San Antonio College Library

After her near-fatal accident, chronicled in her remarkable memoir, Inside the Halo and Beyond, Maxine Kumin feared that poetry might have "deserted" her. This luminous, reflective collection proves her wrong, and it is a special cause for celebration. Themes of loyalty, longevity, and recovery appear here, and in a series of poems Kumin finds inspiration in addressing other poets, especially the eminent dead: "Skinnydipping with Wordsworth," "Imagining...

A collection of poems explores Jewish history, liturgy, theology, and the author's relationship with Judaism and spirituality.

Have women moved beyond the status of cultural outsiders to become full participants in poetry and its criticism? In By Herself, women poets reconsider their art form on their own terms, and the results are telling: a collection of essays that are original, challenging, playful, ruthlessly individualistic, and inviting. Many of the essays are new; others are "classics" of poetry criticism. They cover a dazzling range of territory, from discussion...

Winner of the Southwest Book Award and the Best Book of Poetry from the El Paso Times. "Healers, those who restore harmony by bringing together what seems to be separate, often suffer but posses great 'magic, ' and Mora's is a healing voice".-- Contact II. "Her poems are chants that hold the reader mesmerized until late in the day when poems are transformed into wishful dreams".

In a book of seductive poetic experiment, Mary Kinzie examines the stories we tell ourselves. Her short, muscular lines shatter and reassemble such curiosities as an engraving by Albrecht Durer and the portrait of a notorious suicide whose children develop a secret telepathy. In one of her many powerful longer pieces, she collects glittering shards from myriad versions of the Cinderella story, with its conflicting illustrations of maternal love. Her...

"Bright Dead Things' examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately disorderly, and marvelous, and ours"--Provided by publisher.

Poems, essays and letters plus translations of La Fontaine's "Fables."

"A new collection from Louise Glück, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature"-- Louise Glück's thirteenth book of poems is among her most haunting. Here as in The Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and ancient. Winter Recipes from the Collective is chamber music, an invitation into that privileged realm small enough for the individual instrument to make itself heard, dolente, its line...