaps""; ""Digging graves""; ""No strings""; ""The neighbours""; ""Condensations""; ""Olives at John's""; ""Hawk""; ""The wading pool""; ""On the bike""; ""Brain surgery""; ""POLAROIDS""; ""Home court advantage""; ""The more distant limbs""; ""Pictures in what the river left""

• ""Checking up on Gould""""The new forest""; ""Brain""; ""East""; ""LANDSCAPES""; ""A new record""; ""Gold rush""; ""With open mind""; ""A new plot""; ""Tracking in mud""; ""Prison break""; ""Doubting Thomas""; ""We rattle north""

• Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; The Beginning; No More Sirens; New Dreams; Toading my Name; Anglocam Defined; Hammocks from Bridges; Bamenda; Kribi; Maroua La Belle; When We Sell Cameroon; The Second Coming; What Jesus Said; Fear of Fire; Jesus My Brother; Motherly Power; Namondo's Garden; A Mother's Lament; For Njifor; Bob, My Man; Going on Retirement; Of her Laughter; Bliss of Innocence; After Purupa-in-Picasso; Soul Unloved; Ashes; The Release; A While Ago; Beads of Flame; Lonely Migrant; Pilgrim; Bondage; Beyond Caring; When I Fall; Mourners; Epigraph; Waiting.

• Appointments and InstallationsIf Anomah Ngu Were No Anglofool; Se Porte Bienhood; Okonkwo's Sword; Chopstick Diplomacy; A Jawbone; Plaintiff Call; The Dying Heritage; Unoka's Flute; Apocalypse; Reddening Skyline; The Piss of Peace; Blinking Horizon; Courtship of the Pistol; The Exile; Jeremiah's Tears; How not to Define Patriotism; The Other Side of Gold; Back cover.

This collection dissects post-independence Cameroon as a representative postcolonial junction. The history that assists in the writing of the poems is a necessary background to understand the dislocated vision of an erstwhile independent territory. After a patriotic pastime of sweeping every bit of rubbish under the carpet of national unity for over fifty years, the collection summons us to introspect on the consequences of feeding and living on a national lie. It is only after such reflection that, hopefully, remedial gestures can offer ͡new dreams on the dawn of new sleep̕.

A collection of poems which draw on the landscape, history and mythology of Ireland, sharing a sense of discovery. This title also makes connections with home, New Zealand, childhood.

• Contents; Acknowledgments;
• 1. Place;
• 2. Person;
• 3. Perspective.

Robert Pack is a narrative master blessed with a keen ear for everyday speech. In poems that recall Robert Frost's meditative regard of nature, Pack's newest collection, Elk in Winter, asks what meaning can be found in a seemingly indifferent universe. But as always for Pack, universal questions find their resolution in the particular, the personal, and the intimate. With this focus, Pack's essential meditative stance challenges and enlarges itself - a man watches himself watching the landscape, through which a herd of elk passes on a winter morning: "As silence deepens / Into deeper thought / the watcher, unresistant to the spell / His watching adds to the still woods, / hears footfalls softly / Crunching in the shadowed snow, / step upon sure unhurried step." This rich and varied volume moves from comedy to elegy, from lyric to narrative, in which individual characters are revealed and rendered symbolic by the stories that enclose them. Pack locates beauty, consolation, and even happiness in those commitments that we will into fulfillment in awareness of loss: "Your absence is as bright / as sunlight on the sea, / illuminating the receding depths of air, / blue fading into deeper blue as if / some random thought of fading blue / extended everywhere." What finally unites the poems of Elk in Winter is Pack's desire to appeal to the ear as much as to the heart, and to discover and reveal the passionate music of ideas.
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Robert Pack is a narrative master blessed with a keen ear for everyday speech. In poems that recall Robert Frost's meditative regard of nature, Pack's newest collection, "Elk in Winter, " resolves universal questions in the particular, the personal, and the intimate. This rich and varied volume moves from comedy to elegy, from lyric to narrative, in which individual characters are revealed and rendered symbolic by the stories that enclose them. What finally unites the poems of "Elk in Winter" is Pack's desire to appeal to the ear as much as to the heart, and to discover and reveal the passionate music of ideas.
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• Revolt
• Against Odds Against
• "Real" Revolt
• Brecht Looks at Xeriscaping With a Thought About Shelley
• Assassins
• Winter Night in the City of God
• Provoked in Venice
• Evening on the Zattere
• From What Angle
• Desert of Empire
• "Not Normalissimo"
• Venice Less and Less
• Tomahawk
• Across a Crowded Room
• Phaeton's Dream: Driving Lessons in the Desert
• Joan and Jean
• Stealth
• Last Night of a First Trip to Venice
• Without a Care in the World
• Midsummer Night in Venice
• Tell Me Why
• Early Deliveries No One Receives
• Venice: The Return in Winter I
• Venice: The Return in Winter II
• In Your Own Time.

