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Poetry is the language of and for the soul. Here, in E. Hank Buchmann's second collection of verse, comes Benchmarks, a small bittersweet reminiscence of the year 2020, relevant today as a reflection on one of the most upside-down years in our history, as well as a chronicle to Buchmann's personal trials and joys that will hold up across the pages of time. As an award-winning poet, Buchmann's words cut deep into the affections and struggles of everyday...

"Poetry is often the truer language of the soul. Here in Natives of Lost Places, prize-winning poet, E. Hank Buchmann presents the closest thing to an autobiography in the varied forms of verse. His range, in this collection, blends his deep love for the land and the people who inhabit it, interweaving truth and fiction into poetic tales of the human condition and the layered loves that shape them."--Publisher's description.

With wit, startling diction, and audacious manipulation of syntax and form, Witch Wife's incantatory poems bring forth wild, singular music.

"Wound from the Mouth of the Wound was selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry"--

"There's a harshness in the air; the season is changing its colors. The rain is chilled, icy to the touch, and the sky, filled with melancholy. Your search for warmth has brought you here; you starve for something profound. You require something that will resonate with your soul. Despite how cold, you're determined to grow. And with these words, you bloom, a winter rose."--Publisher description.

Presents selections from the first eight books published by Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Mary Oliver, and includes thirty previously unpublished poems.

This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains. Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.

Containing all of Robert Frost's best-known poems--including "Birches, " "Mending Walls, " and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"--And dozens more--this collection celebrates the New England countryside, Frost's appreciation of common folk, and his understanding of the human condition.

"This present moment That lives on To become Long ago." For his first collection of new poems since his celebrated Danger on Peaks, published in 2004, Gary Snyder finds himself ranging over the planet. Journeys to the Dolomites, to the north shore of Lake Tahoe, from Paris and Tuscany to the shrine at Delphi, from Santa Fe to Sella Pass, Snyder lays out these poems as a map of the last decade. Placed side-by-side, they become a path and a trail of...