Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P688
ISBN: 9780881469189
Price: $20.00
All manner of ghosts haunt the poems in Jack Bedell's new collection, GHOST FOREST. From memories of lost loved ones, to the ghosts of heroes, to the remnants of an eroding coastline, these spectres fill Bedell's lines with beauty and wisdom to help us all move into the future.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P707
ISBN: 9780881469448
Price: $20.00
Holly Haworth "trace[s] the moon through the traceless sky" in a meditation on time's cyclical nature and how it slips away--and on writing as a way of time-keeping, poetry a tool for etching memory. Mournful lament and exuberant praise, THE WAY THE MOON compels us to stop in our tracks and savor even the losses.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P639
ISBN: 9780881468311
Price: $19.00
With its broad range of vision and mastery of poetic technique, ARM IN ARM shows again why Catharine Savage Brosman is, as Claude Wilkinson wrote, one of America's finest poets. Her wit, powers of observation, and depth of feeling are displayed on page after page, as she looks at the world personally, phenomenologically (in food and flower poems, for instance), and spiritually.
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Product Code: HH1068
ISBN: 9798897360536
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Price: $45.00
In the correspondence of Leo Strauss and Seth Benardete, we witness two extraordinary thinkers in action. Political philosopher and philosophic classicist share ideas with an immediacy that complements their carefully crafted published works. The exchange, which continues until close to Strauss's death, begins with Benardete writing his dissertation in Athens and Rome, while Strauss is established as a professor in Chicago, publishing some of his most influential books.
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Product Code: P662
ISBN: 9780881468748
Price: $20.00
Cathryn Hankla's eleventh volume of poetry and second full-length collection of prose poems, offers us an intimate catalog of what's remembered, what's observed, and what's imagined. Lyrical or narrative by turns, nuanced and deft, Hankla's prose poems range through the realms of reflection and imagination, finding them not so different: they rub shoulders and embrace like old friends.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P705
ISBN: 9780881469561
Price: $25.00
During the past forty years, Dana Gioia has had as transformative an impact on American literature as any living author. A major poet, creative visionary, and forthright critic, he has played a pivotal role in the field by arguing for more honest reviewing, questioning the isolated state of American poetry, and advocating for the return to form and narrative. This collection of twenty essays is the first multi-author critical effort to explore the extent of Gioia's influential presence on the literary world.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P682
ISBN: 9780881469103
Price: $20.00
The poems in Bill King's first full-length collection articulate a life grounded in the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains. We see memories of his youth in southwestern Virginia's Back Creek Valley, as well as poems of adult years in (and exploring the Monongahela Forest that surrounds) the mountain town of Elkins, West Virginia. These poems follow the root of a life nourished by and inseparable from garden soil, mountain rivers, and the hearths and kitchen table of home back to its origins. King's poems offer a language for how to love a world we must, ultimately, leave.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P664
ISBN: 9780881468762
Price: $20.00
Marissa Glover once again addresses herself, with her signature wit and moxie, to matters political and personal, sacred and profane, in a voice at once disarmingly colloquial and slyly erudite. Varying tonal registers with an easy grace, she ranges freely over national affairs of great historical importance and tiny, shrewdly observed incidents from domestic life.
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Product Code: P748
ISBN: 9798897360338
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Price: $20.00
LET YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED is Judson Mitcham's first collection of poems in twenty years. It takes as its epigraph Paul Valéry's description of language as "the god gone astray in the flesh." These poems engage a single life and many lives at once, moving toward what is here called soul, traveling a path laid down by a lexicon of plain words. This is a collection that should reward opening the book at random, but it is structured so that it may also be read as the scaffolding of a narrative.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P638
ISBN: 9780881468304
Price: $17.00
THE LOST THING is a collection of poems exploring absence and loss and the potential of language to witness that loss. These poems capture the certain fading away--of family, individuals, places, and emotions.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P661
ISBN: 9780881468731
Price: $20.00
East Tennessee poet Denton Loving's second collection centers on the bond that endures between father and son, even after death. Loving explores and celebrates the physical and psychological landscapes of his native Appalachia--its mountains and valleys, its flora and fauna--with language that is lyrical and bursting with sudden shocks of emotional power.
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Product Code: P755
ISBN: 9798897360468
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Price: $22.00
ORPHEUS REMAINS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS is a means of time travel for Clifford Brooks. Here, he offers selected poems from his previous collections THE DRAW OF BROKEN EYES & WHIRLING METAPHYSICS, ATHENA DEPARTS, and OLD GODS in pursuit of confessing his full truth. Written in accessible, melodic form, every aspect of the poet's life is exposed. New poems find Brooks standing firmly in the present with hopeful anticipation for the future.
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