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"A novel in language as dense and lush and beautiful as poetry ... [or] a book of poetry with the vivid characters and the narrative force of a novel' Whatever you care to call it, it's a remarkable achievement." - Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls Village Prodigies imagines the town of Cold Springs, Alabama, from 1950 to 2015 and unfurls its narrative reach as six boys-prodigies and swains-grow up and leave the familiarity of home and the rural South. Yet all prodigies, all memories, all stories inevitably loop back.

The world displayed in the poems of Thomas Lux is a fairly dangerous place, a half promised land, a region where turtles languish of thirst, where a lifebuoy crawls with spiders, where a moving car hits a moving moose and both survive, where what tends to terrify us tends also to make us feel safe, where "rattlesnakes feel at home," where "your belief in justice/merges with your belief in dreams."

Thomas Lux is the author of such books as Sunday, Half Promised Land, and The Drowned River. His poetry has been fulfilling every expectation by penetrating deeper into the plain-spoken, saturnine, witty language that he virtually invented. In his latest work, Lux's level gaze, cool talk, weird rhythms, and quirky humor place him in a special territory - entirely original - of contemporary American poetry.

A sparkling debut collection from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet that makes an ecstatic argument for living

A brilliant new collection of poems by Kingsley Tufts Award-winning poet Thomas Lux

Let Them Eat Chaos, Kate Tempest's new long poem written for live performance and heard on the album release of the same name, is both a powerful sermon and a moving play for voices. Seven neighbors inhabit the same London street, but are all unknown to each other. The clock freezes in the small hours, and one by one we see directly into their lives: lives that are damaged, disenfranchised, lonely, broken, addicted, and all, apparently, without hope. Then a great storm breaks over London, and brings them out into the night to face each other-and their own last chance to connect.

In her latest collection Molly Peacock, one of Canada's most beloved poets, tells the story of her longtime psychoanalyst who returned to painting after surviving a stroke. By translating techniques of visual art into language, The Analyst guides us through breathtaking settings and portraiture, searching for authenticity behind tapestries of illusion.

By turns celebratory and sceptical, Career Limiting Moves is a selection of essays and reviews drawn from a decade of immersion in Canadian poetry. Inhabiting a milieu in which unfriendly remarks are typically spoken sotto voce - if at all - Wells has consistently said what he thinks aloud.

From the timeless pen of the English poet, these monologues are spoken by the lover to his beloved.

Presents five dozen sonnets of Shakespeare, including some of the best known in all of English literature.