The Bed Slowly, slowly Falls the snow, As if uncertain Where to go. Without the wind, Without a sound, It lightly lays A cover down.

Sly and sophisticated, direct, playful, and profound, Amy Gerstler’s new collection highlights her distinctive poetic style. In thirty-seven poems, using a variety of dramatic voices and visual techniques, she finds meaning in unexpected places, from a tour of a doll hospital to an ad for a CD of Beethoven symphonies to an earthy exploration of toast. Gerstler’s abiding interests—in love and mourning, in science and pseudoscience, in the idea of an afterlife, in seances and magic—are all r...

Wendy Videlock’s The Dark Gnu and Other Poems plays, jokes, teaches, admonishes, yields to the ecstatic, and strays into the shadowy where “If not for the dark, / no / spark.” All of this is heightened by striking full-color illustrations from the author herself. There are stories that come and go in a couple of blinks, and stories that linger and juggle their way from hut to the market, to the fair, on a “swaying dappled mare,” to get to all the good to be had or done. Mother Goose, myth,...

Contains selected poems from:What a Kingdom It Was (1960)Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock (1964)Body Rags (1968)The Book of Nightmares (1971)Mortal Acts, Mortal Words (1980)The Past (1985)When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone (1990)Imperfect Thirst (1994)

Life is cyclical. From the seasons to the length of the day, life changes. Perception does too. The poems here offer a unique way of looking at the universe and the things in it, warming you, enticing you, or simply giving you a chuckle.Pencil on paperscribbled over time, to accomplisha lifelong dream

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...

“Luminous. . . . Each reading reveals the tug of opposites, and in this tension the poet shows her brilliance.”—Library Journal, starred reviewRash yet tender, chastened yet lush, Headwaters is a book of opposites, a book of wild abandon by one of the most formally exacting poets of our time. Animals populate its pages—owl, groundhog, fox, each with its own inimitable survival skills—and the poet who so meticulously observes their behaviors has ac...

About the Book: The title of the book, Moonlight, Stuff and Nonsense, reflects its nature and its genesis. The poems, mostly short and to the point, were written in part for the monthly Newsletter of the Baylor University Retired Professors/Administrators Program. While most are light and humorous, they represent a wide range of moods and feelings from sentiment to humor to the ridiculous. Some are tongue-in-cheek, some are nostalgic and reminiscent. Some are free-wheeling and border on th...

Trees are amazing. They are as practical as a log on the fire. They are as mysterious as a dark woodland path. They are as imaginative as a child's (or grownup's) treehouse. And so much more. There is a spirituality, wholesomeness, fun and wonder that can be seen in trees; in their variety, in memories evoked, in scenes enjoyed, in their revelation about the God of Creation, or in any of a hundred other reasons that they hold our fascination. Herein the reader is invited to walk between th...

Memories Like Raindrops is a collection of poetry all ages can enjoy. The subjects vary while most of the poems relate to Joyces own life and memories. Each word put on paper is heartfelt and can produce a smile or even a tear. Hopefully you too dear reader will find the words touching and perhaps they will bring back a few memories to you as--- Memories like raindrops from the sky Fall on paper crisp and dry

In his collection of poetry and prose , Bob has combined his love of nature, the ocean, lakes, and mountains with his desire to express our inner feelings, our daily life's journey. "Of Smiles and Tears" was then created.

Capturing the independence and personality of the cat through poem and prose may have been done best in the lost scripts of Hy-Brasil, but alas, they are still lost and of questionable existence. So here, observation, legend and science have been blended in fanciful drollery entirely for the pleasure of you the reader. Submerse yourself in furry rhyme, partake in high adventure with Feral Cat and Domestic Cat, act all sophisticated and cultured as you critique the fine artwork by two soon ...