American poetry
Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
A ring of keys, 2003
Bread, 2004
A collection of lyric and narrative poems exploring themes of religious faith and doubt, familial love, self-knowledge, and human empathy in the face of suffering -- abstract.
Come, unbutton here, 2004
A collection of narrative and lyric poems mostly written in free verse, although some traditional forms are included. The majority of the poems are in first person. -- abstract.
Days and nights, open and receive, 2004
The poems in this collection illustrate a series of occurrences experienced by an individual during distinct periods of personal growth -- abstract.
From here and yon : three stories and twenty-six poems, 1987
Glass, 2004
A collection of poems including the long poem Glass" and the sonnet sequence "Mythology". "Glass considers the states of the soul in modern times." -- abstract.
Grace land, 2008
'Grace Land' is a collection of poems based on my personal history in the South. These poems are tied to and steeped in age-old Southern myth - 'the South will rise again' - or, what once was must return. -- abstract.
Gravity, 1995
Matinee, 2003
Moving the earth, 1995
No smoke, no mirrors, 2003
Ophelia in Stasis, 2003
Oracle of birds, 2004
Passing to Ankara, 2003
Plato's ghost story, 2008
Central to this collection is a sequence of How to Break Up" poems. This extended series is representative of the dark humor that recurs in much of my work, of my musicality, my linguistic fancies, and my desire to pair the unexpected with the familiar."
Playing possum, 2006
Some of the themes I deal with in these poems are love and its vicissitudes, the natural world and its relationship with technology, death, beauty, the search for identity, and the divine. -- abstract.
Quarry, 2005
A collection of poems. -- abstract.