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"Too Late To Kill Me So" takes the reader into the courtroom where a riveting murder trial is taking place and where every reader must grapple with his and her own determinations about the death penalty and the guilt of the defendant. Citing the poet, John Donne, the author shows us that no man is an island--and each of us confront our own truths about the value of life--and death.

A collection of poetry by author Michael Bassett.

Poetry. In JESUS WALKS THE SOUTHLAND, Robert Gray paints a triptych of the holy Trinity of the South--religion, racism, and politics. And, as 'The Power of Prayer' signals, the painting is a personal prayer of a white Southerner offered as liturgy for others to recite. If before you devour the collection you want to know whether the prayer is lament, confession or thanksgiving, the answer is a powerful yes.--Rev. O. Wesley Allen, Jr., author of The Renewed Homiletic and Reading the Synoptic Gospels

This powerful book is kaleidoscopic in all ways-patterns of language, history, and landscape tumble down the page to be formed anew on the next. It is reflective and absorbing at once. It brings dignity and insight to a raw, unlettered world in order to find its worth and its grief. It is an effort to remember and redeem, and a further effort to find the truth. Yet finally, I think, this book is joyous; it delivers a rare and hard-sought vision of joy. One cannot read this book and not feel lifted and, thereby, free. Maurice Manning, author of "The Gone and the Going Away", Professor of English at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, and past recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions.

"Reading Barbara Henning's poems is always completely refreshing. Perhaps it has to do with that "swerve" between the bumpy pavement under the bicycle wheel and the ring of radiation around the Earth, from the political to the completely mundane. I get caught up in the poem's movement. So deft, so seemingly easy, with an almost folk-art clarity in the weaving, these poems nonetheless make things really weird-I don't get it!-and suddenly I'm in the world, "to be here right now"-how did I get here?"- Matvei Yankelvich

A collection of poems inspired by artworks.

Clela Reed's The Hero of the Revolution Serves Us Tea is a journey-the outer mirroring the inner-a finding out, an exploration into the self. The cause, the Peace Corps; the place, a village in Romania; the time, now. Like a good reporter, Reed, interspersing poems and blog entries, traces her journey seasonally with humor and good grace from the linden trees of the opening piece to the winter days when "time stretches and thins." One feels as if one is there. Alice Friman is Poet-in-Residence at Georgia College. She is the a recipient of a 2012 Pushcart Prize. Her book, The View from Saturn, is forthcoming from LSU in 2014.

Love, loss, friendship, sexuality, familial relationships, the sensory Caribbean, political and artistic figures from Margaret Thatcher to Joan of Arc to Audre Lorde: Patricia Harkins-Pierre masterfully and with an exquisite luminosity explores all from a distinctly yin perspective of the human experience. Mary Alexander

John Brugaletta's latest book of poetry, With My Head Rising Out of the Water, is a delight to read, not only because of his usual humor and superb use of language, but also because of the various and splendid voices he employs. Not only are there contemporary voices as in "Coffee Shops," which ends with "We have always stopped at shrines like these/for a rest, or because we're hungry." Brugaletta also often calls on voices from the classical world, as in Artemis... To see-and hear-so many voices brought together in one collection will please his confirmed fans as well as readers new to his protean verses. Alfred W. Landwehr (California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo)

Poetry. In our society, distinctive locales are being leveled. Drive across the country on an interstate, the distinction in landscape disappears into Burger Kings, Domino's and Walmarts. Vivian Shipley's poetry preserves a uniqueness of place.--The New York Times Vivian Shipley explores regions of the quotidian terror: erasure, the double- death of ceasing to exist and ceasing to be remembered. Shipley reminds us implicitly that poetry, unlike terror, survives, giving voice to the eternal.--War, Literature & the Arts To take on voices or compose dramatic monologues is nothing new, of course, but what is remarkable is Shipley's facility at imbuing voices with the same conversational, even casual tone as in her autobiographical work. The readers feel as though we have sat down together with a cup of coffee or maybe a stiff drink, and a life is being shared.--Prairie Schooner

