In this eloquent, somber memoir about the death of her mother and grieving aftermath, poet and journalist O'Rourke (Halflife) ponders the eternal human question: how do we live with the knowledge that we will one day die?

An introduction to the life and career of the beloved 19th-century American poet.

After reconnecting with her family roots, poet and professor Janzen starts dating the most unlikely of men-a weight-liftin', church-goin', truck-drivin' rocker named Mitch and begins a surprising journey to faith and love.

"Amanda Larson's Gut interrogates the agency of a young, female speaker in the wake of trauma and desire. Larson places feminist theory in conversation with personal experience in order to examine the impact of such forces on traditional ideas of logical agency. The book moves through Larson's recovery while questioning the limits of the very term, and of language as a whole. She employs a variety of different forms, including prose, Q&A poems, and...

"New essays from the vantage point of very old age, once again "alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny, "* from the former poet laureate of the United States *(New York Times)"--

The documentary captures a raucous night of drinking and talking about sex, literature, childhood, and humanity with the cult writer Charles Bukowski in 1981. It is based on a video interview conducted by producer and journalist Silvia Bizio with Bukowski and his soon-to-be wife Linda at their home in San Pedro, California. The interview was shot on U-matic tapes, which have been digitized and edited along with new shots in Super 8 of scenes of Los...

The Last Two Seconds is an astonishing confrontation with time--our experience of it as measured out by our perceptions, our lives, and our machines. In these poems, full of vivid imagery and imaginative logic, Mary Jo Bang captures the difficulties inherent in being human in the twenty-first century, when we set our watches by nuclear disasters, species collapse, pollution, mounting inequalities, warring nations, and our own mortality. This is brilliant...