uscpress.com - Poetry https://uscpress.com/ How God Ends Us https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017185/How-God-Ends-Us
Poetic conversations with a God whose omnipotence brings both peace and uncertainty

DéLana R. A. Dameron searches for answers to spiritual quandaries in her first collection of poems, H…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 Driving through the Country before You Are Born https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017305/Driving-through-the-Country-before-You-Are-Born
Dark poems struggling to reconcile a haunting loss and troubled present

Selected by Kate Daniels as the winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Driving through the Country befor…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 A Book of Exquisite Disasters https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017299/A-Book-of-Exquisite-Disasters
A Book of Exquisite Disasters, the first book-length poetry collection from Charlene Spearen, is an exploration of a multifaceted identity forged through moments spent as a daughter, sister, w…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 Hold Like Owls https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017298/Hold-Like-Owls
Selected by 2011 National Book Award winner Nikky Finney as the seventh annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Hold Like Owls is the first book-length collection from Julia Koe…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 Excavations https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017287/Excavations
Selected by Rigoberto Gonzales as the winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Excavations: A City Cycle is the first collection of poetry from Jennifer R. Pournelle. Set in different c…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 Among the Nightmare Fighters https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017276/Among-the-Nightmare-Fighters
In the first comprehensive study of the American male poets of World War II, Diederik Oostdijk gives voice to the literary men still considered to be a part of the Silent Generation. Focusing…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 Selected Poems of William Gilmore Simms https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017228/Selected-Poems-of-William-Gilmore-Simms
A revised and expanded edition of poems by the renowned nineteenth-century Charleston writer and historian.

This twentieth anniversary edition of the Selected Poems of William Gilmore S…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 The Poet's Holy Craft https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017225/The-Poets-Holy-Craft
A thorough reexamination of Simms as a pioneering voice in American poetry

The Poet's Holy Craft represents the first full-length analysis and interpretation of William Gilmore Simms's…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 Green Revolver https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017223/Green-Revolver
Imaginative verses rending the radical from the drudgery of corporate cubicles and army bases and from the banality of modern existence.

Selected by David Baker, Green Revolver is the f…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 Hours of the Cardinal https://uscpress.com/book-post/4016943/Hours-of-the-Cardinal
In Hours of the Cardinal, a mother's death triggers poems that journey through grief into the unnamable origins of consciousness—before thought, talk, even printed words. These elegies weave s…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700