In these powerfully conceived and understated poems, Mark Rudman asks how culture is created and shared, and how historical events and figures are known through direct experiences of place. The title Provoked in Venice alludes to the structure of the book, wherein a trip to Italy becomes the catalyst for a meditative view of the convergence of imagination, history, and the 20th-century attempt to recover them both. The narrator enters the maze of Venice like a contemporary Dante guided only by the voice of the "rider"-interlocuter. Rich in allusions to literature, film, and the past, this final volume of the trilogy will engage and sustain all mental travelers.
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The third volume in a trilogy that includes the award-winning Rider and Millennium Hotel.
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Annotation Not Yet Damascus.

• Intro; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Finsong; Messenger; Dream Song for John Berryman; "A Part of Me is Gone"; Pinball Electra; In Which I Am Urged to Let Myself Go; In Which Things Go Too Far; In Which We Pack It In and Shut Up Shop; In Which Dogs Feature Only Metaphorically, Alas; Treasure; Dubai Creek, Ramadan; The Town Hall Passion; Seville Yellow; In Which I Am Given a Very Wide Berth; In Which It's All a Jolly Fine Mess; In Which You Feel the Scorch of Industry; In Which the Amazon Does Not Appear; The Cock-Eyed Southern Cross; Late Knowledge; The Other Cheek; Pickings.

• Trade MattersWomen at a Christmas Party, Robben Island, 19th Century; Truths & Reconciliations; In Which It Will Go Heavily With You; In Which the Air Misleads; In Which the Organ Speaketh Well; In Which the Heavenly Lights Descend; Dark Matters; Reading Cosmology on the Cherry Hinton Bus in Spring; Homing; Materiality; Learning; Presentiment; Why?; Economy Cosmology; In Which We Scat, Tra-La, the Last Vibrato Of A Single String; In Which the Walls are Closing In; In Which You (Too) Could Give a Hoot; In Which, More Jazz; Jerusalem Stone; The Occupation; dead siege; Gaza; Nouns; Spare Us.

• Where on EarthIn Which the Traveller Despairs of Art; In Which I Understand the Seedpod and the Rock; In Which the Trees Agree; In Which, as Henry Knew, the Books Are Cooked; Deliver Him; Beyond the Fragile Geometry; Japan Notebook, December 2004; Ikizukuri; Spew; In Which I, As Befits a Lady, Glow; In Which Bad Dancers Hold No Sway; In Which, the Switch; In Which a Flower is a Loaded Gun; Doppelgänger; In Which Fine Feathers Fetter Us (I); In Which Fine Feathers Fetter Us (II); In Which I Learn to Hold the Pose; In Which, the Gram that Crackt the Globe; Ellon; Holyrood.

• Always Leave Them Wanting MoreWake; Notes; Acknowledgements.

Albert Wendt moves from ancient Polynesia to contemporary China to family gatherings in an Auckland garden. These poems celebrate grandchildren, family, ancestors and a heritage that stretches back to the atua, and they show a profound understanding of the ways of in Aotearoa / New Zealand.
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• ""CONTENTS""; ""I: DEEP CREEK""; ""Perimeter""; ""Irrigation Ditch""; ""Teddy Tweed""; ""Burnpile""; ""Sand""; ""Gasoline""; ""A Dream of Sulphur""; ""Reservoir Haiku""; ""II: THE GROUND UP""; ""The Ground Up""; ""Home Again""; ""To the Plateau""; ""A Portable View""; ""Crossing the Narrows""; ""The Crew""; ""Eagle Bay Stone""; ""The Sum""; ""III: WHAT PLACE IS THIS?""; ""The Stanley""; ""Under Hudson's Bay""; ""Downtown Eastside""; ""Replacing Ties in the Roger's Pass""; ""Trout Lake Mines""; ""Mt. Swansen""; ""Fire on the Mountain""; ""IV: IN PRAISE OF ISLANDS""; ""Tofino Sub Marine""

• ""Nightfall: This Side of Port Alberni""""Off Saltspring""; ""Planted: 1988""; ""Port Renfrew: Thanksgiving Weekend""; ""Pod""; ""The Cottage""; ""Island Elegy""; ""V: THE LONGEST STRIDE""; ""East""; ""Arc""; ""La bicyclette""; ""Postcards of an Old Vienna""; ""Late Lunch""; ""Tous les hommes sont morts""; ""Things We Know""; ""Mirage""; ""Hungarian Brandy""; ""Beauharnois""; ""Laval""; ""Matin rouge""; ""Sleight of Hand""; ""A Motorist's Elegy""; ""The Bends""; ""Apology""; ""West""