Critics describe The Cave, the long-awaited second collection from award-winning poet Ryan Vine, as "powerful and completely realized," "profound and enduring," and "utterly masterful and deeply moving." The Cave contains haunting meditations on fatherhood, fearless contemplations of place and lineage, clear-eyed examinations of generational ......
Steve Scafidi's The Appalachian Sea explores the eponymous place of mountains and story, of rivers and magic, as well as of mortality, where people work and live and die. What began as an homage to the American painter Miles Cleveland Goodwin became a celebration of the spectral qualities of place and home. The artist's gothic imagery of haints ......
From the sandy pine hills and river bluffs of North Louisiana to the cypress swamps and reedy marshes of South Louisiana-from the Ozarks to the Gulf-David Middleton celebrates, in evocative descriptions and compelling stories, the flora and fauna, the history and prehistory, the geography and the people, of his native state. But like Robert ......
From the sandy pine hills and river bluffs of North Louisiana to the cypress swamps and reedy marshes of South Louisiana-from the Ozarks to the Gulf-David Middleton celebrates, in evocative descriptions and compelling stories, the flora and fauna, the history and prehistory, the geography and the people, of his native state. But like Robert ......
"The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III, second edition, edited with passion and precision, in collaboration with Texas Review Press, transcends the stereotypes surrounding Appalachia, revealing the true diversity and complexity of Appalachia's poetic voices. Commitment to showcasing the rich and rewarding literary landscape reflects the ......
How close can a person come to home when their family has deserted it? Guided by this question, the poems in Nida Sophasarun's Novice traverse natural, animal, and dream worlds, seeking intimacy in a snake coming in from the rain, a mother's body imagined as a house, and the moon serving as both the missing piece and the linchpin in a night sky. ......
One December evening, when 13-year-old Marta crosses the frozen Lake Superior and reaches the home she shares with her father, she finds a woman standing at their door. As Marta approaches, she realizes the woman, who looks like a tropical bird caught in the snow, is her mother who'd abruptly left them six years before. Marta hopes this is a ......
"I'll tell you everything I know. Though there might not be much to tell," confesses the speaker in Strange Hymn by Carlene Kucharczyk, in a meticulously crafted lyrical journey exploring morality and humanity. The poems here grapple with understanding physical loss: "I wanted / to know once and definitively our animal bodies / were not all we ......
"We breathe, and then / vanish," proclaims a speaker in Once When Green, a new collection by accomplished poet Mark Irwin. While deeply personal, the book engages the earth, "gulls, / gray, quarreling air, their ha-ha-ha-ing at our trace / of garbage and carbon," and addresses mortality as well as the consequences of global warming-how it impacts ......
