Putting the Pieces Together


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Looking back, the myriad events of a life seem woven of a single cloth, and likewise, each poem in this astonishing new collection is linked in some way to the others-revealing a meaningful overall pattern.

When I Was a King


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When I Was a King takes readers through the worst that life can give a person and show that, on the other side, a bright light is shining.

Tree Fall with Birdsong


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Treefall with Bird Song explores the natural world around the poet’s home in Mississippi and delves into memories of the rural landscapes of Iowa where he was raised, Flanders, and other places he has traveled.

White Lies


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Here is an unflinching masterwork of unpicking the familial ties, the “white lies,” we live with and how we forge ourselves separate from them.

Love and Resistance


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Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani’s translated poems are selected for their breadth of representation, their influence in the Arab world, and their poetic prowess.

The Eating Knife


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The poems in this collection deconstruct and reconstitute the story of Isaac and Abraham, textually and metaphorically, as a means of stitching together meaning after violence and loss.

Hills Full of Holes


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Part elegy, part pastoral, part ode to beloved and beleaguered set-asides, Hills Full of Holes journeys in widening understandings of injuries to body and land, and their possible recoveries.