Books in the James Dickey Contemporary Poetry series

Rosen creates a novel in poems, through a questing alter ego Gordon Penn who holds to hopefulness amid circumstances that will have none of it. Each poem relates another episode in Penn's ongoing confrontation with contemporary society.

Meditating on her own experience of girlhood, marriage, and the mothering of a daughter, Getty combines a feminist sensibility with a sense of connection to the realms from which the forces of generation emerge. The poems, range outward and backward through the history of her family's women.

This collection of poems describes a world flooded with memories and apprehension. The poems seek to distil experience into crucial moments of knowing, when we come alive to the facts of our existence as revealed in the alterations between solitude and love, grief and joy, incapacity and insight.

Stella Johnston's poems in this collection invite the reader into widely different places; from the nightmarish landscape of a morphine hallucination, to the last moments of a Gary Cooper western, to the bedside of a dying Roman emperor.