"Skoog [is] fashioning a poetry that fluctuates and ripples as incessantly as open water." ?Boston Review"Ed Skoog is a master of mischief and misdirection." ?Prairie Schooner"Ed Skoog's poetry is so
"Images that are satisfyingly clear . . . and excitingly inexplicable." Robert Pinsky,Washington Post"Intimate and hypnotic . . . whether turning her gaze inward or outward, these poems
Honored as one of "Nine Great Poetry Books of the Year" by The New Yorker."The Poem She Didn't Write is a breakup book, full of the kinds of invective and taunts honed by a person who h
"Maurice Manning displays not just terrific cunning but terrific aim." New York Times Book Review"Manning's geniushis truly staggering geniusis in his ability to put this ancient questi
“It’s hard to think of another living author who has written so well for so long in so many styles as Ursula K. Le Guin.” —Salon“She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what
“Bob Hicok is that rarity, a cheerful contemporary poet—if not completely happy, still hopeful and celebrative.” —Los Angeles Review of Books“Yet ultimately the most potent ingredient in virtually
“Bitsui’s poetry returns things to their basic elements and voice in a flowing language rife with illuminating images. A great reading experience for those who like serious and innovative poetry.” —Li
“C.D. Wright belongs to a school of exactly one.” —The New York Times“C.D. Wright has been writing some of the greatest poetry-cum-prose you can find in American literature.” —Dave EggersCasting Deep
“Jones writes brief, simple poems about isolated incidents while gracefully alluding to the complex relationships underlying them.” —Publishers Weekly“Skillful, direct, and surprisingly delicate.” —Th
“Merwin’s verse often gives the impression of language scavenged from the elements, its power reckoned only as its meanings assemble, phrase by phrase, against the white of the page. Simple astonishme
“The narrating voice in Living Room is insistent but quiet, though it sometimes achieves loudness without any apparent effort. At other times it seems to continue in the -reader’s mind even after stop
“Her lusher effusions gain astringency from an achingly palpable heartbreak, and from an increased awareness of technology, commodity, politics: swoon meets zoom.” —Boston Review“Jane Miller is by far
“Bracingly candid, gracefully elegiac, tough, and passionate, Harrison travels the deep river of the spirit.” —Booklist“[Jim Harrison] is still close to the source. . . . Dead Man’s Float is, as its
“Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle.” —The New Yorker“Wright gets better with each book, expanding the reach of her art;
“David Orr is an authentic iconoclast. His criticism is exuberant and original. Dr. Johnson, my critical hero, urged us to clear our mind of cant. Orr has cleared his. He will enhance the perception o
“[Twichell ’s poems] open out into a stark, sometimes bewildered clarity.” —The Washington Post“Suppose you had Sappho’s passion, the intelligence and perspicacity of Curie, and Dickinson’s sweet wit
"[Brimhall] allows us brief visions, glimpses, of experiences more lush and raw than our own."—The Rumpus"With a stunning mastery of metaphor, linguistic precision, and a soulful determined vision, Br
"With astringent understatement and wry economy, with nuance and intelligence and an enviable command of syntax and poetic line, Victoria Chang dissects the venerable practices of cultural piety and s
"Over the last two decades Shaughnessy has stripped herself down to a voice that can sing plainly about disappointment and love in hard circumstances and the lost art of the mix tape."—The Paris Revie
?Dimitrov is a vital new energy in American poetry.”?Los Angeles Review of Books?Truth-telling, raw, fierce with feeling.”?Brenda Shaughnessy ?Dimitrov can sound at once hip and naive, devoted to the
