Books in the Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction series

Sunflowers drenched in early evening sun; icy blue, explosive waves along the rocky shores of Maine; September cotton "like strange anachronistic snowin Tennessee-Anderson forges these images into deep ruminations on love, shame, delight, loss, and estrangement.

Now in paperback, In the Crevice of Time brings together 176 new and previously published poems by one of the most accomplished and most widely acclaimed poets of our time.

Words by the Water is particularly varied and unusually youthful and fresh.

Renowned for his translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and the poems of Catullus, Martin brings the perspective of history to bear on the stuff of contemporary life.

Along the way, master poet John Bricuth treats readers to a sly, sarcastic-and sometimes deeply moving-look at storytelling, old-time religion, and the American way.

Belli, Octavio Paz, and Euripides, Future Perfect further establishes Charles Martin as a master of invention.

Ballyhoo offers a sobering examination of the tragicomic nature of the world.