T.R. Hummer
In These States is a partial road atlas of the contemporary U.S. soul.
Each of us has various existences, only a few of them coinciding precisely with the boundaries of our neighborhoods. The poems in this book are …
In These States is a partial road atlas of the contemporary U.S. soul.
Each of us has various existences, only a few of them coinciding precisely with the boundaries of our neighborhoods. The poems in this book are …
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The Magnum Opus Persists in the Evening is a lyrical lament that evokes the night as the abode of ruins, of loss, and of History-the realm between silence and noise which these poems speak through …
Wife, mother, nurse-these words invoke the vision of a woman giving of herself to sustain another with love, tenderness, care. Written in the voice of a military nurse, Nursewifery speaks from the perspective of a woman whose job …
Arc is a curated chapbook of poems representing the career of Eavan Boland, Ireland’s most important and internationally acclaimed contemporary poet. A work of collectible book art, Arc is printed in a limited edition of 200 copies featuring …
“Elise Hempel’s Ache tells of the devastating disconnect between the desire to communicate and the inability to do so due to intervening time, distance, reticence, and technology. These are well-crafted, plainspoken remembrances, clearly the result of what William …
“Cornelius Eady’s poems sing America, as Whitman’s did, but amending our national bard, they are mindful of the distance between his America and ours. Race, culture (especially music), family history, and urban life are all in play in …
A ritual of grace and love for what remains in memory after great loss.
I Want To Undie You is Jaki Shelton Green’s unflinching cry of sorrow at the untimely death of her daughter Imani; and Jaki’s insistence, …
“In Ardor, Tina Kelley crafts nineteen love poems to the world, celebrating the details of the daily-a new garden, town names on an atlas, the sound of swallowing. She pays close attention to language, writing an ode to …
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Two of our most celebrated poets, Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar, weave together poems about music in a chapbook that riffs on the theme of the title; the poems move forward on …
“After experience is done teaching us just about everything it thinks it needs to teach us, we come back to desire, the one thing worth knowing. This time around desire shows up as a wild calm, dead center …