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These poems dwell in the hearth of domesticity, but they look beyond the confines of the home with clear eyes.

Isabella Caro, born in Florence at the de-occupation of Italy in WW2 is a woman shaped by the resilience of her country and a thirst for knowledge.

Hate to tell you, but you're going to die. / Quite soon. Me, too. / Shuck off the wisdom while it's warm. / Death does no harm / To wisdom.

The hunt over; the kill complete / limping towards perfection, padding / about the room, thorns in her thumbs / Hermes crawling on all fours - / That was the last I saw of Hilda.

A whistling through teeth. / He shuts his eyes but still sees / the red glow of exit signs.

Shiver. Swift whip of wind. / Fangs of the low front / stinging fierce as forest fires. / Frost thickening the stoop.

All songs have skin, / all skin has holes. On High, Neil Surkan's debut collection of poetry, searches for spirits in myriad places.

Salt Fires is a volume of poems that embrace and reflect our human consciousness: our awareness, our blindness, our Shadow, our mythologies.

This collection brings together Allan Cooper's best poems over the last forty years. He weaves visions of nature with insight into the workings of the human heart.

The Way We Hold On is Abena Beloved Green's debut book of poetry.

Speaking a language we understand, Rona Shaffran's poems tell the story of remarkable things that can happen in a broken relationship.

A bilingual English-Italian collection of love poems, Text Me/Dimmelo per SMS expresses through language and metaphor the many ways to say "I love you." Calabrò's poems often evolve

This is a collection of 20th and 21st century poets, handpicked by JoAnn Becker and Diane Croft.

Poets and identical twins Daniel and David Simpson were born blind in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1952.

Presents a volume of more than fifty new poems accompanied by a generous gathering from the author's collections of the past decade, lending insight into his overall poetic achievements and his use