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Ivory Cradle by Anne Marie Macari

Gerald Stern recommends Ivory Cradle, poems by Anne Marie Macari: “Winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, judged by Robert Creeley. Beautiful lyric poems, explosive, visionary. From an original viewpoint of a woman in her forties, with three young sons. Subjects are events in her life-divorce, mothering, ‘memory,’ often of Italy, and religion. Best first…

Lifelines by Philip Booth

Philip Levine recommends Lifelines, poems by Philip Booth: ” Lifelines is an astonishingly mature work of poetry that represents a life’s work of dedication. The poems trace an adult’s experience in the world from boyhood to old age, largely in the world of New England, and pay tribute to the toughness and decency of ordinary…

Liver by Charles Harper Webb

Maura Stanton recommends Liver, poems by Charles Harper Webb: ” Liver, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, is a book you can read cover to cover with astonishing delight. The poems are witty, imaginative, stylistically sophisticated, and completely accurate about life on a planet crowded with billions of others like you. Buy this…