Böcker i Walt Mcdonald First-book Series in Poetry-serien

A meditation on grief, death, and distance.

Soaring across extensive terrain, from the working world of Detroit to American suburbia and pop culture; from the European landscape of World War II to the war in Iraq, this title opens the author's personal world to the world at large. It includes poems that explore the historical, social, and scientific, relishing life's juxtapositions.

The Twenty-Sixth Winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry. Prospect/ comprises poems about vantage points, country and personhood, and the difficulty of understanding what is true.

Includes poems that focus on the hard subjects: a child's life-threatening illness, a mothers struggle with the serious illnesses of all her children, the ends of marriages, the deaths of lovers, the slow demise of parents, ones own mortality, humanity's physical and emotional frailties.

Features poems that leave some sweet dirt under your fingernails proof of hard, honest work when the longing of small-town America is not enough. This title eloquently plots our geographically impossible trajectories.

Miriam Vermilya was a retired grade school teacher and a well known painter and writer in Greenville, Ohio, where she lived. This title includes poems that sum up Vermilyas reflections on her life, love, and marriage; the deaths of friends and family members; and, most poignantly, her own aging and death.

Explores womans place in West Texas and the world from the perspectives of daughter, wife, friend, and mother. This title presents the account of one woman, of all women that female secret of wombs/the ache that folds into the chest/and stays, a wound/nursed into a jewel.

In her first volume of poetry, novelist Sarah Strong celebrates silence and what can be learned when we wait and listen. In this stillness, she shows us, we may hear answers to questions we have learned not to ask.