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An award-winning poet-and guest editor-assembles the best contemporary poetry from 2023, resulting in an exceptionally articulate vision of American poetry today.
A poetic survey from many perspectives, The Structure of the Body examines the human form, both as an anatomical and physiological system and as a metaphor for other dimensions of our lives. The book explores the bodys evolution, its vast array of organs, its role in our thinking and emotional life, and its complex and profound interface with both birth and death. These poems open a fresh and exciting vista on a familiar yet always mysterious subject.
Sonora Spring Haiku, by poet and neuroscientist Judith Lauter, provides a photographic and poetic account of three spring months in the lush Sonoran desert near Tucson AZ. In a radical departure from the natural settings of most classical haiku a world of misty wetness, cranes, pagodas and perhaps a solitary, aged man these poems evoke a stony landscape of space, sun, and sharp edges. Such an extremely wide range of application for the form shows us that poetry is perhaps the most flexible of the literary arts, capable of engaging almost any experience or geography.
Over 26,000 total pages .... Background: The Fast and Furious operation was responsible for allowing approximately 2,000 firearms to illegally flow into the hands of criminals, including Mexican drug cartel associates. On December 14, 2010, Customs and Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, a United States Marine, was killed while on patrol just miles from the Mexican border. The firearms found at the scene were semi-automatic rifles that were allowed to walk as part of Operation Fast and Furious. Congressional Republicans have investigated Fast and Furious since January 2011. Over the course of the investigation, the Justice Department has provided false information, stonewalled document requests...
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Like William Blakes Songs of Innocence and Experience, these poems evoke childhood moments from the dream-like states of infancy to the early exhilarations of nature, animals, games, school, sex, and the earliest discoveries of love. Such elusive memories are screened through the double lens of the boys innocence and the grown mans more complex awareness. In exploring the world of the poets personal history, First Kingdoms also records and celebrates a type of childhood less and less known to todays digitally-obsessed generations.