"Yes, there is barbecue, but that’s just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering.The roster of contributors includes Natasha Trethewey, Robert Morgan, Atsuro Riley, Adrienne Su, Richard Blanco, Ed Madden, Nikky Finney ..."
Heard-Hoard by Atsuro Riley 81 Pages, Published 2024 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-83337-8, ISBN: 0-226-83337-2
"Atsuro Riley. " A poet perpetually at the top of his craft , balancing music and silence to create power . ... Like Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County , Riley's South Carolina lowcountry is surely part reality , part fiction - and one ..."
Heard-Hoard by Atsuro Riley 81 Pages, Published 2021 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-78956-9, ISBN: 0-226-78956-X
"Winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, this collection of verse from Atsuro Riley offers a vivid weavework rendering and remembering an American place and its people."
Romey's Order by Atsuro Riley 64 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-71945-0, ISBN: 0-226-71945-6
"... house and Mrs. Sweatman's brick house and Linda's dock-facing double-wide and spine-leaning Vicki against her wide-glide Pontiac and pumping for pay at Ray Wade's Esso and snuff-dipping and plug-sucking and tar-weeping pore-wise and ..."
Home 100 Poems by Christian Wiman 264 Pages, Published 2021 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-25345-0, ISBN: 0-300-25345-1
The Open Door One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of "Poetry" Magazine by Don Share , Christian Wiman 224 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75073-6, ISBN: 0-226-75073-6
The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall Poetry at the Extremes of Feeling by Robert Pinsky 256 Pages, Published 2019 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-1-324-00179-9, ISBN: 1-324-00179-8
Poems of the American South (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) by David Biespiel Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2014 by Everyman's Library ISBN-13: 978-0-375-71244-9, ISBN: 0-375-71244-5
Radical as Reality Form and Freedom in American Poetry by Peter Campion 270 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66340-1, ISBN: 0-226-66340-X
Hammer Is the Prayer Selected Poems by Christian Wiman Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2016 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-16774-5, ISBN: 0-374-16774-5