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 Black
Box: Poems
Contributor(s): Walker, Frank X (Author)
ISBN: 0967542413 EAN: 9780967542416
Publisher: Old Cove Press
US SRP: $ 15.50 US
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: November 12, 2005
Publisher Marketing: BLACK BOX features sixty eight powerful and
heartfelt poems from Walker on themes of family, place, identity
and social justice. Featuring all new poems written over the last
six years, BLACK BOX continues the autobiographical and personal
journey of AFFRILACHIA, the author's groundbreaking first volume
of poems.
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 Concerning
the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved
Contributor(s): Orr, Gregory (Author)
ISBN: 1556592299 EAN: 9781556592294
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
US SRP: $ 18.00 US
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: September 2005
"The heart of Orr's poetry, now as ever, is the enigmatic
image . . . mystical, carnal, reflective, wry."-"San Francisco
Review
This book-length sequence of ecstatic, visionary lyrics
recalls Rumi in its search for the beloved and its passionate belief
in the healing qualities of art and beauty. "Concerning the
Book that is the Body of the Beloved is an incantatory celebration
of the "Book," an imaginary and self-gathering anthology
of all the lyrics-both poems and songs-ever written. Each poem highlights
a distinct aspect of the human condition, and together the poems
explore love, loss, restoration, the beauty of the world, the beauty
of the beloved, and the mystery of poetry. The purpose and power
of the Book is to help us live by reconnecting us to the world and
to our emotional lives.
"I put the beloved
In a wooden coffin.
The fire ate his body;
The flames devoured her.
I put the beloved
In a poem or song.
Tucked it between
Two pages of the Book.
How bright the flames.
All of me burning,
All of me on fire
And still whole.
There is nothing quite like this book-an "active anthology"
in the best sense-where individuals find the poems and songs that
will sustain them. Or the poems find them.
Gregory Orr is the author of eight books of poetry, four volumes
of criticism, and a memoir. He has received numerous awards for
his work, most recently the Academy Award in Literature from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters. Orr has taught at the University
of Virginia since 1975 and was, for many years, the poetry editor
of "The Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives with his family
in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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 Family
Preserve
Contributor(s): Stuart, Dabney (Author)
ISBN: 081392328X EAN: 9780813923284
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
US SRP: $ 16.95 US
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: March 2005
Exhibiting the mastery of poetic line and sharpness of focus we
have come to associate with Dabney Stuart's work, this volume, Stuart's
fifteenth, weaves a series of finely delineated portraits into a
complicated fabric of relationship. Family Preserve gathers the
family poems scattered throughout Stuart's books over the past four
decades and intersperses them with new and previously unpublished
poems. By turns comic and tragic, this collection engages the reader
in the complex process of longing, mourning, and preserving family
ties. Beginning with what would seem the end, the collection's introductory
poem, "The Long Good-bye," sets the stage for the volume,
inviting the reader to accompany the speaker as he confronts the
entanglement of his memories. The poems that follow offer intimate
glimpses into the often tricky relationships among parents, siblings,
and children. The volume ends in the union of once discordant voices:
the speaker with the memory of his father, the speaker's younger
self with his older self, and time with timelessness; yet it is
the recognition of the often elusive process of remembering that
makes Stuart's poetry so powerful. A compelling look at familial
relationships and the function of memory, Family Preserve is a significant
milestone in Dabney Stuart's long and distinguished poetic career,
and an important addition to the elegy, open form, and ode.
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 Madness
Like Morning Glories: Poems
Contributor(s): Davenport, Doris (Author)
ISBN: 0807129925 EAN: 9780807129920
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
US SRP: $ 16.95 US
Binding: Paperback - Other Formats
Pub Date: April 2005
Publisher Marketing: In her enchanting poem sequence, Doris Davenport
introduces, readers to Soque Street and its "Afrilacian"
residents. These African Americans inhabiting an Appalachian community
in northeast Georgia live in a world where magic threads daily life,
and the living and dead commingle. Ghosts, self-propelled caskets,
and sensate trees are as natural as morning glories to these characters,
who are at once eccentric and universal, peculiar and welcoming.
The story of Soque Street moves from voice to voice and through
a mix of poetic forms with ease and confidence. Sometimes frightening,
often funny, and always compelling and potent, Madness like Morning
Glories is a major achievement by a poet of tremendous originality
who possesses an intuition for the subtle secrets of language.
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 Off-Season
in the Promised Land (American Poets Continuum #95 )
Contributor(s): Makuck Peter, (Author)
ISBN: 1929918712 EAN: 9781929918713
Publisher: BOA Editions
US SRP: $ 14.95 US
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: October 2005
Publisher Marketing: These poems speak to the various ways we exile
ourselves from a paradise that is available at any given moment.
A young girl practicing flute on the end of a pier, furniture repair,
an ancient shark tooth, the deaths of friends-these are some of
Makuck's subjects. His short lyrics and long narratives vary from
comic to elegiac, often finding their locus in the landscapes of
coastal North Carolina.
Peter Makuck is a distinguished professor of arts and sciences at
East Carolina University and edits "Tar River Poetry. He has
published six previous collections of poetry and received the Zoe
Kincaid Brockman Award for the best collection of poetry by a North
Carolinian. He lives on Bogue Banks in North Carolina's barrier
islands
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 One
Good Hand
Contributor(s): Wildsmith, Dana (Author)
ISBN: 0916078620 EAN: 9780916078621
Publisher: Iris Press
US SRP: $ 14.00 US
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: October 2005
Publisher Marketing: One Good Hand by Dana Wildsmith is a book of
poetry about living on a small family farm in North Georgia.
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 What
Travels with Us
Contributor(s): Arnoult, Darnell (Author)
ISBN: 0807129895 EAN: 9780807129890
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
US SRP: $ 16.95 US
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: October 2005
Publisher Marketing: With a storyteller's timing and the emotional
range of a singer, Darnell Arnoult in her debut collection offers
readers a stirring string of poems about the people of Fieldale,
Virginia. A planned community founded in the Virginia foothills
by Marshall Fields in the early 1900s to support his textile mill,
Fieldale was populated by transplanted Appalachian mountain folk.
Arnoult herself grew up there, and in What Travels With Us she captures
in poetic form the townspeople's voices, both remembered and imagined.
Personal, poignant, and witty, Arnoult's poems look back as they
move forward, demonstrating how we are always creating ourselves
anew from the experiences we carry with us.
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