In this volume, the author races between arriving and departing; her poems run with compulsion, to see the next place, hear a last voice, find a lost daughter or aunt, notice a new change. Though the poems take their leave of home and... Read More

“I am hardtop ironclad crash-tested / and only need someplace safe to sleep / or sleep it off / or sit up sleepless” Richard Carr writes. "Ace" a novel in verse interweaves four lives separated through hurt longing and rebellion in a... Read More

In “The Impossibility of Language,” the opening section of this book, the poet examines the making of poetry and the ironies involved in finding the correct words and their etymologies. She finds poetry in her mother’s post-it... Read More

A swirling white enemy trapped the children on the cold little bus. But snow kept invading it. There was no escape. The chilling, true story of school children trapped in a terrible snowstorm begins on March 26, 1931. Parents and a bus... Read More

This lively, lyrical set of an illustrated book and a deck of cards will delight the eyes and instruct the minds of art lovers of all ages, from pre-readers to post-doctorates. The author’s description of the world of the... Read More

Frozen in the noiseless still of time, the photographs of Dr. Emil Mayer find their tongues in the softened cobblestone of Viennese streets and the faded eyes of market goers to articulate the modest opulence of their humanity. Viennese... Read More

The prose poem, like bluegrass music, is one of those “minor” forms that continue to thrive, thanks to a few skilled practitioners and a relatively small but faithful audience. With Traffic, his eighth book of poems, Anderson stakes... Read More