Books in the VQR Poetry Series series

A collection of poems which meditate on the natural world.

Set against the bleak backdrop of the Yukon and the historical moment of the 1897 Klondike gold rush, this chronologically arranged series of sonnets is grounded in the lived experience of Finnish immigrants Anna and Abe Malm.

A collection of poems that seeks to reconcile the empirical truths of science with the emotional truths of human experience.

A collection of poems that revolves around physical work, the Appalachian landscape, and family relationships.

Created in 1843 by the daughter of a clergyman, ""The Mansion of Happiness"" was one of the first children's board games published in America. Examining the history of toys and the broader implications of invention and self-identity, this book presents personal and cultural myths about mortality and memory.

Contains poems with titles such as ""Illustrating the Theory of Interference"" and ""Illustrating the Construction of Railroads"". This book also features nineteenth-century engravings depicting phenomena from geology to astronomy to mechanics.

A collection of poems which navigate the course of the male experience, and particularly young fatherhood. It places the poet midway between the lives of his parents and the lives of his children and celebrates the simultaneity of experience that allows him to be, all at once, father, son, and boy.