With grace and gravity, with a gentle, quiet tenacity, Rachel Tzvia Back brings the poetics of indeterminacy to bear on Israel's over-determined landscape. Her verse hurts as the land itself has been hurt: its rippling music is delicate and achieved, its evocation of intimacy stunning. As political as it is personal, Azimuth shows us again, how history and linguistic horizons meet, and who we are or might be before them. (-Peter Cole)

"Joy Ladin sends spies into the Promised Land."

This volume draws on Jon Silkin's nine collections of verse, beginning with "The Peaceable Kingdom" (1954).

"A collection of poems and musings explore the bizarre side of Mother Nature's handiwork, from the depths of the ocean to the wilds of tropical rainforest, to the cozy hearth of the domesticated housecat. The idiosyncratic observations and provocative musings illuminate an unseen world of creatures both real and imagined."--

Poems deal with marriage, love, music, travel, mortality, myth, nature, and the past

"Sixty-Seven Poems For Downtrodden Saints" is the last book completed by poet, Jack Micheline, prior to his death. It is an important publication and one of Micheline's finest, representing a great variety of Micheline's body of work, and includes many unique photos and graphics of "Beat Generation" writers. This book is a treasure.

"With The Covenant Irving Layton takes up once more the controversial theme of his previous volume, For My Brother Jesus. Returning to the fray, he lays waste to his critics with the kind of impassioned eloquence and well-honed reason that have kept succeeding generations of readers in awe if his prodigious mind and craft. The Covenant extends Layton's earlier argument about the relationship between the Holocaust and Christianity; it is an attempt to humanize and to de-mystify Jesus Christ, and to show the difference between his true disciples and those whom Layton calls "Xians", the ones who have perverted the teachings of Christ. With prophetic fire, Layton roars forth his testimony in stanzas that ring with honesty, conviction, and truth. His genius flashes with similar intensity but contrasting mood in the many beautiful love lyrics and meditative poems that are interspersed throughout. The Covenant is a worthy successor to the long list of books that mark the progress and popularity of this major poet." -- From back cover.