"Lucid, mysterious, inviting... These qualities of Janet Passehl's poems are the opposite of obscurity, though their lines evade simple resolution into narrative. Rather, they seem to open lit rooms in which haunting, haunted phrases stand together, the makings of conversations hanging in the air between them. Like some wordless works of visual art, they create a space, and charge it with possibility rather than filling it with things. If that seems abstract, think again; notice the tender strangeness with which space inside a baby's lungs is figured, 'white and stiff like drinking straws', or this moment of grace: 'his light shone through my paleness and made a lamp of me'. These lives are fragile, and the white rug in a sparsely furnished rooms is one 'across which to navigate spillage and regret'. These poems with an artist's sensibility leave all our senses - taste, smell, sight and sound and the nameless one that registers presence - more alive and open." - Philip Gross "Language, that fluid and evolving medium, is here expertly plied and animated to confront the dilemma of depiction and to convey the nearly unsayable. Janet Passehl is not just a careful observer, but a scrupulous constructor of poems so unsettling, tender, inventive, and mysterious that savvy readers are sure to embrace Clutching Lambs." - Jeanne Marie Beaumont "The mood of Janet Passehl's marvelous collection is wintry, a chiaroscuro of sudden bright flashes and shadowy figures: a child, an architect, two gray animals. We're in a lapidary dreamscape where interior and exterior worlds collide as an exhalation: 'that cannot be breached/by sermon/how the prow of a ship breaks ice/is how language moves.'" - Ann Lauterbach

A winning mixture of poetry and prose, Alabama poet P.T. Paul takes on the age-old question, what does it mean to be a Southerner?

Poetry. In poet Philip C. Kolin's seventh collection of poems, he writes with elegance and grace about the leaps and shifts that mark life... (Mary Swander, Iowa Poet Laureate). As Kolin puts it, each of the poems tells a story about a journey the speaker takes... chronological, familial, romantic, and/or spiritual. This expansive collection of more than 70 poems ranges from religious meditations, to lyrics, elegies, and dramatic monologues, and often employs carefully crafted narratives to symbolize interpersonal tensions. The transformative power of love unites the collection as a whole.

"This collection affirms place, multi-generational family and physical work as the center of meaning. The beloved world presented here is by turns gracious, modest, proud, funny, horrific... there are pleasures here for a reader." - Donald Morrill, author of The Impetuous Sleeper and The Untouched Minutes

Betty Spence's Traces of Presence will take you to another place, or better yet, more deeply into the place you truly are. Blending simple stories and southern scenes with scripture and her own special wisdom, Spence shows us that beauty wrought in the open or in secret, in darkness or in light, is beauty whose presence must be experienced, even if it is yet to be seen. -Robert Gray, author of Jesus Walks the Southland

Without seeming to at first glance, Jim Murphy's Versions of May succeeds in speaking to the anxieties that move beneath the surface waters of our times. It is a collection of tremendous depth and breadth, piercing insight and tenderness. Global, and yet attentive to particulars of nature and human spirit, these poems artfully blend elements of elegy, Zen, jazz, and popular music. In line after line that resonate with echoes of terror and loss, but simultaneously with stunning celebrations of beauty, they sweep us off center, in the traditions of Zen or jazz masters, leaving us almost breathless, startled by the silence and light. "No truths / but this bright and noble moment," Murphy writes, and elsewhere, "We vanished. We left in total silence." These are poems to be savored, ones that will stay with us long after our reading. -Anand Prahlad, Curators Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri-Columbia

A collection of essays celebrating the centenary of Carson McCullers by an international collaboration of scholars and writers. The essays bring to light multiple themes across McCullers's works and seek to bring readers along on a journey through some of McCullers's most well-loved pieces as well as her extraordinary life.

Part notebook, part ethical treatise, part fantasized autobiography, The Diary of Kaspar Hauser is a striking collection of forty or so haiku-like compositions, diary entries imagined to have been penned by the "idiot" Kaspar Hauser and discovered, by chance, after his death by brutal murder, among the papers of his patron, Franz Paul Webern.

From Lazer's ambitious ten-year Notebook shape-writing project, Evidence of Being Here: Beginning in Havana (N27) challenges the way we read and write poetry and reframes the terms of spiritual autobiography. Lazer's handwritten shape-writing presents itself as a visual experience that examines ways in which we both hear and are here.