books by Four Way Books     books:     Four Way Books      Anxious Music April Ossmann Four Way Books, 2007 Anxious Music The slender feel of this book is deceptive. The territory covered in its fifty some-odd pages is expansive. Which is quite an accomplishment given the subjects of her poems are often seemingly commonplace--meditations on death and memory, the light of the stars, the ...             Never Before: Poems About First Experiences Four Way Books, 2005 First haircuts, first kisses, firstborn children. Never Before: Poems About First Experiences explores the ways in which the unknown becomes known. These poems evoke a sense of wonder at the world around us, and amazement at our ability to navigate through it, with all of the necessary bumps along the way. The voices of both established and ...             The Book of Jobs: Poems Kathryn Maris Four Way Books, 2006 A distinctive, original, passionate, 'word skilled' voice The free verse poetry of Kathryn Maris offers a distinctive, original, passionate, 'word skilled' voice that will engage both the mind and the imagination. The profusely imaged poetry comprising "The Book Of Jobs" will well serve to introduce Kathryn's poetic wit and ...             Siste Viator Sarah Manguso Four Way Books, 2006 It Means, "Stop, Traveler" My publishers always tell me to refrain from titling my books in any other language than English, and yet Sarah Manguso has found a wide audience for her poetry even when her book has a Latin name. I like it, for it gives the book a sort of ancient Ruskin feeling, or ...             The Geographic Cure: Poems (Stahlecker Series Selection) Ellen Dudley Four Way Books, 2007 "Another time, another day, another continent perhaps and life would be better, lovers happier, the dead un-dead" is the sought-after "geographic cure" in the title of Vermont poet Ellen Dudley's powerful second book. Traveling through North America, into South America, and to the islands of the Philippines, these visceral poems present landscapes ...             Notarikon Catherine Bowman Four Way Books, 2006 An Amazing Book of Poems This book should get nominated for the National Book Award. Bowman is an amazing, daring poet who stretches the bounds of the form while, at the same time, holding firmly to the truth of language: there is nothing messy about these wildly ambitious poems, but at the ...             The Narrows Daniel Tobin Four Way Books, 2005 Of this title Eammon Wall writes, "The Narrows is a prodigious feat of raw, physical, moral, psychic and literary energy in which Daniel Tobin recounts the many-sided history of his family. Conceived around the oldest theme in Irish literature, the dinnseanchas or lore of place poem, the poems in this collection range back and forth between the ...             The Second Person: Poems (Stahlecker Series Selection) C. Dale Young Four Way Books, 2007 Drawing on traditional forms including the villanelle and pantoum, and writing with an ear for a beautiful, resounding rhythm, C. Dale Young investigates the lessons of the trainee doctor and documents the experiences of the practicing physician, remarking on the ways medicine alone is not enough: "Do not let a man // abandon hope," says Saint ...             Rift: Poems Forrest Hamer Four Way Books, 2007 Rift, the third collection from poet and psychologist Forrest Hamer, engages hauntingly with separations and reconciliations that are both personal and socio-historical. Hamer draws on his American experience--including his youth in Goldsboro, North Carolina--and his African heritage--including the tragic conflicts between Tutsis and Hutus in ...             Name Withheld (Stahlecker Series Selection) Lisa Sewell Four Way Books, 2006 "Name Withheld is the dark side of confession's moon, where privacy deepens because utterance--rich and elusive--reproves the voyeur, withholds what it must. Language hunts what is 'nocturnal, difficult to spot,' heady with contradiction, dissonance, dismay, 'unmappable,' yet moving at the core, her lines like the meteor's tail, 'gesturing back to ...             Echolalia Deborah Bernhardt Four Way Books, 2006 Winner of the Intro Prize, selected by Marianne Boruch “How even to talk about what it is to read these haunted, ecstatic (wily so, calmly so) immensely likable, edgy poems that Deborah Bernhardt has given us? They're surprising, yes. You never know their next step, where they might leap, or return. The language and cadence—fractured, ...             A History of the Only War Christopher Davis Four Way Books, 2005 Harrowing and brilliant I read this book on the advice of a friend and it completely blows me away. The poems are nothing less than stunning. They are difficult, and the revealations they come to are often unpleasant, but they are also wickedly funny and incredibly scary. This is a top notch ...             Hams Beneath the Firmament: Poems Terri Ford Four Way Books, 2007 Rhythmic, lively, robust, energetic, engaging, lyrical, and great fun Rhythmic, lively, robust, energetic, engaging, lyrical, and great fun, the poetry of Terri Ford laid out in the pages of "Hams Beneath The Firmament" is an exuberant foray into life experiences that will wonderfully resonate within the mind of the reader from first ...             Shade 2006: An Anthology of Poetry And Short Fiction Four Way Books, 2006 Established and emerging poets and writers inform and play off each other’s work as they appear side by side in this vital and dynamic sampling of contemporary American writing. Vito Aiuto, Joshua Beckman, Denise Duhamel, Sybil Estess, David Hernandez, Steve Orlen, Elaine Terrranova, Noelle Kocot-Tomblin, Chase Twichell, Sarah Vap and many others.             Winter Light Gary Duehr Four Way Books, 1999 A treasure The poems are brief and gorgeous, but not by any means slight, and each one adds a depth to the entire volume. It's not a novel at all - the author is a highly skilled poet - but it is novelistic: characters emerge and fade into the fabric, time passes, perception ...          products you might be interested in search for books echolalia, experiences, firmament, geographic, notarikon, stahlecker      geepe.com    web randomly chosen book: Decorative Wirework: 50+ Ideas for Using Wire to Decorate Your Home, ...