uscpress.com - James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series https://uscpress.com/ Traveling in Notions https://uscpress.com/book-post/1615194/Traveling-in-Notions
In Traveling in Notions Michael J. Rosen creates a novel in poems, a questing contemplation, an alter ego Gordon Penn who holds to hopefulness amid circumstances that will have none of it. Pen…]]>
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The Land of Milk and Honey https://uscpress.com/book-post/1615195/The-Land-of-Milk-and-Honey
Sarah Getty's poems represent the work of the New Woman, as the nineteenth century called her, now middle-aged, with daughters, private lives, and weathered marriages—but no male figure steps…]]>
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Portrait in a Spoon https://uscpress.com/book-post/1615210/Portrait-in-a-Spoon
By turns comic and poignant, the poems in Portrait in a Spoon explore the uses and abuses of language as it intersects the uses and abuses of power. Taking George Eliot's observation that even…]]>
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Error and Angels https://uscpress.com/book-post/1615211/Error-and-Angels
To err is to wander, and the speaker of Maureen Bloomfield's Error and Angels wakes to find that she has strayed, like Dante's traveler, from the path whose end is light. Voices from her Catho…]]>
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Growing Back https://uscpress.com/book-post/1615219/Growing-Back
Growing Back, Rika Lesser's third collection of poetry, is a bridge that spans the poets and languages, family and friends she has made her life and its work. Written over two decades, many of…]]>
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The Threshold of the New https://uscpress.com/book-post/1615220/The-Threshold-of-the-New
The Threshold of the New, a book twenty-five years in the making, describes Henry Sloss's "exile" to Italy in the early 1970s and his reluctant but increasingly passionate commitment to the te…]]>
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Green https://uscpress.com/book-post/1615239/Green
In this new collection of poetry, Sidney Wade includes poems written in many forms that touch on a variety of subjects, all informed by a singular voice and an intensely vibrant language. The…]]>
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Lilac Cigarette in a Wish Cathedral https://uscpress.com/book-post/1615240/Lilac-Cigarette-in-a-Wish-Cathedral
Robin Magowan's poems in Lilac Cigarette in a Wish Cathedral represent a poetry of heightened awarenesses and high-edge experiences caught on the run. Seized from a miniaturist's perspective,…]]>
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A Taxi to the Flame https://uscpress.com/book-post/1615263/A-Taxi-to-the-Flame
A Taxi to the Flame is a journey through the streets of New York City, foreign landscapes, and past and present events. From rattling Manhattan subways where underground riders transform on Ha…]]>
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Ripper! https://uscpress.com/book-post/1615264/RipperI
After a hundred years, the secrets of his identity and motivation remain a mystery. But what is the heart of this legendary enigma, the self-styled Jack the Ripper, who signed one letter "Your…]]>
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