Shortly after Jim and Anita married, they moved to a small thirty-acre primitive plot in Parke County, Indiana, known as the Covered Bridge Capital of America.
THE SUNDAY TIMES POETRY BOOK OF THE YEARThe black poet would love to say his century beganWith Hughes or God forbid, Wheatley, but actuallyIt began with all the poetry weirdos & worriers, warriors,Poetry whiners & winos falling from ship bows, sunsetBridges & windows.
Michael Lieberman's Some Dark Fire, New and Selected Poems is a generous sampling of an exceptional poet's mature work, written over almost thirty yearssince Lieberman moved to Houston in 1988.
Victoria Adukwei Bulley's debut collection, Quiet, circles around ideas of black interiority, intimacy and selfhood, playing at the the tensions between the impulse to guard one's 'inner life' and the knowledge that, as Audre Lorde writes, 'your silence will not protect you'.
Dans Le cours normal des choses, Sara Dignard explore un univers insulaire et intérieur imprégné des paysages et de la nature des Îles de la Madeleine.
Look through another's eyes and feel the longings and heartbeats poured out on paper in lines of poetry formed over years of experience in love and life, all laid out in simple offerings.
The poems of Inmates stage encounters with insects at sites and moments of their refuge, torpor, hatching or fighting, of traversing a floor in the night or climbing a wall, of their death and decay all in and around the house of the writer, with whom they are sharing time, as fellow inmates.
This entire collection of writings and poems is about friendship, love, and caring for one another; this first poem, "e;Circle of Friends,"e; is the perfect prelude for the rest of the writings
Rooted in places like Watauga County, Goshen Creek, and Dismal Mountain, the poems in Ron Rash's fourth collection, Waking, electrify dry counties and tobacco fields until they sparkle with the rituals and traditions of Southerners in the stir of their lives.
