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OUT OF STOCK The Terrible Stories, poems by Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton is one of the most distinguished American poets writing today. In The Terrible Stories, her tenth collection of verse, Clifton covers new terrain--cancer and mastectomy, the life of King David, encounters with a vixen fox who is both shaman and muse. Brilliantly honed language, stunning images and sharp rhythms address the whole of human experience: birth, death, children, family, sexuality and spirituality, and community in antebellum and contemporary American culture. POETRY PB, 72 pp. 1996, BOA Editions, ISBN 1-880238-37-3 code: boa-cli

OUT OF STOCK Curious Conduct Curious are the workings of history and governments, the relations between the sexes, the behavior of animals, the life of objects, the labors of art, and the transformations of the imagination. In exploring these subjects, Jeanne Marie Beaumont's poems pursue and develop their own mode of investigation, a way into their subjects whether it be by interrogation, time travel, anthropomorphism or other conducive strategies. Employing a range of poetic forms and devices including anaphora, acrostic, dramatic monologue, and the prose poem, Jeanne Marie Beaumont's Curious Conduct depicts a restless aesthetic alert to the various opportunities that the poetic tradition present to explore experience. LITERATURE PB 2004, ISBN:1-929918-51-8 code: boa cur

OUT OF STOCK Desire Lines: New and Selected Poems The poems in Desire Lines, both new and selected, give shape to the desires we must nourish in ourselves if we are to retain our compassion. As such, the poems collaborate as a series of variations on the theme of desire, much like the way a motif weaves through a piece of music or a thread through a tapestry. Although Haskins seldom writes autobiographically, many of her poems give voice to other women, both historical and imagined. Haskins is an accomplished pianist and her poetry is flush with music, tonalities and modulations. Fittingly, there are ample poems from her celebrated 1990 collection, "Forty-Four Ambitions for the Piano" as well as three dozen new poems. PB June 2004, ISBN: 1-929918-49-6 code: boa des

OUT OF STOCK Elegy With a Glass of Whiskey Crystal Bacon's Elegy with a Glass of Whiskey was awarded the 2003 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn. In this robust collection Bacon explores vision and the nature of myth-making, from cultural archetypes, such as Persephone and Narcissus, to Anne Frank and Chet Baker, to the personal myths that shape individual lives. Additionally, these poems, written from Bacon's perspective and adopted personas, examine the timeless themes of birth and death, love and loss, maleness and femaleness. This book contains a foreword by Stephen Dunn in which he states, "We are the beneficiaries of such beautifully heard musings." LITERATURE PB 2004, ISBN: 1-929918-53-4 code: boa ele

OUT OF STOCK A. Poulin, Jr. Selected Poems A. Poulin, Jr. Selected Poems includes ample offerings from Poulin’s eight books, as well as a number of uncollected and limited-edition poems. Known for imaginative conceits and deft intelligence, Poulin’s poems balance philosophical inquiry with emotional intensity and call us to a spiritual awakening beyond that of traditional religions. Edited and introduced by Michael Waters, the release of Selected Poems coincides with the 25th anniversary of BOA Editions, founded by Poulin in 1976. "It is a facinating experience to read this book of poems of the life of A. Poulin, Jr. because it is written with honesty, passion and clarity. You enter the man's life as you read the book. I was deeply moved and felt the presence of the author on every page. This is autobiographical poetry at its best." —Alan Dugan "These poems, artifacts from Al Poulin's life work, sing with celebration and mourning over our daily realities, which he perceived as shimmering between the physical and the metaphysical. We miss the poet. But these poems never miss." —Robin Morgan LITERATURE HC 2001, ISBN: 1-929918-02-X code: boa jrhc

OUT OF STOCK A. Poulin, Jr. Selected Poems A. Poulin, Jr. Selected Poems includes ample offerings from Poulin’s eight books, as well as a number of uncollected and limited-edition poems. Known for imaginative conceits and deft intelligence, Poulin’s poems balance philosophical inquiry with emotional intensity and call us to a spiritual awakening beyond that of traditional religions. Edited and introduced by Michael Waters, the release of Selected Poems coincides with the 25th anniversary of BOA Editions, founded by Poulin in 1976. "It is a facinating experience to read this book of poems of the life of A. Poulin, Jr. because it is written with honesty, passion and clarity. You enter the man's life as you read the book. I was deeply moved and felt the presence of the author on every page. This is autobiographical poetry at its best." —Alan Dugan "These poems, artifacts from Al Poulin's life work, sing with celebration and mourning over our daily realities, which he perceived as shimmering between the physical and the metaphysical. We miss the poet. But these poems never miss." —Robin Morgan LITERATURE PB 2001, ISBN: 1-929918-03-8 code: boa jrpb

OUT OF STOCK Late Late is driven by the alternating energies of prose poems and free verse. Woloch understands a person’s true relationships with family, friends and lovers arrive late— if at all. The exquisite pathos in these poems disclose Woloch’s abiding empathy for family, children, ex-lovers and strangers. "Woloch is a generous lyricist. She is wonderfully at ease in the villanelle and the pantoum, as well as in prose poems that break into lines as we read them. To write movingly about love in an era infused with hate requires a special gift: nostalgia hard-edged with realism. She has that gift." - Maxine Kumin "Cecilia Woloch's voice is both intense and precise. In so many of these poems, the forces of memory and longing are expertly brought under the sweet governance of craft and form." - Billy Collins PB October 2003, ISBN: 1-929918-42-9 code: boa lat

