Books in the Phoenix Poets Series PP (CHUP) series

This volume brings together James McMichael's poetry and includes works that have previously remained unpublished. James McMichael is the recipient of a Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship and a Whiting Foundation Writer's Award.

Features poems that are haunted by the afterlife of Thom Gunn (1929-2004), one of the most beloved gay literary icons of the twentieth century.

A sequence of poems voiced by an invented (and inventive) boy-speaker called Romey, set alongside a river in the South Carolina lowcountry.

A book about belief - not belief in the unknowable but belief in what seems bewilderingly plain. Pondering the bodies we inhabit, the words we speak, these poems aims to discover infinitude in the most familiar places.

A book of poems that takes us on a journey through wartime America, showing our personal costs and inextricable complicities.

The author has fully realized both the potential for vocal expressiveness in his phrasing and the way his phrasing plays against - and with - his genius for metrical variation, thus becoming an amazingly flexible instrument of psychological and spiritual inquiry and which gives him access to an immense variety of feeling.

Brings together the poems/translations of American poet, David Ferry. The text includes his books "Strangers" and "Dwelling Places", selections from "On the Way to the Island" and selections from his translations of the Babylonian epic "Gilgamesh", the "Odes of Horace" and Virgil's "Eclogues".