Whatever Shines

Kathleen McGookey

• Paperback | Engels | Marie Alexander Poetry
• "Whatever Shines is an admirable and dazling first collection. The voice is undisputably unique and haunting and one looks forward to anything the poe... Lees meer

Reaching Out to the World

Robert Bly

• Paperback | Engels | Marie Alexander Poetry
• "Joyous, inspired meditations that demonstrate Bly's talent for conveying in the simplest language the richness and complexity of the universe around ... Lees meer

Pretty

Kim Chinquee

• Paperback | Engels | Marie Alexander Poetry
• "There is always a roiling subtext beneath the seemingly placid surfaces and tones of Chinquee's pieces, a dichotomy which speaks to deep truths about... Lees meer

Moments Without Names

Morton Marcus

• Paperback | Engels | Marie Alexander Poetry
• Sixty-five new poems take their place beside forty-five poems published in Marcus's previous two books. Employing and many times parodying the structu... Lees meer

Magdalena

Maureen Gibbon

• Paperback | Engels | Marie Alexander Poetry
• "Gibbon's Magdalena offers a fresh and profound voice to American poetry. Comparisons are impossible because this book doesn't remind me of anything I... Lees meer

The Angel of Duluth

Madelon Sprengnether

• Paperback | Engels | Marie Alexander Poetry
• " The Angel of Duluth is a fierce book, deeply attentive to nuance and rich with emotionally compelling drama. She uses the breadth of the hybrid form... Lees meer

Light from an Eclipse

Nancy Lagomarsino

• Paperback | Engels | Marie Alexander Poetry
• "Imagine Alzheimer's sufferers and their loved ones treading water in a choppy sea of exhaustion and despair. Now picture Nancy Lagomarsino's Light Fr... Lees meer

The Rusted City

Rochelle Hurt

• Paperback | Engels | Marie Alexander Poetry | nr. 18
• "In Hurt's breathtaking mixed work of prose poetry and verse, a history of place is caked in a 'deep layer of red dust.' The Rust Belt's rattling stru... Lees meer

All of Us

Elisabeth Frost

• Paperback | Engels | Marie Alexander Poetry | nr. 15
• "In the white space out beyond Elisabeth Frost's cropped tales, subtle situations, plausible and bizarre fantasias, you may sense the ghosts of Kafka ... Lees meer

Nothing to Declare

• Paperback | Engels | Marie Alexander Poetry | nr. 20
• "So unexpected, so revelatory, such exquisite prose (and poetry) these 'sequences, ' as the editors choose to call them, may be undefinable, but they ... Lees meer

Angles of Approach

Holly Iglesias

• Paperback | Engels | Marie Alexander Poetry | nr. 14
• "It's unusual to call a book of poetry a 'page turner, ' but this collection, with the knocking and jostling of words that mark the peculiar rhythm an... Lees meer

The House of Your Dream

• Paperback | Engels | Marie Alexander Poetry
• The House of Your Dream: An International Collection of Prose Poetry is unique in its diversity and includes voices from Europe, Asia, South America, ... Lees meer

The Blue Dress

Alison Townsend

• Paperback | Engels | Marie Alexander Poetry
• In this quiet, clear-eyed collection, Townsend meditates on loss--childhood bereavement, depression, divorce--to arrive at the realization that it is ... Lees meer

Postage Due

Julie Marie Wade

• Paperback | Engels | Marie Alexander Poetry | nr. 16
• " Postage Due is a dazzling series of necessary utterances. Wade uses the language of Christianity to section her book, fraught with joy and pain, to ... Lees meer

Bright Advent

Robert Strong

• Paperback | Engels | Marie Alexander Poetry | nr. 21
• A hybrid incorporating archival material from the 1600s, Bright Advent gives flesh to a ghost of Early American history largely forgotten, specificall... Lees meer

Family Portrait: American Prose Poetry 1900 - 1950

• Paperback | Engels | Marie Alexander Poetry | nr. 16
• " Family Portrait doesn't just rewrite the history of the prose poem in America--it sets the record straight. Murphy's scholarly introduction sets the... Lees meer

To Some Women I Have Known

Relynn Hanson

• Paperback | Engels | Marie Alexander Poetry | nr. 19
• " Some Women I Have Known is deliriously immersive, but the real beauty of this work is in the juxtaposition. What yokes the memory of a friend's dyin... Lees meer

A Handbook for Writers

Vern Rutsala

• Paperback | Engels | Marie Alexander Poetry | nr. 7
• "Sounding at times like plot summaries of stories by John Cheever that Cheever never got around to writing and at other times like witty fables, or me... Lees meer