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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
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
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
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
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
This Particular Earthly Scene	Margaret Glynne Lloyd	"Elegantly crafted, deeply experienced, Margaret Lloyd's This Particular Earthly Scene is a book of woman's wisdom, sexual and spiritual, filled with seductions, scars, human touch." —Alicia Ostri…	OL4309999W
Camera Lyrica	Amy Newman	“No matter how intricate, uncomfortable, or orphic her subject, Newman’s camera never flinches from her duty; her eye never shudders, except in rapture and that is to be forgiven, or rather, rewarded…	OL454919W
Curses & Songs & Poems	Lee Rudolph	"Lee's poems are like places. I enter them and he talks to me there. I hear his voice. The rare quality is how full these places seem of things and feelings but without crowding me. Rather they make …	OL4814745W
Curses & Songs & Poems	Lee Rudolph	"Lee's poems are like places. I enter them and he talks to me there. I hear his voice. The rare quality is how full these places seem of things and feelings but without crowding me. Rather they make …	OL4814746W
33	Marjorie Fletcher	". . . arranged with the wrenchingly careful displacement of a cubist painting . . . [33] leads women's writing away from the cash-in commercial perception of an Erica Jong. Honest as kitchen knives …	OL7091994W
After Aztlan	Ray Gonzalez	<em>After Aztlan: Latino Poetry of the Nineties</em> is the first comprehensive poetry anthology of Latin poets who write primarily in English. In this volume, they write of their heritage, their dri…	OL7990297W
Falling Off the Roof	Karen Lindsey	“Wry, sad, angry poetry, sometimes delicate as fine brushwork, sometimes powerful as hammer blows. When she picks up mythology it is at once to transform it into a personal expression and to not thin…	OL8336532W
33	Marjorie Fletcher	". . . arranged with the wrenchingly careful displacement of a cubist painting . . . [33] leads women's writing away from the cash-in commercial perception of an Erica Jong. Honest as kitchen knives …	OL8675136W