American poetry -- 21st century

The Book of Islands is a collection of poems that translates experience and memory in an attempt to shape identity. The recurring images and landscapes transform as the collection develops, which imply that the recollection of experience is never static,

A collection of original narrative and lyric poems dealing with diverse topics, such as family, memory, and loss. The manuscript also includes several translations from the Russian of Anna Ahkmatova. -- abstract.

As the lyric line pushes and retreats with seismic force, body and mind shift between water and grammar, family and memory, each horizon or perspective marking a distance between the self and the other, between the self and its language--Abstract.

The poems explore the past in order to gain a better understanding of the present. In some sense, too, they explore language's capacity to reveal difficult truths about our own and others' lives.--Abstract.

A collection of 44 poems through which I explore women's experiences -- my own, those of women close to me, and those of women in general. -- abstract.

A collection of poems concerned with evocations of connection and loss, exploring human interrelations. The first section, Aphelion," concentrates on the more difficult of those connections. The second section, "Auroras," explores the light within these c

The poems in The later Cecils explore the benefits and dangers of many kinds of socialization.

The Lazarus Console is a collection of poems exploring technology, forlorn pop culture figures, troubled relationships and religious faith in the digital age. Working extensively with sound and black humor while utilizing a range of poetic styles The Laza

The Magician's Assistant opens with poems that recount incidents in an abusive marriage. The collection then goes on to chronicle the emotional and spiritual renewal gained through a healing second marriage and the experience of motherhood.--Abstract.

This collection of poems is concerned with the obsessions of the lyric poet: love and death. -- abstract.

This collection of poems explores the tension between father and son, nature and man, as well as that of the individual in relation to tradition. While violence and deception occur thematically, the poems resist moralizing in an attempt to show how love a

The Ocean We Dive Into is a collection of poems organized in three sections: the first is devoted to outer space and astronomy; the second to Robert Frank's famous book of photographs, The Americans; the third to a series of location-specific subjects and

The poems in this manuscript explore moments of miscommunication in human relationships. I am interested in the space created by disconnection and how it gets filled, both verbally and emotionally. -- abstract.

A collection of narrative and lyric poems that explore themes of loss, the imprint of family, and the human body. A number of these poems discuss the experience of growing up in a family with Irish and Lebanese roots, and the ruminations that come from wh

'The Walnut Tree' is a collection of poetry, unified in voice and treads of subject matter. The collection covers topics ranging from loss, loneliness, death, and love, as well as the underlying connections found in human nature. -- abstract.

The World is My Rival is a collection of poems that explores the frayed bonds of connectivity. -- abstract.

A collection of 57 poems. Most are lyrics; all are fairly brief, i.e. less than a page in length. -- abstract.