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Books by Jon Tribble
  | | And There is Many a Good Thing by Jon Tribble Paperback, 82 Pages, Published 2017 by Salmon Poetry ISBN-13: 978-1-910669-62-4, ISBN: 1-910669-62-8 "This collection explores that idea in its title by opening the reader to a world as varied as the talents of Monty Python and Sarah Vaughan, Peter Gabriel and Hans Christian Anderson. The book takes the reader from the Great Rift Valley to Queens, Mexico to Vietnam, from the south Texas shoreline to the western Libyan Desert. These poems find good things in surviving loss, pain, and separation as well as in the love, joy, and celebratio ..." |
 | | God of the Kitchen by Jon Tribble Paperback, 100 Pages, Published 2018 by Glass Lyre Press ISBN-13: 978-1-941783-45-0, ISBN: 1-941783-45-7 "In his stunning third collection, God of the Kitchen, poet Jon Tribble creates an unflinching account of his first job — and an unsettling portrait of an Americana that exists under the ever-watchful eye of Colonel Sanders. These insistent, unsentimental poems grunt and heave with the bone-deep exhaustion of real work, detailing the perils of an adolescence performed in a uniform of grease and flour and sweat. At once elegy and critique ..." |
 | | Natural State by Jon Tribble Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2016 by Glass Lyre Press ISBN-13: 978-1-941783-15-3, ISBN: 1-941783-15-5 "One of the poems in Jon Tribble's Natural State observes that "the finest / moment of our lives may not matter at all." That's a devastating truth, but Tribble's poems about growing up in Arkansas make every moment he renders matter, and matter deeply. Natural State may be Tribble's first collection, but it's as polished, mature, and wise as most poets' fourth or fifth, and it not only matters, its publication is one of contemporary poe ..." |
 | | Aeolian Harp Anthology, Volume 3 by Ami Kaye, Jon Tribble Paperback, 124 Pages, Published 2017 by Glass Lyre Press ISBN-13: 978-1-941783-41-2, ISBN: 1-941783-41-4 "Representing a breadth of renown contemporary poets, with varying aesthetics, this first volume of Aeolian Harp Series showcases the talents of ten poets as they revel in the fierce joy of writing. In this anthology Devon Balwit, Ruth Goring, Peter Goodwin, Lana Bella, Andrena Zawinski, Lois Marie Harrod, Petra Kuppers, Karen Schubert, Marc Frazier, and Hedy Habra reveal the best of their work and their underlying philosophies. " |
 | | Lizzie Borden in Love(1st Edition) Poems in Women's Voices (Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry) by Julianna Baggott, Jon Tribble Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2006 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-2725-6, ISBN: 0-8093-2725-2 "Women’s voices offering an intimate view into women’s livesLizzie Borden in Love, a collection of poems by national bestselling author Julianna Baggott, offers poignant commentary in the voices of women as varied as Mary Todd Lincoln and Monica Lewinsky. The poems often focus on a particular moment in life: Katherine Hepburn discovers the dead body of her brother in an attic, or painter Mary Cassatt mourns the failure of her eyesight. S ..." |
 | | If No Moon(1st Edition) (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by Moira Linehan Mfa, Jon Tribble Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2007 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-2761-4, ISBN: 0-8093-2761-9 ""If No Moon" by award-winning author Moira Linehan documents the effects of profound loss and the dark withdrawal into grief. Wherever the author turns - the landscape of her backyard in Massachusetts, a Trappist monastery in Kentucky, the museums of Florence, or the cliffs of Inishmor in Ireland - she sees only the geography of emptiness. Crossovers between craft and art, form and voice, knitting and memory, recur throughout the poems. ..." |
 | | Persons Unknown (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by Jake Adam York, Jon Tribble Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2010 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-2998-4, ISBN: 0-8093-2998-0 " In this stunning continuation to the poetry collection A Murmuration of Starlings, dedicated to those who lost their lives during the Civil Rights movement, Jake Adam York presents another set of searing portraits of these martyrs—men whose murders haunt America’s history. These elegiac and documentary poems seek justice and understanding for such sacrifices as Mack Charles Parker, lynched in Mississippi in 1959, his body disposed of i ..." |
 | | Cinema Muto (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by Jesse Lee Kercheval, Jon Tribble Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2009 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-2895-6, ISBN: 0-8093-2895-X "This book celebrates the golden age of silent cinema. In "Cinema Muto", Jesse Lee Kercheval examines the enduring themes of time, mortality, and love as revealed through the power of silent film. Following the ten days of the annual Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Italy, this collection of ekphrastic poems are love letters to the evocative power of silent cinema. Kercheval's poems elegantly capture the allure of these rare films, which c ..." |
