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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Robeson Street	Fanny Howe	“‘Breath’ is the real gift of these poems, an aura that Fanny Howe works to refine until it dazzles . . . The aura of wonder, an evanescent glow felt in life’s best moments, when they seem to point b…	OL14912523W
Animals	Alice Mattison	“Mattison has written the best poems I know about the ‘Bodiliness,’ the sheer physicality of pregnancy and motherhood. The poems are about much more than this; but they start from here. There is a wo…	OL16992W
Personal Effects	Helena Minton,Robin Becker,Marilyn Zuckerman	“Robin Becker’s first collection of poems show a controlled ironic intelligence and a steadfastness of vision. The grandmother poems, the self as child, the self as adult female, the poems of travel …	OL17806771W
Things that Happen where There Aren't Any People	William Stafford		OL17807406W
The Groundnote	Janet Kaplan	The Groundnote, Janet Kaplan's first collection of poetry, explores violence in the twentieth century, both in the family and in the larger world. The poems range over difficult subjects - the Jewi…	OL1812681W
Fire & Flower	Laura Kasischke	The poems in <em>Fire & Flower</em> are about the images that hold the world together in the mind of a child, a woman, and the mother she becomes. The metaphors used to describe their lives are myste…	OL1845002W
Perennials	Judith Kitchen		OL1965385W
Changing Faces	Betsy Sholl	“…Antonio Machado used to say the capacity for wonder is the source of true poetry, and this is the magical ingredient I find in Betsy Sholl… All, or almost all, of Sholl’s poems are coming from a ce…	OL2648906W
The Arrival of the Future	B. H. Fairchild	“[B.H.] Fairchild’s ability not only to choose a story but to pace it and to reveal its meaning through the unfolding of the narrative is probably unmatched in contemporary American poetry. The incis…	OL2699966W
An Ark of Sorts	Celia Gilbert	Winner of the 1997 Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award “These meticulously crafted poems unfold with a narrative drive and thematic unity worthy of a great novel. The spareness of Gilbert’s language, a…	OL2724866W
Heavy Grace	Robert Cording	“Robert Cording’s <em>Heavy Grace</em> tolls the bells. These are highly likable poems in which the pain of loved ones’ demises is wrestled into free-verse stanzas. Buttressing the elegies that form …	OL2979824W
Signal::Noise	Miriam Goodman	“Goodman at her best finds the precise images which give concrete meaning to abstractions like exploitation or alienation…Her attempts are orignal and ambitious in the best sense of the word.” —*San …	OL3002828W
Infrequent Mysteries	Pamela Stewart	“Blessed with an ear for music which gives her poems a voice of subtle shifts, a spectrum of pulsing color, possessed of a keen eye for images of dreamscapes, and glimpses into lives glittering in ha…	OL3289447W
Riding with the Fireworks!	Ann Darr	"This is her own intense record of a journey, one of the many she's been on in her whole life. She hums. She burns. One conversation, one reading of her poems is worth a shelf of books, a lifetime of…	OL3537597W
Woman and The Sea	Michael Mott	“Michael Mott's poems are strong in all the qualities that make good poetry: formal beauty, wise sense, and well-drawn imagery. He speaks to and for our time, from deep wells of history, with a firm …	OL3948267W
The Wild Field	Rita Gabis	In this first collection of poems, Rita Gabis explores the erotic against a backdrop of the natural landscape, and the wilder inner landscape of the human heart. Sensual, intimate, probing, these poe…	OL3961951W
Lines Out	Rosamond Rosenmeier	“The poems are lucid, moving, and their open-throated singing comes straight at the reader from a whole heart and a passionate intelligence.” —Thomas Lux “Here’s a long overdue first collection b…	OL4077137W
Sorting Metaphors	Ricardo Pau-Llosa		OL4082673W
Tamsen Donner	Ruth Whitman	“Ruth Whitman has recreated the journal that Tamsen Donner lost on her nightmarish journey to California in 1846. With a grant from the National Endowment, Whitman traveled along the route of the Don…	OL4085121W
The Secretary Parables	Nancy Lagomarsino	“<em>The Secretary Parables</em>. How does she do this to us? It’s like the Devil or God saying: ‘Now you are here. Pick a door!’ Well, why not try all the doors, one after another? What’s behind thi…	OL4088246W