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The Daring of Paradise reconfigures stories and images from both multiple religions and from fairy tales, cracking them open to release new light.

A sense of place has always dominated Louise McKinney's writing life. This poetry collection represents the best of her poetry written from the early 1980s to now.

COCKEYED: askew, crooked, intoxicated, absurd; marked by bends or angles; incongruous, not straight.

Mothers of the 1950s were wasp-waisted, dutiful, serene, and tied to the kitchen with apron strings. Or so we thought.

These poems take the reader on a mind-blowing journey across the known micro- and macrocosms to the extreme outer edges of space and time.

The poems in Black Suede Cave meditate on the space inside us, where darkness and imagination animate the unknowable.

Written to read like a memoir, this collection of poetry details the life of a family across generations and provides a moving and haunting portrait of the Italian mother who is the center around w

The poems in Courage Underground burrow beneath the skin to examine the relationship between consciousness and body.

Death and its many mysteries are explored in these autobiographical poems about the passing of the poet's beloved brother, the dementia that claimed her father, and the inevitable bodily changes th

A stunning collection of poems, these works explore moments of empathy in suffering, epiphany in ruin, and grace in surrender.

Existentialist in approach, this collection of tightly woven, abstract poems explores ageing and what it means to not be young anymore.

On Order and Things is the story of an impossible love between a man and a woman. Confused characters living in a senseless world where love and creativity are irrelevant.

These meticulous, skillful, and endlessly revealing poems are astounding in their restraint and delicate comprehension of the natural world.

Where other poets of his generation developed strategies of deconstruction, Jean-Pierre Vallotton invented a brave new mosaic with the parameters left behind by traditionalism, modernism and postmo

Juhan Liiv (1864-1913) has the same significance for Estonian culture that Federico García Lorca and T.S. Eliot have for modern culture created, respectively, in Spanish and English.