 | | On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year(1st Edition) (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by Lee Ann Roripaugh, Jon Tribble Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2009 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-2929-8, ISBN: 0-8093-2929-8 "Channeling women writers of the past to explore issues of the present. Lady Murasaki wrote in "The Tale of Genji" that thirty-seven is 'a dangerous year' for women. Evoking the styles of Murasaki and other women writers of the Heian-period Japanese court, Lee Ann Roripaugh presents a collection of confessional poems charting the course of that perilous year. Roripaugh, in both an homage to and a dialogue with women writers of the past e ..." |
 | | The Last Predicta Davidson, Chad(1st Edition) by Associate Professor Chad Davidson, Jon Tribble Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2008 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-2875-8, ISBN: 0-8093-2875-5 "This title juxtaposes themes of popular culture and apocalypse. "The Last Predicta" is Chad Davidson's searing collection of poetry dedicated to endings of all varieties. From odes to the corporate cornucopia of Target and the aggressive cheer of a Carnival cruise, to emotive examinations of Caravaggio's "The Calling of St. Matthew" or flies circling a putrescent bowl of forgotten fruit, Davidson weaves a lyrical web of apocalyptic scen ..." |
 | | Rookery (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by Traci Brimhall, Jon Tribble Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2010 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-2997-7, ISBN: 0-8093-2997-2 " Traveling to the most intimate extremes of the human heart Fraught with madness, brutality, and ecstasy, Traci Brimhall’s Rookery delves into the darkest and most remote corners of the human experience. From the graveyards and battlefields of the Civil War to the ancient forests of Brazil, from desire to despair, landscapes both literal and emotional are traversed in this unforgettable collection of poems. Brimhall guides readers thr ..." |
 | | Train to Agra(1st Edition) (Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry) by Vandana Khanna, Jon Tribble Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2001 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-2405-7, ISBN: 0-8093-2405-9 "Calling upon two cultures, Vandana Khanna’s Train to Agra meditates on the effects of displacement and expatriation on the construction of a young Indian American woman’s identity. The physical journeys undertaken by the speaker reflect her inner journey from immigrant child to Indian American woman, struggling to find her place between India and America, Krishna and Jesus, samosas and hamburgers. The speaker constantly tries to recaptu ..." |
 | | Holding Everything Down(1st Edition) (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by William John Notter, Jon Tribble Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2009 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-2927-4, ISBN: 0-8093-2927-1 "Navigating the landscapes of human experience, William Notter's stunning collection "Holding Everything Down" explores the everyday struggles, triumphs, and desires of rural Americans. With disarming humor and remarkable honesty, Notter delves into the most personal longings of those who inhabit America's countrysides: places bound by secrets and ghosts, where joy is discovered in the most unlikely of locations, and even the land itself ..." |
 | | Oblivio Gate(1st Edition) (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by Sean Nevin, Jon Tribble Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2008 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-2877-2, ISBN: 0-8093-2877-1 "This book chronicles one man's descent into dementia. Suffused with lyrical grace and the language of loss, Sean Nevin's "Oblivio Gate" explores the mental and emotional struggles of Solomon, a veteran battling the onslaught of Alzheimer's disease. Set against Solomon's memories of the Korean War, Nevin's poems draw us into an intimate view of a man's confusion as everything he knows slowly unravels around him, leaving him abandoned in ..." |
 | | NOT TO PERISH Articles by an American Professor of Russian by Lee B. Croft, Alicia C. Baehr, Patrick J. Heuer, Jaime R. Nielsen, Shane C. Sarlo, Shamella Tribble, Andrew W. Abbott, Jeremy Ecton, Jon Harris, Vadim S. Kagan Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2008 by Capstone Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-578-00468-6, ISBN: 0-578-00468-2 |