Jorie Graham grew up in Italy and now lives in northern California. She has received grants from the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, the Bunting Institute, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Her first book, Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts (Princeton, 1980), won the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award as the best first book of poems published in 1980. From Erosion: SAN SEPOLCRO Jorie Graham . . . . How clean the mind is, holy...

Lyrical verses span the career of a twentieth-century American poet, and illuminates his concern for the future of humanity.

"An original collection of poetry"-- "When the Gnostic Gospels collide with new age spiritualism, the Oxford Happiness Test, and treatises on Buddhist practice, we know we're in the territory of a Bruce Beasley collection. Alternately devout and heretical, Beasley-known for his intense and continuing soul-quest through previous award-winning books-interrogates the absurdities, psychic violence, and spiritual condition of twenty-first century America...

"This tour de force contains every poem Harrison published over his fifty-year career, as well as a section of unpublished 'Last Poems.' Here are the nature-based lyrics of his early work, the high-velocity ghazals, a harrowing prose-poem "correspondence" with a Russian suicide, the riverine suites, fearless meditations inspired by the Zen monk Crazy Cloud, and a buoyant conversation in haiku-like gems with friend and fellow poet Ted Kooser. Trhoughout...

"A selection from the last twenty years of C.K. Williams's career, plus new work--proof of his enduring power C.K. Williams's long career has been a catalog of surprises, of inventions and reinventions, of honors. His one constant is a remarkable degree of flexibility, a thrilling ability to shape-shift that goes hand in hand with an essential, enduring honesty. This rare, heady mix has ensured that his verses have remained, from book to book, as...