Böcker i Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry-serien

In her first collection of poems, Kansas native Amy Fleury captures images of dragging clotheslines, baked lawns, and sweet potato babies, inserting them with an earnest dignity into her stories of midwestern life.

In his fifth collection of poetry, Greg Pape melds images from the natural world with ordinary experience to capture small transformations of human character in American settings from Arizona's Sonora Desert to the streets of Washington DC. He offers poems that bridge the spaces between the past and the present, and men and women.

Death, fame, art, and religion become comic subjects in this fourth collection from Richard Cecil. Cecil tempers his morbidity with a straightforward, tender brand of humor and a refreshing honesty about the shelf life of contemporary poetry.

Circle adopts the shape as a trope for gender, family, and history. These lyrical, narrative, and hybrid poems trace the spiral trajectory of womanhood and growth and plot the progression of self as it ebbs away from and returns to its roots in an Asian American family and context.

Running the gamut from traditional to radical forms, this collection of poems - seeking spiritual consolation within a material world - continues the trajectory of the author's previous books but extends his lyrical range. The centerpiece of the volume's tripartite structure is a meditation on the events surrounding 9/11 and its aftermath.

Presents a collection of poems that offers commentary in the voices of women as varied as Mary Todd Lincoln and Monica Lewinsky. These poems often focus on a particular moment in life: Katherine Hepburn discovers the dead body of her brother in an attic, or painter, Mary Cassatt mourns the failure of her eyesight.

Contains poems that explore the everyday mysteries of our common experience with humor, lucidity, and an unblinking yet compassionate eye.

Documents the effects of profound loss and the dark withdrawal into grief. Here, crossovers between craft and art, form and voice, knitting and memory, recur throughout the poems.

Explores the loss of a parent to cancer and the resulting uprootedness that loss can create. In searching for a sense of home and belonging, this collection of free verse looks both inward and outward, to landscapes rural and urban, and speaks in haunting and musical lyrics.