Books by Diane Lockward

In these sparkling poems, Diane Lockward takes life as it comes and finds nourishment in it all: succulence of the peach, redolence of the pear, the green grape of sorrow. I love these poems for their craft, sensuality and energy. Like high-wire acts of language and imagination, they almost leap in the air and come down again on the wire, balancing between witty and dark, personal and invented, idea and emotion.Patricia Fargnoli, former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire

Cognizant of loss but always celebratory, Lockwards poems are irreverent, ravenous for the world, and unabashedly female. When. In Losing the Blues, she writes, I could burn / the hands off a man, you have no doubt that she is singing a true song. --- Kim Addonizio

Editors Jason Lee Brown and Shanie Latham selected fifty-four poems by fifty-one poets, happily including Denise Duhamel, Jack Bedell, Mira Rosenthal, Martha Silano, Julian Stannard, Charles Harper Webb, and others. With all poets singing together, we have a rainbow of wordsalive, nourishing, richthat clearly define the range and power of the once humble doughnut. Poetry and confection make for a delicious marriage. And who knew we'd live to see sugar, fat, and dough connected to the divine? Grace Cavalieri, Introduction