OUT OF STOCK Mules of Love Balancing heart-intelligent intimacy and surprising humor, the poems in Ellen Bass’s Mules of Love illuminate the essential dynamics of our lives: family, community, sexual love, joy, loss, religion and death. The poems also explore the darker aspects of humanity—personal, cultural, historical and environmental violence—all of which are handled with compassion and grace. Bass’s poetic gift is her ability to commiserate with others afflicted by similar hungers and grief. " The sudden intimacy of these poems will hold you to the page. Ellen Bass knows an awful lot and is ready to tell it all. Her poems will quicken the pulse, and as you read you will become anxious to discover more and more. But she can only tell you so much, one good line at a time, and that is more than enough." —Billy Collins "Ellen Bass writes of ordinary life with a fierce and loving passion. Her honesty, her insights, and her mastery of language, particularly metaphor, make this book compelling reading." —Linda Pastan LITERATURE PB 2002, ISBN: 1-929918-22-4 code: boa mul

OUT OF STOCK Next: New Poems Clifton's poems about birth and death, sexuality and spirituality, and the quality of the non-white experience in America and eleswhere give voice to the universal human heart. Poignant or humorous, harsh or loving, these new poems also reflect Clifton's continuing belief in the language of poetry as a bridge of human reconciliation, a belief in the power of song, a belief in tongues. PB September 1987, ISBN: 0-918526-61-2 code: boa nex

OUT OF STOCK Precipitates Employing some of the link-and-shift techniques of the Japanese renku, the poems in Precipitates repeatedly allude to major themes in Ecclesiastes, while speaking, under the influence of the Buddhist “Heart Sutra,” to the hunger for perfection, to embrace change and find release from attachment. Weather serves as a metaphor for our headlong fall into aging and death. "With the precision of the minute hand and the broad, generous sweep of the hour, the poems in Precipitates are the result of a skilled and patient practitioner. Debra Kang Dean centers her mind and heart at the point where 'lines/intersect: then, now, and then...', distillations from living fully present to the moment deposited as 'some new thing.../in the fragile nets we weave.' Dean weaves quiet magic, fine poems. - Cathy Song "In a waka on impermanence, Zen master Dogen wrote, 'The world? Moonlit/Drops shaken/From the crane's bill.' The precipitates in these poems - snow, hail, rain - join what takes form, the patchwork we call our selves. Debra Kang Dean's three-part seasonal diary forms the core of this book. Here is poetry that, using techniques from renku composition, honors the ordinary, leaping and shifting from moment to moment. It is verse that condenses and compresses until the poet sees acutely, clarifying 'to the no, and al/so to the yes in this state/of transition." - Margaret Gibson LITERATURE PB 2003, ISBN: 1-929918-43-7 code: boa pre

OUT OF STOCK Small Gods of Grief In Small Gods of Grief, Laure-Anne Bosselaar explores her childhood in post-war Belgium and her later struggles with grief, identity, and love in contemporary America. Ms. Bosselaar mixes imaginative lyrics, narratives and dramatic monologues in this empathetic account of what it means to be human. "I love Laure-Anne Bosselaar's poems because they remind me of why I love poetry: because it can make me feel so alive it doesn't matter that death is all around. Small Gods of Grief does that. It affirms, it affirms." —Thomas Lux LITERATURE HC 2001, ISBN: 1-929918-05-4 code: boa smahc

OUT OF STOCK Small Gods of Grief In Small Gods of Grief, Laure-Anne Bosselaar explores her childhood in post-war Belgium and her later struggles with grief, identity, and love in contemporary America. Ms. Bosselaar mixes imaginative lyrics, narratives and dramatic monologues in this empathetic account of what it means to be human. "I love Laure-Anne Bosselaar's poems because they remind me of why I love poetry: because it can make me feel so alive it doesn't matter that death is all around. Small Gods of Grief does that. It affirms, it affirms." —Thomas Lux LITERATURE PB 2001, ISBN: 1-929918-06-2 code: boa smapb

OUT OF STOCK What He Took In What He Took, Wendy Mnookin explores early loss. Trying to understand the death of her father when she was two, Mnookin considers memory and imagination and how they merge in our efforts to salvage the past. The poems move from the time of his death to the years of growing up with a new father, making her way into adulthood, marrying and starting her own family, always with a longing for the absent father and a sense of the nearness of loss. “What He Took is an elegy to the father Wendy Mnookin lost to an automobile accident when she was a child. It is also a book of passage, of her journey from the day, stranded in a field, to an adulthood informed by that day. . . . This collection, this whole, is rich in unpretentious, lyrical poems.” —Lola Haskins Winner of the 2002 Sheila Margaret Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club. LITERATURE PB 2002, ISBN: 1-929918-19-4 code: boa wha

 

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