Bøger udgivet af Sheep Meadow Press,U.S.

Eros stricken, Peter Marcus has explored, and fled to and from, some eighty countries, writing poetry that honours the English language wherever he is. His guides are historians, geographers, fallen stars, and other poets. A poet, patient, shrink, he practices in Eden and the twenty-first century.

"Emily Fragos's poems are mysterious. Her songs make me confess to myself. In her poems, you find the God's honest truth like wildflowers. Her poems are ferocious and saintly (you must remember, one saint, Saint Julian, murdered his mother and father, not a problem with Emily). She is somehow self-born, which is my way of saying her poems are unique, singular, necessary--wonder-full poems, very good dogs." --Stanley Moss "Emily Fragos is a thin-skinned, tough-minded poet of this world. Her sensual sensibility is unrestrained by conventional perceptual grids. Her poems take us by surprise. . . . Fragos's trust in language is fruitful, justified. No word she writes is an advertisement for herself. We are enlarged by her resonant verbal imagination." --Marie Ponsot

"A poet of wit, spit, and polish, Aaron Rosen deals with two major themes, love and language, each held close and at furthest distance. He is simultaneously spare and rich; he is the master of opposites brought into close proximity, call it a storm and calm, or the proximity of appearance and illusion, certainty and hesitation. His is poetry of discovery and preservation--the structures of his art." --Stanley Moss Praise for Reluctant Mirrors "The Hall of Mirrors is also of course a site of infinite reflection. It is in that place Aaron Rosen chooses to stand . . . he discovers marvels of form there, flesh, shadow, pulse, ash, syllable and silence, glyphs of our becoming and unbecoming." --Michael Palmer

"A collaboration between the poets Stanley Moss and Valerie Mejer Caso to bring a bilingual edition of Moss' poetry collection It's About Time, translated en face into Spanish"--

¿. . . Rich and constantly rewarding book, poems are muscular and masterful . . .¿ ¿ John Koethe

¿Esperanza Snyder is a poet of memory and experience, of longings and blue light, and the three actualities of her world, her past¿in Colombia, Europe, and the United States¿come vividly alive in this magical book of discoveries, of a woman who matures into her own country.¿ ¿ Edward Hirsch ¿Esperanza and Hope, is a moving and fully imagined autobiography in verse narrated by her nominal sister identities of passion and faith. Told with verve and wit, her story allows readers to live a double life that¿s as vivid and riotously complicated as a Jean-Luc Goddard film.¿ ¿ Michael Collier ¿There¿s a romance narrative of names here, ranging in territory from Colombia, America, Italy, and Spain. And these rich cognates reveal their personal history in a language of poetry saturated and in keeping with the oldest of themes¿love, loss, and reconciliation.¿¿ Stanley Plumly

Perhaps Bag is about what it feels like to think. Carol Rumens is a kind of old woman who lives in a shoe with too many children--that includes me, you, Russians, and Englishmen and women, and children, and animals. And somehow she knew what to do. "She is an English poet, a European poet, whose imagination goes beyond the borders of Europe. Her poetry is densely peopled, clamorous with voices, furious and with an edge of hilarious clarity . . . the bravado, the assurance of the beautiful but damned, philosophical, playful, with umpteen forms expertly managed." --Times Literary Supplement

Five Books is about what it is like to be alive in Oxford, UK, and the world for eighty years and to find your heart is beating fifteen beats per minute. And to survive with the help of a pacemaker, the love of a beautiful wife, and England.

If you want to know what it is like to live in Romania under a communist dictatorship and to somehow fight your way into teaching English at an American university, read this book.

"his spelling casts a spell"

"Truth sat for her drawing"

"What has been overlooked for too many years now is an achievement of extraordinary proportions. Howard Moss's career unfolded in surprising ways. In eleven books over forty years, he transformed the urbane but astringent lyricism of his early work into a style more refined, darkened, and humane. Without sacrificing the wit and rhythmic finesse that marked his poetry from the start, he came to write with a more searching complexity or with a more startling simplicity, as his subject demanded. Everywhere his poems speak eloquently of the wounds of experience, the weather of the spirit. The distance between dream and mind, or between survivor and ghost, the longing of settled habit for unsettling doubts, or of love for dissolution--these are the precarious states he charted with an uncanny accuracy. Trace these margins yourselves in the pages of this book, and discover a lone figure walking into the horizon, into a place among the permanent American poets." --J. D. McClatchy, from the Introduction

Praise for Aliki Barnstone "All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstone's poems so much. They remind me of the one she has studied most--shall we call her master--that Emily Dickinson! Not in the forms, not, as such, in the music, and not in the references; but in that weird intimacy, that eerie closeness, that absolute confession of soul. She has the rare art of distance and closeness. It gives her fine music, her wisdom, her form. She is a fine poet." --Gerald Stern "For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating." --Robert Pinsky