Intense and intimate, the poems in Amy M. Clark’s splendid second collection, Roundabout , plunge us into a cherished, safe microcosm of two (a ...

"Morrison's range of voice is stunning-from the deep drumbeat of true grit to the high-pitched timbre of irretrievable loss. Here is a landscape of the ...

The Scarlet Thread, by Doris Betts, was first published by Harper & Row in 1964 and won the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction. This 2013 Press 53 Classics ...

"Carmen Calatayud's courageous poems not only sing, but talk straight from the heart about love and death, the everyday as well as the inexplicable. These ...

In Lost Language , written during the months after a husband's sudden death, Faith Shearin explores the loss of the private language spoken in marriage. ...

Leona Sevick’s Lion Brothers is a psychologically astute, keen, and powerful sequence of poems that harness the luminous particulars of experience ...

Blair's wonderfully sensual poems teem with animals and insects who soothe and torment, whose lives and deaths complement and foreshadow joys and sorrows ...

Hard Toward Home is alive with cross-grained people caught between their pasts and futures and striving to outlast the harm they've done each other and ...

The poems of Another Bungalow are endearing antidotes to memory’s rose-colored glasses; they chronicle the informal, indelible microeducations ...

Appalachian author Robert Morgan delivers eight new stories about life and legends in the mountains of Western North Carolina. An alligator in in the ...