Trapeze Deborah Digges Knopf, 2005 These lush, rewarding reflections on a woman’s passage into midlife are grounded in our intimacy with nature and mortality. Deborah Digges, now in her fifties, looks back in such poems as “Boat” to see younger mothers and their children, and ponders her own “brilliant, trivial unmooring.” As she wanders from the garden to the barn and into the woods, she finds her ...             Reign of Snakes (Poets, Penguin)4 reviews Robert Wrigley Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999 Spellbinding, Beautiful, and true + Fantastic! + Nature 101 aka Poetry of the Enviroment + Exquisite, Lyrical Tour de Force             Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry)6 reviews Yusef Komunyakaa Wesleyan, 1993 LANGUAGE LIT UP: SOUL-TO-SOUL COMMUNICATION + "Like a man drunk on the rage / Of being alive" + Highly Recommended!!! + easily teachable + One of my favorite books             Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced3 reviews Catherine Barnett Alice James Books, 2004 Took the top of my head off + One of the best books I've read in years.... + Beautiful Yet Devastating This is simply one of the most beautiful books of poetry I've read in a very long time. Its subject matter, the death of two young girls in a plane crash, would render almost anyone mute, yet Barnett has found a way to speak of the ineffable here, and to make something beautiful out of despair. ...             Green Squall (Yale Series of Younger Poets)3 reviews Jay Hopler, Louise Gluck Yale University Press, 2006 Enjoyable to read + The Exterminating Angel + heartbreaking I very much enjoyed this collection. The voice is intimate, compelling, authentic, feels honest, curious, and contemplative. I got the sense of isolation and doubt but the speaker is also sensitive, funny, and inquisitive, so the voice rarely drifts into complete nihilism. There are also moments of ...             Selected Levis: Revised Edition (Pitt Poetry Series)4 reviews Larry Levis University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003 As good as it gets + Indispensible + Gathers inspirational and moving verse + errata             Les Barricades Mysterieuses: thirty-two villanelles3 reviews Jared Carter Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1999 Les Barricades Mysterieuses + Very good book. + An old form made new... Carter's recent collection is a sensuous flow of imagery, extracted from his Midwestern roots and refined through an obscure Italian verse form. The book extends its first invitation, the magnetic "Improvisation", and once the embrace is welcomed carries the reader into transitional realities of ...             Carolina Ghost Woods: Poems6 reviews Judy Jordan Louisiana State University Press, 2000 Impressive Book + Fantastic. + Carolina Ghost Woods + "Ghost Woods": Craft, Soul and a Dark Past + Keen observation and intensely honest, harsh and beautiful,             A. R. Ammons: Selected Poems (American Poets Project) A. R. Ammons Library of America, 2006 Meditative, comic, emotionally wrenching, steeped in both the natural world and the life of the mind, the poetry of A. R. Ammons is at once cosmic in scope and intimate in its moment-to-moment transformations. With his mastery of description and cadence, his roiling wit and fearless gaze, Ammons was a philosopher of the everyday who found surprise everywhere he looked. "He is often witty, ...             Rose (New Poets of America)14 reviews Li-Young Lee BOA Editions Ltd., 2000 Stunning. + A great book of poetry + Amey3eb + Magnificent + and to think he works in a warehouse             Rose (New Poets of America)14 reviews Li-Young Lee BOA Editions Ltd., 2000 Stunning. + A great book of poetry + Amey3eb + Magnificent + and to think he works in a warehouse             Selected Levis: Revised Edition (Pitt Poetry Series)4 reviews Larry Levis University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003 As good as it gets + Indispensible + Gathers inspirational and moving verse + errata             Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry)6 reviews Yusef Komunyakaa Wesleyan, 1993 LANGUAGE LIT UP: SOUL-TO-SOUL COMMUNICATION + "Like a man drunk on the rage / Of being alive" + Highly Recommended!!! + easily teachable + One of my favorite books             Trapeze Deborah Digges Knopf, 2005 These lush, rewarding reflections on a woman’s passage into midlife are grounded in our intimacy with nature and mortality. Deborah Digges, now in her fifties, looks back in such poems as “Boat” to see younger mothers and their children, and ponders her own “brilliant, trivial unmooring.” As she wanders from the garden to the barn and into the woods, she finds her ...             A. R. Ammons: Selected Poems (American Poets Project) A. R. Ammons Library of America, 2006 Meditative, comic, emotionally wrenching, steeped in both the natural world and the life of the mind, the poetry of A. R. Ammons is at once cosmic in scope and intimate in its moment-to-moment transformations. With his mastery of description and cadence, his roiling wit and fearless gaze, Ammons was a philosopher of the everyday who found surprise everywhere he looked. "He is often witty, ...             Reign of Snakes (Poets, Penguin)4 reviews Robert Wrigley Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999 Spellbinding, Beautiful, and true + Fantastic! + Nature 101 aka Poetry of the Enviroment + Exquisite, Lyrical Tour de Force             Carolina Ghost Woods: Poems6 reviews Judy Jordan Louisiana State University Press, 2000 Impressive Book + Fantastic. + Carolina Ghost Woods + "Ghost Woods": Craft, Soul and a Dark Past + Keen observation and intensely honest, harsh and beautiful,             Les Barricades Mysterieuses: thirty-two villanelles3 reviews Jared Carter Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1999 Les Barricades Mysterieuses + Very good book. + An old form made new... Carter's recent collection is a sensuous flow of imagery, extracted from his Midwestern roots and refined through an obscure Italian verse form. The book extends its first invitation, the magnetic "Improvisation", and once the embrace is welcomed carries the reader into transitional realities of ...             Green Squall (Yale Series of Younger Poets)3 reviews Jay Hopler, Louise Gluck Yale University Press, 2006 Enjoyable to read + The Exterminating Angel + heartbreaking I very much enjoyed this collection. The voice is intimate, compelling, authentic, feels honest, curious, and contemplative. I got the sense of isolation and doubt but the speaker is also sensitive, funny, and inquisitive, so the voice rarely drifts into complete nihilism. There are also moments of ...             Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced3 reviews Catherine Barnett Alice James Books, 2004 Took the top of my head off + One of the best books I've read in years.... + Beautiful Yet Devastating This is simply one of the most beautiful books of poetry I've read in a very long time. Its subject matter, the death of two young girls in a plane crash, would render almost anyone mute, yet Barnett has found a way to speak of the ineffable here, and to make something beautiful out of despair. ...