Drug Use Cuts a Wide Swath Among Author’s FriendsShort Stories to Die For“Stink” in Australian slang means a “fight” or something or someone that is not welcome. The Chronicles of a Stink Chicken: Episodes Second Edition features eight short stories and poetry describing the madness and wildness of thoughts and actions resultant from use of illicit drugs. It challenges unsuspecting readers with insets of respected philosophic pretext that asks real questions regarding health authority invo...

Conversations with a Black Cockatoo: The Poems of 2009-2013 is the final book in a trilogy written over the years when the authors mother entered the final phase of her life. It includes her illness, death, and the grieving of a son for a much-loved parent.-----Author Kevin Munro then uprooted his life and relocated to the Shoalhaven Region on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. All of this occurred as he recovered from a bipolar breakdown that ended his teaching career. The poe...

This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the vivid and surprising twelve-line poems entitled "Squarings", shows he is ready to re-imagine experience and "to credit marvels". The title poem, "Seeing Things", is typical of the whole book. It begins with memories of an actual event, then moves towards the visionary while never relinquishing its feel for the textures and sensations of the world. Translations of Virgil and Homer provide a prelude and a coda where motifs implicit i...

“The most remarkable and affecting book of poetry I encountered this year.”—James Wood, The New YorkerIn this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad—the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen—in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the corresponding litany of the war-dead, most of whom are little more than names but each of whom lives and dies unf...

Jerry celebrates his 50 years together with Dani in Poetry. A true love story for all ages.

EternityEternity is lost in the stark belief of our death,As the night presses down on our steadily fading breath.The hush of animation is often long and pathetic.And it never comes with its futile anesthetic.Discern the thrill in our voice, that whispering buzzing land,The dream-date thought you were simply boring out of hand,And made it with the recent daydream of events.You caught the shout in your throat like quick-dry cement.

Even the manliest will suffer from ailments Sweat imparts body odour to armpits He has money aplenty to pay the penalty When education is auctioned and teachers become cheaters, naturally the student will be stunted Does the lameness of nameless salesmen affect their maleness? The gardener garnered the crop The getaway car was parked near the gateway When the designer was asked to redesign, he promptly resigned On being swindled ones faith in others dwindles running after lucre Will give y...

His second published volume exhibits the same extraordinary vividness and vigor that permeates the first, whether the subject be grief at his Father's death, his youthful friendship with pro wrestler Sky Hi Lee, his chat with a turkey vulture, or the mystery of the disappearing honey bee.

Whether exploring the porous borders between sin and virtue or examining the lives of saints and mystics to find the human experiences in stories of the divine, the poems in No Confession, No Mass move toward restoration and reunion.Jennifer Perrine’s poems ask what healing might be possible in the face of sexual and gendered violence worldwide—in New Delhi, in Steubenville, in Juárez, and in neighborhoods and homes never named in the news. The book reflects on our own com...

Already singled out by The New York Times and the subject of a feature in The New Yorker, Virginia Adair has, after decades of shunning book publication, decided to collect eighty of her best poems in a volume that will surely be hailed as among the most accomplished works of our time.Ants on the Melon includes poems that concern the author's childhood, that explore sensuality in candid terms, that starkly treat her husband's suici...

A collection of poems by the young poet Elliott Troop, touching on various themes from love and youthful innocence to the rampant development of a materialistic culture.

Earl Silver’s poems open doors of nostalgia to scenes, people, family places and feelings-some long forgotten. His writing takes me back to what I have seen and felt, so that memories, half buried, are reborn. I am sure he will do the same for any reader. Faith in God is alive in these poems and becomes a beckoning invitation to peace and quiet of heart. At times his words are few, but dramatic and succinct so that they bring powerful images to mind. Some of his poems will delight with hu...